[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] linux-firmware: add options to install more Mediatek firmwares.

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com
Sat Jan 5 14:09:32 UTC 2019


Hello,

On Fri, 4 Jan 2019 17:14:04 +0100, Yann E. MORIN wrote:

> We're trying to limit the number of options in each category, and given
> there already is a wifi mediatek entry above, can we just make it install
> all the mediatek wifi firmwares?

I'm not sure I agree here. For other devices, we have a separate
option for each device. In addition, when you have a given WiFi device
in a system, you most likely only have this one, so the need for
installing one specific firmware is kind of the normal situationo.

>   - rename the option to BR2_PACKAGE_LINUX_FIRMWARE_MEDIATEK_WIFI_MT7xxx;
>     note that I added 'WIfI' in the option name, because we can forsee
>     we'll have the same issue with BT firmwares, as they too are named
>     mt7*;

If you have a WiFi/BT combo chip, it's pretty likely that you will want
to install both the WiFi and BT firmwares, so having a single option
for both doesn't look that crazy.

Best regards,

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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