Re: Adding firmware to FSD

[Yuchen Pei]

David Hedlund <public@beloved.name> writes:

> On 2021-10-01 20:09, Craig Topham wrote:
> > On 9/24/21 3:51 AM, Yuchen Pei wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Does it make sense to start a collection on free firmware? 
> > > One can
> > > start by adding items appearing on say
> > > <https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware/Open> to the directory.
> > >
> > > If we add some info of firmware for hardware entries on 
> > > h-node.org,
> > > then the two wikis can link to each other: hardware entries on 
> > > h-node
> > > can link to firmware entries on FSD and vice versa. :)
> > >
> > > What do you think?
> > I think this is a good idea. Having the two wikis interlinked 
> > will bring
> > more attention to both. I am not sure a new collection is 
> > necessary (at
> > this time). After looking at the current Collections, it seems 
> > we need
> > to do a little house cleaning (and hone the purpose of 
> > collections)
> > before we create more. If a specific h-node hardware runs on a 
> > free
> > firmware, then that firmware should be vetted, added to the 
> > FSD, and
> > linked from h-node with a link (in the description?) to h-node 
> > from the
> > FSD entry. Example: <https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Das_U-Boot>
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > ~Craig
> To H-node:
>
> "free driver used:*ath9k_htc*" -
> https://h-node.org/wifi/view/en/357/Atheros-Communications-Inc--AR9271-802-11n
>
> Could state this in addition: "Depends on non-Linux 
> driver/firmware:
> [https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/firmware-ath9k-htc ]

Thanks for the links.  Shouldn't we use the 
"open-ath9k-htc-firmware" name for the fsd firmware entry since 
that is the name of the project appearing on its repo 
<https://github.com/qca/open-ath9k-htc-firmware>?

--
Best,
Yuchen

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