diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libraw1394/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libraw1394/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..62398404ac24
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libraw1394/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+args:
+args.stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "libraw1394-1.2.0";
+
+  src = args.fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/libraw1394/libraw1394-1.2.0.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "1b9zqqzyz0ihyfvhn135y3wc6vmym5yz21jxj9dp0f09b96gmp0z";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs =(with args; []);
+
+  meta = { 
+      description = "library providing direct access to the IEEE 1394 bus through the Linux 1394 subsystem's raw1394 user space interface";
+      homepage = "http://wiki.linux1394.org/";
+      license = ["GPL" "LGPL"];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 79fd115a120f..d8bcc3f02acb 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -3347,6 +3347,11 @@ rec {
   libselinux = import ../os-specific/linux/libselinux {
     inherit fetchurl stdenv libsepol;
   };
+
+  libraw1394 = import ../development/libraries/libraw1394 {
+    inherit fetchurl stdenv;
+  };
+
  
   libsexy = import ../development/libraries/libsexy {
     inherit stdenv fetchurl pkgconfig libxml2;