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Raspberry Pi: Add uncompressed wireless FW to Ubuntu releases #9330

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Raspberry Pi: Add uncompressed wireless FW to Ubuntu releases
pyavitz Feb 1, 2026
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Raspberry Pi: Fixup ubuntu wireless firmware function
pyavitz Feb 1, 2026
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22 changes: 16 additions & 6 deletions config/sources/families/bcm2711.conf
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Expand Up @@ -180,12 +180,6 @@ function post_family_tweaks_bsp__add_hooks_to_move_kernel_initrd_and_dtb() {
run_host_command_logged chmod a+x "${destination}"/etc/initramfs/post-update.d/zzz-update-initramfs
}

function post_family_tweaks_bsp__rpi_firmware() {
display_alert "$BOARD" "Installing firmware" "info"
git clone https://github.com/pyavitz/firmware.git --depth=1 -q "${destination}"/lib/firmware/updates/brcm
rm -fdr "${destination}"/lib/firmware/updates/brcm/{.git,README.md}
}

function post_family_tweaks_bsp__add_x11_config() {
display_alert "rpi5b" "Adding X11 configuration" "info"
run_host_command_logged mkdir -p "${destination}"/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -260,6 +254,22 @@ function pre_install_distribution_specific__add_rpi_packages() {
fi
}

function pre_install_distribution_specific__ubuntu_brcm_firmware() {
# Ubuntu uses compressed "*.zst" firmware of which the kernel has issue.
if [[ "${DISTRIBUTION}" == "Ubuntu" ]]; then
declare destdir="${SDCARD}/lib/firmware/updates"
declare firmware_commit_sha1="996423a18fc9c084c494c8ce378a25c7f8f44db4" # Keep this inside this file, so hashing detect changes and bumps the version of the bsp package
declare srcdir="${SRC}/cache/sources/brcm/${firmware_commit_sha1}"

run_host_command_logged mkdir -p "${destdir}"
# Get the firmware files from the git repo
fetch_from_repo "https://github.com/pyavitz/firmware.git" "brcm" "commit:${firmware_commit_sha1}" "yes"
# Copy the files from the git repo to the destdir
run_host_command_logged cp -pr "${srcdir}/"* "${destdir}"/
rm -fdr "${SDCARD}"/lib/firmware/updates/.git
fi
}

function pre_install_distribution_specific__unblock_rfkill() {
# Create a systemd service to unblock rfkill
cat > "${SDCARD}/etc/systemd/system/unblock-rfkill.service" <<- EOT
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