[meta-ti] Recipes adding firmware in meta-ti

[Peter A. Bigot]

I think it would be more in keeping with the Yocto way if all these 
firmware capabilities were added through PACKAGECONFIG options in a 
meta-ti bbappend to linux-firmware, rather than through separate recipes.

This is especially true of the firmware added in linux-staging-ti.  If 
those patches are ever upstreamed (I assume that's the intent) then 
stock linux-yocto kernels will be getting the images from 
linux-firmware, and updated versions obtained in future linux-staging-ti 
branches will conflict.

Last I looked, linux-staging-ti had a .elf format firmware blob, which 
is not a supported format for linux-firmware.  Adding it in a bbappend 
produces a QA warning because it gets stripped and the debug version 
doesn't get packaged.  At that time, although both .bin and .elf 
versions of that firmware were available, the code that loaded it would 
only work with the .elf version.

In short, consistently putting firmware into linux-firmware now would 
decrease integration issues both now and in the future.

Just a thought.

Peter