[ELDK] building .ko objects

[Price, John @ SDS]

Hi, I've been trying to build an external kernel object file
unsuccessfully.  I have read 6.2 in the DULG and the
Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt and makefiles.txt.

 

What I try to do is cd to the samples/kobject directory from the top of
the kernel source tree.  I saved the original Makefile and edited it to
look like below;

 

[root at ma-dhcp-125 kobject]# cat Makefile

obj-m: += kobject-example.o kset-example.o

 

Then I typed the following line at the prompt and saw;

 

 [root at ma-dhcp-125 kobject]# pwd

/data/denxSrc/linux-2.6-denx/samples/kobject

 

 [root at ma-dhcp-125 kobject]# make ARCH=powerpc CROSS_COMPILE=ppc_4xx- -C
/data/denxSrc/linux-2.6-denx M=`pwd`

make: Entering directory `/data/denxSrc/linux-2.6-denx'

  Building modules, stage 2.

  MODPOST 0 modules

make: Leaving directory `/data/denxSrc/linux-2.6-denx'

 

[root at ma-dhcp-125 kobject]# ls

kobject-example.c  Makefile      modules.order

kset-example.c     MakefileSave  Module.symvers

 

 

It looks as though it never compiled the source files into object files
then into ko files.  However I see two new files; modules.order and
Module.symvers.  

 

I want to be able to go to a directory and just builid a *.ko file that
I can then tftp over to my evaluation board, load with insmod.

 

The kernel config has enable loadable modules.

 

What am I missing?

 

thanks

 

 

John Price  <john.p.price at l-3com.com
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