wifi-firmware-*: update to 20260410 Update firmware to 20260410. This includes new firmware files for iwlwifi and rtw89. Bump the main firmware version as well. Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation Reviewed by: jrm Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D57050b6e937823a
Port details
net/wifi-firmware-kmod 20260410
Firmware modules for WiFi NIC drivers
Port info
- Maintainer
- bz@FreeBSD.org
- Packages
- latest: wifi-firmware-kmod 20260410, wifi-firmware-kmod-release 20260410
- Upstream
- up to date
- Last update
- to 20260410 · b6e937823a
- Quarterly
- 2026Q4: wifi-firmware-kmod 20260410, wifi-firmware-kmod-release 20260410
- WWW
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/
- Links
- cgit · VuXML · Report wrong data
Install
- Package
# pkg install wifi-firmware-kmod# pkg install wifi-firmware-kmod-releaseinstalls wifi-firmware-kmod 20260410, wifi-firmware-kmod-release 20260410 fromlatest; fromquarterly(2026Q4) wifi-firmware-kmod 20260410, wifi-firmware-kmod-release 20260410- Port
# cd /usr/ports/net/wifi-firmware-kmod && make install clean- Size
- 1.4 KiB download · 243 B installed
- Depends on
- net/wifi-firmware-ath10k-kmod 20260410, net/wifi-firmware-ath10k-kmod 20260410, net/wifi-firmware-ath10k-kmod 20260410, net/wifi-firmware-ath10k-kmod 20260410, net/wifi-firmware-ath10k-kmod 20260410, net/wifi-firmware-ath10k-kmod 20260410, net/wifi-firmware-ath10k-kmod 20260410, net/wifi-firmware-ath10k-kmod 20260410, net/wifi-firmware-ath10k-kmod 20260410, net/wifi-firmware-ath10k-kmod 20260410, net/wifi-firmware-ath11k-kmod 20260410, net/wifi-firmware-ath11k-kmod 20260410, net/wifi-firmware-ath11k-kmod 20260410, net/wifi-firmware-ath11k-kmod 20260410, net/wifi-firmware-ath11k-kmod 20260410, net/wifi-firmware-ath11k-kmod 20260410, net/wifi-firmware-ath11k-kmod 20260410, net/wifi-firmware-ath11k-kmod 20260410, net/wifi-firmware-ath11k-kmod 20260410, net/wifi-firmware-ath12k-kmod 20260410, net/wifi-firmware-ath12k-kmod 20260410, net/wifi-firmware-iwlwifi-kmod 20260410, net/wifi-firmware-iwlwifi-kmod 20260410, net/wifi-firmware-iwlwifi-kmod 20260410, net/wifi-firmware-iwlwifi-kmod 20260410, net/wifi-firmware-iwlwifi-kmod 20260410, net/wifi-firmware-iwlwifi-kmod 20260410, net/wifi-firmware-iwlwifi-kmod 20260410, net/wifi-firmware-mt76-kmod 20260410, net/wifi-firmware-mt76-kmod 20260410, net/wifi-firmware-mt76-kmod 20260410, net/wifi-firmware-mt76-kmod 20260410, net/wifi-firmware-mt76-kmod 20260410, net/wifi-firmware-mt76-kmod 20260410, net/wifi-firmware-mt7601u-kmod 20260410, net/wifi-firmware-rtw88-kmod 20260410, net/wifi-firmware-rtw88-kmod 20260410, net/wifi-firmware-rtw88-kmod 20260410, net/wifi-firmware-rtw88-kmod 20260410, net/wifi-firmware-rtw88-kmod 20260410, net/wifi-firmware-rtw88-kmod 20260410, net/wifi-firmware-rtw88-kmod 20260410, net/wifi-firmware-rtw88-kmod 20260410, net/wifi-firmware-rtw89-kmod 20260410, net/wifi-firmware-rtw89-kmod 20260410, net/wifi-firmware-rtw89-kmod 20260410, net/wifi-firmware-rtw89-kmod 20260410, net/wifi-firmware-rtw89-kmod 20260410, net/wifi-firmware-rtw89-kmod 20260410
- License
- NA
- Note
- Size, dependencies, options and messages are those of wifi-firmware-kmod.
