[oe] linux-firmware

[Paul Eggleton]

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

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre