[yocto] How do firmware patches get loaded?

[Chris Tapp]

On 28 Nov 2014, at 00:49, Chris Tapp <opensource at keylevel.com> wrote:

> I've got a board with an rtl8168 NIC. I've enabled this in the kernel, but I get the following showing in the system log at boot:
> 
>   r8169 0000:03:00.0 eth0: unable to load firmware patch rtl_nic/rtl8168g-2.fw (-2)
> 
> The NIC works, but it looks as if the missing file is causing a 60 second delay at boot time.
> 
> What do I need to do to get this file installed / loaded?

Sorted - this just needed the following in local.conf:

MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS += "linux-firmware"

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Chris Tapp
opensource at keylevel.com
www.keylevel.com

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