Hello,
Filling out some of the missed information below and also providing some
random thoughts of my own on this.
On Thu, Nov 02, 2023 at 09:49:51AM +0100, Tobias Heider wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Tobias Heider <m...@tobhe.de>
> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org
>
> * Package name : asahi-fwextract
> Version : 0.6.12
> Upstream Authors:
^^^^ Asahi Linux Contributors
> URL :
^^^^
https://github.com/AsahiLinux/asahi-installer/tree/main/asahi_firmware
> * License : MIT
> Description : Asahi Linux firmware extractor
>
> Scripts to extract firmware blobs from an EFI partition set up by the
> Asahi Linux installer.
>
> I am planning to maintain this as part of the bananas team.
>
The firmware extractor is part of upstreams (custom) installer-repository.
It also depends on asahi-scripts[1] which contains the asahi-fwupdate
utility, et.al. This also contains initramfs integration to make the
firmwares available during early boot and then provided as a tmpfs
under /lib/firmware/vendor in the running system.
Preliminary packaging is available at:
https://salsa.debian.org/bananas-team/asahi-fwextract
https://salsa.debian.org/bananas-team/asahi-scripts
Some random thoughts:
AIUI currently only initramfs-tools integration is shipped, but
maybe it would be good to also provide dracut integration (as provided
by upstream, if possible to integrate with debians dracut packaging)?!
I don't see any asahi-scripts ITP yet. Since asahi-scripts is a
dependency of asahi-fwextract I would have expected one to be posted
before this. Maybe the multiple-upstream-tarballs feature could be used
to package them together? But it's possibly more problems then benefits.
Maybe the asahi-scripts should have a less generic binary package name? and
split into multiple packages?
Regards,
Andreas Henriksson
[1]: https://github.com/AsahiLinux/asahi-scripts
