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Bug#635840: carl9170 firmware missing from debian



On Tue, 2012-09-04 at 10:07 +0300, Riku Voipio wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This is sad, someone actually releases their wireless card firmware
> under GPL and we fail to get it included in Debian. Way to encourage
> manufacturers to open source their firmwares and end users to buy
> hardware with open firmware...
> 
> This is quite classic case where perfect has beome the enemy of good.
> 
> Could we just put the binary firmware file linux-wireless website[1],[2]
> to firmware-linux-free for now, and do the build-from-sources firmware
> for Jessie if if deemed neccesary?

I don't believe it's absolutely necessary to build from sources during
the package build, and indeed none of the other free firmware images are
rebuilt.  The problem has been that I couldn't quite reproduce the
binary and the person submitting the firmware for linux-firmware.git
didn't respond to my request for information.

Anyway, I had another look and worked out the undocumented build steps
and I can now build a bit-identical firmware image, so I'm going to add
it.

Ben.

> [1] http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/carl9170
> [2] http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/carl9170/fw1.9.6?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=carl9170-1.fw


-- 
Ben Hutchings
If God had intended Man to program,
we'd have been born with serial I/O ports.

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