Re: Kernel firmware?

[Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>]

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On 01/17/2011 02:23 AM, Joshua Lock wrote:
> Hi Gary,
>
> On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 05:30 -0700, Gary Thomas wrote:
>> I'm trying to get various USB WiFi dongles working on my
>> BeagleBoard (or look-alike).  Many of these require runtime
>> downloads of firmware.  However, these files don't seem to
>> be installed in Poky:
>>     phy1 ->  rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Info - Loading firmware file 'rt73.bin'.
>>     rt73usb 2-1.2.4:1.0: firmware: requesting rt73.bin
>>     phy1 ->  rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Error - Failed to request Firmware.
>>
>> Is there some way to enable this?
>
> There's a linux-firmware recipe
> (meta/recipes-kernel/linux-firmware/linux-firmware_git.bb) which you'll
> have to modify to package the required firmware (at the moment we only
> package firmware for the Libertas sd8686) and ensure that the packages
> are included in your images.

I don't see anywhere that linux-firmware-sd8686 is included in
an image.  Am I missing something?

I tried to add the module I need using a .bbappend file (attached).
It doesn't seem to be processed though - any ideas why?

Thanks

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#DESCRIPTION = "Firmware files for use with Linux kernel"
#SECTION = "kernel"
#LICENSE = "Proprietary"

PV = "0.0+git${SRCPV}"

#
# Additional firmware modules 
#

#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# LinkSys
#
LICENSE_${PN}-rt73 = "Firmware:LICENCE.rtlwifi_firmware.txt"
PROVIDES += "linux-firmware-rt73"

do_install_append() {
	install -d  ${D}/lib/firmware/
	# LinkSys via rt73
	install -m 0666 rt73.bin ${D}/lib/firmware
	install -m 0666 LICENCE.rtlwifi_firmware.txt ${D}/lib/firmware/
}

PACKAGES = "${PN}-rt73"
FILES_${PN}-rt73 = "/lib/firmware/rt73.bin /lib/firmware/LICENCE.rtlwifi_firmware.txt"
RPROVIDES_${PN}-rt73 = "${PN}-rt73"
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------