[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/5] xr819-firmware: new package
Peter Korsgaard
peter at korsgaard.com
Sun Nov 5 11:53:47 UTC 2017
>>>>> "Sergey" == Sergey Matyukevich <geomatsi at gmail.com> writes:
> Add firmware for XR819 SDIO WiFi chip.
Thanks. I had a quick look at doing so myself some time ago, but never
got around to finishing it.
> +++ b/package/xr819-firmware/xr819-firmware.mk
> @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
> +################################################################################
> +#
> +# xr819-firmware
> +#
> +################################################################################
> +
> +XR819_FIRMWARE_VERSION = v2017.07
> +XR819_FIRMWARE_SITE = https://github.com/armbian/build/raw/$(XR819_FIRMWARE_VERSION)/packages/extras/firmware/xr819
> +XR819_FIRMWARE_SOURCE = fw_xr819.bin
> +XR819_FIRMWARE_EXTRA_DOWNLOADS = boot_xr819.bin sdd_xr819.bin
> +XR819_FIRMWARE_LICENSE = PROPRIETARY
These firmware blobs are quite icky. If I understand correctly, the
firmware comes from some kind of (android?) disk image. Given that, I'm
not sure we are really allowed to redistribute them so we should set
XR819_FIRMWARE_REDISTRIBUTE = NO
The fact that the filenames are not versioned is also a pain, as we
cannot really handle any future version bumps without breaking older
releases.
I agree that cloning the huge armbian build repo for these small files
isn't really nice, but I had a look at the armbian github and I see they
have recently moved the firmware blobs to a separate repo:
https://github.com/armbian/firmware
Which is only around ~9MB, so I suggest we download that with git
similar to linux-firmware, then at least we have a git revision.
Care to rework the package to be such an "armbian-firmware" package
instead? For now it is fine to just have a single sub option to install
the xr819 files.
--
Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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