[Buildroot] [PATCH] rpi-wifi-firmware: new package

Yann E. MORIN yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Sat May 6 09:34:45 UTC 2017


Peter, All,

On 2017-05-06 11:28 +0200, Peter Korsgaard spake thusly:
> >>>>> "Yann" == Yann E MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr> writes:
>  > The OpenSUSE link you pointed above states:
> 
>  >     # From
>  >     # https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/1325#issuecomment-195560582
>  >     # Phil Elwell (Raspberry Pi Foundation) wrote: "Broadcom have said that
>  >     # the firmware files for the BCM43438 are covered under this licence:"
>  >     Source0:
>  >     https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/plain/LICENCE.broadcom_bcm43xx
> 
> Yes, the question is just if that only covers the generic .bin file or
> also the board(-family) specific nvram file, but OK.
> 
> As rpi-wifi-firmware already pulls in the .bin file from linux-firmware
> (and hence LICENSE.broadcom_bcm43xx) I'll just set _FIRMWARE_LICENSE to
> PROPRIETARY and not specify any license file here.

ACK.

>  > BTW, I love the way they force local names to be board-specific.
> 
> The # syntax?

Yep.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.


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