On 08.04.2019 20:19, Tomasz Maciej Nowak wrote:
Hi Petr, Alberto,
W dniu 08.04.2019 o 14:34, Alberto Bursi pisze:
On 08/04/19 11:42, Petr Štetiar wrote:
Tomasz Maciej Nowak <tome...@o2.pl> [2019-04-07 18:35:01]:
Hi,
thanks for trying to unbreak currently failing Geode builds.
Building images for geode has been failing because of missing
dependencies:
backlight.ko
drm_kms_helper.ko
fb.ko
ttm.ko
Being geode a speciffic hardware, where drm-radeon and drm-amdgpu modules
will probably never be used, disable both.
Fixing the kernel module dependencies is PITA, I know, but this simply doesn't
look like a proper fix to me, rather just like a workaround.
Yes, adding those modules to dependencies would solve the issue, but for how
long? If AMD people would decide to add another module to dependencies, we
would need to fix it again and fix something not one would ever use on this
target, only for the sake of it?
-- ynezz
It is indeed a workaround, but is it worth to spend time troubleshooting
something that is never going to be used?
I don't see why these modules were built at all. It's pretty hard or even
impossible
to run any addon graphics card on a Geode system.
At most they have PCI slots, many (the networking alix boards from PCEngines)
only have mini PCI slots.
drm-amdgpu will 100% never be used as it runs modern PCIe cards.
I don't find any good reason to mount an ancient AMD card over a
PCI slot (or mini pci slot + adapter) as they have their own integrated
graphics with a VGA port already.
-Alberto
Thanks, this is more or less what I had in mind deciding how to approach this,
and form this POV calling it workaround is debatable. I'll leave patch in this
form, if anyone wants to take different approach, please do.
Regards
Because I crashed that, if your approach is not accepted I'll add the
module dependencies, I didn't put them in the generic config because I
also thought it will only be used on modern hardware
Regards
Lucian
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