On Wed, 2014-08-20 at 12:21 -0700, Tadeusz Struk wrote: > Hi David, > On 08/20/2014 11:34 AM, David Woodhouse wrote: > > I'm not sure I understand. Precisely what fails? > > I clone a subsystem, configure it to use > CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="qat_895xcc.bin", type make && make install and get: > > MK_FW firmware/qat_895xxc.bin.gen.S > make[1]: *** No rule to make target `firmware/qat_895xxc.bin', needed by > `firmware/qat_895xxc.bin.gen.o'. Stop.
Can't you already just use CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR ? > Yes, if you use udev helper. When you want to compile in the blobs to > your kernel it is needed in build time, right? Yes. But seriously: don't do that. Let firmware get loaded from userspace the normal way. Don't build kernel images that you can't distribute because they include non-GPL parts. -- dwmw2
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