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Add README.AddingFirmware file. Basically telling people not to.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
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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
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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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