[OE-core] linux-firmware fetcher warnings
Wold, Saul
saul.wold at intel.com
Tue Oct 31 23:19:45 UTC 2017
On Tue, 2017-10-31 at 14:35 -0700, Andre McCurdy wrote:
> The linux-firmware recipe is currently trying to fetch
> iwlwifi-8000C-19.ucode which according to:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-firmware/+bug/15792
> 81
>
> is an unreleased firmware image from a unofficial fork of the main
> linux-firmware repo. The "iwlwifi-8000C-19.ucode" file isn't found in
> the current master branch of the iwlwifi linux-firmware repo (and
> doesn't seem to be there in the history either...).
>
Yeah seems like it got rebased away :-(!
> The mystery firmware image was added to the linux-firmware recipe by:
>
> http://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/commit/?id=8b3d3ac84f
> 787bf4ecccdcbcb97f2dac56acd45c
>
> Is this firmware still required? If so, should SRC_URI be updated to
> fetch it directly from downloads.yoctoproject.org?
I will do some research, it was needed for some hardware when it was
put into the meta-intel and then later we moved it into OE-Core.
Sau!
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