On Wed, 2017-11-01 at 11:50 +0100, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not sure if the preferred direction is many small firmware packages > (e.g. see the microcode firmware packages for intel, amd, ...), or if > firmware-nonfree maintained by kernel team is a good place to have all of > it in one place. > > Is firmware-nonfree the right place for arm cpu/boot loader firmware blobs? firmware-nonfree is a package of a subset of linux-firmware.git, so no. (It actually predates that repository and has a few extra files that can't be distributed that way, but I don't want to add more.) > If not, any other pointer? If it should go into a new package: any template > / package to use as a blueprint? It might be worth looking at how the u-boot package handles installation. It might even make sense to coordinate with the u-boot maintainers to make it possible to install both u-boot and the other boot stages at once. > https://github.com/hardkernel/u-boot/tree/odroidxu4-v2017.05/sd_fuse > the files in this dir should be somehow packaged into a non-free debian > package, > so that debian can be installed (in that case: odroid-xu4/hc1 devices). You'll need to sort out the license, though. The only licensing information I can see is "GPLv2", which doesn't allow binary-only distribution. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Never put off till tomorrow what you can avoid all together.
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