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From: Peter Seiderer <ps.report@gmx.net>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2021 20:32:11 +0100
Subject: [Buildroot] [RFC: 3/4]
 package/x11r7/xdriver_xf86-video-imx-viv: bump to version
 rel_imx_5.4.24_2.1.0
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Hello Romain,

On Tue, 12 Jan 2021 12:05:58 +0100, Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi J?r?me,
> 
> Thanks for your feedback!
> 
> Le 11/01/2021 ? 15:02, J?r?me Pouiller a ?crit?:
> > Hi Romain, Garry,
> > 
> > On Monday 11 January 2021 14:12:08 CET Gary Bisson wrote:  
> >> On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 06:46:38PM +0100, Romain Naour wrote:  
> >>> Le 07/01/2021 ? 12:04, Romain Naour a ?crit :  
> >>>> This package needs to be updated to build with the NXP imx_5.4.x_2.1.0 release.
> >>>>
> >>>> Don't override CFLAGS on the command line otherwise we loose some include paths
> >>>> (ex: -I./vivante_gal).
> >>>> CFLAGS is already provided by TARGET_CONFIGURE_OPTS in make environment.  
> >>>
> >>> What's the status of vivante gpu support for X11 ? especially for kernel >= 5.4.  
> >>
> >> Don't know. To be honest, i.MX6 will soon be a legacy product for NXP
> >> releases so I strongly suggest moving to mainline + Etnaviv.  
> > 
> > Same here, I haven't worked on iMX6 for a while. The last teams I know who develop
> > new iMX6 designs use Etnaviv..  
> 
> I haven't worked a lot for customer on iMX6, but each time they used Yocto and
> NXP BSP. Last time I tried to use Etnaviv with linux-imx, the kernel build was
> broken.
> 

On a past project I worked on a iMX6 platform with etnaviv (using Qt eglfs and
qtquickcontrols for the GUI and GStreamer for video/audio recording/streaming)
using mainline linux kernel...., worked very well...

Regards,
Peter