Re: [meta-fsl-arm-extra] Problems building for RIoTboard

[Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>]

On 2015-04-24 08:05, Nikolay Dimitrov wrote:
> Hi Gary,
>
> On 04/24/2015 04:43 PM, Gary Thomas wrote:
>> On 2015-04-24 06:29, Nikolay Dimitrov wrote:
>>> Hi Gary,
>>>
>>> On 04/24/2015 02:55 PM, Gary Thomas wrote:
>>>> On 2015-04-24 05:43, Nikolay Dimitrov wrote:
>>>>> Hi Gary,
>>>>>
>>>>> On 04/24/2015 01:04 PM, Gary Thomas wrote:
>>>>>> The imx6dl-riotboard has been updated to Linux 4.0 kernel.
>>>>>> Sadly, this breaks a number of related packages, in particular
>>>>>> any that are directly tied to the kernel sources.  These packages
>>>>>> no longer build for the RIoTboard:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> meta-fsl-arm/recipes-bsp/imx-lib/imx-lib_3.10.53-1.1.0.bb
>>>>>> | mxc_ipu_hl_lib.h:104:25: fatal error: linux/mxcfb.h: No such file or
>>>>>> directory
>>>>>> |  #include <linux/mxcfb.h>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> meta-fsl-arm/recipes-multimedia/alsa/fsl-alsa-plugins_1.0.25.bb:
>>>>>> |
>>>>>> /local/p0382-cutting-edge_2014-11-21/tmp/work/imx6dl_riotboard-amltd-linux-gnueabi/fsl-alsa-plugins/1.0.25-r0/fsl-alsa-plugins-1.0.25/asrc/asrc_pair.h:28:28:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> fatal error: linux/mxc_asrc.h: No such file or directory
>>>>>> |  #include <linux/mxc_asrc.h>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm really interested in getting X going on my RIoTboard.
>>>>>> Are there any workarounds (or fixes) that might get me going?
>>>>>
>>>>> Btw, mainline kernels have support only for the imx framebuffer, but no
>>>>> additional acceleration (VPU, GL, probably ASRC also). All these extras
>>>>> are available only with the vendor's kernel.
>>>>>
>>>>> If you need the acceleration, I would suggest going back to 3.14.28.
>>>>
>>>> So that would be linux-imx_3.14.28?  That's the only 3.14 kernel left
>>>> in meta-fsl-arm* that I see.
>>>
>>> That's correct.
>>
>> Sadly, that doesn't work:
>> | make[3]: *** No rule to make target
>> `arch/arm/boot/dts/imx6dl-riotboard.dtb'.  Stop.
>> | make[2]: *** [imx6dl-riotboard.dtb] Error 2
>> | make[1]: *** [sub-make] Error 2
>> | make: *** [all] Error 2
>> | ERROR: oe_runmake failed
>> | WARNING: exit code 1 from a shell command.
>> | ERROR: Function failed: do_install (log file is located at
>> /local/p0382-cutting-edge_2014-11-21/tmp/work/imx6dl_riotboard-amltd-linux-gnueabi/linux-imx/3.14.28-r0/temp/log.do_install.22216)
>>
>> ERROR: Task 71
>> (/local/poky-cutting-edge/meta-fsl-arm/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-imx_3.14.28.bb,
>> do_install) failed with exit code '1'
>
> Ahh ok, no device tree. I'll take a look at it.

Thanks for looking into this.  Any progress on getting the 3.14 kernel going yet?

>
> FYI: riotboard support was added in mainline kernel 3.17.0, so you can
> use all versions 3.17.0-4.0.0 for experiments (basic imxfb works). But
> I've built and tested all of these kernels outside Yocto.

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