Bug#635840: carl9170 firmware missing from debian

2013-01-15 Thread Riku Voipio
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 11:41:48AM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Tue, 2012-09-04 at 10:07 +0300, Riku Voipio wrote: > I don't believe it's absolutely necessary to build from sources during > the package build, and indeed none of the other free firmware images are > rebuilt. The problem has been

Bug#635840: carl9170 firmware missing from debian

2013-01-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2013-01-14 at 18:33 +0100, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote: [...] > As mentioned in [1], I'd be willing to maintain or co-maintain a > firmware packages for carl9170, but this would need coordination (and > an ack) from you (as linux-firmware maintainer) and the kernel-team, > given that d

Bug#635840: carl9170 firmware missing from debian

2013-01-14 Thread Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
Hi On Monday 14 January 2013, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Tue, 2012-09-04 at 10:07 +0300, Riku Voipio wrote: > > Hi, > > > > This is sad, someone actually releases their wireless card firmware > > under GPL and we fail to get it included in Debian. Way to encourage > > manufacturers to open source

Bug#635840: carl9170 firmware missing from debian

2013-01-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2012-09-04 at 10:07 +0300, Riku Voipio wrote: > Hi, > > This is sad, someone actually releases their wireless card firmware > under GPL and we fail to get it included in Debian. Way to encourage > manufacturers to open source their firmwares and end users to buy > hardware with open firmwa

Bug#635840: carl9170 firmware missing from debian

2012-09-04 Thread Riku Voipio
Hi, This is sad, someone actually releases their wireless card firmware under GPL and we fail to get it included in Debian. Way to encourage manufacturers to open source their firmwares and end users to buy hardware with open firmware... This is quite classic case where perfect has beome the enem