Kernel firmware?

Kernel firmware?

[Gary Thomas]

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?

Thanks

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Re: Kernel firmware?

[Joshua Lock]

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.

Cheers,
Joshua
-- 
Joshua Lock
        Intel Open Source Technology Centre

Re: Kernel firmware?

[Gary Thomas]

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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"
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Re: Kernel firmware?

[Joshua Lock]

On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 05:53 -0700, Gary Thomas wrote:
> 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?

You need to have something pull in the required linux-firmware, for
example the igep0020 and igep0030 machines add linux-firmware-sd8686 to
the MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS.

Cheers,
Joshua
-- 
Joshua Lock
        Intel Open Source Technology Centre

Re: Kernel firmware?

[Gary Thomas]

On 01/17/2011 06:10 AM, Joshua Lock wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 05:53 -0700, Gary Thomas wrote:
>> 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?
>
> You need to have something pull in the required linux-firmware, for
> example the igep0020 and igep0030 machines add linux-firmware-sd8686 to
> the MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS.

Thanks.  Doing it this way wasn't totally clear from "ensure that the
packages are included in your images."

It's working now.

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Gary Thomas                 |  Consulting for the
MLB Associates              |    Embedded world
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Re: Kernel firmware?

[Gary Thomas]

On 01/17/2011 06:28 AM, Gary Thomas wrote:
> On 01/17/2011 06:10 AM, Joshua Lock wrote:
>> On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 05:53 -0700, Gary Thomas wrote:
>>> 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?
>>
>> You need to have something pull in the required linux-firmware, for
>> example the igep0020 and igep0030 machines add linux-firmware-sd8686 to
>> the MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS.
>
> Thanks. Doing it this way wasn't totally clear from "ensure that the
> packages are included in your images."
>
> It's working now.

My exuberance was a bit premature.  Indeed, I rebuilt my install
image, but the firmware package wasn't installed.  On my target,
I see:
   root@cobra3530p60:~# opkg list-installed linux*
   root@cobra3530p60:~# opkg list linux*
   linux-firmware-rt73 - 0.0+git0+40c0f950be7040614dc45df54e25e54d00e3b73b-r0 - Firmware files for use with Linux kernel
    Firmware files for use with Linux kernel
   linux-firmware-sd8686 - 0.0+git0+40c0f950be7040614dc45df54e25e54d00e3b73b-r0 - Firmware files for use with Linux kernel
    Firmware files for use with Linux kernel
   linux-libc-headers-dbg - 2.6.36-r0 - Debugging files for linux-libc-headers
    Debugging files for linux-libc-headers
   linux-libc-headers-dev - 2.6.36-r0 - Development files for linux-libc-headers
    Development files for linux-libc-headers

To be clear, all I did was add "linux-firmware-rt73" to MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS
in my <MACHINE>.conf file, then rebuild the image using:
    % bitbake poky-image-sato
This was from a previously built tree, etc.  Did I need to do anything
else to get the package actually installed at build time?

Note: If I 'opkg install linux-firmware-rt73' on my target, I get
the correct files.  I'd just like to understand how to make it happen
in the "image"

Thanks


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Gary Thomas                 |  Consulting for the
MLB Associates              |    Embedded world
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Re: Kernel firmware?

[Gary Thomas]

On 01/17/2011 09:49 AM, Gary Thomas wrote:
> On 01/17/2011 06:28 AM, Gary Thomas wrote:
>> On 01/17/2011 06:10 AM, Joshua Lock wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 05:53 -0700, Gary Thomas wrote:
>>>> 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?
>>>
>>> You need to have something pull in the required linux-firmware, for
>>> example the igep0020 and igep0030 machines add linux-firmware-sd8686 to
>>> the MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS.
>>
>> Thanks. Doing it this way wasn't totally clear from "ensure that the
>> packages are included in your images."
>>
>> It's working now.
>
> My exuberance was a bit premature. Indeed, I rebuilt my install
> image, but the firmware package wasn't installed. On my target,
> I see:
> root@cobra3530p60:~# opkg list-installed linux*
> root@cobra3530p60:~# opkg list linux*
> linux-firmware-rt73 - 0.0+git0+40c0f950be7040614dc45df54e25e54d00e3b73b-r0 - Firmware files for use with Linux kernel
> Firmware files for use with Linux kernel
> linux-firmware-sd8686 - 0.0+git0+40c0f950be7040614dc45df54e25e54d00e3b73b-r0 - Firmware files for use with Linux kernel
> Firmware files for use with Linux kernel
> linux-libc-headers-dbg - 2.6.36-r0 - Debugging files for linux-libc-headers
> Debugging files for linux-libc-headers
> linux-libc-headers-dev - 2.6.36-r0 - Development files for linux-libc-headers
> Development files for linux-libc-headers
>
> To be clear, all I did was add "linux-firmware-rt73" to MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS
> in my <MACHINE>.conf file, then rebuild the image using:
> % bitbake poky-image-sato
> This was from a previously built tree, etc. Did I need to do anything
> else to get the package actually installed at build time?
>
> Note: If I 'opkg install linux-firmware-rt73' on my target, I get
> the correct files. I'd just like to understand how to make it happen
> in the "image"