Packages by version and architecture
latest
| FreeBSD version | amd64 | aarch64 | i386 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FreeBSD 16 | 20260410 | 20260410 | – |
| FreeBSD 15 | 20260410 | 20260410 | – |
| FreeBSD 14 | 20260410 | 20260410 | 20260410 |
quarterly (2026Q4)
| FreeBSD version | amd64 | aarch64 | i386 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FreeBSD 15 | 20260410 | 20260410 | – |
| FreeBSD 14 | 20260410 | 20260410 | 20260410 |
version as in the ports tree (latest) or the most common one (quarterly) · different version · ✗ not built · – no packages for this platform. Package sets that have not been rebuilt for 60 days are left out.
Unaddressed and VuXML only (0)
No unaddressed CVE and nothing reported by
pkg audit for the packaged version 20260410.Fixed (0)
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Problem reports (0) · open in Bugzilla, most recently changed first
None.
Commits (20)
net/wifi-firmware-kmod: deal with '?' in file names as sha256 broke it md5 (sha256) as of 70fde0ed6bbbb1f84c440190ba1e5435f8c90e13 in base started quoting ? as \? which then goes into the distinfo file and as a result we fail to find that file later using Mk/Scripts/. Using the dummy=/ option is not as straight forward with a dynamic list of distfiles as one would wish. We now build a full matrix of MASTER_SITE x DISTFILES; that is for each "DISTFILE" we generate a :group with a full download URL on each "MASTER_SITE". That way each file is still possibly downloadable from each of the various master sites. The difference now is that the files stored in distfiles no longer contain the ?h=<tag> extension as we strip that for the distfile having it encoded in the master_site URLs. Building that matrix needs to happen after bsd.port.pre.mk is included as otherwise FLAVOR is not set correctly and we do not build the correct set of firmware files as requested. Adjust the remainder of the Makefile.inc to deal with the fact that the tag is no longer part of the file name. In order to not store files in the same place if they change between version, we now hash the distfiles linux-firmware directories by tag as well. With a bit more cleanup I should one day look into making this a USES=linuxfw or similar so it can more easily be re-used for other firmware as well. Re-generate all distinfo given file name changes. Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation Reviewed by: jrm Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D57048 Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D570491d778b2649
all: drop support for FreeBSD 13, mips and risc64sf Reviewed by: many (*) Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D55624 Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D55642 (merged in from bofh) many (*) acm arrowd brooks cmt dch decke dinoex eduardo fluffy fuz gahr garga jbeich joerg jrm kai kenrap martymac matthew mfechner michaelo mizhka nobutaka pkubaj se tagattie thj Anton Saietskii GenericRikka Gert Doering Jan Bramkamp Oleh Hushchenkov Oleksandr Kryvulia Ralf van der Enden Yamagi desktop kde python tcltk office2a7c056120
net/wifi-firmware-kmod: enable riscv64 for wireless firmware In [1] we got a report that iwlwifi(4) works on riscv64, so start enabling firmware distribution for that architecture. Given we no longer build anything (no more .ko files) this should not be a problem. [1] https://mail-archive.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=5947+0+archive/2026/freebsd-wireless/20260112.freebsd-wireless Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation Reviewed by: jrm Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D546894691e364e9
net/wifi-firmware-kmod: update along LinuxKPI firmware ports to 20251125 We update flavors added with the updated wifi-firmware-*-kmod ports; the only incompatible change is with mt76 in that we dropped mt792x in favour of mt7921 and mt7925. Give we did not ship the driver in any release yet we can do that. Some older fwget(8) versions would be cranky but neither of these releases will ever see mt76 support, so we are fine. Given all child ports were updated to the same version (20251125), reset PORTREVISION to 0 (comment it out) in Makefile.inc as it is no longer needed. [1] Pointed out by: jrm [1] Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation Reviewed by: jrm Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D54204399bad15d1
