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