[meta-freescale] [meta-fsl-arm-extra][PATCH 3/4] linux-firmware: add bbappend to modify firmware file names

[John Weber]

Actually, Eric, the change for the broadcom-nvram-config does require your
attention because of the need to rename nvram.txt to brcmfmac4330-sdio.txt.


On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Eric Nelson <
eric.nelson at boundarydevices.com> wrote:

> Hi John,
>
> On 07/15/2014 01:01 PM, John Weber wrote:
> > Upstream changes to the brcmfmac driver require a change to the firmware
> > file names to match the devid and interface type of the Broadcom chipset.
> > This also makes it easier for one machine to support multiple chipets in
> > Yocto.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: John Weber <rjohnweber at gmail.com>
> > ---
> >  .../linux-firmware/linux-firmware_git.bbappend     | 32
> ++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 32 insertions(+)
> >  create mode 100644
> recipes-kernel/linux-firmware/linux-firmware_git.bbappend
> >
> > diff --git a/recipes-kernel/linux-firmware/linux-firmware_git.bbappend
> b/recipes-kernel/linux-firmware/linux-firmware_git.bbappend
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 0000000..84b5fab
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/recipes-kernel/linux-firmware/linux-firmware_git.bbappend
> > @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
> > +BRCM_FWDIR = "/lib/firmware/brcm"
> > +
> > +do_install_append () {
> > +     # rename downloaded files so that we can create alternative
> > +     # links
> > +
> > +     cd ${D}${BRCM_FWDIR}
> > +
> > +     mv brcmfmac4329-sdio.bin brcmfmac4329-sta-sdio.bin
> > +     mv brcmfmac4330-sdio.bin brcmfmac4330-sta-sdio.bin
> > +
>
> Nice!
>
> It looks like you figured out a way to make this backward compatible
> so that you're not waiting on me!
>
> > +     # Create original file links, so that the base recipe sees the
> installed files
> > +     ln -sf brcmfmac4329-sta-sdio.bin brcmfmac4329-sdio.bin
> > +     ln -sf brcmfmac4330-sta-sdio.bin brcmfmac4330-sdio.bin
> > +}
> > +
> > +FILES_${PN}-bcm4329 += " \
> > +  ${BRCM_FWDIR}/brcmfmac4329-sta-sdio.bin \
> > +"
> > +
> > +FILES_${PN}-bcm4330 += " \
> > +  ${BRCM_FWDIR}/brcmfmac4330-sta-sdio.bin \
> > +"
> > +
> > +ALTERNATIVE_linux-firmware-bcm4329 += " brcmfmac4329-sdio.bin"
> > +ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[brcmfmac4329-sdio.bin] =
> "${BRCM_FWDIR}/brcmfmac4329-sdio.bin"
> > +ALTERNATIVE_TARGET_linux-firmware-bcm4329[brcmfmac4329-sdio.bin] =
> "${BRCM_FWDIR}/brcmfmac4329-sta-sdio.bin"
> > +
> > +ALTERNATIVE_linux-firmware-bcm4330 += " brcmfmac4330-sdio.bin"
> > +ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[brcmfmac4330-sdio.bin] =
> "${BRCM_FWDIR}/brcmfmac4330-sdio.bin"
> > +ALTERNATIVE_TARGET_linux-firmware-bcm4330[brcmfmac4330-sdio.bin] =
> "${BRCM_FWDIR}/brcmfmac4330-sta-sdio.bin"
> > +
> >
>
> Acked-by: Eric Nelson <eric.nelson at boundarydevices.com>
>
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