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From: Yegor Yefremov <yegor_sub1@visionsystems.de>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v4] New package: linux-firmware
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:41:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F21743E.1000407@visionsystems.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <466d341f6889776d67143c3f5f55bf46@zacarias.com.ar>

Am 26.01.2012 16:33, schrieb Gustavo Zacarias:
> On 2012-01-26 12:23, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
>
>>>>>>> "Yegor" == Yegor Yefremov <yegor_sub1@visionsystems.de> writes:
>>
>>  Yegor> Am 26.01.2012 16:13, schrieb yegorslists at googlemail.com:
>>
>>  Yegor> So here we have another issue: how can I define if files should
>>  Yegor> be copied to /lib/firmware or /lib/firmware/foo? ti-connectivity
>>  Yegor> firmware files should go direct to /lib/firmware. This is not
>>  Yegor> the case now.
>>
>> Ahh, I thought there would be a 1-to-1 relation between the
>> linux-firmware.git location an /lib/firmware. How do other distributions
>> handle it?
>
> At least for ti-connectivity it seems to be kept in /lib/firmware/ti-connectivity.
> Most of the time linux-firmware unpacks directly to /lib/firmware and that's it.
> Checking the kernel source...
>
> grep for "request_firmware" in the relevant drivers (for instance linux/drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx) and we get "ret = request_firmware(&fw, WL128X_FW_NAME"... grepping for FW_NAME gets us...
>
> wl12xx.h:#define WL1271_FW_NAME "ti-connectivity/wl1271-fw-2.bin"
> wl12xx.h:#define WL128X_FW_NAME "ti-connectivity/wl128x-fw.bin"
> wl12xx.h:#define WL127X_AP_FW_NAME "ti-connectivity/wl1271-fw-ap.bin"
> wl12xx.h:#define WL128X_AP_FW_NAME "ti-connectivity/wl128x-fw-ap.bin"
>
> So they are used in the directory no less...

You're right. This is a disadvantage of using the old kernel (2.6.37). Here WLAN driver searches for blobs directly without prepending a ti-connectivity. O.K. lets keep directory structure as is.

I replaced install with cp and have a problem, cause cp won't create a directory (ti-connectivity for example), but copies symlinks correctly. Any idea how to fix this?

Yegor

  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-26 15:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-26 15:13 [Buildroot] [PATCH v4] New package: linux-firmware yegorslists at googlemail.com
2012-01-26 15:16 ` Yegor Yefremov
2012-01-26 15:23   ` Peter Korsgaard
2012-01-26 15:33     ` Gustavo Zacarias
2012-01-26 15:41       ` Yegor Yefremov [this message]
2012-01-26 16:13 ` Peter Korsgaard
2012-01-26 17:02   ` Thomas Petazzoni
2012-01-26 19:15     ` Peter Korsgaard
2012-01-26 18:58 ` Peter Korsgaard
2012-01-26 20:05   ` Yegor Yefremov
2012-01-26 20:49     ` Michael S. Zick

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