Bug#1029843: Missing symlinks for RPi 4 (to brcmfmac43455-sdio.raspberrypi,4-model-b.txt)
Package: firmware-brcm80211
Followup-For: Bug #1029843
X-Debbugs-Cc: kibi@debian.org, didi.debian@cknow.org, debian-boot@lists.debian.org, pete@akeo.ie
On Mon, 1 May 2023 11:18:03 +0100, James Addison <jay@jp-hosting.net> wrote:
> > Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@cknow.org> (2023-04-30):
> > > And that's exactly what happens or will happen. Even though the RPi4 filename
> > > doesn't contain spaces, there are several in the `brcm` directory that do.
> > > I didn't check other directories, but I'd expect that filenames with a space is
> > > NOT an anomaly.
>
> Since more files with that pattern are appearing upstream in
> linux-firmware.. yes, slightly reluctantly it does seem that this will
> be needed.
FWIW: After learn the root cause of the spaces-in-filenames problem for
packages derived from linux-firmware.git -- that is, the contents of the
'WHENCE' file in linux-firmware.git -- in fact the RPi4 is the only affected[1]
firmware currently.
(that surprised me, but does seem to be the case. I'm writing to counteract
any sense that the proposed patch[2] could affect and fix many firmwares. it
won't, at least not today)
[1] - https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tree/WHENCE#n2708
[2] - https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/firmware-nonfree/-/merge_requests/65
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