> It is hard to enforce how vendors will version their firmware. On media,
> we have some drivers whose major means different hardware versions. For
> instance, on xc3028, v3.x means low voltage chips, while v2.x means
> "normal" voltage. We end changing the file name on Linux to avoid the risk
> o
From: Dave Airlie
A recent snafu where Intel ignored upstream feedback on a firmware
change, led to a late rc6 fix being required. In order to avoid this
in the future we should document some expectations around
linux-firmware.
I was originally going to write this for drm, but it seems quite gen