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Bug#845488: ITP: linux-firmware-raspi3 -- Raspberry Pi 3 GPU firmware and bootloaders



On Wed, 2016-11-23 at 22:37 +0100, Michael Stapelberg wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg@debian.org>
> 
> * Package name    : linux-firmware-raspi3

Is this really Linux-specific?  If not, please consider dropping the
'linux-' part.

Ben.

>   Version         : 1.20161123
>   Upstream Author : Raspberry Pi Foundation
> * URL             : https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware
> * License         : Proprietary
>   Description     : Raspberry Pi 3 GPU firmware and bootloaders
> 
>  This package contains all the proprietary files necessary to boot a
>  Raspberry Pi 3 board.
>  .
>  Raspberry Pi is a trademark of the Raspberry Pi Foundation.
> 
> This package will be maintained by the newly created pkg-raspi team, and
> is one of the last few pieces of the puzzle to create Debian images for
> the Raspberry Pi 3. The package is based on the linux-firmware-raspi2
> package from Ubuntu.
> 
-- 
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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