** Also affects: raspberrypi-userland (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Description changed:
[Availability]
The package is in proposed, pending a correction to Architecture to permit it
to migrate to multiverse (LP: #1884748).
[Rationale]
The package is required for updating the boot EEPROM on the Raspberry Pi 4.
[Security]
I am not aware of any open CVEs against the tools in rpi-eeprom.
[Quality assurance]
The package is extensively used upstream on Raspbian, and is obviously
actively maintained there. There is no meaningful test suite included in the
package, but the contents of the package are regularly exercised in image
testing (and boot EEPROM testing).
[UI standards]
Manual pages are included for both utilties included in the package
(rpi-eeprom-config and rpi-eeprom-update), but localization is missing from
both utilities at present. However, most users will never use these utilities
directly. Rather, they are typically launched by a systemd service on boot
which automatically applies new versions of the boot EEPROM.
[Dependencies]
The package depends on binutils, python3, and pciutils, all of which are
already in main. It also depends on linux-firmware-raspi2 and
libraspberrypi-bin which are the subject of other MIRs (LP: #1867813, LP:
#1895133).
[Standards compliance]
The package installs its scripts under /usr/bin.
[Maintenance]
The package is maintained by the Ubuntu Foundations team.
[Background information]
As this is a dependency for keeping the boot EEPROM on the Raspberry Pi 4 up
to date, the intention is to install this by default in all pi-related images
going forward.
+
+
+ ---
+
+
+ [Availability]
+ The package is already in universe.
+
+ [Rationale]
+ The package is depended upon by the new raspi-common seed, for inclusion in
all pi related images. The reason for its inclusion in the seed is that the
libraspberrypi-bin package provides the vcgencmd and dtoverlay utilities which
are both required by rpi-eeprom (the subject of a separate MIR, LP: #1895137)
for updating the boot EEPROM on the Raspberry Pi 4.
+
+ The libraspberrypi0 package is a dependency of libraspberrypi-bin and
+ both are built from the raspberrypi-userland source package.
+
+ [Security]
+ I am not aware of any open CVEs against the tools in libraspberrypi-bin or
the libraries in libraspberrypi0.
+
+ It may be worth noting that the -bin package installs a udev rule (in
+ /lib/udev/10-local-rpi.rules) permitting members of the "video" group
+ access to /dev/vchiq, which is required for all the VC related utilities
+ (including vcgencmd, raspivid, and raspistill) to be operated without
+ root privileges.
+
+ [Quality assurance]
+ The package is extensively used upstream on Raspbian, and is obviously
actively maintained there. There is no meaningful test suite included in the
package, but the contents of the package are regularly exercised in image
testing (and boot EEPROM testing).
+
+ [UI standards]
+ I've added manual pages for all the utilities I'm able to, but localization
is missing from all utilities at present. However, most users will never use
these utilities directly (bar, perhaps, the raspivid and raspistill utilities
for the camera module). Instead the most common scenario is that the utilities
will be used (invisibly) by other scripts (e.g. rpi-eeprom-update) for
maintenance purposes like manipulating the boot EEPROM.
+
+ [Dependencies]
+ As noted above, libraspberrypi-bin depends on libraspberrypi0. It also
depends on device-tree-compiler and libc6, both of which are already in main.
libraspberrypi0 in turn merely depends on libc6.
+
+ [Standards compliance]
+ The package installs its binaries under /usr/bin, and its libraries under
/usr/lib. Upstream does not version their API, so the libraries are unversioned.
+
+ [Maintenance]
+ The package is maintained by the Ubuntu Foundations team.
+
+ [Background information]
+ As noted above, the package is a dependency of the recently added
raspi-common seed
(https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-release/2020-September/005086.html).
As it is a dependency for keeping the boot EEPROM on the Raspberry Pi 4 up to
date, the intention is to install this by default in all pi-related images
going forward.
** Changed in: raspberrypi-userland (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Matthias Klose (doko)
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