I don't see any kernel modules get installed in one of Poky's
"supported" platforms either.  I just tried
   MACHINE=igep0030 bitbake poky-image-minimal
in a clean tree.  No kernel modules:

[gthomas@titan igep_test]$ ls tmp/work/igep0030-poky-linux-gnueabi/poky-image-minimal-1.0-r0/rootfs/lib
ld-2.12.1.so               libattr.so.1.1.0    libgcc_s.so.1            libnss_dns-2.12.1.so    librt-2.12.1.so
ld-linux.so.3              libc-2.12.1.so      libgudev-1.0.so.0        libnss_dns.so.2         librt.so.1
libBrokenLocale-2.12.1.so  libc.so.6           libgudev-1.0.so.0.0.1    libnss_files-2.12.1.so  libudev.so.0
libBrokenLocale.so.1       libcidn-2.12.1.so   libm-2.12.1.so           libnss_files.so.2       libudev.so.0.9.3
libacl.so.1                libcidn.so.1        libm.so.6                libproc-3.2.8.so        libutil-2.12.1.so
libacl.so.1.1.0            libcrypt-2.12.1.so  libnsl-2.12.1.so         libpthread-2.12.1.so    libutil.so.1
libanl-2.12.1.so           libcrypt.so.1       libnsl.so.1              libpthread.so.0         modules
libanl.so.1                libdl-2.12.1.so     libnss_compat-2.12.1.so  libresolv-2.12.1.so     udev
libattr.so.1               libdl.so.2          libnss_compat.so.2       libresolv.so.2

Am I missing something?  Should I file a bug?

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Gary Thomas                 |  Consulting for the
MLB Associates              |    Embedded world
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Re: Kernel firmware?

[Joshua Lock]

