On Mon, 02 May 2011 14:40:33 PDT, Mike Waychison said:

> I don't see anything in the build (looking at scripts/Makefile.fwinst
> in particular) that allows the build to enumerate out-of-tree firmware
> files required by drivers.  Do you have any thoughts on how this could
> be enumerated? (if it isn't already?)

MODULE_FIRMWARE tags in the drivers, combined with (possibly)
the CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE and CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR
Kconfig variables if the needed bits aren't in /lib/firmware?