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Re: Bug#797779: brcmfmac4330-sdio.txt from OpenElec fixes the issue



On Wed, 2 Sep 2015 23:10:42 +0200 Stefan Lippers-Hollmann <s.l-h@gmx.de> wrote:
[...]
> > On Wednesday 02 September 2015 19:37:13 Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote:
> > > On 2015-09-02, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
> [...]
> > Are you saying that I opened the bugreport against the wrong package or that 
> > this is not a bug at all?
> 
> As far as I see it, this is not a /software/ bug and not actionable 
> from within Debian, the data blob in question can only be provided
> by the OEM/ systems integrator manufacturing the devboard or the 
> vendor producing the wlan card in question (e.g. AMPAK for the AP6120
> wlan/ BT daughterboard using the Broadcom BCM4329 SDIO chipset found 
> on many armhf devboards). It is calibration data for your particular 
> wlan card and not a generic firmware image. 
[...]

Exactly.  These board-specific blobs have not been submitted to linux-
firmware.git and are also unsuitable for inclusion in firmware-nonfree.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Unix is many things to many people,
but it's never been everything to anybody.

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