[yocto] [meta-raspberrypi][PATCH] firmware.inc: Fetch a zip instead of cloning a git repo

[Burton, Ross]

On 26 June 2015 at 15:16, Jon Szymaniak <jon.szymaniak at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm open to other suggestions as well, as this was just a first stab at
> it. I've been seeing that cloning this git repo containing binary firmware
> blobs takes an absurd amount of time, if it even finishes at all
> successfully.
>

I believe github offers hosting of "release" tarballs too, so upstream
could take advantage of that.  Having verified checksums of firmware is
useful from a security point of view as you can't really inspect the
sources for it...

Ross
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