Thanks for your feedback, Ben! On Mon, May 12, 2025 at 8:21 PM Ben Hutchings <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2025-05-12 at 19:33 -0700, Roger Shimizu wrote: > > [ update Dmitry's email ] > > > > Dear Ben, > > > > Thanks for your feedback! > > > > On Mon, May 12, 2025 at 7:05 PM Ben Hutchings <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, 2025-05-12 at 01:02 -0700, Roger Shimizu wrote: > > > > Package: wnpp > > > > Severity: wishlist > > > > Owner: Roger Shimizu <[email protected]> > > > > X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected], [email protected] > > > > > > > > * Package name : linux-board-support-package-rb3gen2 > > > > Version : 1.1 > > > > Upstream Author : Linaro > > > > * URL : > > > > https://artifacts.codelinaro.org/ui/native/qli-ci/flashable-binaries/ubuntu-fw > > > > * License : non-free > > > > Description : Binary firmware for Qualcomm Robotics RB3 Gen2 > > > > > > > > This package contains the binary firmware for the QCS6490, which is > > > > the main > > > > SoC on the Robotics RB3 Gen2. > > > > > > Is there a reason this can't go into linux-firmware.git (and then into > > > src:firmware-nonfree) like the firmware for similar Qualcomm SoCs? > > > > linux-firmware.git are from upstream kernel, and I think only device > > driver goes into it. > > linux-firmware.git is for device firmware that may be requested by > drivers in upstream Linux. Several files in the above tarball seem to > belong there. > > > For linux-board-support-package-* packages, it includes such as blob > > for bootloader, etc, which is not open sourced yet. > > The main purpose for this ITP is to create the install media for Qualcomm > > SoC. > > Except the install media, probably there's not much use for those blobs. > > OK, so you should: > > - Make this package contain *only* the boot loader and other non-free > blobs that run on the host, with a description that does not mention > "firmware". > > - Submit the device firmware to linux-firmware.git, so it can go into > firmware-nonfree. (Or preferably get someone at Qualcomm to do that.)
Understood. Qualcomm already upstreamed the firmware as much as possible. I'm not sure why there're still a few blobs not upstreamed, or not accepted yet. Before those get accepted, I think it's ok to keep it in this non-free-firmware package. When one firmware gets accepted, I can remove to ship that specific blob from this package. Cheers, Roger
