[poky] Kernel firmware?

[Joshua Lock]

Hi Gary,

On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 05:30 -0700, Gary Thomas wrote:
> I'm trying to get various USB WiFi dongles working on my
> BeagleBoard (or look-alike).  Many of these require runtime
> downloads of firmware.  However, these files don't seem to
> be installed in Poky:
>    phy1 -> rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Info - Loading firmware file 'rt73.bin'.
>    rt73usb 2-1.2.4:1.0: firmware: requesting rt73.bin
>    phy1 -> rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Error - Failed to request Firmware.
> 
> Is there some way to enable this?

There's a linux-firmware recipe
(meta/recipes-kernel/linux-firmware/linux-firmware_git.bb) which you'll
have to modify to package the required firmware (at the moment we only
package firmware for the Libertas sd8686) and ensure that the packages
are included in your images.

Cheers,
Joshua
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Joshua Lock
        Intel Open Source Technology Centre