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Install this package:

emerge -a sys-kernel/linux-firmware

Package Information

Description:
Linux firmware files
Homepage:
https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git
License:
GPL-2 GPL-2+ GPL-3 BSD MIT || ( MPL-1.1 GPL-2 ) redistributable? ( linux-fw-redistributable BSD-2 BSD BSD-4 ISC MIT )

Versions

Version EAPI Keywords Slot
20260706 8 ~amd64 ~arm64 0

Metadata

Maintainers

Upstream

Raw Metadata XML 
<pkgmetadata>
	<maintainer type="person">
		<email>zerochaos@gentoo.org</email>
		<name>Rick Farina</name>
	</maintainer>
	<maintainer type="project">
		<email>kernel@gentoo.org</email>
		<name>Gentoo Kernel Project</name>
	</maintainer>
	<use>
		<flag name="compress-xz">Compress firmware using xz (<pkg>app-arch/xz-utils</pkg>) before installation</flag>
		<flag name="compress-zstd">Compress firmware using zstd (<pkg>app-arch/zstd</pkg>) before installation</flag>
		<flag name="deduplicate">Create symlinks for all firmware that is duplicate using rdfind</flag>
		<flag name="dist-kernel">Delegate microcode initramfs generation to <pkg>sys-kernel/installkernel</pkg></flag>
		<flag name="initramfs">Create and install initramfs for early microcode loading in /boot (only AMD for now)</flag>
		<flag name="redistributable">Install also non-free (but redistributable) firmware files</flag>
		<flag name="savedconfig">Allows individual selection of firmware files</flag>
		<flag name="unknown-license">Install firmware files whose license is unknown</flag>
	</use>
	<upstream>
		<remote-id type="gitlab">kernel-firmware/linux-firmware</remote-id>
	</upstream>
</pkgmetadata>

Lint Warnings

USE Flags

Manage flags for this package: euse -i <flag> -p sys-kernel/linux-firmware | euse -E <flag> -p sys-kernel/linux-firmware | euse -D <flag> -p sys-kernel/linux-firmware

Flag Description 20260706
bindist ⚠️ ✓
compress-xz Compress firmware using xz (<pkg>app-arch/xz-utils</pkg>) before installation ✓
compress-zstd Compress firmware using zstd (<pkg>app-arch/zstd</pkg>) before installation ✓
deduplicate Create symlinks for all firmware that is duplicate using rdfind ✓
dist-kernel Delegate microcode initramfs generation to <pkg>sys-kernel/installkernel</pkg> ✓
initramfs Create and install initramfs for early microcode loading in /boot (only AMD for now) ⊕
redistributable Install also non-free (but redistributable) firmware files ⊕

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