Re: Adding firmware to FSD

[Yuchen Pei]

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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Yuchen

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