From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Floris Bos Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2013 00:37:25 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/3] rpi-userland: new package In-Reply-To: References: <175bbe60c696b921f074714aac68427ae0561b22.1357505417.git.maxime.hadjinlian@gmail.com> <87ehhyc6al.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> Message-ID: <50EA0AB5.7010507@je-eigen-domein.nl> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 01/06/2013 11:13 PM, Maxime Hadjinlian wrote: > Maxime> Introducing a package to build the userland part of the Raspberry, > Maxime> needed by anyone who would want to build a rootfs for a RaspberryPi. > > Presumably it isn't REALLY needed, right? Only if you want to use the > GPU? > I actually don't know if you could do without it since the rpi only > video output is the HDMI. > I'll have to check about that. You can do fine without. Normal unaccelerated framebuffer output does not require those userland libraries at all. Only needed for applications that require GPU accelerated OpenGL ES, OpenMAX, OpenVG libraries, or if you want to play with HDMI CEC (using a normal TV remote as input device). Yours sincerely, Floris Bos