Bug#1089651: ITP: qcom-firmware-extract -- Extract Qualcomm firmware from Windows partition

[Christopher Obbard <obbardc@debian.org>]

Hi Tobias,

On Tue, 10 Dec 2024 at 15:39, Christopher Obbard <obbardc@debian.org> wrote:
>
> X-Debbugs-CC: obbardc@debian.org
>
> Hi Tobias!
>
> On Tue, 10 Dec 2024 15:59:56 +0100 Tobias Heider <me@tobhe.de> wrote:
> > Package: wnpp
> > Severity: wishlist
> > Owner: Tobias Heider <me@tobhe.de>
> > X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
> >
> > * Package name    : qcom-firmware-extract
> >   Upstream Authors: Tobias Heider <tobias.heider@canonical.com>
> >   URL             :
> https://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-concept/ubuntu/+source/qcom-firmware-extract/
> > * License         : GPL-2+
> >   Description     : Script to extract Qualcomm firmware from Windows
> partition
> >  This package contains a script used to extract firmware from
> Qualcomm
> >  Snapdragon X Elite powered machines such as the Thinkpad T14s Gen 6.
> >  It serves as a temporary solution until the firmware is
> redistributable
> >  under an appropriate license.
>
> I'm happy to sponsor an upload of this into the archive. I've created
> https://salsa.debian.org/debian/qcom-firmware-extract and added you as
> a maintainer.
>
>
> In other parallel news, Dmitry (in CC) suggested that we should be able
> to download the files from MS rather than extract from Windows, and
> suggested he would be able to add support for that to
> https://github.com/aarch64-laptops/firmware-qcom-woa

There is also https://github.com/CadmiumLinux/woa-firmware-yoinker
which the postmarket-os people seem to be using.

Thanks!