Hello Bruce, On Wed, 2022-10-05 at 13:19 -0400, Bruce Ashfield wrote: > On Wed, Oct 5, 2022 at 12:51 PM Thomas Perrot via > lists.openembedded.org > <thomas.perrot=bootlin....@lists.openembedded.org> wrote: > > > > Hello Khem, > > > > On Wed, 2022-10-05 at 09:19 -0700, Khem Raj wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 5, 2022 at 8:01 AM Thomas Perrot via > > > lists.openembedded.org > > > <thomas.perrot=bootlin....@lists.openembedded.org> wrote: > > > > > > > > Otherwise, it isn't possible to interact with the UI. > > > > > > I wonder if it should be in the MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS in > > > machine > > > configs, it will help a wide range of users who may be using > > > graphical images. > > > > I hesitated to put it in MACHINE_EXTRA_RDEPENDS for Qemu targets. > > > > Currently, kernel-modules are in MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS of Qemu > > RISC-V and PPC64, which are not installed when > > NO_RECOMMENDATIONS="1" > > > > We don't control the kernel configuration to the point where we can > guarantee that something is built as a module or not. > > Have you tried assembling the image with that option built-in, versus > a module ?
I tried to use a built-in virtio-input on Qemu targets, so the boot
process stalled with the following message: "please wait: booting..."
Then it seems necessary to use this driver as a kernel module on Qemu
targets.
Kind regards,
Thomas
> Last I checked, a kernel-module* dependency won't be
> provided by the built-ins, and this will trigger an error.
>
> With that option appended, it isn't something that can be overridden
> easily, and the qemu* + core images are used as a starting point for
> demos, etc (whether or not that is a good idea is also debatable). If
> a non-core kernel provider and qemu are used in a scenario like that
> .. they can trigger the error.
>
> Bruce
>
> > Kind regards,
> > Thomas
> >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Perrot <thomas.per...@bootlin.com>
> > > > ---
> > > > meta/recipes-sato/images/core-image-sato.bb | 2 ++
> > > > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> > > >
> > > > diff --git a/meta/recipes-sato/images/core-image-sato.bb
> > > > b/meta/recipes-sato/images/core-image-sato.bb
> > > > index e63a229d1257..0e37c15097b3 100644
> > > > --- a/meta/recipes-sato/images/core-image-sato.bb
> > > > +++ b/meta/recipes-sato/images/core-image-sato.bb
> > > > @@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ inherit core-image
> > > > TOOLCHAIN_HOST_TASK:append = " nativesdk-intltool nativesdk-
> > > > glib-
> > > > 2.0"
> > > > TOOLCHAIN_HOST_TASK:remove:task-populate-sdk-ext = "
> > > > nativesdk-
> > > > intltool nativesdk-glib-2.0"
> > > >
> > > > +IMAGE_INSTALL:append:qemuall = " kernel-module-virtio-input"
> > > > +
> > > > QB_MEM = '${@bb.utils.contains("DISTRO_FEATURES", "opengl", "-
> > > > m
> > > > 512", "-m 256", d)}'
> > > > QB_MEM:qemuarmv5 = "-m 256"
> > > > QB_MEM:qemumips = "-m 256"
> > > > --
> > > > 2.37.3
> > > >
> > > >
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> >
> > --
> > Thomas Perrot, Bootlin
> > Embedded Linux and kernel engineering
> > https://bootlin.com
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Embedded Linux and kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com
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