[Git-commits] [grml/grml-live] 33f9c6: SW: drop firmware-intelwimax package from GRMLBASE
Michael Prokop
noreply at github.com
Tue Nov 1 12:44:32 CET 2022
Branch: refs/heads/master
Home: https://github.com/grml/grml-live
Commit: 33f9c6cec349b90042b9502188c6bcfd85ac39a6
https://github.com/grml/grml-live/commit/33f9c6cec349b90042b9502188c6bcfd85ac39a6
Author: Michael Prokop <mika at grml.org>
Date: 2022-11-01 (Tue, 01 Nov 2022)
Changed paths:
M etc/grml/fai/config/package_config/GRMLBASE
Log Message:
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SW: drop firmware-intelwimax package from GRMLBASE
This package was "silently" dropped in Debian's firmware-nonfree
versions v20220913-1 + v20221012-1 and now is no longer available in
Debian/unstable.
Quoting from -firmware-intelwimax's source package firmware-nonfree's
git (https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/firmware-nonfree.git):
| commit 1dced95200c7a1780feaf6e3cf11f8739f17d22a
| Author: Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <odyx at debian.org>
| Date: Mon Aug 22 15:44:30 2022 +0200
|
| intelwimax: Drop Intel WiMax package
|
| From upstream's 660d61bdf9691ddefbb3e2b3dd3fc2606ecf6779:
|
| Drop Intel WiMax firmware
|
| The WiMax wireless wan driver stack was dropped from upstream
| in 2021 without any people with HW and most global WiMax
| netowrks already shut down or being actively shutdown.
| The last stable firmware to support WiMax was 5.10 so time to
| drop the firmware.
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