Re: Pulling free firmware-ath9k-htc into the CD images

From	John Scott <jscott@posteo.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.devel.cd, linux.debian.maint.boot
Subject	Re: Pulling free firmware-ath9k-htc into the CD images
Date	2021-01-01 01:50 +0100
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On Thursday, December 31, 2020 10:53:30 AM EST Steve McIntyre wrote:
> Right. I'm more asking whether it's useful to try and pull this in for
> all arches, or just for amd64 / i386 for now.
I guess the majority of users are on amd64/i386 systems, but as the firmware
is for USB devices it would be useful for all of them, including, say,
Raspberry Pi users wanting to minimize use of proprietary firmware.

> There's not much point having the firmware available if the
> kernel isn't going to look for it AFAICS?
Actually with my draft udeb, it just uses the same workaround to find
the firmware as it does on the installed system, by setting the appropriate
option via a modprobe configuration file. It really should be as simple as
pulling in the udeb into the images:
https://salsa.debian.org/jscott/open-ath9k-htc-firmware

Assuming the freeze doesn't get in the way, this will probably need to go
through NEW and might be able to be merged in that way.

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Pulling free firmware-ath9k-htc into the CD images John Scott <jscott@posteo.net> - 2020-12-20 20:10 +0100
  Re: Pulling free firmware-ath9k-htc into the CD images Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> - 2020-12-23 16:00 +0100
    Re: Pulling free firmware-ath9k-htc into the CD images John Scott <jscott@posteo.net> - 2020-12-23 19:00 +0100
      Re: Pulling free firmware-ath9k-htc into the CD images John Scott <jscott@posteo.net> - 2020-12-29 01:10 +0100
      Re: Pulling free firmware-ath9k-htc into the CD images Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> - 2020-12-31 17:00 +0100
        Re: Pulling free firmware-ath9k-htc into the CD images John Scott <jscott@posteo.net> - 2021-01-01 01:50 +0100

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