Building a list of missing firmware (was Re: Fedora 8 ideas)

[Jarod Wilson]

Hans de Goede wrote:
> Leszek Matok wrote:
>> Dnia 07-06-2007, czw o godzinie 11:06 -0400, Bill Nottingham napisał(a):
>>> What cards is this useful for that we don't ship firmware
>>> for? Anything other than bcm43xx and ralink?
>> For example, there are millions of potential speedtch.ko users here in
>> Europe.
>>
> 
> Okay,
> 
> I think we need to build a list of all potential needed / wanted 
> firmware, with URL's where to download it and instructions howto unpack it.
> 
> We then also need to start contacting the manufacturers asking for 
> redistribution permission.
> 
> Here is a start of the list with things metioned sofar:
> sil firmware (for prism and prism_pci)
> bcm firmware
> ralink firmware
> speedtouch firmware
> alsa firmware

http://www.linuxtv.org/downloads/firmware/

Not sure whether or not someone got the okay for all of those to be 
redistributed or not...

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jwilson at redhat.com