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| 2 | DO NOT ADD FIRMWARE TO THIS DIRECTORY. | |
| 3 | ====================================== | |
| 4 | ||
| 5 | This directory is only here to contain firmware images extracted from old | |
| 6 | device drivers which predate the common use of request_firmware(). | |
| 7 | ||
| 8 | As we update those drivers to use request_firmware() and keep a clean | |
| 9 | separation between code and firmware, we put the extracted firmware | |
| 10 | here. | |
| 11 | ||
| 12 | This directory is _NOT_ for adding arbitrary new firmware images. The | |
| 13 | place to add those is the separate linux-firmware repository: | |
| 14 | ||
| 7b21a202 | 15 | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git |
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| 17 | That repository contains all these firmware images which have been | |
| 18 | extracted from older drivers, as well various new firmware images which | |
| 19 | we were never permitted to include in a GPL'd work, but which we _have_ | |
| 20 | been permitted to redistribute under separate cover. | |
| 21 | ||
| 22 | To submit firmware to that repository, please send either a git binary | |
| 23 | diff or preferably a git pull request to: | |
| 24 | David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> | |
| 7b21a202 | 25 | Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> |
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| 27 | Your commit should include an update to the WHENCE file clearly | |
| 28 | identifying the licence under which the firmware is available, and | |
| 29 | that it is redistributable. If the licence is long and involved, it's | |
| 30 | permitted to include it in a separate file and refer to it from the | |
| 31 | WHENCE file. | |
| 32 | ||
| 33 | Ideally, your commit should contain a Signed-Off-By: from someone | |
| 34 | authoritative on the licensing of the firmware in question (i.e. from | |
| 35 | within the company that owns the code). |