[OE-core] [poky] Early image startup

[Gary Thomas]

On 04/08/2011 07:50 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 15:30 +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:
>> Op 8 apr 2011, om 15:20 heeft Gary Thomas het volgende geschreven:
>>
>>> I have a Poky image which uses a number of kernel modules.  For
>>> whatever reason, the raw image has not had the modules configured
>>> (no /lib/modules/.../modules.dep)  This file is created by 'update-modules'
>>> but that is run too late in the boot process.  The problem is that
>>> other code, e.g. I'm using iptables via modules, requires the modules
>>> be configured early and this fails.  If I reboot (after 'update-modules'
>>> has run), everything is fine.
>>
>> Sound like you need http://patches.openembedded.org/patch/1917/
>
> To be honest that sounds like a more fundamental problem as if the user
> cares which rtc should be rtc0, there are other ordering constraints
> being imposed such as a symlink to the "best" rtc device...

Indeed, this patch did not help my situation at all.

I think my problem is that of post-install package scripts (hence
'Configuring ...') not being run until quite late.

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