[Buildroot] [PATCH] linux-firmware: Allow selection of bnx2x fw version

[Stewart Smith]

Joel Stanley <joel at jms.id.au> writes:
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 7:09 PM, Thomas Petazzoni
> <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
>> I think adding new config to chose between different versions of a
>> given firmware is going a bit too far. If we were to do that for all
>> firmwares in linux-firmware, it would really increase the number of
>> Config.in options too much.
>
> Yeah, I do agree with this concern. It's unfortunate we don't have a
> variable we can test to see what the kernel version is.
>
>> Shall I suggest to install both versions of the firmware? The firmware
>> files are not that large, and if filesystem size is really a strong
>> issue, it is always possible to clean up the non-required firmware
>> files in a post-build script.
>
> In our case the extra ~640kB would be worth cleaning up. I like
> buildroot for the clean tiny images it produces; I think that's worth
> preserving.

Also, at some point we run out of room on flash.

-- 
Stewart Smith
OPAL Architect, IBM.