On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 04:36 -0700, Gary Thomas wrote:
> On 01/17/2011 09:49 AM, Gary Thomas wrote:
> > On 01/17/2011 06:28 AM, Gary Thomas wrote:
> >> On 01/17/2011 06:10 AM, Joshua Lock wrote:
> >>> On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 05:53 -0700, Gary Thomas wrote:
> >>>> 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?
> >>>
> >>> You need to have something pull in the required linux-firmware, for
> >>> example the igep0020 and igep0030 machines add linux-firmware-sd8686 to
> >>> the MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS.
> >>
> >> Thanks. Doing it this way wasn't totally clear from "ensure that the
> >> packages are included in your images."
> >>
> >> It's working now.
> >
> > My exuberance was a bit premature. Indeed, I rebuilt my install
> > image, but the firmware package wasn't installed. On my target,
> > I see:
> > root@cobra3530p60:~# opkg list-installed linux*
> > root@cobra3530p60:~# opkg list linux*
> > linux-firmware-rt73 - 0.0+git0+40c0f950be7040614dc45df54e25e54d00e3b73b-r0 - Firmware files for use with Linux kernel
> > Firmware files for use with Linux kernel
> > linux-firmware-sd8686 - 0.0+git0+40c0f950be7040614dc45df54e25e54d00e3b73b-r0 - Firmware files for use with Linux kernel
> > Firmware files for use with Linux kernel
> > linux-libc-headers-dbg - 2.6.36-r0 - Debugging files for linux-libc-headers
> > Debugging files for linux-libc-headers
> > linux-libc-headers-dev - 2.6.36-r0 - Development files for linux-libc-headers
> > Development files for linux-libc-headers
> >
> > To be clear, all I did was add "linux-firmware-rt73" to MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS
> > in my <MACHINE>.conf file, then rebuild the image using:
> > % bitbake poky-image-sato
> > This was from a previously built tree, etc. Did I need to do anything
> > else to get the package actually installed at build time?
> >
> > Note: If I 'opkg install linux-firmware-rt73' on my target, I get
> > the correct files. I'd just like to understand how to make it happen
> > in the "image"
> 
> I don't see any kernel modules get installed in one of Poky's
> "supported" platforms either.  I just tried
>    MACHINE=igep0030 bitbake poky-image-minimal
> in a clean tree.  No kernel modules:
> 
> [gthomas@titan igep_test]$ ls tmp/work/igep0030-poky-linux-gnueabi/poky-image-minimal-1.0-r0/rootfs/lib
> ld-2.12.1.so               libattr.so.1.1.0    libgcc_s.so.1            libnss_dns-2.12.1.so    librt-2.12.1.so
> ld-linux.so.3              libc-2.12.1.so      libgudev-1.0.so.0        libnss_dns.so.2         librt.so.1
> libBrokenLocale-2.12.1.so  libc.so.6           libgudev-1.0.so.0.0.1    libnss_files-2.12.1.so  libudev.so.0
> libBrokenLocale.so.1       libcidn-2.12.1.so   libm-2.12.1.so           libnss_files.so.2       libudev.so.0.9.3
> libacl.so.1                libcidn.so.1        libm.so.6                libproc-3.2.8.so        libutil-2.12.1.so
> libacl.so.1.1.0            libcrypt-2.12.1.so  libnsl-2.12.1.so         libpthread-2.12.1.so    libutil.so.1
> libanl-2.12.1.so           libcrypt.so.1       libnsl.so.1              libpthread.so.0         modules
> libanl.so.1                libdl-2.12.1.so     libnss_compat-2.12.1.so  libresolv-2.12.1.so     udev
> libattr.so.1               libdl.so.2          libnss_compat.so.2       libresolv.so.2
> 
> Am I missing something?  Should I file a bug?
> 

Yes, please file a bug.

Cheers,
Joshua
-- 
Joshua Lock
        Intel Open Source Technology Centre

Re: Kernel firmware?

[Koen Kooi]

Op 18 jan 2011, om 12:36 heeft Gary Thomas het volgende geschreven:

> I don't see any kernel modules get installed in one of Poky's
> "supported" platforms either.  I just tried
>  MACHINE=igep0030 bitbake poky-image-minimal
> in a clean tree.  No kernel modules:
> 
> [gthomas@titan igep_test]$ ls tmp/work/igep0030-poky-linux-gnueabi/poky-image-minimal-1.0-r0/rootfs/lib
> 
> libanl-2.12.1.so           libcrypt.so.1       libnsl.so.1              libpthread.so.0         modules
                                                                                                                                           ^^^^^^^^

Re: Kernel firmware?

[Gary Thomas]

On 01/18/2011 06:29 AM, Koen Kooi wrote:
> Op 18 jan 2011, om 12:36 heeft Gary Thomas het volgende geschreven:
>
>> I don't see any kernel modules get installed in one of Poky's
>> "supported" platforms either.  I just tried
>>   MACHINE=igep0030 bitbake poky-image-minimal
>> in a clean tree.  No kernel modules:
>>
>> [gthomas@titan igep_test]$ ls tmp/work/igep0030-poky-linux-gnueabi/poky-image-minimal-1.0-r0/rootfs/lib
>>
>> libanl-2.12.1.so           libcrypt.so.1       libnsl.so.1              libpthread.so.0         modules
>                                                                                                                                             ^^^^^^^^

No, I'm looking for /lib/firmware (kernel loadable firmware) in particular,
which is not present.

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Re: Kernel firmware?

[Koen Kooi]

Op 18 jan 2011, om 14:41 heeft Gary Thomas het volgende geschreven:

> On 01/18/2011 06:29 AM, Koen Kooi wrote:
>> Op 18 jan 2011, om 12:36 heeft Gary Thomas het volgende geschreven:
>> 
>>> I don't see any kernel modules get installed in one of Poky's
>>> "supported" platforms either.  I just tried
>>>  MACHINE=igep0030 bitbake poky-image-minimal
>>> in a clean tree.  No kernel modules:
>>> 
>>> [gthomas@titan igep_test]$ ls tmp/work/igep0030-poky-linux-gnueabi/poky-image-minimal-1.0-r0/rootfs/lib
>>> 
>>> libanl-2.12.1.so           libcrypt.so.1       libnsl.so.1              libpthread.so.0         modules
>>                                                                                                                                            ^^^^^^^^
> 
> No, I'm looking for /lib/firmware (kernel loadable firmware) in particular,
> which is not present.

