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

[Ben Hutchings]

On Tue, 2022-07-12 at 20:18 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> 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?

So long as those files are in linux-firmware.git, it should be fine to
ship them in firmware-brcm80211.  If they aren't, they should be added
there first.

Ben.

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