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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

Metadata

Maintainers

• Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn (chithanh@gentoo.org) - Type: person
• Rick Farina (zerochaos@gentoo.org) - Type: person
• Gentoo Kernel Project (kernel@gentoo.org) - Type: project

<pkgmetadata>
	<maintainer type="person">
		<email>chithanh@gentoo.org</email>
		<name>Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn</name>
	</maintainer>
	<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="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>
</pkgmetadata>

Lint Warnings

• [Warning] USE flag 'bindist' in ebuild 20241110 is not documented in metadata.xml
• [Warning] USE flag 'dist-kernel' in ebuild 20241110 is not documented in metadata.xml
• [Error] Ebuild 20241110 appears to have full-text license in LICENSE variable instead of identifiers
• [Error] Missing md5-cache for ebuild linux-firmware-20241110

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

Files

• 35-amd-microcode-systemd.install
• 35-amd-microcode.install
• linux-firmware-copy-firmware-r6.patch
• linux-firmware-copy-firmware-r8.patch
• linux-firmware-copy-firmware-r9.patch
• linux-firmware-make-amd-ucode-img.bash

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