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Intel NPU Firmware Files Upstreamed To linux-firmware.git

For two years now the Intel IVPU accelerator driver has been part of the mainline kernel for supporting the Neural Processing Unit (NPU) that's part of the Core Ultra 'Meteor Lake' CPUs and newer

For two years now the Intel IVPU accelerator driver has been part of the mainline kernel for supporting the Neural Processing Unit (NPU) that's part of the Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" CPUs and newer. In making it easier to get the NPU working on Intel Core Ultra SoCs under Linux, linux-firmware.git has added the Intel NPU firmware binaries to provide for a nice out-of-the-box experience with all Linux distributions pulling from this repository for device firmware/microcode files. This commit is what lands the initial Intel NPU firmware files.

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