[meta-freescale] installing firmware-imx

[Otavio Salvador]

On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Thomas Senyk
<thomas.senyk at pelagicore.com> wrote:
> On Tue, March 05, 2013 13:57:51 Otavio Salvador wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Thomas Senyk
>>
>> <thomas.senyk at pelagicore.com> wrote:
>> > 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?
>>
>> Yes; this is the generic way of adding it. However it is automatically
>> done by every image inheriting core-image.
>
> Ok, but then their is a bug :)
> Our image does(!) 'inherit core-image' but the firmware does not get deployed.

You must be overriding something, read bellow.

>> So you must be doing:
>>
>> IMAGE_INSTALL = "... "
>>
>> And this is wrong, in this specific case. Please change it to:
>>
>> CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL += " ...  "



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