From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from turboconrad.planet-school.de (mail.planet-school.de [194.116.187.5]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4DCDE0051D for ; Wed, 15 May 2013 08:51:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from turboconrad.planet-school.de (srv004.service.ps-server.net [194.116.186.79]) by turboconrad.planet-school.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15FB7B6A017 for ; Wed, 15 May 2013 17:51:36 +0200 (CEST) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on srv004.service.ps-server.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-101.2 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL, LOCAL_USER_RULE autolearn=unavailable version=3.3.2 Received: from ashley.wagner-net (dhcp-138-246-70-158.dynamic.eduroam.mwn.de [138.246.70.158]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: mail@philipp-wagner.com) by turboconrad.planet-school.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id F2D3FB6A007 for ; Wed, 15 May 2013 17:51:35 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <5193AF05.2000505@philipp-wagner.com> Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 17:51:33 +0200 From: Philipp Wagner User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130329 Thunderbird/17.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: yocto@yoctoproject.org References: <51935584.9030908@r-finger.com> In-Reply-To: <51935584.9030908@r-finger.com> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Subject: Re: [meta-raspberrypi] Thoughts on Raspberry Pi firmware X-BeenThere: yocto@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of all things Yocto Project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 15:51:40 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Am 15.05.2013 11:29, schrieb Tomas Frydrych: > On 14/05/13 13:09, Paul Barker wrote: >> Secondly, is there any use case for building vc-graphics or >> vc-graphics-hardfp to provide virtual/egl and virtual/libgles2 >> (which rely on binary files from the raspberry pi firmware repo) >> instead of compiling from source using the userland package? > > It would be preferable if we could build these from source; last time I > tried (which, admittedly, is a long while back), this was not possible > because of some missing broadcom-specific header files that seemed not > available anywhere, but I guess this is no longer the case. The graphics libraries can now be compiled from source (userland is part of meta-raspberrypi) and in my tests it's equivalent to the binary drivers. I'm not sure if those should be removed from meta-raspberrypi or left there for somebody who still needs them (why?). Philipp