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Masked: This package is masked.

Reason: Breaks (common) mt7921e WiFi driver with a hang in many cases, affecting not just network. See bug #963106.

Masked by Sam James on 2025-09-21

Notice: This package is in a virtual group: virtual/linux-sources
Equivalents: sys-kernel/asahi-sources, sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel, sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel-bin, sys-kernel/gentoo-sources, sys-kernel/git-sources, sys-kernel/linux-next, sys-kernel/mips-sources, sys-kernel/pf-sources, sys-kernel/raspberrypi-sources, sys-kernel/rt-sources, sys-kernel/vanilla-kernel, sys-kernel/vanilla-sources, sys-kernel/zen-sources

Install

Install this package:

emerge -a sys-kernel/linux-firmware

If the package is masked, you can unmask it using the autounmask tool or standard emerge options:

autounmask sys-kernel/linux-firmware

Or alternatively:

emerge --autounmask-write -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 ) unknown-license? ( all-rights-reserved )

Versions

Version	EAPI	Keywords
99999999	8	~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~loong ~m68k ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sparc ~x86
20260410	8	~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~loong ~m68k ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sparc ~x86
20260309	8	~alpha amd64 arm arm64 ~hppa ~loong ~m68k ~mips ppc ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sparc x86
20260221	8	~alpha amd64 arm arm64 ~hppa ~loong ~m68k ~mips ppc ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sparc x86
20260110	8	~alpha amd64 arm arm64 ~hppa ~loong ~m68k ~mips ppc ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sparc x86

Metadata

Maintainers

Rick Farina (zerochaos@gentoo.org) - Type: person
Gentoo Kernel Project (kernel@gentoo.org) - Type: project

Upstream

Remote IDs:
- gitlab: kernel-firmware/linux-firmware

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

[Warning] USE flag 'bindist' in ebuild 99999999 is not documented in metadata.xml
[Warning] USE flag 'bindist' in ebuild 20260410 is not documented in metadata.xml
[Warning] USE flag 'bindist' in ebuild 20260309 is not documented in metadata.xml
[Warning] USE flag 'bindist' in ebuild 20260221 is not documented in metadata.xml
[Warning] USE flag 'bindist' in ebuild 20260110 is not documented in metadata.xml
[Error] Ebuild 99999999 appears to have full-text license in LICENSE variable instead of identifiers
[Error] Ebuild 20260410 appears to have full-text license in LICENSE variable instead of identifiers
[Error] Ebuild 20260309 appears to have full-text license in LICENSE variable instead of identifiers
[Error] Ebuild 20260221 appears to have full-text license in LICENSE variable instead of identifiers
[Error] Ebuild 20260110 appears to have full-text license in LICENSE variable instead of identifiers
[Error] Missing md5-cache for ebuild linux-firmware-99999999
[Error] Missing md5-cache for ebuild linux-firmware-20260410
[Error] Missing md5-cache for ebuild linux-firmware-20260309
[Error] Missing md5-cache for ebuild linux-firmware-20260221
[Error] Missing md5-cache for ebuild linux-firmware-20260110

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	99999999	20260410	20260309	20260221	20260110
bindist	Flag to enable or disable options for prebuilt (GRP) packages (eg. due to licensing issues)	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
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	⊕	⊕	⊕	⊕	⊕
unknown-license	Install firmware files whose license is unknown	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓

Files

35-amd-microcode-systemd.install
35-amd-microcode.install
linux-firmware-copy-firmware-r9.patch
linux-firmware-make-amd-ucode-img.bash

Manifest

Type	File	Size	Versions

Unmatched Entries

Type	File	Size
DIST	linux-firmware-20260110.tar.xz	600966832 bytes
DIST	linux-firmware-20260221.tar.xz	610993132 bytes
DIST	linux-firmware-20260309.tar.xz	610973936 bytes
DIST	linux-firmware-20260410.tar.xz	619615856 bytes