How to use linux-firmware to install single firmware package? #kirkstone

How to use linux-firmware to install single firmware package? #kirkstone

[Yang, Wilson]

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Hi,

We ran into same issue described in https://lore.kernel.org/all/CGDd.1667516824130158087.aCkO@lists.openembedded.org/t/

Not sure if any solutions/workarounds available to share?

We only want two linux-firmware packages, linux-firmware-imx-sdma-imx6q and linux-firmware-imx-sdma-imx7d which are removed from IMAGE_INSTALL:append from our core-image.bb file. Also add IMAGE_INSTALL:remove = "linux-firmware" in same .bb file to remove it.
Unfortunately, the installed-packages.txt still shows the complete list of linux-firmware packages installed that results much larger binary size than ideal.

Thanks in advance for your info/help.

Wilson Yang

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Re: How to use linux-firmware to install single firmware package? #kirkstone

[Vincent Davis Jr]

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Same problem as above

https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-core/topic/94795411#172656

Maybe try MACHINE_ESSENTIAL_EXTRA_RDEPENDS with OE core master.

For me it only includes specified linux-firmware package.

I had a similar issue awhile back, but I think a solution landed in OE core master.
Although from commit message seems unrelated. I believe this is what solved
the problem for me.

https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-core/message/173867

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Re: How to use linux-firmware to install single firmware package? #kirkstone

[Livius]

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What should i check in buildhistory? In my buildhistory folder linux-firmware folder contains all packages as a subfolders, like was in my tmp/deploy/rpm/noarch. Following content is in my linux-firmware/linux-firmware-imx-sdma-imx7d/latest text file.

PE = 1
PV = 20220913
PR = r0
RPROVIDES =
RDEPENDS = linux-firmware-imx-sdma-license
RRECOMMENDS =
PKGSIZE = 2862
FILES = /lib/firmware/imx/sdma/sdma-imx7d.bin
FILELIST = /lib/firmware/imx/sdma/sdma-imx7d.bin

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Re: How to use linux-firmware to install single firmware package? #kirkstone

[Livius]

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I have a linux-firmware_%.bbappend ( https://github.com/Freescale/meta-freescale-3rdparty/blob/kirkstone/recipes-kernel/linux-firmware/linux-firmware_%25.bbappend ) from meta-freescale-3rdparty layer. I think, it is too simple, it can not cause the problem. In my local.conf I set up to generate buildhistory (i used the following commands), soon my next image build is ready an i can share the results.

INHERIT += "buildhistory"
BUILDHISTORY_COMMIT = "0"

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Re: How to use linux-firmware to install single firmware package? #kirkstone

[Vincent Davis Jr]

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I can confirm I'm seeing something similar with MACHINE_ESSENTIAL_EXTRA_RDEPENDS = "linux-firmware-amdgpu"

I use with OE-core kirkstone HEAD + custom distro config. Was wondering of the best way to debug why issue occurs.

Is there anything else besides bitbake -g <your-image> and INHERIT += "buildhistory" that I can try?
How would one best check what happens during rootfs creation?

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Re: How to use linux-firmware to install single firmware package? #kirkstone

[Livius]

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In my tmp/deploy/rpm/noarch folder i can see many-many other firmware .rpm files like linux-firmware-bcm43xx, linux-firmware-nvidia-tegra and so on, these were not planed to be installed. It seems to me, the full linux-firmware package was deployed somehow. I think i am using poky now, this is my path for linux-firmware: PROJECT/sources/poky/meta/recipes-kernel/linux-firmware/linux-firmware_20220913.bb

So, my poky come from git.yoctoproject.org ( https://git.yoctoproject.org/poky/log/?h=kirkstone ) , i use latest kirkstone commit ( https://git.yoctoproject.org/poky/commit/?h=kirkstone&id=2e79b199114b25d81bfaa029ccfb17676946d20d ).

In pn-buildlist and task-depends.dot i can see only linux-firmware, i have no any listed single package like should be linux-firmware-imx-sdma-imx7d.

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How to use linux-firmware to install single firmware package? #kirkstone

[Livius]

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Hi,

I would like to install linux-firmware-ath10k and linux-firmware-imx-sdma-imx7d firmware package to my image recipe in kirkstone release but when i append them to IMAGE_INSTALL somewhy each pack from linux-firmware recipe installs itself. It is extramly large in size about 500 MB, it is totaly not accaptable for me, it is too large.

I am using the following syntax to install them:

IMAGE_INSTALL:append = " linux-firmware-imx-sdma-imx7d linux-firmware-ath10k"

If i remove them, there are no any linux-firmware in my deployed image, it means somehow they trigger to install the full linux-firmware pack, how can i use it to install only some single linux-firmware?

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