FYI: open-ath9k-htc-firmware
Hi, One of my floss friend noticed to me that phoronix reports Atheros Publishes Open-Source WiFi Firmware http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=MTMyNTY Source is https://github.com/qca/open-ath9k-htc-firmware and its license seems to be DFSG-free one. Now Debian provides it as firmware-atheros package (Source: firmware-nonfree) so it may help users to run their laptops without annoying to install non-free package. -- Regards, Hideki Yamane henrich @ debian.or.jp/org http://wiki.debian.org/HidekiYamane -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130312234844.fd8fc46a2eb8bf6bbce61...@debian.or.jp
Re: FYI: open-ath9k-htc-firmware
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 11:48:44PM +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote: Hi, One of my floss friend noticed to me that phoronix reports Atheros Publishes Open-Source WiFi Firmware http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=MTMyNTY Source is https://github.com/qca/open-ath9k-htc-firmware and its license seems to be DFSG-free one. Now Debian provides it as firmware-atheros package (Source: firmware-nonfree) so it may help users to run their laptops without annoying to install non-free package. This should be added to the linux-firmware.git repository and then to our firmware-free source package. Perhaps you could talk to the Atheros developers and you or they could prepare a patch for linux-firmware.git? I recently added carl9170, which may be a useful example to follow. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. - Albert Camus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130312191520.gh9...@decadent.org.uk
Re: FYI: open-ath9k-htc-firmware
On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 19:15:20 + Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: This should be added to the linux-firmware.git repository and then to our firmware-free source package. Perhaps you could talk to the Atheros developers and you or they could prepare a patch for linux-firmware.git? I recently added carl9170, which may be a useful example to follow. Okay, but they are using patched gcc and binutils for build it. So I guess, first it should be merged to upstream gcc/binutils, then be added to firmware git repo, right? henrich@hp:~/tmp/open-ath9k-htc-firmware$ wc -l local/patches/* 28972 local/patches/binutils.patch 115 local/patches/gcc.patch -- Regards, Hideki Yamane henrich @ debian.or.jp/org http://wiki.debian.org/HidekiYamane -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130313111342.8286bcb3346b2aad513dd...@debian.or.jp
Re: FYI: open-ath9k-htc-firmware
On Wed, 2013-03-13 at 11:13 +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote: On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 19:15:20 + Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: This should be added to the linux-firmware.git repository and then to our firmware-free source package. Perhaps you could talk to the Atheros developers and you or they could prepare a patch for linux-firmware.git? I recently added carl9170, which may be a useful example to follow. Okay, but they are using patched gcc and binutils for build it. So I guess, first it should be merged to upstream gcc/binutils, then be added to firmware git repo, right? henrich@hp:~/tmp/open-ath9k-htc-firmware$ wc -l local/patches/* 28972 local/patches/binutils.patch 115 local/patches/gcc.patch The upstream Makefile downloads and patches tarballs for the toolchain, and that's fine as far as I'm concerned. The firmware-free source package already includes binaries and does *not* build them from debian/rules. Please do add checksum verification of the tarballs, though (like I did for carl9170). Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The obvious mathematical breakthrough [to break modern encryption] would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers. - Bill Gates signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: FYI: open-ath9k-htc-firmware
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Hideki Yamane wrote: Okay, but they are using patched gcc and binutils for build it. So I guess, first it should be merged to upstream gcc/binutils, then be added to firmware git repo, right? No, that is not how the firmware-free source package works. It just ships pre-built firmware and source but doesn't build anything from source. So it isn't nessecary to care about if the firmware is buildable at all. So if you patch the source, you will not get a fixed version of the firmware. Personally I think this is the wrong way to go about packaging free software. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caktje6hht3pp3yqbd2wdnyrdeire_+apytsxn_fevfq07bv...@mail.gmail.com
Re: FYI: open-ath9k-htc-firmware
On Wed, 2013-03-13 at 10:27 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Hideki Yamane wrote: Okay, but they are using patched gcc and binutils for build it. So I guess, first it should be merged to upstream gcc/binutils, then be added to firmware git repo, right? No, that is not how the firmware-free source package works. It just ships pre-built firmware and source but doesn't build anything from source. So it isn't nessecary to care about if the firmware is buildable at all. So if you patch the source, you will not get a fixed version of the firmware. Not by running debian/rules, no. Personally I think this is the wrong way to go about packaging free software. Assuming that you think the right way is to package and use the toolchain for each free firmware project: I don't believe this is allowed in Debian, nor do I have time for that. But if you want to fight that battle, you are welcome, and I'll be happy to build firmware-free using those packages. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The obvious mathematical breakthrough [to break modern encryption] would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers. - Bill Gates signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
