[yocto] Building uio-pci-generic into core-image-minimal

[Bruce Ashfield]

On 13-02-12 6:47 PM, David Mulder wrote:
> I need to use the uio-pci-generic kernel module, but I don’t know how to
> make it available in my image.
>
> Yocto 1.3, core-image-minimal, did ‘bitbake linux-yocto –c menuconfig’
> and added “Generic driver for PCI 2.3”. It took a while to bitbake
> core-image-minimal after that change, and I saw uio-pci-generic.o, so I
> assume it rebuilt the kernel and built the module, but I don’t see any
> traces of the module in my image (‘find / -name *uio*’, /sys/class/uio
> or /sys/bus/pci/drivers/uio-pci-generic).
>
> I added uio and uio-pci-generic to a recipe’s RDEPENDS, but it can’t
> find a provider. I added them to IMAGE_FEATURES in local.conf, but that

You need to add the modules to IMAGE_INSTALL via their individual package
name, or if you just want all modules, use the virtual package 
"kernel-modules"

You can also get it in the image via MACHINE_ESSENTIAL_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS.

Cheers,

Bruce


> didn’t seem to do anything. I set ‘module_autoload_uio = “uio”’ in
> local.conf, which also seemed to do nothing. Same for setting it in
> linux-yocto_3.4.bbappend (some patches indicate that it used to be set
> in that file). I don’t know what else to try.
>
> What might I be missing? Where could I look to see if that module has
> been built and copied to my image?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
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