[Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release crystalhd-0-0.20110315.2.mga3

Pascal Terjan pterjan at gmail.com
Mon Jul 16 23:34:11 CEST 2012


On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 10:13 PM, Guillaume Rousse
<guillomovitch at gmail.com> wrote:
> Le 16/07/2012 18:20, Damien Lallement a écrit :
>
>> Le 16/07/2012 18:17, colin a écrit :
>>>
>>> Name        : crystalhd                    Relocations: (not relocatable)
>>> [...]
>>> Summary     : Broadcom Crystal HD decoder driver and library
>>> Description :
>>> Driver and support library for Broadcom Crystal HD hardware video
>>> decoder.
>>>
>>> To use the device, you need to copy the appropriate firmware file to
>>> the /lib/firmware directory:
>>> - BCM70012 devices: bcm70012fw.bin
>>> - BCM70015 devices: bcm70015fw.bin
>>
>>
>> I think, it will be better not to have "how to use" in %description but
>> in a README.urpmi file.
>
> I even wonder why the package can't manage this directly.

Yes they should be in a crystalhd-firmware in nonfree, they are
redistributable from what I read on
http://www.broadcom.com/support/crystal_hd/


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