Drop Intel WiMax firmware

The WiMax wireless wan driver stack was dropped from upstream
in 2021 without any people with HW and most global WiMax
netowrks already shut down or being actively shutdown.
The last stable firmware to support WiMax was 5.10 so time to
drop the firmware.

Signed-off-by: Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@kernel.org>

diff --git a/LICENCE.i2400m b/LICENCE.i2400m
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--- a/LICENCE.i2400m
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@@ -1,43 +0,0 @@
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diff --git a/WHENCE b/WHENCE
index 9eb36f9154b618b20a54ce5ca420118b80d684e1..c9b283a2b875992777a6b650a866ccc729079930 100644 (file)
--- a/WHENCE
+++ b/WHENCE
@@ -634,18 +634,6 @@ Found in hex form in kernel source, with the following notice:
 
 --------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-Driver: i2400m-usb - Intel 2400 Wireless WiMAX Connection over USB
-
-File: i2400m-fw-usb-1.4.sbcf
-File: i2400m-fw-usb-1.5.sbcf
-File: i6050-fw-usb-1.5.sbcf
-
-Licence: Redistributable. See LICENCE.i2400m for details
-
-Also available from http://linuxwimax.org/Download
-
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
 Driver: libertas - Marvell Libertas fullmac-type 802.11b/g cards
 
 File: libertas/cf8381.bin

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diff --git a/i2400m-fw-usb-1.5.sbcf b/i2400m-fw-usb-1.5.sbcf
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diff --git a/i6050-fw-usb-1.5.sbcf b/i6050-fw-usb-1.5.sbcf
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