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From: | David Hedlund |
Subject: | Re: Adding firmware to FSD |
Date: | Mon, 11 Oct 2021 12:55:26 +0200 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/78.13.0 |
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.
I found "info@h-node.com" at https://h-node.org/contact/index/en -- Should it be change on that page?
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