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linux-firmware-raspi2 package

  1. Bug #1862146
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 1862146

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Juerg Haefliger (juergh) wrote : Re: [Bug 1862146] Re: Duplicate file in linux-firmware-raspi2

On Tue, 18 Feb 2020 11:32:49 -0000
Dave Jones <email address hidden> wrote:

> A package with the latest firmware is available from the following PPA:
>
> https://launchpad.net/~waveform/+archive/ubuntu/firmware/+packages
>
> This package includes diversions for the following files (which are also
> present in linux-firmware):
>
> /lib/firmware/brcm/brcmfmac43455-sdio.bin
> /lib/firmware/brcm/brcmfmac43455-sdio.raspberrypi,3-model-b-plus.txt
> /lib/firmware/brcm/brcmfmac43455-sdio.raspberrypi,4-model-b.txt
>
> I've tested installing (and removing) this package on an up-to-date
> focal install, on a Pi 3B+ and a 4B which appears to be fine but I'd be
> interested to hear of corner cases that break things (I'm not sure what
> would happen if someone had an old linux-firmware-raspi2 package
> installed - which would necessitate linux-firmware being removed - not
> sure that even leaves a bootable system, but these are all things which
> ought to be tested).

Works for me. When can we have this in Focal so that we can start building
kernel snaps?