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

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Hi,

On Wed, Feb 01, 2023 at 09:20:57PM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
> 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.

So I guess we can close this bug here, and the files can be shipped
with a new dedicated source package containing the firmware files,
since the last option of having them merged upstream in
linux-firmware.git seems unrealistic for now?

Regards,
Salvatore

p.s.: sorry misstyped initially the origin source package, was obviously
      not meaning raspi-config, so raspi-firmware.