[yocto] installing kernel modules in root filesystem

[Philip Balister]

On 07/06/2015 09:16 PM, Richard Cagley wrote:
> I have a kernel module that shows up in my build work directory after
> I configure the kernel accordingly
> build/tmp-glibc/work/zedboard_zynq7-oe-linux-gnueabi/linux-xlnx/3.14-xilinx+gitAUTOINC+2b48a8aeea-r0/image/lib/modules/3.14.2-xilinx/kernel/drivers/dma/xilinx/vdmatest.ko
> 
> But, when I add "kernel-modules" to my IMAGE_INSTALL in local.conf I
> don't see vdmatest.ko show up in the resultant root filesystem after I
> run bitbake core-image-minimal-dev and untar the image
> 
> Is there a way to tell yocto to install all kernel modules or a step
> I've missed?
> 

I have:

MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS = "kernel-modules"

in my machine conf,

Make sure you have buildhistory in your user classes. That creates files
that are very helpful for working out what is actually in the generated
packages.

Philip