Commit 5620a0d1aa ("firmware: delete in-kernel firmware") removed the
entire firmware directory. Unfortunately it thereby also removed the
support for built-in firmware.
This restores the ability to build firmware directly into the kernel by
pruning the original Makefile to the necessary minimum. The default for
EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR is now the standard directory /lib/firmware/.
Fixes: 5620a0d1aa ("firmware: delete in-kernel firmware")
Signed-off-by: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Acked-by: Greg K-H <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The last firmware change for the in-kernel firmware source code was back
in 2013. Everyone has been relying on the out-of-tree linux-firmware
package for a long long time.
So let's drop it, it's baggage we don't need to keep dragging around
(and having to fix random kbuild issues over time...)
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Acked-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This reverts commit 8b249b6856.
This 'fix' is not necessary; we just need to undo the damage caused
accidentally by Igor/Mauro in 4b29631db3
("V4L/DVB (9533): cx88: Add support for TurboSight TBS8910 DVB-S PCI card")
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Rafael reported:
I get the following error from 'make modules_install' on my test boxes:
HOSTCC firmware/ihex2fw
/home/rafael/src/linux-2.6/firmware/ihex2fw.c:268: fatal error: opening dependency file firmware/.ihex2fw.d: Read-only file system
compilation terminated.
make[3]: *** [firmware/ihex2fw] Error 1
make[2]: *** [_modinst_post] Error 2
make[1]: *** [sub-make] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2
where the configuration is that the kernel is compiled on a build box
with 'make O=<destdir> -j5' and then <destdir> is mounted over NFS read-only by
each test box (full path to this directory is the same on the build box and on
the test boxes). Then, I cd into <destdir>, run 'make modules_install' and get
the error above.
The issue turns out to be that we when we install firmware pick
up the list of firmware blobs from firmware/Makefile.
And this triggers the Makefile rules to update ihex2fw.
There were two solutions for this issue:
1) Move the list of firmware blobs to a separate file
2) Avoid ihex2fw rebuild by moving it to scripts
As I seriously beleive that the list of firmware blobs should be
done in a fundamental different way solution 2) was selected.
Reported-and-tested-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Provide a .gitignore file, and fix a typo which prevented some of the
generated binary files from being removed on 'make clean'.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Reported-and-tested-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Markus Trippelsdorf