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

[Denys Dmytriyenko]

On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 03:57:25PM -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:
> 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.

That would require extracting individual commits from the git tree and listing 
them in .bbappend. I would not personally mind that approach, but it may 
require extra work for the wireless team. We need to check with them...

-- 
Denys


> >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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