[Pkg-raspi-maintainers] Bug#948712: Bug#948712: Pinebook Pro also uses this chip

[Adam Borowski]

On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 12:45:11PM +0200, Diederik de Haas wrote:
> On dinsdag 12 juli 2022 01:47:21 CEST Adam Borowski wrote:
> > Pinebook Pro also wants this firmware, and it's definitely not a raspi,
> > and it doesn't have /boot/firmware either.
> 
> Is this about the /lib/firmware/brcm/brcmfmac434* files?
> 
> IMO, that group of files shouldn't be part of this package, but be moved to 
> another firmware package, perhaps firmware-brcm80211?

Yeah, that.

The idea of moving these files to another package seems good; steev proposed
firmware-linux, firmware-brcm80211 would be a more specific fit.
Both packages are maintained by debian-kernel at l.d.o, could you folks
comment please?


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