Re: Adding firmware to FSD

[Yuchen Pei]

Ron Nazarov <ron@noisytoot.org> writes:

> On Mon, 2021-10-11 at 20:23 +1100, Yuchen Pei wrote:
> > 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
>
> linux-firmware can't be added the to the FSD because it also 
> contains
> lots of proprietary firmware such as nvidia firmware, which is 
> under
> this proprietary license: <
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tree/LICENCE.nvidia
> > .

That's right.  Debian has a package firmware-linux-free consisting 
of some free firmware in linux-firmware, and should be safe to 
add:

https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=firmware-linux-free

--
Best,
Yuchen

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