[Arm-netbook] meta-allwinner

Enrico ebutera at users.sourceforge.net
Fri Jun 8 09:05:32 BST 2012


On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 1:13 AM, lkcl luke <luke.leighton at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

You can add kernel modules to the image adding "kernel-module-xxxx" to
the image recipe, some kernel modules are automatically added because
of dependencies so that's why they end up in the rootfs without you
specifing it.

Enrico



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