[yocto] Adding firmware to initramfs

[Chris Tapp]

On 30 Nov 2014, at 08:06, ChenQi <Qi.Chen at windriver.com> wrote:

> Create a bbappend file for core-image-minimal-initramfs, and add the following line to the bbappend file.
> 
> PACKAGE_INSTALL += "linux-firmware"

Thanks, PACKAGE_INSTALL works great :-)

I've gone with the following in my local.conf:

   PACKAGE_INSTALL_append_pn-core-image-minimal-initramfs = " linux-firmware"

> 
> On 11/28/2014 08:37 PM, Chris Tapp wrote:
>> I'm network booting a system using iPXE. The process uses a core-image-minimal-initramfs image to select the final rootfs that gets loaded.
>> 
>> This generally works fine, but I need to be able to install linux-firmware in the initramfs image (specifically for the NIC that gets used to load the final rootfs).
>> 
>> How do I get linux-firmware to install in core-image-minimal-initramfs? I've tried adding the following into local.conf, but with no luck:
>> 
>> MACHINE_ESSENTIAL_EXTRA_RDEPENDS += "linux-firmware"
>> IMAGE_INSTALL_append = " linux-firmware"
>> CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL += " linux-firmware"

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Chris Tapp
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