1 ********** 2 * WHENCE * 3 ********** 4 5This file attempts to document the origin and licensing information, 6if known, for each piece of firmware distributed for use with the Linux 7kernel. 8 9-------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10 11Driver: korg1212 -- Korg 1212 IO audio device 12 13File: korg/k1212.dsp 14 15Licence: Unknown 16 17Found in alsa-firmware package in hex form; no licensing information. 18 19-------------------------------------------------------------------------- 20 21Driver: maestro3 -- ESS Allegro Maestro3 audio device 22 23File: ess/maestro3_assp_kernel.fw 24File: ess/maestro3_assp_minisrc.fw 25 26Licence: Unknown 27 28Found in alsa-firmware package in hex form with a comment claiming to 29be GPLv2+, but without source -- and with another comment saying "ESS 30drops binary dsp code images on our heads, but we don't get to see 31specs on the dsp." 32 33-------------------------------------------------------------------------- 34 35Driver: ymfpci -- Yamaha YMF724/740/744/754 audio devices 36 37File: yamaha/ds1_ctrl.fw 38File: yamaha/ds1_dsp.fw 39File: yamaha/ds1e_ctrl.fw 40 41Licence: Unknown 42 43Found alsa-firmware package in hex form, with the following comment: 44 Copyright (c) 1997-1999 Yamaha Corporation. All Rights Reserved. 45 46-------------------------------------------------------------------------- 47 48Driver: smctr -- SMC ISA/MCA Token Ring adapter 49 50File: tr_smctr.bin 51Info: MCT.BIN v6.3C1 03/01/95 52 53Original licence info: 54 55 * This firmware is licensed to you strictly for use in conjunction 56 * with the use of SMC TokenRing adapters. There is no waranty 57 * expressed or implied about its fitness for any purpose. 58 59-------------------------------------------------------------------------- 60 61Driver: kaweth -- USB KLSI KL5USB101-based Ethernet device 62 63File: kaweth/new_code.bin 64File: kaweth/new_code_fix.bin 65File: kaweth/trigger_code.bin 66File: kaweth/trigger_code_fix.bin 67 68Licence: Unknown 69 70Found in hex form in the kernel source. 71 72-------------------------------------------------------------------------- 73 74Driver: ttusb-budget -- Technotrend/Hauppauge Nova-USB devices 75 76File: ttusb-budget/dspbootcode.bin 77 78Licence: Unknown 79 80Found in hex form in the kernel source. 81 82-------------------------------------------------------------------------- 83 84Driver: keyspan -- USB Keyspan USA-xxx serial device 85 86File: keyspan/mpr.fw 87File: keyspan/usa18x.fw 88File: keyspan/usa19.fw 89File: keyspan/usa19qi.fw 90File: keyspan/usa19qw.fw 91File: keyspan/usa19w.fw 92File: keyspan/usa28.fw 93File: keyspan/usa28xa.fw 94File: keyspan/usa28xb.fw 95File: keyspan/usa28x.fw 96File: keyspan/usa49w.fw 97File: keyspan/usa49wlc.fw 98 99Converted from Intel HEX files, used in our binary representation of ihex. 100 101Original licence information: 102 103 Copyright (C) 1999-2001 104 Keyspan, A division of InnoSys Incorporated ("Keyspan") 105 106 as an unpublished work. This notice does not imply unrestricted or 107 public access to the source code from which this firmware image is 108 derived. Except as noted below this firmware image may not be 109 reproduced, used, sold or transferred to any third party without 110 Keyspan's prior written consent. All Rights Reserved. 111 112 Permission is hereby granted for the distribution of this firmware 113 image as part of a Linux or other Open Source operating system kernel 114 in text or binary form as required. 115 116 This firmware may not be modified and may only be used with 117 Keyspan hardware. Distribution and/or Modification of the 118 keyspan.c driver which includes this firmware, in whole or in 119 part, requires the inclusion of this statement." 120 121-------------------------------------------------------------------------- 122 123Driver: keyspan_pda -- USB Keyspan PDA single-port serial device 124 125File: keyspan_pda/keyspan_pda.fw 126Source: keyspan_pda/keyspan_pda.S 127 128File: keyspan_pda/xircom_pgs.fw 129Source: keyspan_pda/xircom_pgs.S 130 131Licence: GPLv2+ 132 133Compiled from original 8051 source into Intel HEX, used in our binary ihex form. 134 135-------------------------------------------------------------------------- 136 137Driver: emi26 -- EMI 2|6 USB Audio interface 138 139File: emi26/bitstream.fw 140Info: VERSION=1.1.1.131 DATE=2001dec06 141 142File: emi26/firmware.fw 143Info: VERSION=1.0.2.916 DATE=12.02.2002 144 145File: emi26/loader.fw 146 147Converted from Intel HEX files, used in our binary representation of ihex. 148 149Original licence information: 150/* 151 * This firmware is for the Emagic EMI 2|6 Audio Interface 152 * 153 * The firmware contained herein is Copyright (c) 1999-2002 Emagic 154 * as an unpublished work. This notice does not imply unrestricted 155 * or public access to this firmware which is a trade secret of Emagic, 156 * and which may not be reproduced, used, sold or transferred to 157 * any third party without Emagic's written consent. All Rights Reserved. 