Confusion between icub-firmware and icub-firmware-build

[pedrombmachado]

Hi all,

I am trying to fix my environmental variables and I have a question. On the wiki it is said:

export FIRMWARE_BIN=${ROBOT_CODE}/icub-firmware/build

However, the repository name is icub-firmware-build and therefore shouldn't it be:

export FIRMWARE_BIN=${ROBOT_CODE}/icub-firmware-build

Many thanks,
Pedro

[pedrombmachado]

Found the answer. I was missing the icub-firmware repository.

[pedrombmachado]

Found the repository however it does not contain the build folder.

Shall I leave it like this?

export FIRMWARE_BIN=${ROBOT_CODE}/icub-firmware

[randaz81]

• icub-firmware contains the sources of the boards firmware. You don't need to download that repo, it is simply useless unless you have the firmware compiler(s).
• icub-firmware-build contains the binaries, generated from icub-firmware sources. It's the folder you need to check when you want to upgrade the firmware of robot boards.
• icub-firmware-shared contains some sources and definitions needed to compile some plugins of icub-main necessary to run yarprobotinterface on the PC104 (e.g. embObjMotionControl).

Currently, I'm not aware of any practical use of the environment variable FIRMWARE_BIN. I think it has been reserved by developers for future use, so please simply ignore it.

[pedrombmachado]

Hi @randaz81
Many thanks for the reply. If possible please update the Readme to reflect that.
Many thanks,
Pedro

[traversaro]

I opened a PR for adding a README to icub-firmware-build one year ago explicitly to avoid this confusion: robotology/icub-firmware-build#8 , nobody ever commented, so I think we can merge it. : )

[pattacini]

Go ahead 😉 then @traversaro