After hit my head against the wall over and over .... I realize the modules.dep file and so on is not deployed in the modules-xxx.tar.gz file at all. Only is deployed in the final rootfs image.
I would swear this files were deployed in OE in the past. I apologize for the noise in the list! Javi Roman On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Javi Roman <[email protected]> wrote: > Problably the issue about modules.builtin was a nosense, becasuse > patching the kernel Makefile in order to include this file dosen't fix > the problem. > > That said, I am unable to make work properly the /lib/modules folder. > The problem is the "make modules_install" is not putting all the files > in the target folder (I mean the modules.dep files an so on). This is > the log output when the task do_install of the kernel.bbclass: > > [...] > > DEPMOD 2.6.32-abacus > > + bbnote 'JAVI -> ls INSTALL_MOD_PATH' > + echo 'NOTE: JAVI -> ls INSTALL_MOD_PATH' > NOTE: JAVI -> ls INSTALL_MOD_PATH > + ls -l > /home/jroman/poky.git/build/tmp/work/romley-poky-linux/linux-yocto-abacus/2.6.32+gitAUTOINC+459b3d520991ec1b8e5ba68fbc4b206d602fee6e-r1/image/lib/modules/2.6.32-abacus/ > > total 40 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 163 Jun 14 10:08 build -> > /home/jroman/poky.git/build/tmp/work/romley-poky-linux/linux-yocto-abacus/2.6.32+gitAUTOINC+459b3d520991ec1b8e5ba68fbc4b206d602fee6e-r1/linux-romley-standard-build > drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Jun 14 10:08 kernel > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6380 Jun 14 10:08 modules.builtin > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16509 Jun 14 10:08 modules.order > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 141 Jun 14 10:08 source -> > /home/jroman/poky.git/build/tmp/work/romley-poky-linux/linux-yocto-abacus/2.6.32+gitAUTOINC+459b3d520991ec1b8e5ba68fbc4b206d602fee6e-r1/linux > > [...] > > The make modules_install uses the target folder INSTALL_MOD_PATH in > order to install the modules, however you can see only the files > "modules.builtin" and "modules.order" are properly installed. The > "make modules_install" work fine if I run this command from a > "devshell", however from the "bitbake virtual/kernel -c install" is > not properly working. > > Can anybody give me a hint? > > Many thanks. > Javi Roman > > > On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Javi Roman <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi! >> >> I've found a possible issue with the depmodwrapper (in image.bbclass >> -> do_rootfs) and the old kernel tree 2.6.32. >> >> The final rootfs image is not properly populated with the necessary >> kernel module files for the module-init-tools utility: >> >> /lib/modules/<kernel-version/ >> modules.alias >> modules.alias.bin >> modules.builtin >> modules.builtin.bin >> modules.dep >> modules.dep.bin >> modules.devname >> modules.order >> modules.softdep >> modules.symbols >> modules.symbols.bin >> >> This tool depmodwrapper is using the kernel Makefile generated file >> "modules.builtin", this file is not generated by the kbuild kernel >> system in the 2.6.32 kernel. This feature was included in the 2.6.33 >> branch [1]. >> >> So the image.bbclass is broken for kernel trees below 2.6.33 version. >> However the bitbake.conf shows the variable OLDEST_KERNEL = "2.6.16". >> >> Many thanks! >> >> [1] >> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=bc081dd6e9f622c73334dc465359168543ccaabf >> >> Javi Roman _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list [email protected] https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
