[Buildroot] GSoC Weekly Update

[Buildroot] GSoC Weekly Update

[Spenser Gilliland]

Hi,

As some of you may be aware, I am the GSoC student for Buildroot this
Summer. Starting this week, I will be providing weekly updates to the
mailing list with information on my activities.

My main goals for last week were the integration of the glmark2
benchmark into Buildroot.  I'm currently testing this support on many
of the boards (rpi/beaglexm/cubieboard) and will hopefully post these
patches this week.  To get to the glmark2 benchmark a number of
changes were required, specfically a new package for libpng12, a bump
in libdrm, and a bump in mesa3d.  In addition, the mesa3d support was
partially rewritten in order to support a more granular selection of
graphics drivers.  This will allow, future limare/freedreno
integration, which looks very promising (especially freedreno).

Furthermore, this weeks goal is to get both i.MX6 based platforms up
and running.  I currently have both a Wandboard [1] and a SABRE [2]
for testing the imx6 packages in Buildroot.

Thanks,

Spenser

-- 
Spenser Gilliland
Computer Engineer
Doctoral Candidate

[Buildroot] GSoC Weekly Update

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Dear Spenser Gilliland,

On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 16:44:30 -0500, Spenser Gilliland wrote:

> As some of you may be aware, I am the GSoC student for Buildroot this
> Summer. Starting this week, I will be providing weekly updates to the
> mailing list with information on my activities.

Great!

> My main goals for last week were the integration of the glmark2
> benchmark into Buildroot.  I'm currently testing this support on many
> of the boards (rpi/beaglexm/cubieboard) and will hopefully post these
> patches this week.  To get to the glmark2 benchmark a number of
> changes were required, specfically a new package for libpng12, a bump
> in libdrm, and a bump in mesa3d.  In addition, the mesa3d support was
> partially rewritten in order to support a more granular selection of
> graphics drivers.  This will allow, future limare/freedreno
> integration, which looks very promising (especially freedreno).

Nice! Have you been able to get glmark2 running on at least one of the
platforms?

> Furthermore, this weeks goal is to get both i.MX6 based platforms up
> and running.  I currently have both a Wandboard [1] and a SABRE [2]
> for testing the imx6 packages in Buildroot.

Excellent.

Definitely looking forward to the patches. Keep up the good work!

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux
development, consulting, training and support.
http://free-electrons.com