How can i use firmware?

Aspatom · May 21, 2021, 5:03am

Hi!

I download firmware for the RB5, but i don’t know i to applicate on my board.

http://releases.linaro.org/96boards/rb5/qualcomm/firmware/

any method to use this?
like write on the bbappend file?

anon91830841 · May 21, 2021, 6:05am

Here, we publish the ‘official’ firmware for RB5 as it was released to us by Thundercomm. They release the board firmware with a license that allows redistribution.

We use this firmware in the Linaro releases, they are integrated in our OpenEmbedded recipes, see:

github.com

ndechesne/meta-qcom/blob/master/recipes-bsp/firmware/firmware-qcom-rb5_20210331-v4.bb

DESCRIPTION = "QCOM Firmware for Qualcomm Robotics RB5 platform"

LICENSE = "Proprietary"
LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE.qcom.txt;md5=cbbe399f2c983ad51768f4561587f000"

SRC_URI = " \
    http://releases.linaro.org/96boards/rb5/qualcomm/firmware/RB5_firmware_${PV}.zip;subdir=${BP} \
"
SRC_URI[md5sum] = "d65ec09ba18dcafe291c870e0516c290"
SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "30e2c02be32de9f809b590f4fe76d9eb66d35f8c7d13b1f2850beb3d793192cc"

# From v2 to v4 the versioning has changed, so add epoch
# 20210118133815-v2
# 20210331-v4
PE = "1"

DEPENDS += "qca-swiss-army-knife-native"

FW_QCOM_NAME = "sm8250"

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We use them in our Debian releases, they are released as Debian packages.

We also submit firmware to the upstream linux-firmware project when it’s relevant, see
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tree/qcom/sm8250

If you build your own Linux system/distro, you can use these firmware files and integrate them into your build.

Aspatom · May 21, 2021, 6:38am

Oh! i see
Now i understand!
Thanks for the answer!