On Wed, 2013-03-13 at 11:13 +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote: > On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 19:15:20 +0000 > Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> wrote: > > This should be added to the linux-firmware.git repository and then to > > our firmware-free source package. Perhaps you could talk to the > > Atheros developers and you or they could prepare a patch for > > linux-firmware.git? I recently added carl9170, which may be a useful > > example to follow. > > Okay, but they are using patched gcc and binutils for build it. > So I guess, first it should be merged to upstream gcc/binutils, then > be added to firmware git repo, right? > > henrich@hp:~/tmp/open-ath9k-htc-firmware$ wc -l local/patches/* > 28972 local/patches/binutils.patch > 115 local/patches/gcc.patch
The upstream Makefile downloads and patches tarballs for the toolchain, and that's fine as far as I'm concerned. The firmware-free source package already includes binaries and does *not* build them from debian/rules. Please do add checksum verification of the tarballs, though (like I did for carl9170). Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The obvious mathematical breakthrough [to break modern encryption] would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers. - Bill Gates
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