[Pkg-raspi-maintainers] Bug#948712: Returned mail: see transcript for details

[Elliott Mitchell]

reopen 948712
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There should be a rather obvious use case where absent /boot/firmware is
quite appropriate.  For someone needing a copy of the firmware, but using
other tools to build the boot area.

Notably one might use raspi-firmware to retrieve start*.elf/fixup*.dat.
Then add u-boot-rpi for second stage bootloader.  Next grub-efi-arm* for
third stage.  Lastly flash-kernel to glue all the pieces together.

Not one of these requires the existance of /boot/firmware.  In fact, not
one of these needs the installation of dosfstools.

Perhaps the raspi-firmware package should be split into pieces so as to
allow merely installing the actually required portions?

(raspi-firmware-bin which depends upon: raspi1-firmware-bin,
raspi2-firmware-bin, raspi3-firmware-bin, and raspi4-firmware-bin?)


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