Could you help to have a look at BUG 660

Could you help to have a look at BUG 660

[Xu, Dongxiao]

Hi Richard and Saul,

Could you help to have a review of BUG 660?

http://bugzilla.pokylinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660

BUG 660 is about missing kernel firmware in poky-image-minimal.

As from most of the machine configuration files in current poky, including
igep0030.conf, "kernel-modules" and "linux-firmware-sd8686" are part of
"MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS", like:

MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS = " kernel-modules linux-firmware-sd8686"

However for poky-image-minimal, only "MACHINE_ESSENTIAL_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS" is
included. If the kernel module and firmware files are indeed necessary for
successful boot, we can add them into minimal image.

Any comment on that?

Thanks,
Dongxiao 

Re: Could you help to have a look at BUG 660

[Saul Wold]

On 03/02/2011 05:43 PM, Xu, Dongxiao wrote:
> Hi Richard and Saul,
>
> Could you help to have a review of BUG 660?
>
> http://bugzilla.pokylinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660
>
> BUG 660 is about missing kernel firmware in poky-image-minimal.
>
> As from most of the machine configuration files in current poky, including
> igep0030.conf, "kernel-modules" and "linux-firmware-sd8686" are part of
> "MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS", like:
>
> MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS = " kernel-modules linux-firmware-sd8686"
>
> However for poky-image-minimal, only "MACHINE_ESSENTIAL_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS" is
> included. If the kernel module and firmware files are indeed necessary for
> successful boot, we can add them into minimal image.
>
> Any comment on that?
>
> Thanks,
> Dongxiao

Dongxiao,

It seems that the igep machines have been moved to meta-extras now, 
which is the place for machines that are being depreciated.  If the bug
is just against igep then we can close this, if there is a more general 
situation, then firmware files that are required to boot need to be 
moved to the MACHINE_ESSENTIAL_EXTRA_RRECOMMEDS as that would be the 
right place.

If you want to fix the meta-extra/igep you can add the 
MACHINE_ESSENTIAL_EXTRA_RRCOOMENTS instead of MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMEDS?


Sau!