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Fedora Firmware Special Interest Group

Mission

Goal: to get all legally available firmware needed to get devices to work packaged for / in Fedora so that a users devices which require firmware will just work

We aim to accomplish this goal through a variety of activities:

  • Creating packages of firmware
  • Contact manufacturers asking them under which conditions their firmware may be

redistributed

  • Contact manufacturers requesting them to modify their firmware redistribution

conditions, to make them Fedora compatible


Available firmware

  • ipw2100
  • ipw2200
  • ipw3945

It should be understood that this list is incomplete.


Firmware being packaged

  • alsa firmware ( bugzilla #217259 )
  • ivtv (AxelThimm is working on this)


Firmware currently missing from Fedora

Notice that this is just a list of firmware which we would like to see in Fedora, firmware in this list has NOT been checked yet for proper licensing.

Networking Devices

  • 3Com Bluetooth Wireless PC Card 3CRWB6096 ( link )
  • at76c50x ( link , bugzilla #221677 )
  • bcm43xx
  • ralink ( bugzilla #230164 #230161 #202521 )
  • speedtouch
  • sil (for prism and prism_pci)

Multimedia Devices

  • alsa firmware
  • AV7110 based DVB cards ( link )
  • OREN or51211 and 51132 demodulators ( link )
  • various USB TV devices ( link )


Orphaned Packages Needing Maintainers

No Currently Orphaned firmware packages


Packagers/Reviewers/People interested

  • HansdeGoede
  • ArthurPemberton
  • PeterLemenkov


Packaging guidelines

In addition to the standard Packaging/Guidelines , it is imported to realise that firmware does not need to be under a free software / oss license. As long as it may be freely redistributed without restriction, it may be packaged.


List of firmware which we can NOT package

  • none yet listed


References