On Tue, 2012-01-10 at 19:30 -0500, Andres Mejia wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Andres Mejia <amejia@debian.org>
>
> * Package name : firmware-crystalhd
> Version : 0.0~git20120110.fdd2f19
> Upstream Author : Broadcom Corporation
> * URL : http://git.linuxtv.org/jarod/crystalhd.git
> * License : other
> Description : Crystal HD Video Decoder (firmware)
>
> I'm not sure if this is something I ask the kernel team, or maintain myself, so
> I'm reporting this as an ITP for now. This is an ITP for the firmware needed by
> the crystalhd library which has already been uploaded to Debian.
[...]
If this is something loaded by a Linux kernel driver, it should go first
into the linux-firmware repository and then into the Debian
firmware-nonfree package.
Quoting from the kernel's firmware/README.AddingFirmware:
> 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:
> David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
> Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Ben.
--
Ben Hutchings
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