Re: [poky] [PATCH 3/3] meta-yocto: add pieces removed from oe-core for beagleboard & atom-pc

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 13:46 +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:
> Op 5 mei 2011, om 13:38 heeft Richard Purdie het volgende geschreven:
> 
> > Hi Paul,
> > 
> > Great work in doing this, thanks. I was just looking at it with a view
> > to making machine support cleaner and I think there are still things we
> > can likely to do help with this. As one example:
> > 
> > On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 15:51 +0100, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> >> +++ b/meta-yocto/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4-x11-free_4.6.3.bbappend
> >> @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
> >> +QT_GLFLAGS_atom-pc = "-opengl"
> >> +
> >> diff --git a/meta-yocto/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4-x11-free_4.7.2.bbappend b/meta-yocto/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4-x11-free_4.7.2.bbappend
> >> new file mode 100644
> >> index 0000000..076ade2
> >> --- /dev/null
> >> +++ b/meta-yocto/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4-x11-free_4.7.2.bbappend
> >> @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
> >> +QT_GLFLAGS_atom-pc = "-opengl"
> > 
> > could we set QT_GLFLAGS in the machine.conf file instead of using a
> > bbappend?
> 
> Putting such USEFLAGS in machines sounds like a bad idea. In this case
> enabling it globally and falling back to mesa sw rendering at runtime
> is a better idea. The GL flag only enables extra API and libs, so it's
> good to have.

Agreed, longer term I think this is going to be the better way to handle
this. In this day and age, defaulting to sw rendering is probably the
sane thing to do.

Equally, moving this from a .bbappend to the machine file is a bit
cleaner too though :)

Cheers,

Richard