[meta-ti] [PATCH] wl12xx-firmware: Port wl12xx-firmware recipe

[Gary Thomas]

On 2012-10-05 13:20, Cooper Jr., Franklin wrote:
> The custom git tree is wl12xx only not all the different components that linux-firmware provides. My understanding is that the team that works on wl12xx should be pushing it back to linux-firmware. But like I said this will contain the latest changes.

I still don't think it should be separate.  If the upstream (TI) stuff
isn't being properly tracked (there should be an effort to make this so),
just add a .bbappend that fixes things.  I use these packages and I don't
want to have to track the "flavour of the week" to keep current.

>
> On Oct 5, 2012, at 2:09 PM, "Enrico" <ebutera at users.berlios.de> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 9:01 PM, Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com> wrote:
>>> On 2012-10-05 13:24, Franklin S. Cooper Jr wrote:
>>>>
>>>> * Port wl12xx-firmware recipe from arago. This recipe was originally
>>>>    named linux-firmware in arago.
>>>> * Wl12xx-firmware provides the firmware files for use with the TI
>>>>    Wi-Fi + Bluetooth module.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Franklin S. Cooper Jr <fcooper at ti.com>
>>>
>>>
>>> Why not just keep the main linux-firmware recipe up to date instead of
>>> duplicate
>>> functionality?
>>
>>
>> I made myself the same question at first, but the answer was there:
>>
>>
>>>> +# This recipe provides the latest firmware files for wl12xx.
>>>> +# Therefore, use the contents of this recipe instead of the contents
>>>> +# of linux-firmware-wl12xx.
>>
>>>> +SRC_URI = "git://github.com/TI-ECS/ti-utils.git;protocol=git"
>>
>>
>> Well one could ask why they are there and not in linux-firmware git
>> (not polemic, just curious).
>>
>> Enrico
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