FWIW, I think it doesn’t make sense to package this (or upload it, rather) until we can run a headless Raspberry Pi system with it (i.e. once DMA, Ethernet and USB work). I don’t expect tooling to be a big issue.
On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 7:18 AM, Petter Reinholdtsen <p...@hungry.com> wrote: > > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > X-Debbugs-CC: pkg-raspi <pkg-raspi-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org> > > * Package name : open-rpi-firmware > Version : n/a, no tags in git > Upstream Author : Kristina Brooks > * URL : https://github.com/christinaa/rpi-open-firmware > * License : BSD and GPL > Description : Open source VPU side bootloader for Raspberry Pi > > This package contains firmware to boot the various Raspberry Pi boards. > > The free firmware is fairly early in its development process, but it > would be useful to have it in Debian to ensure all the build tools > needed are working and to allow those of us that prefer to run into free > software on our units an option to boot our RPis. :) > > Not quite sure what the package name should be. Suggested the > <something>-firmware name to match the > <URL: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/raspi3-firmware > name structure. > > -- > Happy hacking > Petter Reinholdtsen > > _______________________________________________ > Pkg-raspi-maintainers mailing list > pkg-raspi-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org > https://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-raspi-maintainers -- Best regards, Michael