net/wifi-firmware-kmod: generalize iwlwifi specific tunable writing Currently iwlwifi(4) is the only LinuxKPI based wireless driver able to enable 11n/11ac. bz has added tunables to rtw88 and rtw89 in order to allow them to gradually enable more modern standards as well. Generalize the ports framework to not be iwlwifi-specifc anymore in order to prepare for Realtek and others to gain 11n and 11ac support. At some point in time, along with a kernel change, we will then flip the defaults and make this a "disable" rather than an enable option. Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation Reviewers: jrm Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D53789831bdc1b98
net/wifi-firmware-kmod: add STRIP_FWSUBDIR logic iwlwififw(4) got moved into a subdirectory in the linux-firmware.git but the driver still expects the firmware at the toplevel. The longer-term solution would be to create symlinks as the WHENCE file indicates but for the moment use the less intrusive version simply stripping the subdir during 'extract'. Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation Reported by: jrm Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D53680155a1013e5
net/wifi-firmware-kmod: allow ONLY_FOR_ARCHS to be set by child ports mtw(4) is built along USB for all architectures so we need firmware on all architectures -- unlike the LinuxKPI based wireless drivers which are restricted by default. Allow ONLY_FOR_ARCHS to be set in a child port; maintaing a full list of supported ARCHes seems unreasonable though so allow NOT_FOR_ARCHS to disable the ONLY_FOR_ARCHS logic in Makefile.inc. That way wifi-firmware-mt7601u-kmod can define an empty NOT_FOR_ARCHS and it should build on all ARCHes. Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation Reviewed by: jrm Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D53788c0198530f9
net/wifi-firmware-kmod: remove obsolete kernel module build code All supported FreeBSD versions either shipped firmware along with source and do not need this, or they support plain firmware file loading. Remove the now obsolete kernel module build code to simplify the logic in the file. Further cleanup will be done once 13.5-R is out of support in a few months. Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation Reviewed by: jrm Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D53679ac61f18d6f
net/wifi-firmware-kmod: update additional MASTER_SITES entries The fallback list of geolocated servers is outdated. Update with current set discovered using the RIPE Atlas service. PR: 290898 Reviewed by: jrm Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D53678a7e181e4be
net/wifi-firmware-{iwlwifi,*}-kmod: add missing firmware files
The firmware files for iwlwifi were lacking entries for some older
driver versions on 14.2-RELEASE and stable/14 [1] before
src:f4e352ef16d6.
In addition iwx(4) switched to using the same firmware file names
as iwlwifi so that fwget(8) would work for both of them (D49259).
We add the set of iwx(4) firmware files hard coded to the list of
files.
Given the list of supported revisions will grow and maintaining them
for all branches will be tedious without overlap we will simply create
the lists and let make do the job of :O:u (sort/uniq) in the common
Makefile.inc to filter out duplicates between branches.
the future not mandating that main is first as some of these are
created from scripts.
Installing newer firmware also on stable branches will allow forward
updates. For iwlwifi(4) it is less of a problem given it will use an
older version of firmware still (and we are not hoping to fall out
of the min/max window) but other drivers may not have such a
versioned scheme and we cannot easily run fwget(8) for a newer
release with the old kernel (and once we have an updated kernel/driver
the old firmware is not guaranteed to work anymore).
It would be helpful if we could forget about firmware once a release
is out (given kmod packages are built) but anyone else building the
packages themselves would still use a newer ports tree so we will have
to at least support older versions until the EoL date of the last
release using them.
Admittedly it was easier having the firmware files bundled with src
as most of these problems were solved naturally.
For iwlwifi flavors 22000, ax201, and bz also add a tunable to
automatically turn on hw_crypto, HT and VHT support given we
believe it works for these chipsets.
