On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 09:29:18PM -0600, Eric Bavier wrote: > Hello Guix, > > We've had at least one person on IRC confirm that this firmware package > worked for them, allowing them to use their wireless hardware. > > Would it be appropriate to add this to %base-firmware? The output is > rather small.
How small? Since they seem to work, I'd say they should be added. > From c397f73d69326db24c211e4e2bda46e647d0e751 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Eric Bavier <[email protected]> > Date: Thu, 12 May 2016 13:57:01 -0500 > Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add openfwwf-firmware. > > * gnu/packages/firmware.scm (b43-tools, openfwwf-firmware): New > variables. > +(define-public b43-tools > + (let ((commit "8dce53297966b31b6c70a7a03c2433978dd9f288") > + (rev "1")) How do we choose a commit? > + (package > + (name "b43-tools") > + (version (string-append "20140625-" rev "." (string-take commit 7))) Is the timestamp some kind of upstream version string? If not, and there is no upstream version naming, we should use 0.0.0, right? > + #:phases > + (let ((subdirs '("assembler" "disassembler"))) ;TODO: fwcutter Can you expand the TODO comment?
