> On Aug 24, 2016, at 5:22 AM, Ioan-Adrian Ratiu <[email protected]> wrote: > > carl9170 is an atheros-based firmware, the succesor of ar9170 which is > deprecated and its driver (ar9170) was removed from the kernel tree. > carl9170 comes both as a binary blob and also with free sources; the > sources are deleted in linux-firmware.bb to avoid depeding on bash/etc. > > Package the carl9170 binary firmware separately because it is needed > by various usb dongles and installing whole linux-firmware is overkill.
while you are at it. Can you also scrutinize the license needs for this firmware ? should it require packaging a license file explicitly into rootfs or some such > > Also we should keep ar9170 as is because OOT drivers might still use it. > > Signed-off-by: Ioan-Adrian Ratiu <[email protected]> > --- > meta/recipes-kernel/linux-firmware/linux-firmware_git.bb | 6 +++++- > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux-firmware/linux-firmware_git.bb > b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux-firmware/linux-firmware_git.bb > index 948dfa8..1657445 100644 > --- a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux-firmware/linux-firmware_git.bb > +++ b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux-firmware/linux-firmware_git.bb > @@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ PACKAGES =+ "${PN}-ralink-license ${PN}-ralink \ > ${PN}-vt6656-license ${PN}-vt6656 \ > ${PN}-rtl-license ${PN}-rtl8192cu ${PN}-rtl8192ce > ${PN}-rtl8192su \ > ${PN}-broadcom-license ${PN}-bcm4329 ${PN}-bcm4330 ${PN}-bcm4334 > ${PN}-bcm43340 ${PN}-bcm4339 ${PN}-bcm4354 \ > - ${PN}-atheros-license ${PN}-ar9170 ${PN}-ath6k ${PN}-ath9k \ > + ${PN}-atheros-license ${PN}-ar9170 ${PN}-carl9170 ${PN}-ath6k > ${PN}-ath9k \ > ${PN}-ar3k-license ${PN}-ar3k ${PN}-ath10k-license > ${PN}-ath10k \ > \ > ${PN}-iwlwifi-license ${PN}-iwlwifi \ > @@ -255,6 +255,9 @@ FILES_${PN}-atheros-license = > "/lib/firmware/LICENCE.atheros_firmware" > FILES_${PN}-ar9170 = " \ > /lib/firmware/ar9170*.fw \ > " > +FILES_${PN}-carl9170 = " \ > + /lib/firmware/carl9170*.fw \ > +" > FILES_${PN}-ath6k = " \ > /lib/firmware/ath6k \ > " > @@ -266,6 +269,7 @@ FILES_${PN}-ath9k = " \ > " > > RDEPENDS_${PN}-ar9170 += "${PN}-atheros-license" > +RDEPENDS_${PN}-carl9170 += "${PN}-atheros-license" > RDEPENDS_${PN}-ath6k += "${PN}-atheros-license" > RDEPENDS_${PN}-ath9k += "${PN}-atheros-license" > > -- > 2.9.3 > > -- > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-core mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
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