Re: [meta-raspberrypi][PATCH 5/5] rpi-default-providers: Switch providers according to used gfx stack

[Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com>]

Hello Andreas,

On 08/07/2015 01:30 PM, Andreas Müller wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 12:45 PM, Javier Martinez Canillas
> <javier@osg.samsung.com> wrote:
>> Hello Andreas,
>>
>> Thanks a lot for your feedback.
>>
>> On 08/06/2015 09:41 AM, Andreas Müller wrote:
>>> On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 8:59 AM, Javier Martinez Canillas
>>> <javier@osg.samsung.com> wrote:
>>>> Yes, I in fact was not sure if it should be a distro or machine feature
>>>> and then decided on the former because there is more than the kernel to
>>>> make it work like changing mesa configure options. But as mentioned to
>>>> Andrea Müller, probably we should ship a mesa .bbappend for this in the
>>>> BSP so I agree that a MACHINE_FEATURE will make more sense.
>>> Suggestions:
>>>
>>> * Mesa: A simple append with
>>>
>>> PACKAGECONFIG_append_rpi += " gallium"
>>> GALLIUMDRIVERS_rpi = "vc4"
>>>
>>> would do. If you check mesa.inc in oe-core others (intel) do similar
>>
>> That sounds good to me.
>>
>>> (we might have to wait for a more recent mesa expected in September).
>>>
>>
>> Why do you think we would have to wait for a newer mesa? AFAICT the mesa
>> version in Fido (10.4.4) already has vc4 support [0]. Although we have
>> been using mesa master so I should test how well 10.4 works. AFAIK Derek
>> picked a specific mesa sha1 that Eric's vc4 DRM driver was known to work.
> Just started an image based upon oe-core's master sources yet - no
> EGL/GLES tests so far. This weekend I will try som EGL/GLES and am
> really excited to see how far I get with my first open source graphic
> stack (am so tired of this blob crap)...
>

Awesome, thanks a lot for all your feedback, suggestions and tests!
 
> Andreas
> 

Best regards,
-- 
Javier Martinez Canillas
Open Source Group
Samsung Research America