Re: Adding firmware to FSD

[David Hedlund]

On 2021-10-11 11:43, Yuchen Pei wrote:
>
> Yuchen Pei <hi@ypei.me> writes:
>
>> David Hedlund <public@beloved.name> writes:
>>
>>>>
>>> It seems that there are two packages available for the ath9k_htc is
>>> a
>>> Linux kernel driver (I linked to both above): "Firmware is required,
>>> which can be provided by installing the firmware-atheros
>>> <https://packages.debian.org/firmware-atheros> package. Open
>>> firmware
>>> <https://wiki.debian.org/ath9k_htc/open_firmware> for this driver is
>>> also available in the firmware-ath9k-htc
>>> <https://packages.debian.org/firmware-ath9k-htc> package starting
>>> from
>>> Buster. " - https://wiki.debian.org/ath9k_htc
>>>
>>> https://packages.debian.org/source/stable/open-ath9k-htc-firmware is
>>> the
>>> source package used to build
>>> https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/firmware-ath9k-htc
>>
>> Thanks.  A problem with using the debian name is other distros may use
>> different names.  For example the guix package of the same firmware is
>> called ath9k-htc-firmware[1].  This is why I think using the
>> "official" name is better.  Perhaps there's a way in an FSD entry to
>> map a piece of software to corresponding packages in various distros?
>>
>> [1] https://guix.gnu.org/en/packages/ath9k-htc-firmware-1.4.0/
>>
>> Not sure if this has been discussed before, but regarding John's
>> remark, this firmware, together with many others are in the
>> linux-firmware repo[2], which seems to be not part of the kernel, so
>> perhaps it makes sense to add it to FSD:
>>
>> [2]
>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tree/LICENCE.open-ath9k-htc-firmware
>>
>>
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>
> I just added <https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Open-ath9k-htc-firmware>.
>
I redirected it to https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Firmware-ath9k-htc
because it will be imported later anyway. Thanks.