Feature #84
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Add firmware retrieval mechanism
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Description
Need a method of specifying which firmware to download and how to download it. These files need to end up in /lib/firmware on the rootfs. This may need to be yet another separate partition on the SD card.
The firmware directory on F14 is only 24MB so this should fit well on the SD card. Can we just copy them from an existing distro?
Related issues
Updated by Hammel about 13 years ago
First discover - "make firmware" in kernel build. Amazing what you find when you just dig around a little. That should get most of the firmware of interest. I may need to pull the ar9170 firmware separately because it may not be supported in the 2.6.32 release I'm using. I'm rebuilding right now to find out.
Updated by Hammel about 13 years ago
ar9170 must be manually pulled by the BeagleBox build for kernel 2.6.32. The kernel firmware target does not retrieve this particular firmware.
Updated by Hammel about 13 years ago
Use of firmware is dependent on the use of driver modules through udev. That issue is being handled in FS#78.