158 * 159 * Permission is hereby granted for the distribution of this firmware 160 * image as part of a Linux or other Open Source operating system kernel 161 * in text or binary form as required. 162 * 163 * This firmware may not be modified and may only be used with the 164 * Emagic EMI 2|6 Audio Interface. Distribution and/or Modification of 165 * any driver which includes this firmware, in whole or in part, 166 * requires the inclusion of this statement. 167 */ 168 169-------------------------------------------------------------------------- 170 171Driver: emi62 -- EMI 6|2m USB Audio interface 172 173File: emi62/bitstream.fw 174Info: VERSION=1.0.0.191 DATE= 2002oct28 175 176File: emi62/loader.fw 177Source: EMILOAD.HEX 178Info: VERSION=1.0.2.002 DATE=10.01.2002 179 180File: emi62/midi.fw 181Source: EMI62MFW.HEX 182Info: VERSION=1.04.062 DATE=16.10.2002 183 184File: emi62/spdif.fw 185Source: EMI62SFW.HEX 186Info: VERSION=1.04.062 DATE=16.10.2002 187 188Converted from Intel HEX files, used in our binary representation of ihex. 189 190Original licence information: None 191 192-------------------------------------------------------------------------- 193 194Driver: ti_usb_3410_5052 -- USB TI 3410/5052 serial device 195 196File: ti_3410.fw 197Info: firmware 9/10/04 FW3410_Special_StartWdogOnStartPort 198 199File: ti_5052.fw 200Info: firmware 9/18/04 201 202Licence: Allegedly GPLv2+, but no source visible. Marked: 203 Copyright (C) 2004 Texas Instruments 204 205Found in hex form in kernel source. 206 207-------------------------------------------------------------------------- 208 209Driver: ti_usb_3410_5052 -- Multi-Tech USB cell modems 210 211File: mts_cdma.fw 212File: mts_gsm.fw 213File: mts_edge.fw 214 215Licence: "all firmware components are redistributable in binary form" 216 per support@multitech.com 217 Copyright (C) 2005 Multi-Tech Systems, Inc. 218 219Found in hex form in ftp://ftp.multitech.com/wireless/wireless_linux.zip 220 221-------------------------------------------------------------------------- 222 223Driver: whiteheat -- USB ConnectTech WhiteHEAT serial device 224 225File: whiteheat.fw 226Version: 4.06 227 228File: whiteheat_loader.fw 229File: whiteheat_loader_debug.fw 230 231Licence: Allegedly GPLv2, but no source visible. Marked: 232 Copyright (C) 2000-2002 ConnectTech Inc 233 234Debug loader claims the following behaviour: 235 Port 1 LED flashes when the vend_ax program is running 236 Port 2 LED flashes when any SETUP command arrives 237 Port 3 LED flashes when any valid VENDOR request occurs 238 Port 4 LED flashes when the EXTERNAL RAM DOWNLOAD request occurs 239 240Converted from Intel HEX files, used in our binary representation of ihex. 241 242-------------------------------------------------------------------------- 243 244Driver: ip2 -- Computone IntelliPort Plus serial device 245 246File: intelliport2.bin 247 248Licence: Unknown 249 250Found in hex form in kernel source. 251 252-------------------------------------------------------------------------- 253 254Driver: CPiA2 -- cameras based on Vision's CPiA2 255 256File: cpia2/stv0672_vp4.bin 257 258Licence: Allegedly GPLv2+, but no source visible. Marked: 259 Copyright (C) 2001 STMicroelectronics, Inc. 260 Contact: steve.miller@st.com 261 Description: This file contains patch data for the CPiA2 (stv0672) VP4. 262 263Found in hex form in kernel source. 264 265-------------------------------------------------------------------------- 266 267Driver: DABUSB -- Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) Receiver for USB and Linux 268 269File: dabusb/firmware.fw 270File: dabusb/bitstream.bin 271 272Licence: Distributable 273 274 * Copyright (C) 1999 BayCom GmbH 275 * 276 * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 277 * modification, are permitted provided that redistributions of source 278 * code retain the above copyright notice and this comment without 279 * modification. 280 281-------------------------------------------------------------------------- 282 283Driver: USB_VICAM -- USB 3com HomeConnect (aka vicam) 284 285File: vicam/firmware.fw 286 287Licence: Unknown 288 289Found in hex form in kernel source. 