ivtv - firmware - v4l-cx2341x*.fw - Upstream & Fedora

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$ lspci -d 4444:0016 -knn
01:08.0 Multimedia video controller [0400]: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16 (CX23416) Video Decoder [4444:0016] (rev 01)
	Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. WinTV PVR 150 [0070:8801]
	Kernel driver in use: ivtv
	Kernel modules: ivtv

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$ dmesg | grep ivtv
[   10.082881] ivtv: Start initialization, version 1.4.3
[   10.085644] ivtv0: Initializing card 0
[   10.088287] ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge card (cx23416 based)
[   10.094502] ivtv0: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32)
[   10.183374] ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150
[   10.240409] cx25840 2-0044: cx25843-23 found @ 0x88 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
[   10.380617] wm8775 2-001b: chip found @ 0x36 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
[   10.431991] ivtv0: Registered device video0 for encoder MPG (4096 kB)
[   10.432151] ivtv0: Registered device video32 for encoder YUV (2048 kB)
[   10.432256] ivtv0: Registered device vbi0 for encoder VBI (1024 kB)
[   10.432358] ivtv0: Registered device video24 for encoder PCM (320 kB)
[   10.432459] ivtv0: Registered device radio0 for encoder radio
[   10.432473] ivtv0: Initialized card: Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150
[   10.433869] ivtv: End initialization
[   11.820105] ivtv 0000:01:08.0: Direct firmware load for v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw failed with error -2
[   11.820119] ivtv0: Unable to open firmware v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw (must be 376836 bytes)
[   11.820124] ivtv0: Did you put the firmware in the hotplug firmware directory?
[   11.820129] ivtv0: Retry loading firmware
[   12.439735] ivtv 0000:01:08.0: Direct firmware load for v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw failed with error -2
[   12.439747] ivtv0: Unable to open firmware v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw (must be 376836 bytes)
[   12.439752] ivtv0: Did you put the firmware in the hotplug firmware directory?
[   12.439757] ivtv0: Failed to initialize on device video32
[   12.439788] ivtv0: Failed to initialize on device video0
[   12.439953] ivtv0: Failed to initialize on device vbi0
[   12.439968] ivtv0: Failed to initialize on device video24
[   12.440110] ivtv0: Failed to initialize on device radio0

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$ modinfo ivtv | grep 'author\|firmware'
author:         Kevin Thayer, Chris Kennedy, Hans Verkuil
firmware:       v4l-cx2341x-init.mpg
firmware:       v4l-cx2341x-dec.fw
firmware:       v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw

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$ rpm -qi linux-firmware
...
Packager    : Fedora Project
Vendor      : Fedora Project
...
Summary     : Firmware files used by the Linux kernel
Description :
This package includes firmware files required for some devices to
operate.

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$ rpm -ql linux-firmware | grep v4l-cx2341x
$ 

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# yum install ivtv-firmware
...
No package ivtv-firmware available.
Error: Nothing to do

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$ rpm -qilp https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/ivtv-firmware/20080701/26/noarch/ivtv-firmware-20080701-26.noarch.rpm
Name        : ivtv-firmware
Epoch       : 2
Version     : 20080701
Release     : 26
Architecture: noarch
Install Date: (not installed)
Group       : System Environment/Kernel
Size        : 857256
License     : Redistributable, no modification permitted
Signature   : (none)
Source RPM  : ivtv-firmware-20080701-26.src.rpm
Build Date  : Sun 08 Jun 2014 05:38:45 AM CEST
Build Host  : buildvm-11.phx2.fedoraproject.org
Relocations : (not relocatable)
Packager    : Fedora Project
Vendor      : Fedora Project
URL         : http://dl.ivtvdriver.org/ivtv/firmware/
Summary     : Firmware for the Hauppauge PVR 250/350/150/500/USB2 model series
Description :
This package contains the firmware for WinTV Hauppauge PVR
250/350/150/500/USB2 cards.
/lib/firmware/ivtv-firmware-license-end-user.txt
/lib/firmware/ivtv-firmware-license-oemihvisv.txt
/lib/firmware/v4l-cx2341x-dec.fw
/lib/firmware/v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw
/lib/firmware/v4l-cx2341x-init.mpg
/lib/firmware/v4l-cx25840.fw
/lib/firmware/v4l-pvrusb2-24xxx-01.fw
/lib/firmware/v4l-pvrusb2-29xxx-01.fw
/usr/share/doc/ivtv-firmware
/usr/share/doc/ivtv-firmware/license-end-user.txt
/usr/share/doc/ivtv-firmware/license-oemihvisv.txt

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Why these firmwares are not included upstream
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/
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Why these firmwares are obsoleted(?) downstream
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/ivtv-firmware.git
?

Why these firmware are not included downstream
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/linux-firmware.git
?