From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail5.wrs.com (mail5.windriver.com [192.103.53.11]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 188D66B89D for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2018 03:05:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ALA-HCA.corp.ad.wrs.com (ala-hca.corp.ad.wrs.com [147.11.189.40]) by mail5.wrs.com (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPS id wB634jbC026441 (version=TLSv1 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=FAIL); Wed, 5 Dec 2018 19:04:55 -0800 Received: from [128.224.163.204] (128.224.163.204) by ALA-HCA.corp.ad.wrs.com (147.11.189.50) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.3.408.0; Wed, 5 Dec 2018 19:04:34 -0800 To: Bruce Ashfield References: <3fdeffd5-0d20-b50a-0d8c-8aec3715ebb2@windriver.com> From: "Hongzhi, Song" Message-ID: Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2018 11:04:31 +0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: X-Originating-IP: [128.224.163.204] Cc: oe-core Subject: =?UTF-8?B?UmU6IElzIGl0IG5lY2Vzc2FyeSB0byBmaXggdGhlIEJ1Z3ppbGxhIOKAkyBCdWcgMTE4MDcgYW5kIDU4NzYgPw==?= X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2018 03:05:21 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-US On 12/05/2018 06:57 PM, Bruce Ashfield wrote: > On 12/5/18 5:17 AM, Hongzhi, Song wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I don't know if it is necessary to do this enhancement. >> >> 1. Bug 11807: >> >> https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11807 >> >> >> 'CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE' is used to be set to the names of firmware >> files which >> >> should be provided by driver vendors. >> >> 'CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR' is set to a path which contains above >> firmware >> >> files. The default path is /lib/firmware if the >> 'CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR' is not set. >> >> >> The path and firmware files must exist in rootfs eventually. >> >> >> 2. Bug 5876: >> >> https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5876 >> >> >> I think it mean that bbclass should check the state of menuconfig. >> >> >> I don't know if is necessary to fix these bugs. Could you give me help? > > I have some enhancements and other things in flight that can already do > what these two bugs are talking about. Paul and I had discussed some of > the config auditing on the list about a year ago, and agreed that > there's no sense duplicating the functionality that already exists > (rather I was going to tweak a few things to make it more easily > accessible). > > If you want, you could assign 5876 to me, and I could take care of it. Hi Bruce, Thanks, I will assign it to you. > > As for 11807, that is simply a kernel configuration option and it should > be handled like any other. I don't see the need for anything special to > be done. > This option is different from the common options. It can only be set two types of value, "" and "filename1 filename2 ...", which depends on customer. Maybe we can add a variable containing useful firmware in kernel recipe for customer. The variable will eventually set CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE in .config . --Hongzhi > Bruce > > >> >> >> --Honghzi >> >> > >