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Add README.AddingFirmware file. Basically telling people not to.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <[email protected]>
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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(). | ||
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As we update those drivers to use request_firmware() and keep a clean | ||
separation between code and firmware, we put the extracted firmware | ||
here. | ||
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This directory is _NOT_ for adding arbitrary new firmware images. The | ||
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 | ||
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. | ||
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To submit firmware to that repository, please send either a git binary | ||
diff or preferably a git pull request to: | ||
David Woodhouse <[email protected]> | ||
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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. | ||
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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). |