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* {{package|b43-fwcutter}} - firmware extraction tool for Broadcom wireless driver | * {{package|b43-fwcutter}} - firmware extraction tool for Broadcom wireless driver | ||
* {{package|bcm43xx-fwcutter}} - firmware extraction tool for Broadcom wireless drive | * {{package|bcm43xx-fwcutter}} - firmware extraction tool for Broadcom wireless drive | ||
* {{package|gobi_loader}} - firmware loader for Qualcomm Gobi WWAN devices | |||
* {{package|fxload}} - firmware download to EZ-USB devices | * {{package|fxload}} - firmware download to EZ-USB devices | ||
* {{package|isight-firmware-tools}} - Firmware extraction tools for Apple Built-in iSight camera. | * {{package|isight-firmware-tools}} - Firmware extraction tools for Apple Built-in iSight camera. | ||
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== Firmware and related tools being packaged == | == Firmware and related tools being packaged == | ||
* [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/ | * [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1167307 arduino-rambo] - RAMBo 3D printer electronics firmware for use with Arduino IDE. | ||
== Firmware currently missing from Fedora == | == Firmware currently missing from Fedora == | ||
Revision as of 12:46, 19 July 2016
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
- arduino-rambo - RAMBo 3D printer electronics firmware for use with Arduino IDE.
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 important to realise that firmware does not need to be under a free software / oss license. As long as it may be freely redistributed without restrictions, it may be packaged.
List of firmware which we can NOT package
- b43-firmware and b43legacy-firmware - Broadcom refuses to re-license them under redistributable license. Please, try
- bluez-firmware - Bluetooth firmware distributed by the BlueZ project. We didn't get permissions from Broadcom to distribute them.