[Lucid-LBM] SRU: Add backported qcserial driver [Maverick-RFC]

[Stefan Bader]

On 08/02/2010 03:27 PM, Tim Gardner wrote:
> On 07/31/2010 04:37 AM, Stefan Bader wrote:
>> SRU justification:
>>
>> Impact: Certain models of 3G hardware (Gobi) which apparently are quite
>> common, require several changes to work. First, the kernel module needs
>> to be updated, which requires larger modifications. Second, a new firm-
>> ware loader is required together with a matching udev rule.
>>
>> Fix: In order to prevent regressions, the driver backport was done in
>> LBM and also adds a new binary subpackage (lbm-wwan). This package also
>> contains the loader and the udev rule.
>> NOTE! The drivers also requires firmware files which need to be manually
>> gathered as they are not redistributable.
>>
>> Testcase: Without this backport no 3G connections are possible. Sevral
>> users in the bug report had successfully used the driver from the test
>> package after collecting the required firmware files.
>>
>> RFC Maverick:
>> The kernel parts are already in Maverick. But the firmware loader and the
>> udev rule would need to get packaged somewhere. I am not sure this still
>> can be done in time, so maybe the userspace part would need to go into
>> Maverick's LBM. Though it sounds a bit unclean.
>> For future releases it would be valuable to evaluate whether the firmware
>> might be acquired semi-automatically via fw-cutter.
>>
>> -Stefan
>>
>>  From f8de5aa33acc82fd77ac79e734f59f59b540f677 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Stefan Bader<stefan.bader at canonical.com>
>> Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:40:57 +0200
>> Subject: [PATCH] UBUNTU: Add WWAN sub-package and backported qcserial
>>
>> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/554099
>>
>> This adds a new sub-package which is intended to hold backported WWAN
>> (wireless wide area network) modules. The start is made by a backported
>> version of the qcserial driver.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader<stefan.bader at canonical.com>
>> ---
> 
> Acked-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner at canonical.com> for Lucid
> 
> If there are no kernel components for Maverick, then perhaps the loader
> and udev rule should just be a Universe package. Are you thinking about
> doing it?
> 
> rtg

Not yet really. I first wanted to see what options there would be. Would things
like that fit into the linux-firmware package? Or is that restricted to only fw
bits themselves?
Is there still time to come up with a new package for Maverick? When the general
opinion is to have a universe package (e.g. gobi-loader) I can do that.

-Stefan