On Mon, 22 Jan 2024 15:42:48 +0100 Diederik de Haas
<didi.deb...@cknow.org> wrote:
> Source: firmware-nonfree
> Version: 20230625-2
> Severity: important
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> I'm currently working on an update for upstream version 20230919,
based
> upon MR86 (Release 20230804) [1], which itself is based upon MR85
> (Update to 20230625) [2] and I'm running into some major issues:
> 
> 1) Salsa's CI now always fails as the (archive) size is now too big
for
>    it to handle it.

I've addressed this for now by excluding:

- Many firmware versions that are no longer referenced
- All atomisp2 firmware
- All mlxsw firmware
- Some new Qualcomm SoC firmware

> 2) Upstream introduced a new keyword RawFile to 'list files that must
>    not be compressed'. I'm guessing one or more script files need to
be
>    updated for it?

The WHENCE file is parsed by the debian_linux.firmware module that's
currently in src:linux.  And yes that will need to be updated.

> 3) Upstream commit a0142c57045701b7557c3060af5c4246c420e4d8 titled
>    "ath10k/WCN3990: move wlanmdsp to qcom/sdm845" would mean moving
>    entries from ``debian/config/atheros`` to ``debian/config/qcom-
soc``
>    and adding a 'recommends' field to ``atheros``'s ``defines`` file.
>    Which means that qcom-soc recommends atheros and atheros
recommends
>    qcom-soc. Technically doable, but it raises the question whether
this
>    separation still makes sense. 

I think only the qcom-soc -> atheros recommendation is needed.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Make three consecutive correct guesses and you will be considered
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