[meta-freescale] i.MX6Q VPU firmware missing for core-image-basic

[Gary Thomas]

On 2013-12-04 05:13, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Tarek El-Sherbiny
> <tarek.elsherbiny at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I mad some progress now.
>>
>> core-imgae-base ---> VPU FW is included.
>> core-imgae-basic ---> VPU FW is not included. !!!!?
>>
>> Does anyone understand why?
>>
>> I know that the firmware is picked up in MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS variable
>> but I don't know why it affects only core-imgae-base and not
>> core-imgae-basic !
>>
>> Hope someone could shed some light here.
>
> core-image-base: A console-only image that fully supports the target
> device hardware.
> ...
> core-image-basic: A console-only image with more full-featured Linux
> system functionality installed.
>
> The image names are misleading, I agree. Please bring this to OE-Core
> for discussion.
>

I sent a patch for this to OE-core in October which seems to have
been ignored :-(
   http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2013-October/085750.html

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