[asterisk-users] Help building dahdi for debian

[Alex Samad]

On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 06:28:09AM +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 12:23:41PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 08:20:18AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote:
> > 
> > [snip]
> > 
> > > > 
> > > > It merely packages (most of the) the source tarball in the dahdi-source
> > > > binary package, which is later built with dahdi-linux.
> > > 
> > > that makes sense, I had a time constraint, will look at it next weekend,
> > > when I have some times. because I want to move to 2.6.29 
> > 
> > okay started up my vm machine to build this, 
> > 
> > apt-source
> > fix series
> > dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -b
> > install the source deb
> > 
> > m-a build dahdi
> > dpkg -c
> > dahdi-modules-2.6.29-2-486_2.2.0~dfsg~rc5-1.1-alex01+2.6.29-5_i386.deb
> > 
> > and I still can't see any firmware !! only kernel modules.
> > 
> > Although I think I did see it download the firmware 

I think I solved my problem. the kernel modules downloads and compiles
int the vpmadt032_x86_32.o_shipped blob. I was expecting and looking
for the firmware! silly me

> 
> The scripts for downloading the post-build firmware were moved to the
> separate dahdi-firmware package (sadly it has not made it into the
> archive yet). As the firmware files are not distributable I ended up
> just including the firmwares/ directory . That package is intended for
> non-free anyway (it includes the xpp firmwares)
> 
> I included a script in that package to download and install the digium
> firmwares (a glorified make -C).
> 
>   /usr/share/dahdi/get-digium-firmware

okay

> 

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