On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 8:40 AM, Darren Hart <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 5/28/14, 8:34, "Kamble, Nitin A" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > >On 5/28/2014 8:03 AM, Christopher Larson wrote: > >> Greetings, > >> > >> I'd thought I'd already sent this, but apparently it had been floating > >> around in drafts. I had a quick question about the blanket inclusion > >> of linux-firmware. Are there specific firmware images from this needed > >> to support the minnowboard hardware, or is it only included for > >> potential firmware for e.g. usb wireless adapters? > >Many of the wifi drivers, need to load the firmware specific chip to get > >wifi working. AFAIK there is no other hardware which need to pull > >firmware fomr the linux-firmware package. > > Correct. Thanks for the clarification. It seems a bit iffy to include it in this way, to me, considering wifi support is both a distro and machine feature :) We should give some thought to how best to handle inclusion of wifi firmware, obeying both, in the long term. -- Christopher Larson clarson at kergoth dot com Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus Maintainer - Tslib Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics
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