Avoid stripping of firmware files?

Avoid stripping of firmware files?

[Rainer Koenig]

Hi,

for my work on the dm8148-evm I got firmware files with the suffix
".xem3" from TI. I made a simple recipe to install those files in my
image, but I ran into a bad problem:

The firmware files I find in my image are different from the files i use
in my recipe. No matter if I use "install" or just "cp" to copy the
files to the destination.

Looks like those files get stripped during packaging. Normally not a bad
idea, but in this special case stripping the symbols makes the files
dysfunctional.

Is there a way to avoid stripping?

Regards
Rainer
-- 
Dipl.-Inf. (FH) Rainer Koenig
Project Manager Linux Clients
Dept. PDG WPS R&D SW OSE

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Re: Avoid stripping of firmware files?

[Richard Purdie]

On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 14:00 +0100, Rainer Koenig wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> for my work on the dm8148-evm I got firmware files with the suffix
> ".xem3" from TI. I made a simple recipe to install those files in my
> image, but I ran into a bad problem:
> 
> The firmware files I find in my image are different from the files i use
> in my recipe. No matter if I use "install" or just "cp" to copy the
> files to the destination.
> 
> Looks like those files get stripped during packaging. Normally not a bad
> idea, but in this special case stripping the symbols makes the files
> dysfunctional.
> 
> Is there a way to avoid stripping?

If its just a firmware recipe and there aren't other files that do need
to be stripped, you could set:

INHIBIT_PACKAGE_STRIP = "1"

We don't have a mechanism to exclude specific files at present but we
could probably do with adding one. The code that does stripping is in
package.bbclass if you haven't already found it.

Cheers,

Richard

Re: Avoid stripping of firmware files?

[Rainer Koenig]

Am 26.01.2012 14:55, schrieb Richard Purdie:

> INHIBIT_PACKAGE_STRIP = "1"

Thank you. I'll give that one a try.

Rainer
-- 
Dipl.-Inf. (FH) Rainer Koenig
Project Manager Linux Business Clients
Dept. TSP WPS R&D SW OSE

Fujitsu Technology Solutions
Bürgermeister-Ullrich-Str. 100
86199 Augsburg
Germany

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