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The firmware for QCA AR7010/AR9271 802.11n USB NICs
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make sure this firmware is supplied as free/opensource package on debian #90

Closed olerem closed 7 years ago

olerem commented 8 years ago

If i see it correctly first of all, we need a gcc xtensa cross compiler as a package

olerem commented 8 years ago

This bug report was made back in 11 Jun 2014, last update at 23 Jan 2015. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=751339

the main problem is building a toolchain which is not trivial for packaging

olerem commented 8 years ago

Link all related bug reports: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=711470 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=810047 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=810672

olerem commented 7 years ago

Contacted gcc devs: https://www.mail-archive.com/gcc@gcc.gnu.org/msg80938.html

patches for GCC could be accepted. If this would be done, then we don't need to create own patched toolchain.

olerem commented 7 years ago

starting research on GCC and Bintuils. First of all, updated firmware to latest GCC version. If i will need to make gcc patches an push it upstream i need to be able to test it.

So, here is the pull request: https://github.com/qca/open-ath9k-htc-firmware/pull/91

olerem commented 7 years ago

Side note: we have no test automation :( https://github.com/qca/open-ath9k-htc-firmware/issues/95

olerem commented 7 years ago

https://github.com/qca/open-ath9k-htc-firmware/pull/91 is done. Now we need continue to research binutils and GCC issue.

olerem commented 7 years ago

According to irc #debian-devel it should be possible with less problems to provide package for this firmware. Keywords are: binutils-source and gcc-6-source. Here are reverse depnedencies for this packages which should be a good example to start:

[0] 11:22 cbe@benz:~ master $ build-rdeps binutils-source WARNING: dose-extra >= 4.0 is not installed. Falling back to old unreliable behaviour.

Reverse Build-depends in contrib:

No reverse build-depends found for binutils-source.

Reverse Build-depends in main:

cross-toolchain-base binutils-z80 cross-binutils cross-toolchain-base-ports openbios binutils-mingw-w64 binutils-arm-none-eabi

Found a total of 7 reverse build-depend(s) for binutils-source.

Reverse Build-depends in non-free:

No reverse build-depends found for binutils-source.

[0] 11:39 cbe@benz:~ master $ build-rdeps gcc-6-source WARNING: dose-extra >= 4.0 is not installed. Falling back to old unreliable behaviour.

Reverse Build-depends in contrib:

No reverse build-depends found for gcc-6-source.

Reverse Build-depends in main:

gcc-6-cross-ports gnat-mingw-w64 gcc-6-cross gcc-mingw-w64

Found a total of 4 reverse build-depend(s) for gcc-6-source.

Reverse Build-depends in non-free:

No reverse build-depends found for gcc-6-source.

Legimet commented 7 years ago

I hope this can be included in Debian stretch.

olerem commented 7 years ago

next pre debian PR: https://github.com/qca/open-ath9k-htc-firmware/pull/104

olerem commented 7 years ago

@Legimet , sure... it is not trivial and frustrating work which take lots of time. I doubt i'll do it again any time soon.

olerem commented 7 years ago

This issue can be closed now, see: https://ftp-master.debian.org/new/open-ath9k-htc-firmware_1.4.0-81-gf206e56+dfsg-1.html