Bug#635840: carl9170 firmware missing from debian
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 11:41:48AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-09-04 at 10:07 +0300, Riku Voipio wrote:
> 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.
Ok, I didn't know the issue was that we wanted to be able to reproduce
the binary. Had I known, I could have tried to get the firmware
reproduced myself and created building documentation, saving some of
your time.
> and I can now build a bit-identical firmware image, so I'm going to add
> it.
I see it is now part of linux-firmware-free - awesome! Lots of Thanks,
Riku
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