qoriq-rcw 1.2.0-1

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Description	QorIQ Reset Configuration Word compiler (CLI) qoriq-rcw compiles RCW source files into PBL/RCW binary images for NXP QorIQ and Layerscape SoCs that use PBI format 2 (LS1028, LS1088, LS2088, LX2160 families) and decompiles binary images back to RCW source text. It is built on top of libqoriq-rcw. The CLI also checks an image the way the BootROM would do before it is flashed (--check), reads the live RCW snapshot from /dev/mem on a running QorIQ/Layerscape board (--dump) or the RCW and PBI commands from its boot flash (--dump-flash), runs sanity checks, and emits a recompilable .rcw file. Install qoriq-rcw-data to use the dump modes (and decompiled output) without --rcwi/-I flags. Run --check on an image before flashing it: an image the Service Processor's BootROM rejects could leave the board silent after a reboot.
Maintainer	Vincent Jardin <vjardin@free.fr>
Changed By	Vincent Jardin <vjardin@free.fr>
Sponsor	skitt@debian.org
Distribution	unstable
Architecture	any all
VCS	git: https://salsa.debian.org/vjardin/qoriq-rcw.git (browse)
Closes	#1152049
Tracker	https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/qoriq-rcw
Uploaded	3 hours ago

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Version	1.2.0-1
Changed-By	Vincent Jardin <vjardin@free.fr>
Architecture	source all amd64
Distribution	unstable
Date	Mon, 26 Oct 2026 10:38:54 +0100
Source	qoriq-rcw

Changelog◂

qoriq-rcw (1.2.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium
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   * Initial release. (Closes: #1152049)

.dsc◂

Section	utils
Priority	optional
Component	main
Package-List	qoriq-rcw deb utils optional arch=any qoriq-rcw-data deb utils optional arch=all

debian/copyright◂

Format: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
Upstream-Name: qoriq-rcw
Upstream-Contact: Vincent Jardin <vjardin@free.fr>
Source: https://github.com/vjardin/qoriq-rcw

Files: *
Copyright: 2026 Free Mobile -- Vincent Jardin
License: BSD-3-Clause

Files: data/*.rcwi data/LICENSE.upstream
Copyright: 2011-2016 Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
           2017-2020 NXP
License: BSD-3-Clause
Comment: Vendored from https://github.com/nxp-qoriq/rcw, unmodified
 apart from an SPDX header. data/LICENSE.upstream is the same
 BSD-3-Clause license, typo-ed just a bit differently.

License: BSD-3-Clause
 Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
 modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are
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 .
     * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
       notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
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     * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above
       copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following
       disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided
       with the distribution.
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     * Neither the name of the copyright holder nor the names of its
       contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived
       from this software without specific prior written permission.
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DFSG Assistant LLM REVIEW 0 blocker, 0 important, 0 minor

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DFSG NEW review for qoriq-rcw version 1.2.0-1

Summary

Licensing is DFSG-compliant and debian/copyright is accurate: Yes
Packaging is of good quality: Yes
Issues: 0 blocker, 0 important, 0 minor
debian/watch: version 5
debian/copyright: machine-readable
Scan before the review: nothing found

Licensing

Everything in the tree is BSD-3-Clause, with no non-free terms: the source, tests, man page source, README, LICENSE and packaging all carry SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause and Copyright 2026 Free Mobile - Vincent Jardin, and the five vendored files under data/ (ls1028a.rcwi, ls1088a.rcwi, ls2088a.rcwi, lx2160a.rcwi, data/LICENSE.upstream) carry the Freescale/NXP BSD-3-Clause notice. debian/copyright is DEP-5 and names all three holders in the right stanzas, the whole BSD-3-Clause text is reproduced (no /usr/share/common-licenses reference needed), and no file is left out: the .rcwi files and LICENSE.upstream are matched by their own Files stanza and everything else by Files: *. The NXP data is the only third-party code and is under the same licence, so there is no compatibility problem.

