Hello Brian,


Well, this is I guess an expected behavior. firmware packages are
listed in MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS, which is (according to Yocto
Reference manual, link
https://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/latest/ref-manual/ref-manual.html#var-MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS)
is only considered when packagegroup-base is installed in the image
and does not affect 'core-image-minimal' or 'core-image-full-cmdline'
images.

That is the reason that even if the package is added in the
imx-base.inc (like Otavio suggested in his patch) - you would not
receive it in core-image-minimal and you would have to install it
explicitly.

As for firmware packages themselves, I guess it should be changed from
MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS to MACHINE_EXTRA_RDEPENDS in order to bail
out at the build time rather than figure out that they are not present
on the device at boot time. But this is yet a separate point, which
actually would not solve your original issue as you either need an
image recipe which includes packagegroup-base or you have to
explicitly list them in IMAGE_INSTALL.

> I see there is a firmware-imx-8m package so maybe I should add it.

This package is actually empty, and only serves as a deploy target to
provide Cadence HDMI FW for imx-boot to build a boot container. Even
if you try to install it - you would not receive any FW files on the
target.