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Re: Adding firmware to FSD


From: Yuchen Pei
Subject: Re: Adding firmware to FSD
Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2021 23:03:32 +1100
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David Hedlund <public@beloved.name> writes:

On 2021-10-01 20:09, Craig Topham wrote:

On 9/24/21 3:51 AM, Yuchen Pei wrote:
Hi,

Does it make sense to start a collection on free firmware? One can
start by adding items appearing on say
<https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware/Open> to the directory.

If we add some info of firmware for hardware entries on h-node.org, then the two wikis can link to each other: hardware entries on h-node
can link to firmware entries on FSD and vice versa. :)

What do you think?

I think this is a good idea. Having the two wikis interlinked will bring more attention to both. I am not sure a new collection is necessary (at this time). After looking at the current Collections, it seems we need to do a little house cleaning (and hone the purpose of collections) before we create more. If a specific h-node hardware runs on a free firmware, then that firmware should be vetted, added to the FSD, and linked from h-node with a link (in the description?) to h-node from the
FSD entry. Example: <https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Das_U-Boot>

Thoughts?

~Craig



To H-node:

"free driver used:*ath9k_htc*" -
https://h-node.org/wifi/view/en/357/Atheros-Communications-Inc--AR9271-802-11n

Could state this in addition: "Depends on non-Linux driver/firmware:
[https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/firmware-ath9k-htc ]

Thanks for the links. Shouldn't we use the "open-ath9k-htc-firmware" name for the fsd firmware entry since that is the name of the project appearing on its repo <https://github.com/qca/open-ath9k-htc-firmware>?

--
Best,
Yuchen

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