Bug 769684 - uhd package does not include USRP firmwares.
Summary: uhd package does not include USRP firmwares.
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: uhd
Version: 16
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
unspecified
low
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Assignee: Jaroslav Škarvada
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-12-21 17:56 UTC by dave.null
Modified: 2012-06-16 00:05 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2012-06-16 00:03:03 UTC
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Description dave.null 2011-12-21 17:56:02 UTC
Description of problem:

In case this is not intentional for legal reasons, USRP firmwares are not included in the uhd package.

These firmwares are open source _and_ distributed under the GPLv3, *but* requires proprietary tools to build them (Altera Quartus, Xilinx ISE) or toolchain that is not available as fedora package (zpu-gcc).

These firmware images are provided by Ettus at the url (for 3.3.1):
http://files.ettus.com/uhd_releases/003_003_001/images-only/UHD-images-003.003.001.tar.gz

and should be installed in /usr/share/uhd/images/

The UHD driver automatically upload the firmware for USB USRPs.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Tested with uhd-3.3.1-1.fc16.x86_64 (from updates-testing)

How reproducible:
(test requires a USB USRP)
Execute a program using the uhd driver, for example: uhd_usrp_probe
  
Actual results:
...
UHD Warning:
    Could not locate USRP1 firmware.
    Please install the images package.
...


Expected results:

...
-- Loading firmware image: /usr/share/uhd/images/usrp1_fw.ihx... done
-- Opening a USRP1 device...
-- Loading FPGA image: /usr/share/uhd/images/usrp1_fpga.rbf... done
-- Using FPGA clock rate of 64.000000MHz...
...
[striped usrp probe output]

Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2012-06-06 22:38:27 UTC
uhd-3.4.2-2.fc17 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 17.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/uhd-3.4.2-2.fc17

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2012-06-06 22:39:49 UTC
uhd-3.4.2-2.fc16 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 16.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/uhd-3.4.2-2.fc16

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2012-06-07 22:52:03 UTC
Package uhd-3.4.2-2.fc17:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 17 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing uhd-3.4.2-2.fc17'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-8997/uhd-3.4.2-2.fc17
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2012-06-16 00:03:03 UTC
uhd-3.4.2-2.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2012-06-16 00:05:44 UTC
uhd-3.4.2-2.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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