Bug#837385: Bug#934822: ath9k-htc free firmware still an issue in free software distributions

[Cyril Brulebois]

Holger Wansing  (2023-01-28):
> I did not find any mention of ath9k-htc firmware in the list of
> packages you identified for this apptoach,

Sure, that package is in main, so doesn't need to move from non-free to
non-free-firmware so wasn't on that list. :)

> which made me ask for this. Sorry for the noise

No worries!


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Bug#837385: Bug#934822: ath9k-htc free firmware still an issue in free software distributions

[Holger Wansing]

Hi,

Am 28. Januar 2023 17:27:28 MEZ schrieb Cyril Brulebois :
>Holger Wansing  (2023-01-28):
>> now that there's massive work on making non-free firmware to work easily
>> in debian-installer and the distribution, would it be possible, to bring
>> the topic of ath9k-htc free firmware forward?
>> 
>> There are some longstanding bugreports for this (and related, some in
>> CC); is there any chance to get this finally fixed for bookworm?
>> 
>> Wouldn't it be a shame, if non-free firmware works flawlessly, while
>> this free firmware still stays an issue?
>
>If you look around in hw-detect or debian-cd repositories, you'll see that
>I'm working on main & non-free & main-non-free-firmware, soon to become
>main & non-free-firmware (once the move is complete). I don't have such
>hardware to confirm what happens at runtime though.

I did not find any mention of ath9k-htc firmware
in the list of packages you identified for this apptoach,
which mad me ask for this.
Sorry for the noise


Holger



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Bug#837385: Bug#934822: ath9k-htc free firmware still an issue in free software distributions

[Cyril Brulebois]

Holger Wansing  (2023-01-28):
> now that there's massive work on making non-free firmware to work easily
> in debian-installer and the distribution, would it be possible, to bring
> the topic of ath9k-htc free firmware forward?
> 
> There are some longstanding bugreports for this (and related, some in
> CC); is there any chance to get this finally fixed for bookworm?
> 
> Wouldn't it be a shame, if non-free firmware works flawlessly, while
> this free firmware still stays an issue?

If you look around in hw-detect or debian-cd repositories, you'll see that
I'm working on main & non-free & main-non-free-firmware, soon to become
main & non-free-firmware (once the move is complete). I don't have such
hardware to confirm what happens at runtime though.


Cheers,
-- 
Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)
D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant


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