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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=)
Subject: bug#23409: unable to load free firmware
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 23:29:45 +0100
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Cc: Quilro Ordonez <quiliro@riseup.net>, quiliro@fsfla.org, 23409-done@debbugs.gnu.org

ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) skribis:

> Eric Bavier <ericbavier@openmailbox.org> skribis:
>
>> On Sun, 01 May 2016 15:19:34 +0200
>> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) wrote:
>>
>>> Quilro Ordonez <quiliro@riseup.net> skribis:
>>>=20
>>> > 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=20
>>>=20
>>> [...]
>>>=20
>>> > [   20.591158] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43-open/ucode5.fw" not
>>> > found
>>> > [   21.313688] b43-phy0 ERROR: /*(DEBLOBBED)*/=20=20
>>>=20
>>> =E2=80=9CDEBLOBBED=E2=80=9D would suggest that Linux-libre=E2=80=99s de=
blobbing 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.
>>
>>>=20
>>> 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=E2=80=99s been mentioned several times on IRC over time.

This was done in commit 52db41aff8771518f99eb1f9b63b814b568f7a4a back in
Nov. 2016.  Closing!

Ludo=E2=80=99.