cypress-nvram repository on GitHub

[Josef Schlehofer]

Hello guys,

I am trying to get more familiar with target/bcm27xx.

I noticed that in the OpenWrt base repository, there is package 
cypress-nvram [1], which has its own repository [2] on GitHub under 
OpenWrt organization, but this repository is not available on 
git.openwrt.org [3].
It is not a big deal at all to not have it there. I'm wondering why 
there is a need to have own cypress-nvram repository when files in this 
repository are identical as they can be found in the linux-firmware 
repository. [4] This repository is already used for the same-named 
package in OpenWrt.

 From my point of view, this currently leads to increased maintenance 
efforts and another place where the issues can be created. Right now, 
there are a few files, which are outdated and newer versions of them are 
present in the linux-firmware repository.I will send a pull request soon 
to have it updated in the downstream repository as well to be in sync 
with upstream. Is there a possibility to use files from linux-firmware 
for SDIO cards, which are mostly used in RPi? It would avoid duplicating 
work.

[1] 
https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/blob/master/package/firmware/cypress-nvram/Makefile
[2] https://github.com/openwrt/cypress-nvram
[3] https://git.openwrt.org/
[4] 
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git

Looking forward to hearing from you,
Josef Schlehofer