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  arm cpu/boot loader firmware packaging? Andreas Jellinghaus <andreas@ionisiert.de> - 2017-11-01 12:00 +0100
    Re: arm cpu/boot loader firmware packaging? Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2017-11-05 02:40 +0100

#59311 — arm cpu/boot loader firmware packaging?

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Hi,

I'm not sure if the preferred direction is many small firmware packages
(e.g. see the microcode firmware packages for intel, amd, ...), or if
firmware-nonfree maintained by kernel team is a good place to have all of
it in one place.

Is firmware-nonfree the right place for arm cpu/boot loader firmware blobs?

If not, any other pointer? If it should go into a new package: any template
/ package to use as a blueprint?

https://github.com/hardkernel/u-boot/tree/odroidxu4-v2017.05/sd_fuse
the files in this dir should be somehow packaged into a non-free debian
package,
so that debian can be installed (in that case: odroid-xu4/hc1 devices).

Thanks, Andreas

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On Wed, 2017-11-01 at 11:50 +0100, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm not sure if the preferred direction is many small firmware packages
> (e.g. see the microcode firmware packages for intel, amd, ...), or if
> firmware-nonfree maintained by kernel team is a good place to have all of
> it in one place.
> 
> Is firmware-nonfree the right place for arm cpu/boot loader firmware blobs?

firmware-nonfree is a package of a subset of linux-firmware.git, so no.
 (It actually predates that repository and has a few extra files that
can't be distributed that way, but I don't want to add more.)

> If not, any other pointer? If it should go into a new package: any template
> / package to use as a blueprint?

It might be worth looking at how the u-boot package handles
installation.  It might even make sense to coordinate with the
u-boot maintainers to make it possible to install both u-boot and the
other boot stages at once.

> https://github.com/hardkernel/u-boot/tree/odroidxu4-v2017.05/sd_fuse
> the files in this dir should be somehow packaged into a non-free debian
> package,
> so that debian can be installed (in that case: odroid-xu4/hc1 devices).

You'll need to sort out the license, though.  The only licensing
information I can see is "GPLv2", which doesn't allow binary-only
distribution.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Never put off till tomorrow what you can avoid all together.

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