[Arm-netbook] meta-allwinner

[lkcl luke]

On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 12:01 AM, Enrico <ebutera at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 12:24 AM, Henrik Nordström
> <henrik at henriknordstrom.net> wrote:
>> Have not managed to boot it yet, but not sure if that's your or my
>> problem..
>>
>> What I did notice however is that the rootfs do contain the uImage and
>> one kernel module. Is this intentional?
>
> Yes, they are included in the rootfs tar by oe.
>
> Additional modules are in the modules-xxx.tar.gz, i never investigated
> what's the criteria to put a module in the rootfs or in the modules
> tar gz...

 there's a way to specify modules that should be built (and installed)
in openembedded's bitbake build files, it's quite easy to do, i forget
exactly how - something like ooo... LINUX_KERNEL_modules += "{insert
modules here}" where _modules is what does the trick.  the thing is
though that the "include" system is often over-used so you have to
hunt through half a dozen files, tracking each include as you find
them, to locate where a module might be being added.

 much of what bitbake does is like voodoo magic, it's fricking awesome
- a combination of parallel dependencies, multi-tasking, python and
auto-generated shellscripts.  i absolutely love it.  there's not a
single build system in free software that comes _remotely_ close to
bitbake's capabilities.  massive overachievement by the openembedded
team, and significant under-appreciation by !openembedded team.

/peace.

l.