Packaging

A clean first upload. debhelper compat 14 with dh $@ --buildsystem=meson, hardening +all, a sensible two-package split (arch:any CLI plus arch:all Multi-Arch: foreign data package, linked with Recommends), unit tests actually run at build (--suite unit, the cross-validation suite, which needs an external clone, is not), and an autopkgtest that round-trips a real rcw through the installed binary and the installed .rcwi. DEP-5 copyright, Standards-Version: 4.7.4 against Policy 4.7.4.1, changelog closing the ITP with a correct version and distribution, Vcs-* and upstream metadata present. Build-Depends match what meson looks for (libqoriq-rcw-dev (>= 1.4.0) exists as 1.4.0-1, and it pulls in libmcpp-dev), and nocheck is honoured both by disabling the meson tests option and by dh skipping the dh_auto_test override.

Issues

None.

Verified

Coverage: all 34 upstream files were opened or grepped (src/ 13, tests/ 8, man/qoriq-rcw.1.md, data/ 7, .github/workflows/ci.yml, LICENSE, README.md, meson.build, meson_options.txt), plus every file under debian/ except debian/watch (out of scope).
Prescan entries data/ls1028a.rcwi:3, data/ls1088a.rcwi:3, data/ls2088a.rcwi:3, data/lx2160a.rcwi:3: line 3 is /* Copyright 2017-2020 NXP */; the scanner attached line 4, the provenance comment /* Vendored from nxp-qoriq/rcw: ls1028asi/ls1028a.rcwi */, to it. No holder is missing: the Files: data/*.rcwi data/LICENSE.upstream stanza names 2011-2016 Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. and 2017-2020 NXP, and line 1 of each file is the SPDX tag.
Free Mobile - Vincent Jardin (LICENSE:1, data/lx2160a_regs.rcw:3, src/flash_db.c:3, all other source/tests/man/debian files) is the same holder as Free Mobile -- Vincent Jardin in Files: *; only the dash style differs, so the "possibly named" match is correct.
data/LICENSE.upstream is NXP's BSD-3-Clause: same three conditions, with THE REGENTS where Debian's text says THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS; the stanza's Comment records that the texts differ only in wording, so the single BSD-3-Clause short name is accurate.
No built artefacts in the tree: the data/*.rcw and data/*.rcwi files are plain-text bitfield/register definitions, and the man page's source man/qoriq-rcw.1.md is shipped (pandoc runs at build time), so nothing lacks its preferred form for modification.
No third-party code or embedded library: src/ is a C implementation by the maintainer; the only vendored material is the NXP rcw data under data/, already under BSD-3-Clause and not shipped by any other Debian package.
License headers are on every C/H/.sh/.md/*.yml file; meson.build, meson_options.txt, README.md and data/README.md carry no per-file notice but are covered by the top-level LICENSE and the Files: * stanza.
The orig tarball (vjardin-qoriq-rcw-f74d8cb/) contains a debian/ directory with upstream's older copy of the packaging; dpkg-source(1), format 3.0 (quilt), removes any pre-existing debian directory before extracting the debian tarball, so it does not reach the source package or the build.
The two .install files cover everything meson installs (usr/bin/qoriq-rcw, usr/share/man/man1/qoriq-rcw.1, usr/share/qoriq-rcw/*.rcwi and *.rcw), so dh_missing --fail-missing at compat 14 finds nothing uninstalled.
Build-time tests are the meson unit suite via dh_auto_test -- --suite unit; tests/meson.build registers each test with suite : 'unit', and the cross-validation test (needs a clone of nxp-qoriq/rcw) is registered under a different suite and is not run. debian/tests/roundtrip exercises compile, --check, decompile and recompile against the installed /usr/share/qoriq-rcw/lx2160a.rcwi.
apt-cache: libqoriq-rcw-dev 1.4.0-1 is in the archive (Depends: libqoriq-rcw1, libmcpp-dev), matching the (>= 1.4.0) Build-Depends and meson's dependency('libqoriq-rcw', version : '>= 1.4.0'); libmcpp-dev 2.7.2-5.3 exists too, pulled in transitively, so no direct Build-Depends is needed.
Standards-Version: 4.7.4 is current: the reviewing system's Policy is 4.7.4.1 (xd://policy), same first two components.
debian/rules honours nocheck (passes -Dtests=disabled, and at compat 14 dh skips the dh_auto_test override), and libcmocka-dev <!nocheck> matches that.
uscan found the packaged version as the newest upstream release (upstream 1.2.0, packaged 1.2.0).

Not confirmed

None.

Proposed changes

None.

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