Re: Adding firmware to FSD

[David Hedlund]

On 2021-10-11 11:23, Yuchen Pei wrote:

>       
>       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?
>

That is an interesting idea. I added your suggestion to https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Free_Software_Directory:Infrastructure#Package_naming

>       
>       [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
>       
>

I listed linux-libre-firmware and firmware-linux-free at https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Collection:Device_drivers_and_firmware#Firmware

Can you please add this to the main page of https://h-node.org/

* https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Firmware-linux-free

* https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Linux-libre-firmware

We'll add content to them soon.

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>

I found "info@h-node.com" at https://h-node.org/contact/index/en -- Should it be change on that page?