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* {{package|bcm43xx-fwcutter}} - firmware extraction tool for Broadcom wireless drive | * {{package|bcm43xx-fwcutter}} - firmware extraction tool for Broadcom wireless drive | ||
* {{package|fxload}} - firmware download to EZ-USB devices | * {{package|fxload}} - firmware download to EZ-USB devices | ||
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* R5U87x based webcams ( [http://bitbucket.org/ahixon/r5u87x/ link] ) | * R5U87x based webcams ( [http://bitbucket.org/ahixon/r5u87x/ link] ) | ||
== Orphaned Packages | == Orphaned Packages == | ||
* | * {{package|isight-firmware-tools}} - Firmware extraction tools for Apple Built-in iSight camera. | ||
== Packagers/Reviewers/People interested == | == Packagers/Reviewers/People interested == | ||
Revision as of 11:51, 19 February 2010
Fedora Firmware Special Interest Group
Mission
Goal: to get all legally available firmware needed to get devices to work packaged for / in Fedora so that a users devices which require firmware will just work
We aim to accomplish this goal through a variety of activities:
- Creating packages of firmware
- Contact manufacturers asking them under which conditions their firmware may be redistributed
- Contact manufacturers requesting them to modify their firmware redistribution conditions, to make them Fedora compatible
Available firmware
alsa-firmware
Tools for loading/extracting/dealing with firmware
Firmware being packaged
- bfa-firmware - Brocade Fibre Channel HBA Firmware
- bluez-firmware - Bluetooth firmware distributed by the BlueZ project
- ueagle-atm-firmware123 - Firmwares for usb adsl modems based on Eagle I, II and III chipsets
- ueagle-atm-firmware4 - Firmwares for usb adsl modems based on Eagle IV chipset
Firmware currently missing from Fedora
Notice that this is just a list of firmware which we would like to see in Fedora, firmware in this list has NOT been checked yet for proper licensing.
Networking Devices
- 3Com Bluetooth Wireless PC Card 3CRWB6096
- Thomson SpeedTouch 330 USB
- sil (for prism and prism_pci)
Multimedia Devices
- AV7110 based DVB cards ( link )
- OREN or51211 and 51132 demodulators ( link )
- various USB TV devices ( link )
- R5U87x based webcams ( link )
Orphaned Packages
Packagers/Reviewers/People interested
Packaging guidelines
In addition to the standard Packaging:Guidelines, it is imported to realise that firmware does not need to be under a free software / oss license. As long as it may be freely redistributed without restriction, it may be packaged.
List of firmware which we can NOT package