linux/firmware
Ben Hutchings de88d8becb firmware: Update information in linux.git about adding firmware
Kyle McMartin joined the linux-firmware maintainers, and we now
have an alias <linux-firmware@kernel.org> which reaches all of us.
Include that instead of the individual addresses.

Add some further recommendations that were already included in the
README in linux-firmware.git added by Xose Vazquez Perez
<xose.vazquez@gmail.com>.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2015-05-07 09:48:42 -06:00
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3com
acenic
adaptec
advansys
av7110
bnx2
bnx2x
cis
cpia2
cxgb3
dsp56k
e100
edgeport
emi26
emi62
ess
kaweth
keyspan
keyspan_pda
korg
matrox
myricom
ositech
qlogic
r128
radeon
sb16
sun
tehuti
tigon
ttusb-budget
vicam
yam
yamaha
.gitignore
atmsar11.HEX
ihex2fw.c firmware/ihex2fw.c: restore missing default in switch statement 2015-04-17 09:03:56 -04:00
Makefile kbuild: remove obj-n and lib-n handling 2014-10-02 13:55:02 +02:00
mts_cdma.fw.ihex
mts_edge.fw.ihex
mts_gsm.fw.ihex
README.AddingFirmware firmware: Update information in linux.git about adding firmware 2015-05-07 09:48:42 -06:00
ti_3410.fw.ihex
ti_5052.fw.ihex
WHENCE Documentation/serial: Delete obsolete driver documentation 2014-04-16 14:20:34 -07:00
whiteheat_loader_debug.HEX
whiteheat_loader.HEX
whiteheat.HEX

	DO NOT ADD FIRMWARE TO THIS DIRECTORY.
	======================================

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:
=======

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.