[PATCH RFC] aquantia-firmware: package MediaTek's Aquantia AQR113C firmware

[Robert Marko]

On Mon, 5 Feb 2024 at 14:23, Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: Rafał Miłecki <rafal at milecki.pl>
>
> Aquantia AQR113C is PHY that needs loading a firmware. Some devices may
> have it stored on flash and some need filesystem to provide it.
>
> MediaTek holds its own AQR113C firmware file for its boards. Package it.

Hi Rafal, not going into details of this patch, but what is the
license situation with
redistributing the AQR firmware?

Regards,
Robert
>
> The problem is obtaining that firmware:
> 1. Cloning whole repo seems like an overkill for copying a single file
> 2. Public git server doesn't support git protocol (and so git archive)
> 3. Gitiles UI doesn't allow downloading raw files (nor binaries as text)
>
> The only option seems to be downloading tar archive of "firmware"
> directory. The problem is such archives generated by Gitiles differ on
> every download so a checksum can't be specified.
>
> Due to all above a custom download is implemented in "Build/Prepare".
> Then firmware gets simply extracted and packaged.
>
> Cc: Robert Marko <robimarko at gmail.com>
> Cc: Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth at gmail.com>
> Cc: Daniel Golle <daniel at makrotopia.org>
> Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal at milecki.pl>
> ---
>  package/firmware/aquantia-firmware/Makefile | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 36 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 package/firmware/aquantia-firmware/Makefile
>
> diff --git a/package/firmware/aquantia-firmware/Makefile b/package/firmware/aquantia-firmware/Makefile
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000..9cf67f41bb
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/package/firmware/aquantia-firmware/Makefile
> @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
> +
> +include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk
> +
> +PKG_NAME:=aquantia-firmware
> +PKG_RELEASE:=1
> +
> +include $(INCLUDE_DIR)/package.mk
> +
> +define Package/aquantia-mediatek-aqr113c-firmware
> +  SECTION:=firmware
> +  CATEGORY:=Firmware
> +  TITLE:=MediaTek's firmware for Aquantia AQR113C
> +endef
> +
> +define Build/Prepare
> +       mkdir -p $(PKG_BUILD_DIR)
> +
> +       # Download for "aquantia-mediatek-aqr113c-firmware" package
> +       wget \
> +               -O $(DL_DIR)/mtk-openwrt-feeds-refs_heads_master-21.02-files-target-linux-mediatek-mt7988-base-files-lib-firmware.tar.gz \
> +               "https://git01.mediatek.com/plugins/gitiles/openwrt/feeds/mtk-openwrt-feeds/+archive/refs/heads/master/21.02/files/target/linux/mediatek/mt7988/base-files/lib/firmware.tar.gz"
> +       tar xf $(DL_DIR)/mtk-openwrt-feeds-refs_heads_master-21.02-files-target-linux-mediatek-mt7988-base-files-lib-firmware.tar.gz -C $(PKG_BUILD_DIR)
> +       # TODO: Verify extracted firmware checksum
> +endef
> +
> +define Build/Compile
> +
> +endef
> +
> +define Package/aquantia-mediatek-aqr113c-firmware/install
> +       $(INSTALL_DIR) $(1)/lib/firmware
> +       $(INSTALL_DATA) $(PKG_BUILD_DIR)/Rhe-05.06-Candidate9-AQR_Mediatek_23B_P5_ID45824_LCLVER1.cld $(1)/lib/firmware/
> +endef
> +
> +$(eval $(call BuildPackage,aquantia-mediatek-aqr113c-firmware))
> --
> 2.35.3
>