Firmware
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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
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alsa-firmware - asterisk-firmware - for the Digium S101I (IAXy)
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Tools for loading/extracting/dealing with firmware
- alsa-tools-firmware - tools for uploading firmware to some soundcards
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Firmware being packaged
- bluez-firmware - Bluetooth firmware distributed by the BlueZ project
- kernel-firmware - firmware files for use with Linux kernel
- openfwwf - Open FirmWare for Broadcom 43xx series WLAN chip
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
- bcm43xx
- Thomson SpeedTouch 330 USB
- sil (for prism and prism_pci)
Multimedia Devices
- AV7110 based DVB cards ( link )
- OREN or51211 and 51132 demodulators ( link )
- various USB TV devices ( link )
- R5U87x based webcams ( link )
Orphaned Packages Needing Maintainers
- No currently orphaned firmware packages
Packagers/Reviewers/People interested
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
