[yocto] Installing only part of linux-firmware

[Chris Tapp]

On 7 Feb 2016, at 16:50, Chris Tapp <opensource at keylevel.com> wrote:
> 
> Is there a way I can just pull in part of the linux-firmware package into my image? I need rtl_nic, but to get this I have to pull in the whole of linux-firmware, which is 54M and forms over 1/3 of the final image.
> 
> It looks to me as if I’m going to have to find some way of packaging this myself?
> 
> I’m currently building under ‘daisy’.

I’ve now done this by creating a bbappend for linux-firmware:

PACKAGES =+ "${PN}-rtl_nic"

FILES_${PN}-rtl_nic = " \
  /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/* \
“

Does what I want, but is that the best way of doing it?

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