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Expand Up @@ -46,6 +46,14 @@ The following is a curated list of repositories which most people are interested
https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux::
This repository contains the source code for the downstream Linux kernel supported and working on all versions of Raspberry Pi from Pi 1 to Pi 5.

https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware::
This repository contains the closed source firmware, although the following two links are useful:
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I think this repo supplies the data for rpi-update? It might be worth adding something along those lines to give a better understanding of what the repo is actually for.

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Nah, rpi-update gets its data from https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-firmware
There used to be a big difference between what's in https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware and what's in https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-firmware (the latter used to also contain a bunch of files from the old userland repo), but these days the difference is much smaller.

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Perhaps you could add a statement to the rpi-firmware repo's readme that states explicitly that it is the repo that rpi-update fetches firmware and kernel from?

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raspberrypi/rpi-firmware#2

* https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/commits/master/[Changelog for the firmware]
* https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/blob/master/boot/overlays/README[Device tree overlay README]

https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-eeprom::
Installation scripts and binaries for the Raspberry Pi 4 and Raspberry Pi 5 bootloader EEPROMs including the https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-eeprom/releases[releases] and https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-eeprom/blob/master/releases.md[release notes].

=== Libraries and applications

https://github.com/raspberrypi/utils::
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