Comment 10 for bug 557037

After conferring with others on the kernel team, it's best if we only include firmware in linux-firmware for drivers that are provided by some Ubuntu package. Since there does not appear to be a package providing this driver in any of the Lucid archives, I feel we shouldn't include the firmware in our package. Here's my own suggestion for this case:

1. Work with the community to get the driver included in an Ubuntu package.
2. Send the firmware and license to David Woodhouse for his firmware tree, which we pull from. He may have a different set of standards, and this would be a separate path to getting the firmware into Ubuntu.

Of course, if you get step 1 done, then we can reconsider putting the firmware directly into our linux-firmware package. I hope you can understand that from a maintainability and liability aspect, its best for us to focus on providing firmware for which we provide drivers out of the box.

In the end, you are always free to continue providing the firmware and drivers outside of the Ubuntu archives as part of medibuntu or as part of a personal package archive.