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

[Gary Thomas]

On 2013-12-04 05:24, Gary Thomas wrote:
> 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
>

BTW, the patch has been applied to OE-core master, but not the dora branch.