[meta-xilinx] [RFC] machine-xilinx-default.inc: Include kernel modules
Manjukumar Harthikote Matha
manjukumar.harthikote-matha at xilinx.com
Thu May 5 09:28:41 PDT 2016
Hi Nathan,
On 05/05/2016 04:28 AM, Nathan Rossi wrote:
> On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 4:18 PM, Mike Looijmans <mike.looijmans at topic.nl> wrote:
>> That looks like too much of a simplistic approach, as this will dump each
>> and every built module into any image.
>>
>> The proper solution would be to explicitly list the modules that are really
>> required.
>
> I agree that it would be best to only add the specific modules of interest.
>
> After a quick look it does appear that a common setup (in a variety of
> layers/machines) is to just add all modules to
> MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS (as opposed to ESSENTIAL_EXTRA). So in that
> case Manju, if you are not sure of the exact modules then setting this
> via MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS instead should work out better, since
> for mali related stuff it is very likely to be using a graphics
> enabled image (aka. one that includes packagegroup-base, like
> core-image-sato).
>
Yes this was in regards to MALI patch. I was thinking to change it to
MACHINE_ESSENTIAL_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS_zynqmp += "kernel-module-mali-modules"
Thanks
Manju
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