Re: OCOTP and DWMAC builtin modules are needed for imx93-11x11-evk kernel dev via TFTP and NFS

[Krzysztof Kozlowski]

On 17/03/2025 19:59, Alberto Merciai wrote:
>>>
>>> By default they are enabled as external modules, then until we don't
>>
>> So everything is as expected...
>>
>>> reach userland they are not loaded thus eth and all the mechanism behind
>>> that are out.
>>>
>>> I'm not using initramfs just tftp and NFS as follows:
>>
>> All arm64 platforms are supposed to use initramfs on defconfig with
>> necessary modules.
> Thanks a lot, I was not aware of that.
> Do you have any reference?
Reference for what? initramfs?

I am using meta-qcom initramfs:
https://github.com/krzk/yocto-qcom
with copy_modules argument:

https://github.com/krzk/tools/blob/7c0d1cacad06aa0cae8c2983ae26889471a9aaa6/linux/build.sh#L543

And here is how I append stuff, but simple `cat` one cpio archive to
another cpio archive would work as well, just be sure some paths are not
symlinks (/bin /usr/bin) because then `cat` has issues:

https://github.com/krzk/tools/blob/7c0d1cacad06aa0cae8c2983ae26889471a9aaa6/linux/build.sh#L504

Best regards,
Krzysztof