[yocto] Cross Compile Kernel Modules

[Bruce Ashfield]

On 13-10-03 04:08 PM, Parker Mackenzie wrote:
> I have been researching a way to build loadable kernel modules outside of Yocto for a while. I was excited to find a presentation from the Yocto Developer's Day 2013 which implied I code do this by adding the following line to my local.conf:
> IMAGE_INSTALL_append = " kernel_dev"
>
> However, when I ran bitbake for my beagleboard target I get the following error. Any help in understanding what is wrong and how to achieve my goal would be most helpful.

Try "kernel-dev"

Bruce

>
> Kind Regards,
> Parker Mackenzie
>
>
>
> [parker at jasper build]$ bitbake core-image-minimal
> Parsing recipes: 100% |#########################################| Time: 00:03:55
> Parsing of 814 .bb files complete (0 cached, 814 parsed). 1121 targets, 43 skipped, 0 masked, 0 errors.
>
> Build Configuration:
> BB_VERSION        = "1.18.0"
> BUILD_SYS         = "x86_64-linux"
> NATIVELSBSTRING   = "Fedora-17"
> TARGET_SYS        = "arm-poky-linux-gnueabi"
> MACHINE           = "beagleboard"
> DISTRO            = "poky"
> DISTRO_VERSION    = "1.4.2"
> TUNE_FEATURES     = "armv7a vfp neon"
> TARGET_FPU        = "vfp-neon"
> meta
> meta-yocto
> meta-yocto-bsp    = "<unknown>:<unknown>"
>
> NOTE: Resolving any missing task queue dependencies
> ERROR: Nothing RPROVIDES 'kernel_dev' (but /home/parker/Projects/beagleboard/yocto/poky-dylan-9.0.2/meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-minimal.bb RDEPENDS on or otherwise requires it)
> NOTE: Runtime target 'kernel_dev' is unbuildable, removing...
> Missing or unbuildable dependency chain was: ['kernel_dev']
> ERROR: Required build target 'core-image-minimal' has no buildable providers.
> Missing or unbuildable dependency chain was: ['core-image-minimal', 'kernel_dev']
>
> Summary: There were 2 ERROR messages shown, returning a non-zero exit code. 		 	   		
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