[Arm-dev] WiFi firmware

Sun May 22 13:48:28 UTC 2016
GalaxyMaster <gm.outside+arm-dev at gmail.com>

All,

Is there a reason why the firmware binary for the WiFi driver is not
included into the kernel-firmware package?  The reason I'm asking is
that initially I thought there is a licensing issue, but I've checked
the license and there are no issues there.  Also the same license
covers the following binary we are installing:
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[root at centos-rpi3 ~]# ls -l /lib/firmware/brcm/brcmfmac43455-sdio.bin
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 488193 Nov 20  2015
/lib/firmware/brcm/brcmfmac43455-sdio.bin
[root at centos-rpi3 ~]# rpm -qf /lib/firmware/brcm/brcmfmac43455-sdio.bin
linux-firmware-20150904-43.git6ebf5d5.el7.noarch
[root at centos-rpi3 ~]#
===

I'll try to update the linux-firmware repository
[http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tree/brcm]
with the firmware for our chip, however, I guess it would be quite a
long process, so I suggest to temporarily build a sub-package (say,
linux-firmware-brcmfmac43430) out of our kernel SRPM, so users would
get WiFi out of the box.  What do you think?

-- 
(GM)