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Author SHA1 Message Date
Markus Trippelsdorf
df85b2d767 firmware: Restore support for built-in firmware
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>
2017-09-16 10:58:48 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
5620a0d1aa firmware: delete in-kernel firmware
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>
2017-09-14 14:49:41 -07:00
David Woodhouse
556b0f58bb Revert "fix modules_install via NFS"
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>
2009-04-06 14:27:17 -07:00
Sam Ravnborg
8b249b6856 fix modules_install via NFS
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>
2009-01-07 21:44:20 +01:00
David Woodhouse
d25dc7fd47 Fix 'make clean' and .gitignore for firmware/ directory.
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>
2008-07-16 07:34:18 -07:00