Re: Pulling free firmware-ath9k-htc into the CD images

2020-12-31 Thread John Scott
On Thursday, December 31, 2020 10:53:30 AM EST Steve McIntyre wrote: > Right. I'm more asking whether it's useful to try and pull this in for > all arches, or just for amd64 / i386 for now. I guess the majority of users are on amd64/i386 systems, but as the firmware is for USB devices it would be u

Re: Pulling free firmware-ath9k-htc into the CD images

2020-12-31 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hey John, I hope you had a good Christmas! On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 12:57:09PM -0500, John Scott wrote: >On Wednesday, December 23, 2020 9:52:16 AM EST Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Is this just going to be for x86 machines, or is it likely to be useful for >> ~everybody? >It will be useful for all ar

Re: Pulling free firmware-ath9k-htc into the CD images

2020-12-28 Thread John Scott
I've committed a rudimentary udeb in Git at https://salsa.debian.org/jscott/open-ath9k-htc-firmware.git for which I would appreciate feedback. Does the d-i freeze coming up in a couple weeks mean this may not clear NEW in time for Bullseye? If so, no biggie. Here's the gist of what it installs: /

Re: Pulling free firmware-ath9k-htc into the CD images

2020-12-23 Thread John Scott
On Wednesday, December 23, 2020 9:52:16 AM EST Steve McIntyre wrote: > Is this just going to be for x86 machines, or is it likely to be useful for > ~everybody? It will be useful for all architectures, except I don't think there are FreeBSD and Hurd drivers yet, but it's an arch:all package regard

Re: Pulling free firmware-ath9k-htc into the CD images

2020-12-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
[ Adding a CC to the debian-boot list too ] Hi John! On Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 01:31:15AM -0500, John Scott wrote: > >I'm not subscribed, please CC me. Also I've already sent a mail like this one >to the kernel list; I hope this is the right place (as an outsider I don't >know if I need to be rea