HI3518EV200 Ultimate and missing RTL8188FTV/FU firmware

[jimvonjovi]

The problem is as follows:
In OpenIPC Ultimate, the WLAN interface is not visible when the RTL8188FTV WiFi module is used in conjunction with the HI3518EV200 SoC.

lsusb shows that RTL8188FTV is connected.

I set wlandev as follows:
fw_setenv wlandev rtl8188fu-generic

The 8188fu module is then loaded automatically, but the wlan interface does not appear.

The source of the problem seems to be missing firmware for the FU version. Checking lib/firmware/rtlwifi, only rtl8188eufw.bin is present, which is for the EU version.

Checking the repository, in the config, BR2_PACKAGE_RTL8188FU_OPENIPC=y is selected, but for some reason the firmware blob for the FU version is in the EU version directory, and the firmware blob is missing from the FU version directory. I don't see the logic here in placing the firmware for FU in the EU directory, where the firmware for both versions is incompatible, so I assume this is a bug.

In summary, it looks like there are two bugs:

1. The wrong firmware version is included in the build.
2. Bugs in the repository structure.