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Bug#890902: firmware-misc-nonfree: Please include ti_3410.fw / ti_5052.fw firmwares



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On Tue, 2018-02-20 at 12:55 +0000, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
> Package: firmware-misc-nonfree
> Version: 20170823-1
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> I've recently obtained a TI 3410 device using the ti_usb_3410_5052
> driver. It seems that although the appropriate firmware for this
> (ti_3410.fw) is included in the upstream linux-firmware git tree it is
> not included in the firmware-misc-nonfree. Please consider adding it,
> and the accompanying ti_5052.fw for the dual port version of this
> adaptor.

These were formerly included as blobs in the kernel source under
"GPLv2", but without real source available.  Until that's sorted out we
can't distribute them.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
[W]e found...that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had
thought. ... I realized that a large part of my life from then on was
going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs. - Maurice
Wilkes, 1949

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