diff --git a/aports/main/postmarketos-base/50-firmware.rules b/aports/main/postmarketos-base/50-firmware.rules
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a550574f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/aports/main/postmarketos-base/50-firmware.rules
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# do not edit this file, it will be overwritten on update
+SUBSYSTEM=="firmware", ACTION=="add", RUN+="/usr/lib/firmwareload.sh"
diff --git a/aports/main/postmarketos-base/APKBUILD b/aports/main/postmarketos-base/APKBUILD
index 16ae8014..48df1a8d 100644
--- a/aports/main/postmarketos-base/APKBUILD
+++ b/aports/main/postmarketos-base/APKBUILD
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 pkgname=postmarketos-base
 pkgver=2
-pkgrel=4
+pkgrel=5
 pkgdesc="Meta package for minimal postmarketos base"
 url="https://github.com/postmarketOS"
 arch="noarch"
@@ -10,12 +10,19 @@ tmux htop nano postmarketos-mkinitfs eudev sudo"
 makedepends=""
 install="$pkgname.post-install"
 subpackages=""
-source="sudoers $install"
+source="sudoers firmwareload.sh 50-firmware.rules $install"
 options="!check"
 
 package() {
 	install -D -m644 "$srcdir"/sudoers \
 		"$pkgdir"/etc/sudoers.d/postmarketos
+	install -D -m644 "$srcdir"/50-firmware.rules \
+		"$pkgdir"/etc/udev/rules.d/50-firmware.rules
+	install -D -m755 "$srcdir"/firmwareload.sh \
+		"$pkgdir"/usr/lib/firmwareload.sh
+
 }
 sha512sums="c6de3b44bc45b9f9c641a7e34c69a481ee39b99ac0251cd28f2b3aae49c1a8d1ca448f4936b7942b1a8b8f7c18a5415c938098765ed8cf08456543800160e64b  sudoers
+38dc75c0ed32b76dccd3d8e7e8173e8b7d91847cf2b07123f376b95af46b4f89798b24f45302a0726fdc1cf253aecaac140f431735ac5c6511553f790badd0af  firmwareload.sh
+0b098828080055d3646ea54891cb0e1b578cbc30f5e16f7284f2814c08192f18079a38fb686d192715ae6a3d2cd6625d9e3cf99f234a6f0d94088bb0cb2ce43d  50-firmware.rules
 62d91b43c9f2c64f8eeeb8cd89a03d3d00a904c6563ea81c09aed8df0187abe71f458503716df8e78d5aaecd1205d218d2b90c982929d1c698c5d0b1d26e85e4  postmarketos-base.post-install"
diff --git a/aports/main/postmarketos-base/firmwareload.sh b/aports/main/postmarketos-base/firmwareload.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..95baccf3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/aports/main/postmarketos-base/firmwareload.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+FIRMWARE_DIRS="/lib/firmware /lib/firmware/postmarketos"
+
+exec >>/var/log/firmwareload.log 2>&1
+
+if [ ! -e "/sys/$DEVPATH/loading" ]; then
+    echo "firmware loader misses sysfs directory"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+for DIR in $FIRMWARE_DIRS; do
+    [ -e "$DIR/$FIRMWARE" ] || continue
+    echo "loading $DIR/$FIRMWARE"
+    echo 1 > "/sys/$DEVPATH/loading"
+    cat "$DIR/$FIRMWARE" > "/sys/$DEVPATH/data"
+    echo 0 > "/sys/$DEVPATH/loading"
+    exit 0
+done
+
+# shellcheck disable=SC2039
+echo -1 > "/sys/$DEVPATH/loading"
+echo "cannot find firmware file '$FIRMWARE'"
+exit 1
diff --git a/test/static_code_analysis.sh b/test/static_code_analysis.sh
index d4ea8a91..e7638064 100755
--- a/test/static_code_analysis.sh
+++ b/test/static_code_analysis.sh
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")" && pwd -P)"
 cd "$DIR"/..
 sh_files="
 	./test/static_code_analysis.sh
+	./aports/main/postmarketos-base/firmwareload.sh
 	./aports/main/postmarketos-mkinitfs/init.sh.in
 	./aports/main/postmarketos-mkinitfs/init_functions.sh
 	$(find . -name '*.trigger')