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" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >>On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 9:01 PM, Gary Thomas <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> > >>> > >>> > >>>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 > >>_______________________________________________ > >>meta-ti mailing list > >>[email protected] > >>https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/meta-ti > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------ > Gary Thomas | Consulting for the > MLB Associates | Embedded world > ------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > meta-ti mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/meta-ti > _______________________________________________ meta-ti mailing list [email protected] https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/meta-ti
