Re: Qt5 with opengl hw acceleration on imx53

["Eric Bénard" <eric@eukrea.com>]

Hi Simone,

Le Fri, 23 Aug 2013 11:09:56 +0200,
Simone <cjb.sw.nospam@gmail.com> a écrit :

> Dear all,
> for my project, I am using qt embedded 4.8.4 (no X11) generated by Yocto following the procedure indicated on the freescale website.
> My application is all based on QML for graphics UI, and since I have problems with rendering speed in animations and listview scrolling, I was thinking to give a try to the new QT5 which (unless I misunderstood) can render the QML scene by opengl. I saw some video on the web about raspberry PI and QML with qt5 and the viewable result is not comparable with the graphics performance i'm obtaining with imx53 and qt4, also if the raspberry pi cpu is much less powerful than imx53)
> now:
> I do not know where to start to compile QT5, I can not find a tutorial on the web that do work for me (I'm not an expert on yocto, I just did some bitbake following the procedure described in the freescale manual).
> Also do not know how to be sure to compile the library with support for OpenGL (and relative Hardware acceleration) of my processor (imx53 family).
> My board is based on imx53qsb.

by using meta-fsl-arm and meta-qt5  you should manage to get a QT5
linked against i.MX53's OpenGL ES libraries.

Eric