[meta-freescale] installing firmware-imx

Thomas Senyk thomas.senyk at pelagicore.com
Tue Mar 5 08:52:12 PST 2013


On Tue, March 05, 2013 13:38:00 Otavio Salvador wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 9:34 AM, Thomas Senyk
> 
> <thomas.senyk at pelagicore.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I just tried to install the imx6 vpu firmware.
> > I needed to do:
> > IMAGE_INSTALL += "firmware-imx-vpu-imx6q"
> > 
> > firmware-imx-vpu or firmware-imx is not working.
> > .. that way my image is not only fsl-specific (which it already is due to
> > fsl- codec) but also chip specific.
> > 
> > Not sure I get this right, but the fsl-codecs are useless without the
> > firmware, right?
> > If so: maybe the fsl-codecs/gst-fsl-plugin should have a RDEPENDS on
> > firmware- imx-vpu-<machine>?
> 
> Which image are you using? core-image-base and above ought to have the
> right set of firmware out of box.

Our own using 'inherit core-image'
So it's similar to (/more then) 'core-image-base'

I colleague found that adding packagegroup-base adds the firmware
 ... is that the right way of doing it?


Greets
Thomas



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