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+SUMMARY = "Raspberrypi firmware libraries which are required by picamera library"
+DESCRIPTION = "Raspberrypi firmware libraries required by picamera library"
+LICENSE = "Broadcom-RPi"
+
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://opt/vc/LICENCE;md5=86e53f5f5909ee66900418028de11780"
+
+include recipes-bsp/common/raspberrypi-firmware.inc
+
+S = "${WORKDIR}/firmware-${SRCREV}"
+
+do_install(){
+    install -m 0755 -d ${D}${libdir}
+    install -m 0755 ${S}/opt/vc/lib/*.so ${D}${libdir}
+}
+
+FILES:${PN} = "${libdir}"
+
+#skipping the QA error since we are directly copying precompiled binaries
+INSANE_SKIP:${PN} = "ldflags"
+INHIBIT_PACKAGE_STRIP = "1"
+INHIBIT_SYSROOT_STRIP = "1"
+SOLIBS = ".so"
+FILES_SOLIBSDEV = ""
+
+COMPATIBLE_HOST = "null"
+COMPATIBLE_HOST:rpi:libc-glibc = "(arm.*)-linux"