[yocto] installing kernel modules in root filesystem

[Richard Cagley]

On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 5:55 AM, Philip Balister <philip at balister.org> wrote:
> 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,
>
Wow, thanks. I spent a lot of time trying to figure out that one. I
stuck it in local.conf for now but I guess the machine.conf would
eventually make more sense.

> 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.
>
thanks for the tip. I just turned this on and will try to leverage it
in the future.