[yocto] [meta-raspberrypi] core-image-minimal for raspberrypi3-64 manifest/sdimg contains no kernel modules

[Max Krummenacher]

Hi

Am Mittwoch, den 15.08.2018, 02:47 -0400 schrieb Steve Pavao:
> There seems to be a problem with the core-image-minimal bitbake for raspberrypi3-64 target at head
> of sumo in all repos.  I wonder if it’s also a problem for the raspberrypi3 target.
> 
> No kernel modules appear in the .manifest, and no kernel modules are put into the sdimg.  It’s
> hard to believe it’s true, but that’s what I'm seeing.
> 
> The problem does NOT occur for the rpi-hwup-image bitbake, which is actually deprecated in poky
> 2.5/sumo.
> 
> Before you retire the rpi-hwup-image bitbake target, will you please make sure that the kernel
> modules from the core-image-minimal build make it into the .manifest and therefore into the sdimg?
> 
> Please let me know where to log this issue, so I can send you the .manifest diffs, some ls command
> output showing the large size difference between the core-image-minimal and rpi-hwup-image sdimg
> files for identical builds, and perhaps some file listings to show that one of the builds contains
> kernel modules (rpi-hwup-image) and the other does not (core-image-minimal).
> 
> Steve Pavao
> Korg R&D
> 

Note that the 'kernel-modules' package is one of the packages built by a kernel recipe.
It is a meta package which RDEPENDS on all kernel module packages built by your kernel
configuration. So adding that package to your image should do the trick.

Max