From: ChenQi <Qi.Chen@windriver.com>
To: <yocto@yoctoproject.org>
Subject: Re: Adding firmware to initramfs
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 16:06:46 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <547AD016.4040204@windriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <98D134EE-9E05-4289-BA83-F0369DA15620@keylevel.com>
Create a bbappend file for core-image-minimal-initramfs, and add the
following line to the bbappend file.
PACKAGE_INSTALL += "linux-firmware"
Best Regards,
Chen Qi
On 11/28/2014 08:37 PM, Chris Tapp wrote:
> I'm network booting a system using iPXE. The process uses a core-image-minimal-initramfs image to select the final rootfs that gets loaded.
>
> This generally works fine, but I need to be able to install linux-firmware in the initramfs image (specifically for the NIC that gets used to load the final rootfs).
>
> How do I get linux-firmware to install in core-image-minimal-initramfs? I've tried adding the following into local.conf, but with no luck:
>
> MACHINE_ESSENTIAL_EXTRA_RDEPENDS += "linux-firmware"
> IMAGE_INSTALL_append = " linux-firmware"
> CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL += " linux-firmware"
>
> --
>
> Chris Tapp
> opensource@keylevel.com
> www.keylevel.com
>
> ----
> You can tell you're getting older when your car insurance gets real cheap!
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-30 8:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-28 12:37 Adding firmware to initramfs Chris Tapp
2014-11-30 8:06 ` ChenQi [this message]
2014-11-30 23:08 ` Chris Tapp
2014-12-01 13:23 ` Bryan Evenson
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