On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 09:40:08AM +0100, Fabrizio Regalli wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
> kernel 3.2.x is arrived in unstable and it's time to discuss our open
> point about b43-fwcutter package.
Sorry for the delay...
[...]
> Below is a summary of list of changes that I would like to introduce
> with the new version of the package b43-fwcutter package:
>
> ===
>
> - The majority of firmware-b43-installer's postinst is moved to a script
> (firmware-b43-installer) installed to /usr/bin.
>
> * root is required to execute the firmware-b43-installer script.
>
> - Hooks are installed to /etc/kernel/post{inst,rm}.d, which call the above
> script with an argument (the kernel version) during kernel image package
> installation and removal.
OK. Don't forget that kernel hooks may run under debconf, so you
may need to redirect stdout to stderr.
> - A kernel-specific directory is created at /lib/firmware if it does not
> exist. For example, /lib/firmware/3.2.0-1-686-pae is created when
> configuring linux-image-3.2.0-1-686-pae (the b43 subdirectory is created
> at this location during firmware extraction by the b43-fwcutter utility).
So the extraction process is re-done for each installed kernel
version? The source (Windows driver?) is required to be kept
around?
> - broadcom-wl 5.100.138 (firmware 666.2) is acquired and extracted for use
> with Linux 3.2 and later, broadcom-wl 5.10.56.27.3 (firmware 508.1084)
> is used for Linux 3.1 and earlier.
>
> * Providing firmware 666.2 allows BCM4331 based devices to
> be supported, as b43 received an initial implementation at Linux 3.2
> (B43_PHY_HT was enabled at linux-2.6 3.2~rc4-1~experimental.1).
>
> - If the firmware-b43-installer script is not supplied with a kernel
> version argument (e.g. manual invocation by superuser), `$uname -r` is
> used.
>
> - chroot installs are still supported and are assumed to require the
> latest firmware; a message regarding use of Linux 3.2 for firmware 598
> and up is displayed, firmware is installed to /lib/firmware without a
> kernel version subdirectory.
[...]
This all sounds sensible.
Ben.
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