Source location of brcmfmac43430-sdio.bin

[anadahz]

It seems that the firmware files for the BCM43430 and other wireless chipsets (brcmfmac43430-sdio.bin) are not available neither in the kernel linux-firmware neither in the Debian package firmware-brcm80211.

It will be really nice if we could know the source location of brcmfmac43430-sdio files so that we can submit and update the linux-firmware and the Debian package firmware-brcm80211.

[XECDesign]

The files were provided directly by Broadcom. The files can be used under this license.
More information here.

[anadahz]

According to this: raspberrypi/linux#1325 (comment) (from the linked issue) we wait for Broadcom to submit the wifi and bluetooth firmwares to linux-firmware.

Since the license allows redistribution (with certain limitations) can't we just submit the firmware files to linux-firmware and Debian package firmware-brcm80211 ?

[XECDesign]

If someone would like to volunteer, it wouldn't hurt to raise the issue with the relevant maintainers and see what the hurdles might be.

[Forceflow]

I think this is part of an issue that keeps the Raspberry Pi 3 Wifi from working when updating from jessie to stretch - https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=150543&p=988948

[XECDesign]

Looks like it was added upstream a few months ago:
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/commit/?id=c4c07a8d1128d50a5c2885ceea1abbebaa82f820