Bug#999485: firmware-brcm80211: Please add brcmfmac43456-sdio.* files for wifi support in Raspberry p400

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Hi Diederik, hi Gunnar,

On Mon, Dec 05, 2022 at 08:02:04PM +0100, Diederik de Haas wrote:
> Control: retitle -1 Please add brcmfmac43456-sdio.* files as it's not just 
> used in RPi devices
> 
> On 10 Nov 2022 11:40:06 +0100 Diederik de Haas  wrote:
> > On Sat, 9 Apr 2022 17:52:00 -0500 Gunnar Wolf  wrote:
> > > Please note I'm currenlty shipping the required files in
> > > raspi-firmware -- I believe their right place is in
> > > firmware-brcm80211, so please just ping me (or better, raise a bug on
> > > raspi-firmware) whent they are added to this package.
> > 
> > I opened https://bugs.debian.org/1023741 for it.
> 
> >From https://bugs.debian.org/1023741:
> > I completely agree that firmware-brcm80211 is the right place and
> > raspi-firmware is the wrong place as this is about firmware for wifi
> > devices which are f.e. also used on Pine64 devices.
> 
> Gunnar indicated that he's willing to remove the files from raspi-firmware,
> but they still need to be added to firmware-brcm80211, so pretty please?

So I looked at this, and don't think the firmware-nonfree packages
should take it over. Why? The firmware files are not part of
linux-firmware.git . 

Would they fit into a separate source package not associated with
raspi-config?

The other option is that they get included upstream in
linux-firmware.git by upstream? 

Regards,
Salvatore

Bug#999485: firmware-brcm80211: Please add brcmfmac43456-sdio.* files for wifi support in Raspberry p400

[Diederik de Haas]

Control: retitle -1 Please add brcmfmac43456-sdio.* files as it's not just used 
in RPi devices

On 10 Nov 2022 11:40:06 +0100 Diederik de Haas  wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Apr 2022 17:52:00 -0500 Gunnar Wolf  wrote:
> > Please note I'm currenlty shipping the required files in
> > raspi-firmware -- I believe their right place is in
> > firmware-brcm80211, so please just ping me (or better, raise a bug on
> > raspi-firmware) whent they are added to this package.
> 
> I opened https://bugs.debian.org/1023741 for it.

>From https://bugs.debian.org/1023741:
> I completely agree that firmware-brcm80211 is the right place and
> raspi-firmware is the wrong place as this is about firmware for wifi
> devices which are f.e. also used on Pine64 devices.

Gunnar indicated that he's willing to remove the files from raspi-firmware,
but they still need to be added to firmware-brcm80211, so pretty please?

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Bug#999485: firmware-brcm80211: Please add brcmfmac43456-sdio.* files for wifi support in Raspberry p400

[Diederik de Haas]

On Sat, 9 Apr 2022 17:52:00 -0500 Gunnar Wolf  wrote:
> Please note I'm currenlty shipping the required files in
> raspi-firmware -- I believe their right place is in
> firmware-brcm80211, so please just ping me (or better, raise a bug on
> raspi-firmware) whent they are added to this package.

I opened https://bugs.debian.org/1023741 for it.

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Bug#999485: firmware-brcm80211: Please add brcmfmac43456-sdio.* files for wifi support in Raspberry p400

[Gunnar Wolf]

Please note I'm currenlty shipping the required files in
raspi-firmware -- I believe their right place is in
firmware-brcm80211, so please just ping me (or better, raise a bug on
raspi-firmware) whent they are added to this package.

Thanks!

Bug#999485: firmware-brcm80211: Please add brcmfmac43456-sdio.* files for wifi support in Raspberry p400

[Gunnar Wolf]

Package: firmware-brcm80211
Version: 20210818-1
Severity: normal
Tags: newcomer

The Raspberry Pi p400 is very similar to the 4 family, but the Wifi
chip is a slightly different model, and is thus not recognized when
running with Debian, not even with firmware-brcm80211.

We need the addition of three files, all three of them available in
RPi-Distro's firmware-nonfree repository in Github
(https://github.com/RPi-Distro/firmware-nonfree/tree/master/brcm/):

brcmfmac43456-sdio.bin
brcmfmac43456-sdio.clm_blob
brcmfmac43456-sdio.txt

Thank you very much!

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