[yocto] Installing only part of linux-firmware

[Chris Trobridge]

Digging deeper, I can see that versions 13 and 16 are in the linux-firmware source repository, so it is just a question of adding a package.  I was already just adding the one firmware image I required.
Looks like a good candidate for a practice patch.
Cheers,Chris

From: christrobridge at hotmail.com
To: ross.burton at intel.com
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2016 10:15:45 +0000
CC: yocto at yoctoproject.org
Subject: Re: [yocto] Installing only part of linux-firmware




I have been pondering linux-firmware recently too.
I have a device fitted that requires the 'iwlwifi-7260' firmware.
This was working but the current driver is requesting versions  13 to 10 of the firmware, in that order.The current (master) poky recipe has versions 8 and 9.The source repo (I believe, https://github.com/OpenELEC/iwlwifi-firmware/tree/master/firmware) has versions up to 17 now.
I can likewise add newer versions of firmware but do you ever prune out old versions?  In this case is seems that the choice of firmware limited by the drivers specified by that version of yocto (via the kernel).
Regards,Chris
From: ross.burton at intel.com
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 08:58:32 +0000
To: opensource at keylevel.com
CC: yocto at yoctoproject.org
Subject: Re: [yocto] Installing only part of linux-firmware


On 7 February 2016 at 21:49, Chris Tapp <opensource at keylevel.com> wrote:
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?
This is the best way for you now.
That's exactly why the recipe has quite a lot of subpackages, feel free to submit more upstream.
Ross

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