On Friday 07 September 2012 11:31:41 Sander van Grieken wrote: > Currently, linux-firmware produces one big package with all binary > firmware files installed. It would be benificial , especially for > devices with a very small rootfs, to install only a subset of the entire > collection. Some effort has been done to split off separate packages, > but it's not clear what the preferred naming should be. > > - Should it follow the kernel-module-* naming, e.g. > kernel-module-ath9k-htc would need linux-firmware-ath9k-htc? > - Or should it follow the firmware file naming, e.g. linux-firmware-htc-7010 > - Or maybe have a bit larger packages and simply split by vendor, e.g. > linux-firmware-atheros > - How and if to package the license file
It looks like in OE-Core we have some code to do firmware splitting in kernel.bbclass - Sander, is it OE-Core you are using or OE-Classic? Cheers, Paul -- Paul Eggleton Intel Open Source Technology Centre _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
