Re: Adding firmware to FSD

[Yuchen Pei]

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>.

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Best,
Yuchen

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