Then why did you say "No kernel modules" in your mail above?

Re: Kernel firmware?

[Gary Thomas]

On 01/18/2011 06:22 AM, Joshua Lock wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 04:36 -0700, Gary Thomas wrote:
>> On 01/17/2011 09:49 AM, Gary Thomas wrote:
>>> On 01/17/2011 06:28 AM, Gary Thomas wrote:
>>>> On 01/17/2011 06:10 AM, Joshua Lock wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 05:53 -0700, Gary Thomas wrote:
>>>>>> 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?
>>>>>
>>>>> You need to have something pull in the required linux-firmware, for
>>>>> example the igep0020 and igep0030 machines add linux-firmware-sd8686 to
>>>>> the MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks. Doing it this way wasn't totally clear from "ensure that the
>>>> packages are included in your images."
>>>>
>>>> It's working now.
>>>
>>> My exuberance was a bit premature. Indeed, I rebuilt my install
>>> image, but the firmware package wasn't installed. On my target,
>>> I see:
>>> root@cobra3530p60:~# opkg list-installed linux*
>>> root@cobra3530p60:~# opkg list linux*
>>> linux-firmware-rt73 - 0.0+git0+40c0f950be7040614dc45df54e25e54d00e3b73b-r0 - Firmware files for use with Linux kernel
>>> Firmware files for use with Linux kernel
>>> linux-firmware-sd8686 - 0.0+git0+40c0f950be7040614dc45df54e25e54d00e3b73b-r0 - Firmware files for use with Linux kernel
>>> Firmware files for use with Linux kernel
>>> linux-libc-headers-dbg - 2.6.36-r0 - Debugging files for linux-libc-headers
>>> Debugging files for linux-libc-headers
>>> linux-libc-headers-dev - 2.6.36-r0 - Development files for linux-libc-headers
>>> Development files for linux-libc-headers
>>>
>>> To be clear, all I did was add "linux-firmware-rt73" to MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS
>>> in my<MACHINE>.conf file, then rebuild the image using:
>>> % bitbake poky-image-sato
>>> This was from a previously built tree, etc. Did I need to do anything
>>> else to get the package actually installed at build time?
>>>
>>> Note: If I 'opkg install linux-firmware-rt73' on my target, I get
>>> the correct files. I'd just like to understand how to make it happen
>>> in the "image"
>>
>> I don't see any kernel modules get installed in one of Poky's
>> "supported" platforms either.  I just tried
>>     MACHINE=igep0030 bitbake poky-image-minimal
>> in a clean tree.  No kernel modules:
>>
>> [gthomas@titan igep_test]$ ls tmp/work/igep0030-poky-linux-gnueabi/poky-image-minimal-1.0-r0/rootfs/lib
>> ld-2.12.1.so               libattr.so.1.1.0    libgcc_s.so.1            libnss_dns-2.12.1.so    librt-2.12.1.so
>> ld-linux.so.3              libc-2.12.1.so      libgudev-1.0.so.0        libnss_dns.so.2         librt.so.1
>> libBrokenLocale-2.12.1.so  libc.so.6           libgudev-1.0.so.0.0.1    libnss_files-2.12.1.so  libudev.so.0
>> libBrokenLocale.so.1       libcidn-2.12.1.so   libm-2.12.1.so           libnss_files.so.2       libudev.so.0.9.3
>> libacl.so.1                libcidn.so.1        libm.so.6                libproc-3.2.8.so        libutil-2.12.1.so
>> libacl.so.1.1.0            libcrypt-2.12.1.so  libnsl-2.12.1.so         libpthread-2.12.1.so    libutil.so.1
>> libanl-2.12.1.so           libcrypt.so.1       libnsl.so.1              libpthread.so.0         modules
>> libanl.so.1                libdl-2.12.1.so     libnss_compat-2.12.1.so  libresolv-2.12.1.so     udev
>> libattr.so.1               libdl.so.2          libnss_compat.so.2       libresolv.so.2
>>
>> Am I missing something?  Should I file a bug?
>>
>
> Yes, please file a bug.

Done, bug #660

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