Publish firmware selector

[Paul Spooren]

On Fri Nov 6, 2020 at 6:58 AM HST, Moritz Warning wrote:
> On 11/5/20 10:29 PM, Paul Spooren wrote:
> > On Thu Nov 5, 2020 at 2:24 AM HST, Daniel Golle wrote:
> >> Tried for a bit, it's missing a lot of ar71xx-only devices :(
> >> That's sad, because most of them won't ever be added to ath79 and it's
> >> kinda the last chance for users finding more or less up to date
> >> firmware for them. Examples: Allnet ALL0305, Allnet ALL0258N,
> >> ALFA Networks Hornet-UB, ...
> >> Are there plans to make images for those available as well and/or
> >> indicate whether the ath79 or ar71xx variant is being referenced?
> >
> > The selector is based on JSON files generated via image.mk. Anything
> > using legacy image creation won't produce these files.
> >
> > I don't plan to manually add those files nor creating a legacy JSON
> > mechanism, hoping it would be accepted in the next point release. Sorry.
> >
> >> I also noticed that when searching for RaspberryPi 3B, it is not
> >> clear whether the 64-bit (bcm2910) or the 32-bit (bcm2909) build is
> >> being probivded, it may be quite crucial for users to know that.
> >
> > I'd say that's an *upstream issue* regarding device naming. My
> > suggestion is to add (32Bit) or (64Bit) as DEVICE_VARIANT to
> > bcm27xx/image/Makefile.
> Can you make a merge request / submit a patch?

It's in my staging tree on GitHub.

>
> >
> > The selector must avoid heuristics as this becomes a never ending story
> > of tedious maintenance.
> >