Hi Bastian, The upstream of firmware-nonfree now includes firmware and config files for RTL8723CS Bluetooth, added in <https://gitlab.com/kernel-firmware/linux-firmware/-/commit/ed9c1349f8ebae720f3572ad3e74af59bfe345d7>. As a result of this, firmware-realtek now has a file conflict with firmware-realtek-rtl8723cs-bt (bug #1084791).
I would like to make firmware-realtek replace firmware-realtek- rtl8723cs-bt, if you don't mind that and if it really works as a replacement. However, they currently contain different versions of these files. In firmware-realtek they are: rtl_bt/rtl8723cs_xx_config.bin: symlink to: rtl_bt/rtl8723bs_config.bin: size 64 rtl_bt/rtl8723cs_xx_fw.bin: size 19732 The commit above says they were extracted from a zip file from realtek.com with version 1.0.245.3 (05/08/2017). I couldn't find an exactly matching zip file, and what I did find appears to be a Windows installer, so I can't confirm that. In firmware-realtek-rtl8723cs-bt the files are: rtl_bt/rtl8723cs_xx_config.bin: size 63 rtl_bt/rtl8723cs_xx_fw.bin: size 25004 I wanted to find the versions of these files, so I looked at the upstream WHENCE file in your package. This claims the files come from <https://github.com/armbian/firmware>. Although the config file in that repository does match, it has yet another version of the firmware: rtl_bt/rtl8723cs_xx_fw.bin: symlink to: rtlbt/rtl8723cs_xx_fw: size 24020 There is, however, a matching version in <https://github.com/armbian/build> that was added by <https://github.com/armbian/build/commit/077a7f8590c2799086bd8818115b10fd4d4423d5>. But at this point the trail runs out: there is no explanation of which Realtek or other manufacturer release these blobs came from. (This just reinforces my distrust of Armbian.) In any case, it seems that the files in firmware-realtek-rtl8723cs-bt may be specific to the Pinebook while those in firmware-realtek are generic. Are you able to test whether the files in firmware-realtek work properly on a Pinebook? If not, I suppose we will need to keep both packages around with Conflicts, or use alternatives to manage these filenames. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. - Lily Tomlin
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