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CLUSTER AUTOMATICALLY-DAEMON-FIRMWARE · 5 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2024-03-21

Hardware and firmware management daemons

The cluster consists of Linux system daemons and utilities that monitor hardware, update or tune firmware, and reload kernel modules automatically. The dated history is too thin to read a shape from — fewer than five dated entries exist before the index start, indicating the cluster predates the index or its members are undated. Traction leaders include fwupd, Firmware, and ath10k-fixer, all showing zero stars.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

MAR 2024: 1MAY 2024: 1SEP 2024: 1JUN 2026: 1SEP 2026: 1
MAR 2024SEP 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 1 hand-coded · 4 unlabelled

Operator · 4 open source · 1 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 5 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01plugkill0★4 days—Hardware kill-switch daemon for Linux and FreeBSD that watches physical device changes and powers off the machine on unauthorized actions.
  2. 02fwupd0★28 dayslivehand-codedopen sourceSystem daemon that updates device firmware on Linux automatically and safely from desktop software or command line.
  3. 03Firmware0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceSystem utility that updates, reinstalls, and downgrades firmware on supported hardware devices.
  4. 04ath10k-fixer0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceSystem daemon that monitors the ath10k WiFi kernel module and automatically reloads it when it becomes unresponsive.
  5. 05tuned-openrc0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceBackground service that monitors hardware and automatically tunes device configurations for performance.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.