[Pkg-raspi-maintainers] Bug#999485: firmware-brcm80211: Please add brcmfmac43456-sdio.* files for wifi support in Raspberry p400

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Hi Diederik, hi Gunnar,

On Mon, Dec 05, 2022 at 08:02:04PM +0100, Diederik de Haas wrote:
> Control: retitle -1 Please add brcmfmac43456-sdio.* files as it's not just used in RPi devices
> 
> On 10 Nov 2022 11:40:06 +0100 Diederik de Haas <didi.debian at cknow.org> wrote:
> > On Sat, 9 Apr 2022 17:52:00 -0500 Gunnar Wolf <gwolf at debian.org> wrote:
> > > Please note I'm currenlty shipping the required files in
> > > raspi-firmware -- I believe their right place is in
> > > firmware-brcm80211, so please just ping me (or better, raise a bug on
> > > raspi-firmware) whent they are added to this package.
> > 
> > I opened https://bugs.debian.org/1023741 for it.
> 
> >From https://bugs.debian.org/1023741:
> > I completely agree that firmware-brcm80211 is the right place and
> > raspi-firmware is the wrong place as this is about firmware for wifi
> > devices which are f.e. also used on Pine64 devices.
> 
> Gunnar indicated that he's willing to remove the files from raspi-firmware,
> but they still need to be added to firmware-brcm80211, so pretty please?

So I looked at this, and don't think the firmware-nonfree packages
should take it over. Why? The firmware files are not part of
linux-firmware.git . 

Would they fit into a separate source package not associated with
raspi-config?

The other option is that they get included upstream in
linux-firmware.git by upstream? 

Regards,
Salvatore