290 291-------------------------------------------------------------------------- 292 293Driver: USB_SERIAL_EDGEPORT - USB Inside Out Edgeport Serial Driver 294 295File: edgeport/boot.fw 296File: edgeport/boot2.fw 297File: edgeport/down.fw 298File: edgeport/down2.fw 299 300Licence: Allegedly GPLv2+, but no source visible. Marked: 301//************************************************************** 302//* Edgeport/4 Binary Image 303//* Generated by HEX2C v1.06 304//* Copyright (C) 1998 Inside Out Networks, All rights reserved. 305//************************************************************** 306 307Found in hex form in kernel source. 308 309-------------------------------------------------------------------------- 310 311Driver: USB_SERIAL_EDGEPORT_TI - USB Inside Out Edgeport Serial Driver 312(TI Devices) 313 314File: edgeport/down3.bin 315 316Licence: 317//************************************************************** 318//* Edgeport Binary Image (for TI based products) 319//* Generated by TIBin2C v2.00 (watchport) 320//* Copyright (C) 2001 Inside Out Networks, All rights reserved. 321//************************************************************** 322 323Found in hex form in kernel source. 324 325-------------------------------------------------------------------------- 326 327Driver: ATARI_DSP56K - Atari DSP56k support 328 329File: dsp56k/bootstrap.bin 330Source: dsp56k/bootstrap.asm 331 332Licence: GPLv2 or later 333 334DSP56001 assembler, possibly buildable with a56 from 335http://www.zdomain.com/a56.html 336 337-------------------------------------------------------------------------- 338 339Driver: SND_SB16_CSP - Sound Blaster 16/AWE CSP support 340 341File: sb16/mulaw_main.csp 342File: sb16/alaw_main.csp 343File: sb16/ima_adpcm_init.csp 344File: sb16/ima_adpcm_playback.csp 345File: sb16/ima_adpcm_capture.csp 346 347Licence: Allegedly GPLv2+, but no source visible. Marked: 348/* 349 * Copyright (c) 1994 Creative Technology Ltd. 350 * Microcode files for SB16 Advanced Signal Processor 351 */ 352 353Found in hex form in kernel source. 354 355-------------------------------------------------------------------------- 356 357Driver: CASSINI - Sun Cassini 358 359File: sun/cassini.bin 360 361Licence: Unknown 362 363Found in hex form in kernel source. 364 365-------------------------------------------------------------------------- 366 367Driver: cxgb3 - Chelsio Terminator 3 1G/10G Ethernet adapter 368 369File: cxgb3/t3b_psram-1.1.0.bin.ihex 370File: cxgb3/t3c_psram-1.1.0.bin.ihex 371file: cxgb3/t3fw-7.0.0.bin.ihex 372 373License: GPLv2 or OpenIB.org BSD license, no source visible 374 375-------------------------------------------------------------------------- 376 377Driver: e100 -- Intel PRO/100 Ethernet NIC 378 379File: e100/d101m_ucode.bin 380File: e100/d101s_ucode.bin 381File: e100/d102e_ucode.bin 382 383Licence: Unknown 384 385Found in hex form in kernel source. 386 387-------------------------------------------------------------------------- 388 389Driver: acenic -- Alteon AceNIC Gigabit Ethernet card 390 391File: acenic/tg1.bin 392File: acenic/tg2.bin 393 394Licence: Unknown 395 396Found in hex form in kernel source, but source allegedly available at 397http://alteon.shareable.org/ 398 399-------------------------------------------------------------------------- 400 401Driver: tigon3 -- Broadcom Tigon3 based gigabit Ethernet cards 402 403File: tigon/tg3.bin 404File: tigon/tg3_tso.bin 405File: tigon/tg3_tso5.bin 406 407Licence: 408 * Firmware is: 409 * Derived from proprietary unpublished source code, 410 * Copyright (C) 2000-2003 Broadcom Corporation. 411 * 412 * Permission is hereby granted for the distribution of this firmware 413 * data in hexadecimal or equivalent format, provided this copyright 414 * notice is accompanying it. 415 416Found in hex form in kernel source. 417 418-------------------------------------------------------------------------- 419 420Driver: ADAPTEC_STARFIRE - Adaptec Starfire/DuraLAN support 421 422File: adaptec/starfire_rx.bin 423File: adaptec/starfire_tx.bin 424 425Licence: Allegedly GPLv2, but no source visible. 426 427Found in hex form in kernel source, with the following notice: 428 429 BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE IT IS LICENSED "AS IS" AND 430 THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE 431 IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 432 (TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW). USE OF THE PROGRAM IS AT YOUR 433 OWN RISK. IN NO EVENT WILL ADAPTEC OR ITS LICENSORS BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR 434 DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES 435 ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM. 436 437-------------------------------------------------------------------------- 438