From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2021 19:40:45 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH-NEXT 0/4] package/linux-firmware: install into images for early loading support Message-ID: <20210212184049.13202-1-peter@korsgaard.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Some drivers request their firmware very early when built into the kernel, even before the initramfs is mounted - So the only way to provide firmware for those drivers is to include them directly in the kernel with the CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE option. To support this, let linux-firmware install its files into BINARIES_DIR in addition to TARGET_DIR, similar to how we do it for intel-microcode. Peter Korsgaard (4): package/linux-firmware: make target install macros accept a destination parameter package/linux-firmware.mk: get rid of temporary tarball for file installation package/linux-firmware: also install into images for early loading support linux: build after linux-firmware if enabled for early loading support linux/linux.mk | 3 ++- package/linux-firmware/linux-firmware.mk | 26 ++++++++++++++++-------- 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) -- 2.20.1