i.MX6Q VPU firmware missing for core-image-basic

i.MX6Q VPU firmware missing for core-image-basic

[Tarek El-Sherbiny]

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I'm building a console image with VPU and gstreamer support.

I've included core-image-basic.bb in my image in addition
to packagegroup-fsl-gstreamer.

The firmware is not installed and I'm getting this error:
Please put bin file to /lib/firmware/vpu folder or export VPU_FW_PATH env

I've seen this thread but what is the conclusion for 1.5 branch:

https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/meta-freescale/2013-April/002344.html

Thanks
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*Tarek*

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Re: i.MX6Q VPU firmware missing for core-image-basic

[Tarek El-Sherbiny]

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I mad some progress now.

core-imgae-base ---> VPU FW is included.
core-imgae-basic ---> VPU FW is not included. !!!!?

Does anyone understand why?

I know that the firmware is picked up in MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS variable
but I don't know why it affects only core-imgae-base and
not core-imgae-basic !

Hope someone could shed some light here.



On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Tarek El-Sherbiny <
tarek.elsherbiny@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm building a console image with VPU and gstreamer support.
>
> I've included core-image-basic.bb in my image in addition
> to packagegroup-fsl-gstreamer.
>
> The firmware is not installed and I'm getting this error:
> Please put bin file to /lib/firmware/vpu folder or export VPU_FW_PATH env
>
> I've seen this thread but what is the conclusion for 1.5 branch:
>
>
> https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/meta-freescale/2013-April/002344.html
>
> Thanks
> --
> *Tarek*
>



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*Tarek*

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Re: i.MX6Q VPU firmware missing for core-image-basic

[Otavio Salvador]

On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Tarek El-Sherbiny
<tarek.elsherbiny@gmail.com> wrote:
> I mad some progress now.
>
> core-imgae-base ---> VPU FW is included.
> core-imgae-basic ---> VPU FW is not included. !!!!?
>
> Does anyone understand why?
>
> I know that the firmware is picked up in MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS variable
> but I don't know why it affects only core-imgae-base and not
> core-imgae-basic !
>
> Hope someone could shed some light here.

core-image-base: A console-only image that fully supports the target
device hardware.
...
core-image-basic: A console-only image with more full-featured Linux
system functionality installed.

The image names are misleading, I agree. Please bring this to OE-Core
for discussion.

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Re: i.MX6Q VPU firmware missing for core-image-basic

[Gary Thomas]

On 2013-12-04 05:13, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Tarek El-Sherbiny
> <tarek.elsherbiny@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I mad some progress now.
>>
>> core-imgae-base ---> VPU FW is included.
>> core-imgae-basic ---> VPU FW is not included. !!!!?
>>
>> Does anyone understand why?
>>
>> I know that the firmware is picked up in MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS variable
>> but I don't know why it affects only core-imgae-base and not
>> core-imgae-basic !
>>
>> Hope someone could shed some light here.
>
> core-image-base: A console-only image that fully supports the target
> device hardware.
> ...
> core-image-basic: A console-only image with more full-featured Linux
> system functionality installed.
>
> The image names are misleading, I agree. Please bring this to OE-Core
> for discussion.
>

I sent a patch for this to OE-core in October which seems to have
been ignored :-(
   http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2013-October/085750.html

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Re: i.MX6Q VPU firmware missing for core-image-basic

[Gary Thomas]

On 2013-12-04 05:24, Gary Thomas wrote:
> On 2013-12-04 05:13, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Tarek El-Sherbiny
>> <tarek.elsherbiny@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I mad some progress now.
>>>
>>> core-imgae-base ---> VPU FW is included.
>>> core-imgae-basic ---> VPU FW is not included. !!!!?
>>>
>>> Does anyone understand why?
>>>
>>> I know that the firmware is picked up in MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS variable
>>> but I don't know why it affects only core-imgae-base and not
>>> core-imgae-basic !
>>>
>>> Hope someone could shed some light here.
>>
>> core-image-base: A console-only image that fully supports the target
>> device hardware.
>> ...
>> core-image-basic: A console-only image with more full-featured Linux
>> system functionality installed.
>>
>> The image names are misleading, I agree. Please bring this to OE-Core
>> for discussion.
>>
>
> I sent a patch for this to OE-core in October which seems to have
> been ignored :-(
>    http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2013-October/085750.html
>

BTW, the patch has been applied to OE-core master, but not the dora branch.