Dump PORTREVISION to 2 for all of them; mt7601u was already there but
is not affected by these changes so we can leave it at that revision.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Reported by: Stephane D'Alu (sdalu sdalu.com) [1]
PR: 284475 [1]
Reviewed by: thj, jrm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D49403ef3fa2a325net/wifi-firmware-mtw-kmod: Rename to net/wifi-firmware-mt7601u-kmod Fixes also the flavor part, so that the specific pkg includes the binary firmware Reviewed by: bz Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D48944bc12fec034
net/wifi-firmware-*: add support to set loader tunable For drivers which currently need to set the compat.linuxkpi.skb.mem_limit tunable add an option to the build to create it automatically for each FLAVOR. There is no harm if it is there multiple times setting it to the same value (apart from file including and parsing overhead in loader -- however that works). Add the option to the rtw88 and rtw89 wifi-firmware Makefile. Having it with the firmware package has multiple advantages: - the user does not have to do any manual configuration anymore - we do not have to configure setting it into the release builds - bsdinstall does not need to know about it to set for the installed system (depending on driver). Bump PORTREVISION. Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation MFC after: 1 minute X-MFC for: releng 14.2 Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D47481be7bdd6616
net/wifi-firmware-*kmod: update firmware for iwlwifi, rtw88, rtw89 The drivers are updated in main. Add newer supported firmware along with it while (manually) keeping some older revisions in some drivers for the stable braches. Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation Reviewed by: jrm, (cy previous revision) Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D471421a0146ce02
net/wifi-firmware-kmod: add a release flavor Add a flavor for a selection of wireless firmware packages to put onto a relase media. There is no point shipping firmware for the installer if there is no active driver for them yet. Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation Reviewed by: jrm Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D47141a4a64114c9
net/wifi-firmware-kmod: stop building kmods on main and 14.2 and on In Feb 2024 a feature to firmware(9) was introduced to be able to load plain firmware files (not kernel modules) from /boot/firmware/ . If the system is modern enough stop building kernel modules but simply copy the firmware files in. This makes the entire build process a lot simpler. For older versions we still have to generate kernel modules (though they all shipped with firmware in src so we can possibly unsupport them in the future). Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation Reviewed by: jrm, imp Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D470687a02aa98f6
net/wifi-firmware-kmod: add more MASTER_SITES pkg builders are failing to fetch all firmware files due to 'Service Unavailable' errors. We assume it is some kind of rate limit on the git.kernel.org site and not something local to the pkg builder setup. I was unable to reproduce it locally. Given git.kernel.org is a geolocated service unroll the server names as well so that pkg builders can fall back to further machines [1]. We do leave the general name first so the common user should not see any problems. Suggested by: dbaio [1] Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation Reviewed by: jrm Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D46681872f124e05
net/wifi-firmware-*: build framework and license hack cleanup Cleanup the extra layer of "flavour" that came into the build framework when flavours were introduced at a time when it was not planned. Make linters some more happy. [1] Remove the special license hack to install additional files. If DISABLE_LICENSES is set we still installed files making builds fail [2]. One would hope to always install the lincese files but simply disable any checking by the framework. Introduce a new way using LICENSE_COMB=multi to install the default license file, the extra WHENCE and any possible extra firmware license files. Technically this is an abuse of the system too but at least it should work and not break non default options. Based on: D45369 by jrm [1] Reported by: pi [2] Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation Reviewed by: jrm Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D461248f79c11c71
net/wifi-firmware-*kmod: improve build logic, add flavors, update fw version
- update framework to no longer depend on local distfiles for firmware(9)
but generate the Makefile hierarchy in post-extract. Keep a
Makefile.inc.in in files for simplicity.
- update extracting WHENCE parts using a local WHENCE.awk.in in files
and a pattern to match the section(s).
- use the already prepared FWSUBS sections for flavors and add the
FWDRV as "default". Generate the CONFLICTS_INSTALL conflict and
PKGNAMESUFFIX entries. Adjust paths and logic for flavors.
Depend on the flavors rather the combined ("default flavor") packages
by default if someone installs wifi-firmware-kmod.
The wifi-firmware-${name}-kmod packages are still built for older
versions of fwget shipping in releases.
- add support for iwlwifi and ath12k firmware
- update firmware to linux-firmware.git tag: 20240513 for all drivers.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Reviewed by: jrm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D4494580f50c9eb6net/wifi-firmware-*: use metaport for "base" and switch to Makefile.inc Rename the wifi-firmware-base to wifi-firmware-kmod (similar to gpu-firmware-mod). The former was never build so technically it is no move. Make the new subdir a metaport including all wireless firmware. Move the old Makefile to Makefile.inc and adjust the child ports accordingly. This solves two problems: (1) the base port is now buildable and (2) there is a single port to depend on to add all the needed firmware files to, e.g., put on a release media. Suggested by: amdmi3 PR: 270742 Reviewed by: ehaupt, jrm Approved by: ehaupt, jrm Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D400146247964e51