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Bug#934822: ath9k-htc free firmware still an issue in free software distributions



Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> (2023-01-28):
> now that there's massive work on making non-free firmware to work easily
> in debian-installer and the distribution, would it be possible, to bring
> the topic of ath9k-htc free firmware forward?
> 
> There are some longstanding bugreports for this (and related, some in
> CC); is there any chance to get this finally fixed for bookworm?
> 
> Wouldn't it be a shame, if non-free firmware works flawlessly, while
> this free firmware still stays an issue?

If you look around in hw-detect or debian-cd repositories, you'll see that
I'm working on main & non-free & main-non-free-firmware, soon to become
main & non-free-firmware (once the move is complete). I don't have such
hardware to confirm what happens at runtime though.


Cheers,
-- 
Cyril Brulebois (kibi@debian.org)            <https://debamax.com/>
D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant

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