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| Started by | John Scott <jscott@posteo.net> |
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| First post | 2018-05-27 05:50 +0200 |
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Bug#900171: firmware-free: Recommend or Suggest firmware-ath9k-htc John Scott <jscott@posteo.net> - 2018-05-27 05:50 +0200
Bug#900171: Downstreams affected by absence of firmware-ath9k-htc John Scott <jscott@posteo.net> - 2021-01-14 18:10 +0100
| From | John Scott <jscott@posteo.net> |
|---|---|
| Date | 2018-05-27 05:50 +0200 |
| Subject | Bug#900171: firmware-free: Recommend or Suggest firmware-ath9k-htc |
| Message-ID | <vTUQV-3BL-1@gated-at.bofh.it> |
Source: firmware-free Version: 3.4 Severity: wishlist -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 firmware-ath9k-htc provides free firmware for ar9271 and ar7010 Wi-Fi chipsets and is necessary for the hardware to work with free software. Unlike firmware-free (#890601), the firmware-ath9k-htc package is unique in that the firmware is built from source with the package, which is neat. IMHO, moving the firmware into firmware-linux-free is unnecessary and a bit of a step backwards, but it should be included by default just as other free firmware is with Debian. That is why I suggest changing firmware-linux-free to recommend firmware-ath9k-htc. - -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing-debug APT policy: (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.16.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAEBCgAdFiEEJwCMxdBfG24Y2trvfWFEpid5MHIFAlsKKB0ACgkQfWFEpid5 MHJBXggAqGg2Eq0Memkhx9JShwVQeaZJepZEPjv7PBPvgzosuYBb8qCBzehVZcIE F/kw/kk38zG35JNJKh5DYqoJdVzRECUkEMe2lBiLWJ9AMX+NbJHRgW2eWOvXu7T0 bhewDIrcieIAGbHwg7BAH6Wp5W3x+YpwXc6jAYC0FmuJPiaaqwTlQAY6c0Nhxw8/ zi56SA9AN7u2baBsmXG8LTqfxlYmybBoCdkapnD8jKBuYKWReuNmNN/QPKgHi9vn j+rlJ6f05STI8dVAOkr1Se32PAVye9cdkdd1jlFIQNudJ48YNudrmE1letiCX8fw I3K/xUVgfTDb8vwtcEKiT6AiGRH5XA== =OtjS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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| From | John Scott <jscott@posteo.net> |
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| Date | 2021-01-14 18:10 +0100 |
| Subject | Bug#900171: Downstreams affected by absence of firmware-ath9k-htc |
| Message-ID | <Bxeid-31k-1@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| In reply to | #61101 |
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That firmware-ath9k-htc isn't installed by default seems to be confusing downstream users, particularly on derivatives that are designed to be free software only and FSF-endorsed. Trisquel explicitly makes an effort to include it [1], but PureOS does not (yet) [2], and their docs seem to reflect an understanding that all general-purpose free firmware is installed by firmware- linux-free [3]. I'm notifying the distros and hardware vendors one by one of the situation, but it would be more worthwhile if my change could be merged in Debian. [1] https://gitlab.trisquel.org/trisquel/trisquel-packages/-/blob/master/10.0/ trisquel-meta/debian/control [2] https://tracker.pureos.net/T496 [3] https://tracker.pureos.net/w/troubleshooting/missing_firmware/
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