Installation of Kernel Modules

[ghost]

I am trying to create a template file for the Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK).
DPDK uses a GNU makefile build system. Compiling the system creates apart from many library files two kernel object files.

masterdir/destdir/dpdk-19.08/lib/modules/5.3.7_1/extra/dpdk/rte_kni.ko
masterdir/destdir/dpdk-19.08/lib/modules/5.3.7_1/extra/dpdk/igb_uio.ko

I have no idea how I should install these two files:

1. xbps-src does not accept lib directories.
2. Even then I wouldn't know how to load these ko files. Are ko files Void Linux compliant? Do I have to create dkms.config files?

[Johnnynator]

Firstly these are kernel modules not dkms modules, so you just load them with either insmode(8) ormodprobe(8). But I would recommend to look into getting it packages as a DKMS module, so it is automatically rebuild on a kernel update. Secondly these files you have there should just be in /usr/lib instead if /lib, there is probably some variable you can set so it installs them into the correct dir.

[ghost]

Perfect. This is a good guide line. Thanks a lot!

[Johnnynator]

At least with their meson build system you can set -Denable_kmods=off and just copy kernel/linux/{igb_uio,kni} to /usr/src/${module-name}-${version} and add a dkms.conf. E.g. the rtl8822bu-dkms package demonstrates on how to create a dkms pacakge out of a non dkms kernel module. Also I think you need to make a subpackage per dkms module, it won't work otherwise afaik.

[ghost]

Even better! Awesome. This helps me a lot.