reopen 948712 quit There should be a rather obvious use case where absent /boot/firmware is quite appropriate. For someone needing a copy of the firmware, but using other tools to build the boot area.
Notably one might use raspi-firmware to retrieve start*.elf/fixup*.dat. Then add u-boot-rpi for second stage bootloader. Next grub-efi-arm* for third stage. Lastly flash-kernel to glue all the pieces together. Not one of these requires the existance of /boot/firmware. In fact, not one of these needs the installation of dosfstools. Perhaps the raspi-firmware package should be split into pieces so as to allow merely installing the actually required portions? (raspi-firmware-bin which depends upon: raspi1-firmware-bin, raspi2-firmware-bin, raspi3-firmware-bin, and raspi4-firmware-bin?) -- (\___(\___(\______ --=> 8-) EHM <=-- ______/)___/)___/) \BS ( | ehem+sig...@m5p.com PGP 87145445 | ) / \_CS\ | _____ -O #include <stddisclaimer.h> O- _____ | / _/ 8A19\___\_|_/58D2 7E3D DDF4 7BA6 <-PGP-> 41D1 B375 37D0 8714\_|_/___/5445