Re: [meta-ti] [PATCH 1/2] prusw-fw: Update switch firmwares to 3.2.9 version

["Denys Dmytriyenko" <denis@denix.org>]

Yogesh,

See our earlier discussion on linux-firmware and the comment about splitting 
individual FW binaries into own packages.


On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 03:54:11PM -0400, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 12:40:22PM -0500, Bajjuri, Praneeth wrote:
> > Yogesh,Vignesh,
> > 
> > On 6/28/2021 9:48 AM, Vignesh Raghavendra wrote:
> > >From: Lokesh Vutla <lokeshvutla@ti.com>
> > >
> > >Update prueth switch firmwares to 3.2.9 version
> > >
> > >Signed-off-by: Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@ti.com>
> > >---
> > >  recipes-bsp/prusw-fw/{prusw-fw_3.2.7.bb => prusw-fw_3.2.9.bb} | 2 +-
[snip]
> > 
> > Can we have once central recipe for ti-linux-firmware to pick the
> > right SRCREV when firmware is integrated
> > recipe-bsp/ti-linux-fw*/*.bb something like that, Instead of
> > pointing to a different SRCREV in different bb recipe ?
> > 
> > I see 9 different recipe-bsp/<>/ locations potentially pointing to
> > different SRCREV.
> 
> Individual FW recipes in meta-ti evolved over long time, being added one by 
> one, as they were coming from different places and not necessarily hosted in 
> a single repo in the beginning...
> 
> 
> Has anyone looked at upstreaming those FW images to main linux-firmware at 
> kernel.org?
> 
> There's a recipe for the upstream linux-firmware bundle in oe-core that 
> resides in recipes-kernel/linux-firmware/.
> 
> Until fully upstreamed, it might be possible to bbappend that recipe from 
> oe-core in meta-ti. But it tries to split up as much of individual FW images 
> as possible. That way one recipe with a single SRCREV produces multiple binary 
> packages that can be pulled into the image individually.

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