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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"
>
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