From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Eric Bavier <ericbavier@openmailbox.org>
Cc: Quilro Ordonez <quiliro@riseup.net>,
quiliro@fsfla.org, 23409-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23409: unable to load free firmware
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 23:29:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eg09ut5y.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d1idle2j.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Court\=C3\=A8s\=22'\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?s\?\= message of "Wed, 02 Nov 2016 23:19:48 +0100")
ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:
> Eric Bavier <ericbavier@openmailbox.org> skribis:
>
>> On Sun, 01 May 2016 15:19:34 +0200
>> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote:
>>
>>> Quilro Ordonez <quiliro@riseup.net> skribis:
>>>
>>> > I am trying to lo use Broadcom wireless device on GuixSD. It is
>>> > confirmed to work with free drivers and free firmware. It works
>>> > correctly in Trisquel too.
>>> >
>>> > dmesg gives the following messages. I have included only the relevant
>>> > parts:
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> > [ 20.591158] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43-open/ucode5.fw" not
>>> > found
>>> > [ 21.313688] b43-phy0 ERROR: /*(DEBLOBBED)*/
>>>
>>> “DEBLOBBED” would suggest that Linux-libre’s deblobbing script viewed it
>>> as an opaque binary blob and thus patched it, which may be an issue
>>> here, no?
>>
>> Does deblobbing happen at runtime too? I thought it was only during
>> build time.
>>
>>>
>>> I assume you used the firmware packages that Leo copied. Could you get
>>> its author to submit it? :-)
>>
>> That would be me :) But I don't have the hardware to test it out on,
>> and qemu doesn't offer emulation of the broadcomm cards.
>
> Eric, do you know if the firmware package you wrote got more testing?
> It’s been mentioned several times on IRC over time.
This was done in commit 52db41aff8771518f99eb1f9b63b814b568f7a4a back in
Nov. 2016. Closing!
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-11 22:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-30 21:06 bug#23409: unable to load free firmware Quilro Ordonez
2016-04-30 22:43 ` Leo Famulari
2016-05-01 13:19 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-05-02 13:55 ` Eric Bavier
2016-05-03 8:01 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-05-03 20:10 ` Quilro Ordonez
2016-05-03 20:45 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-05-03 21:17 ` Quilro Ordonez
2016-05-03 21:21 ` Quilro Ordonez
2016-05-04 9:10 ` Alex Kost
2016-05-04 18:30 ` Quilro Ordonez
2016-05-04 21:33 ` Alex Kost
2016-05-04 23:08 ` Quilro Ordonez
2016-05-04 23:13 ` Quilro Ordonez
2016-05-05 8:42 ` Alex Kost
2016-05-11 19:01 ` Quilro Ordonez
[not found] ` <87oa8bzjqg.fsf@gmail.com>
2016-05-12 16:11 ` Quilro Ordonez
2016-05-13 13:25 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-05-13 21:15 ` Quilro Ordonez
2016-05-14 16:17 ` Alex Kost
2016-11-02 22:19 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-01-11 22:29 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2016-11-04 0:43 ` Quiliro Ordonez
2016-11-04 0:46 ` Quiliro Ordonez
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