From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 10:58:43 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 1/2] linux: install firmware to staging. In-Reply-To: <20130710171218.GC3297@free.fr> References: <1373391595-19359-1-git-send-email-spenser@gillilanding.com> <20130710091145.7b8529d1@skate> <20130710171218.GC3297@free.fr> Message-ID: <20130711105843.3fdaef14@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear Yann E. MORIN, On Wed, 10 Jul 2013 19:12:18 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote: > Altenatively, as I suggested before, this could be delegated to a > post-build script: > - the package (linux) always install its files in staging > - a post-build scripts cherry-picks what is relevant > > What I don't like with this solution is that the Linux kernel would > always install its firmware files, and that people will start using that > as the source of the firmwares, while we do have linux-firmware for > that. Another solution is, inside the kernel menu: [*] Install in-kernel firmwares (*.dtbo) List of firmwares to installs Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com