Re: WiFi firmware looking for a ports comitter. HELP!

From: <jbo_at_insane.engineer>
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2023 19:54:49 UTC
On Thursday, April 20th, 2023 at 21:15, Bjoern A. Zeeb <bz@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am looking for a ports committer to help with
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=270742
> 
> It's becoming a blocker for more work and sorting things out for 14.0-R.
> 
> Upfront before someone asks:
> The reason I am fetching files individually (apart from 40 MB vs. 400MB)
> is that in the past we had to back out individual firmware files for
> certain chipsets (e.g., for rtw88 we did this) and that'll mean fetching
> 2x400MB. Then if different drivers have different revisions it'll be
> <n> * 400MB of tarballs, so fetching files individually will make life a
> 
> lot easier and faster.
> 
> Thanks to anyone who will give it a look or comment or even more.
> 
> /bz
> 
> --
> Bjoern A. Zeeb r15:7

I think this might get way more traction if posted on ports@freebsd.org.


~ j