On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 03:19:01PM -0000, Jonathan Cave wrote:
> Thanks for the info, I wasn't aware of what policy was for firmware.

It's the same as for the rest of the distro.

> As far as I can tell this firmware is all non-free, for example it
> appears to come from this repo https://github.com/RPi-Distro/firmware-
> nonfree and be in a non-free package in debian:
> https://packages.debian.org/sid/firmware-brcm80211. You would have to
> let me know what constitutes upstream for linux-firmware.

This is upstream:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-
firmware.git/

There are updates to brcmfmac firmware files since bionic, but I'm not
sure which specific files raspi2 uses.

> At this time I'm just investigating why we see regular failures on some
> of our devices when attempting to connect to APs in our certification
> lab, but haven't been able to identify any cause or solid reproduction
> scenario as yet. Given I spotted this information I thought I would
> raise it in case it was an omission.

We've had repeated requests for raspi2 firmware files, but most of the
time there isn't a clear license for distribution.

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