bug#57269: [rtl8812au-aircrack-ng-linux-module] Missing Source for hal/rtl8812a/hal8812a_fw.c (and probably other files ending in fw.c)

2022-08-27 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hello, Maxim Cournoyer writes: > Hi, > > Tobias Geerinckx-Rice writes: > >> Hi Jacob, >> >> Jacob K via Bug reports for GNU Guix 写道: >>> Files such as hal8812a_fw.c [1] have large arrays that seem to be >>> binary >>> firmware encoded in text. My understanding is that source code is >>> not

bug#57269: [rtl8812au-aircrack-ng-linux-module] Missing Source for hal/rtl8812a/hal8812a_fw.c (and probably other files ending in fw.c)

2022-08-19 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hi, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice writes: > Hi Jacob, > > Jacob K via Bug reports for GNU Guix 写道: >> Files such as hal8812a_fw.c [1] have large arrays that seem to be >> binary >> firmware encoded in text. My understanding is that source code is >> not >> available, so I believe the files are nonfree

bug#57269: [rtl8812au-aircrack-ng-linux-module] Missing Source for hal/rtl8812a/hal8812a_fw.c (and probably other files ending in fw.c)

2022-08-18 Thread Jack Hill
Tobias, On Thu, 18 Aug 2022, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix wrote: Attached is a patch removing the rtl8821ce-linux-module and rtl8812au-aircrack-ng-linux-module packages. diff --git a/gnu/system/examples/bare-bones.tmpl b/gnu/system/examples/bare-bones.tmpl index

bug#57269: [rtl8812au-aircrack-ng-linux-module] Missing Source for hal/rtl8812a/hal8812a_fw.c (and probably other files ending in fw.c)

2022-08-18 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix
Hi Jacob, Jacob K via Bug reports for GNU Guix 写道: Files such as hal8812a_fw.c [1] have large arrays that seem to be binary firmware encoded in text. My understanding is that source code is not available, so I believe the files are nonfree software, Even if free source code exists, we

bug#57269: [rtl8812au-aircrack-ng-linux-module] Missing Source for hal/rtl8812a/hal8812a_fw.c (and probably other files ending in fw.c)

2022-08-18 Thread Jacob K via Bug reports for GNU Guix
Files such as hal8812a_fw.c [1] have large arrays that seem to be binary firmware encoded in text. My understanding is that source code is not available, so I believe the files are nonfree software, and should, in the short-term at least, be removed from Guix. Long term it would be good to get the