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