[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/5] xr819-firmware: new package

[Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>]

>>>>> "Sergey" == Sergey Matyukevich <geomatsi@gmail.com> writes:

 > Add firmware for XR819 SDIO WiFi chip.

Thanks. I had a quick look at doing so myself some time ago, but never
got around to finishing it.

> +++ b/package/xr819-firmware/xr819-firmware.mk
 > @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
 > +################################################################################
 > +#
 > +# xr819-firmware
 > +#
 > +################################################################################
 > +
 > +XR819_FIRMWARE_VERSION = v2017.07
 > +XR819_FIRMWARE_SITE =  https://github.com/armbian/build/raw/$(XR819_FIRMWARE_VERSION)/packages/extras/firmware/xr819
 > +XR819_FIRMWARE_SOURCE = fw_xr819.bin
 > +XR819_FIRMWARE_EXTRA_DOWNLOADS = boot_xr819.bin sdd_xr819.bin
 > +XR819_FIRMWARE_LICENSE = PROPRIETARY

These firmware blobs are quite icky. If I understand correctly, the
firmware comes from some kind of (android?) disk image. Given that, I'm
not sure we are really allowed to redistribute them so we should set
XR819_FIRMWARE_REDISTRIBUTE = NO

The fact that the filenames are not versioned is also a pain, as we
cannot really handle any future version bumps without breaking older
releases.

I agree that cloning the huge armbian build repo for these small files
isn't really nice, but I had a look at the armbian github and I see they
have recently moved the firmware blobs to a separate repo:

https://github.com/armbian/firmware

Which is only around ~9MB, so I suggest we download that with git
similar to linux-firmware, then at least we have a git revision.

Care to rework the package to be such an "armbian-firmware" package
instead? For now it is fine to just have a single sub option to install
the xr819 files.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard