[Pkg-raspi-maintainers] Bug#1064072: raspi-firmware: post install script fails for non-raspi devices requiring brcmfmac43456 firmware

[Krzysztof Aleksander Pyrkosz]

Package: raspi-firmware
Version: 1.20220830+ds-1
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: krzpyrkosz at gmail.com

Dear Maintainer,

Pine64 RockPro64 requires firmware files that are currently packaged in
raspi-firmware, both in bookworm and sid:
$ dpkg -S brcm/brcmfmac43456
raspi-firmware: /lib/firmware/brcm/brcmfmac43456-sdio.txt
raspi-firmware: /lib/firmware/brcm/brcmfmac43456-sdio.clm_blob
raspi-firmware: /lib/firmware/brcm/brcmfmac43456-sdio.bin

A post install script fails, with the following error:
raspi-firmware: missing /boot/firmware, did you forget to mount it?
run-parts: /etc/initramfs/post-update.d//z50-raspi-firmware exited with return code 1
run-parts: /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools exited with return code 1

There is no /boot/firmware on RP64.
Can we move these files to a spearate firmware package?
That would solve the issue.

Best regards,
Krzysztof


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.5
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: arm64 (aarch64)

Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-17-arm64 (SMP w/6 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_CRAP
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages raspi-firmware depends on:
ii  dosfstools  4.2-1
ii  dpkg        1.21.22

raspi-firmware recommends no packages.

Versions of packages raspi-firmware suggests:
ii  bluez-firmware         1.2-9
pn  firmware-brcm80211     <none>
pn  firmware-misc-nonfree  <none>

-- no debconf information