[linux-yocto] EXTERNAL: Re: Missing Kernel Modules (GPU folder and radeon.ko)

[Chen, Simon]

Hi Bruce,

Thanks for the response. I was able to get this running by creating a .bbappend to the kernel recipe and link a .cfg to change the kernel configurations, and it worked! I see what you're saying though. When doing the menuconfig, I would probably have to do a separate "$bitbake kernel-modules" before I do a "$bitbake linux-yocto" or whatever core-image I'm using? However, I believe the use of a .cfg means that the Yocto environment is smart enough to update and auto-build the kernel-modules meta package... is that correct?

-Simon

-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Ashfield [mailto:bruce.ashfield at windriver.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2015 4:17 PM
To: Chen, Simon; linux-yocto at yoctoproject.org
Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: [linux-yocto] Missing Kernel Modules (GPU folder and radeon.ko)

On 2015-06-23 11:27 AM, Chen, Simon wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to integrate the AMD Radeon E8860 graphics card on to a 
> Yocto (poky-dizzy-12.0.1) embedded machine. Ialready have the open 
> source xf86-video-ati driver (7.4.0) installed into my Yocto image. 
> The problem is that the kernel module radeon.ko, and all of its 
> dependencies under the GPU and I2C folders seems to be missing from the kernel.
> Without these .ko files, Yocto cannot recognize the external graphics 
> card, and udev cannot generate an appropriate device node
> (/dev/dri/card0) for Xorg to use.
>
> I've already tried adding the following line to my local.conf:
>
> CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL_append = "kernel-modules"

How are you invoking the rebuild of the kernel modules after you've added them via menuconfig ?

kernel-modules is a meta package that has embedded RDEPENDS on individual kernel module packages. If you are rebuilding the kernel, but not re-building and repacking the kernel modules then any additions won't be in the RDEPENDS and hence won't make it to the image.

Bruce

>
> This populates the file system with .ko's but none seem to be the ones 
> I need for my graphics card to run, which are radeon.ko, drm.ko, 
> drm_kms_helper.ko, ttm.ko, and i2c_algo_bit.ko. I am missing the 
> entire lib/modules/<KERNEL_VERSION>/kernel/drivers/gpu folder and also 
> most of the contents in lib/modules/<KERNEL_VERSION/kernel/drivers/i2c.
>
> I wondered if it was just a matter of implementing the .config file 
> correctly. But I've already executed "$bitbake linux-yocto -c menconfig"
> and enabled the appropriate configuration flags for each of these 
> modules. Perhaps this just a matter of appending to the kernel.bbclass 
> file which is responsible for executing the kernel Makefiles, and 
> building these .ko's?
>
> Can you guys please check your own lib/modules/<KERNEL_VERSION>/kernel
> directory to see that these .ko's exist? I'd like to know if there is 
> something else that isn't enabled or included into the build, or if 
> it's something I need to hardcode in order to fix this issue.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Simon
>
>
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