[Pkg-raspi-maintainers] Bug#999485: firmware-brcm80211: Please add brcmfmac43456-sdio.* files as it's not just used in RPi devices

[Gunnar Wolf]

Hi!

Diederik de Haas dijo [Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 10:33:41PM +0100]:
> > Would they fit into a separate source package not associated with
> > raspi-config?
> 
> I do strongly think they do not belong in the raspi-firmware package for the 
> reason I retitled this bug and retitled my response Subject. Another reason is 
> that the raspi-firmware package makes (several) assumptions, namely that they 
> are only used/usable on RPi devices and have a /boot/firmware directory (where 
> a FAT partition is mounted, although that part is not checked for).
> I have previously expressed my concerns/doubts about that, but that's outside 
> the scope of this bug.
> It also looks 'weird' to install the raspi-firmware package while you only care 
> about the wifi firmware and not care about RPi's at all.

Right, I agree this should be a package of its own. I didn't know
raspi-nonfree came from a "coherent" set of firmware sources provided
by a single upstream. It is a distorsion that peopleinterested in
brcmfmac firmware have to install raspi-firmware if they have
different hardware.

> > The other option is that they get included upstream in
> > linux-firmware.git by upstream?
> 
> Gunnar knows I'm not much of a fan of Raspberry Pi Foundation (RPF) and that 
> was confirmed once again by their typical reaction to this exact request. 
> 
> I'm too 'lazy' to look it up, so I'll paraphrase it:
> "It works for us (so fsck off). Can't you just use our files?"

I doubt we will find true RPF fans here 😉
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