[meta-intel] minnowboard: question about the inclusion of linux-firmware

[Christopher Larson]

On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 8:40 AM, Darren Hart <dvhart at linux.intel.com> wrote:

> On 5/28/14, 8:34, "Kamble, Nitin A" <nitin.a.kamble at intel.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >On 5/28/2014 8:03 AM, Christopher Larson wrote:
> >> Greetings,
> >>
> >> I'd thought I'd already sent this, but apparently it had been floating
> >> around in drafts. I had a quick question about the blanket inclusion
> >> of linux-firmware. Are there specific firmware images from this needed
> >> to support the minnowboard hardware, or is it only included for
> >> potential firmware for e.g. usb wireless adapters?
> >Many of the wifi drivers, need to load the firmware specific chip to get
> >wifi working. AFAIK there is no other hardware which need to pull
> >firmware fomr the linux-firmware package.
>
> Correct.


Thanks for the clarification. It seems a bit iffy to include it in this
way, to me, considering wifi support is both a distro and machine feature
:) We should give some thought to how best to handle inclusion of wifi
firmware, obeying both, in the long term.
-- 
Christopher Larson
clarson at kergoth dot com
Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
Maintainer - Tslib
Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics
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