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

From: Bjoern A. Zeeb <bz_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2023 21:17:52 UTC
On Sun, 23 Apr 2023, jbo@insane.engineer wrote:

> 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.

True probably would have but finding someone with overlapping interests
still was a secondary goal :)  It's been sorted.  Next step in the next
hour hopefully and then more once I am back from travels on Wednesday.

/bz

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Bjoern A. Zeeb                                                     r15:7