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

[Diederik de Haas]

On Saturday, 4 February 2023 22:12:24 CET Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> > 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?

We could do that, but wouldn't it make more sense to reassign it to wnpp (?) 
and turn it into a RFP type bug?

That way we would preserve the history (and thus useful info) of this issue.

My 0.02
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