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+ DO NOT ADD FIRMWARE TO THIS DIRECTORY.
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+ ======================================
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+This directory is only here to contain firmware images extracted from old
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+device drivers which predate the common use of request_firmware().
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+As we update those drivers to use request_firmware() and keep a clean
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+separation between code and firmware, we put the extracted firmware
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+here.
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+This directory is _NOT_ for adding arbitrary new firmware images. The
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+place to add those is the separate linux-firmware repository:
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+ git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git
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+That repository contains all these firmware images which have been
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+extracted from older drivers, as well various new firmware images which
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+we were never permitted to include in a GPL'd work, but which we _have_
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+been permitted to redistribute under separate cover.
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+To submit firmware to that repository, please send either a git binary
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+diff or preferably a git pull request to:
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+ David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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+Your commit should include an update to the WHENCE file clearly
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+identifying the licence under which the firmware is available, and
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+that it is redistributable. If the licence is long and involved, it's
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+permitted to include it in a separate file and refer to it from the
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+WHENCE file.
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+Ideally, your commit should contain a Signed-Off-By: from someone
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+authoritative on the licensing of the firmware in question (i.e. from
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+within the company that owns the code).
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David Woodhouse