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- DO NOT ADD FIRMWARE TO THIS DIRECTORY.
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- This directory is only here to contain firmware images extracted from old
- device drivers which predate the common use of request_firmware().
- As we update those drivers to use request_firmware() and keep a clean
- separation between code and firmware, we put the extracted firmware
- here.
- This directory is _NOT_ for adding arbitrary new firmware images. The
- place to add those is the separate linux-firmware repository:
- git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git
- That repository contains all these firmware images which have been
- extracted from older drivers, as well various new firmware images which
- we were never permitted to include in a GPL'd work, but which we _have_
- been permitted to redistribute under separate cover.
- To submit firmware to that repository, please send either a git binary
- diff or preferably a git pull request to:
- linux-firmware@kernel.org
- and also cc: to related mailing lists.
- Your commit should include an update to the WHENCE file clearly
- identifying the licence under which the firmware is available, and
- that it is redistributable. If the licence is long and involved, it's
- permitted to include it in a separate file and refer to it from the
- WHENCE file.
- And if it were possible, a changelog of the firmware itself.
- Ideally, your commit should contain a Signed-Off-By: from someone
- authoritative on the licensing of the firmware in question (i.e. from
- within the company that owns the code).
- WARNING:
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- Don't send any "CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT" in your e-mail, patch or
- request. Otherwise your firmware _will never be accepted_.
- Maintainers are really busy, so don't expect a prompt reply.
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