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From: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
To: Alexander Kanavin <alex.kanavin@gmail.com>
Cc: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer
	<openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/10] weston-init: use the drm backend rather than fbdev one
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 10:37:57 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <30085196-1dc5-d64e-73ca-416f52291a9e@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANNYZj-gvCsW2XzuddVaZTegS81VnHZXXTm2L0jHyG9vcXK-RA@mail.gmail.com>



On 2/19/20 10:06 AM, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
> Will that take precedence over qemuall though? Sounds brittle. Another 
> option is to make the fbdev configuration specific to mips and arm, as 
> using kms does not need a configuration at all.
> 

I think it will. arch specific overrides should come before generic ones.

> Alex
> 
> On Wed 19. Feb 2020 at 18.21, Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com 
> <mailto:raj.khem@gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 1:45 AM Alexander Kanavin
>     <alex.kanavin@gmail.com <mailto:alex.kanavin@gmail.com>> wrote:
>      >
>      > On Tue, 18 Feb 2020 at 02:56, Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com
>     <mailto:raj.khem@gmail.com>> wrote:
>      >>
>      >>
>      >>> but I'll get to it, or you are welcome to try and report.
>      >>> Mips can be either fixed like suggested, or be a specific
>     exception.
>      >>>
>      >>> For the rest of the targets, I see that you have extended the
>     fbdev fallback to qemuall only on Jan 9 this year. So it's very
>     unlikely anyone is using them to run weston (not to mention how
>     painfully slow that would be), and so it would just be wasteful to
>     test or fix them.
>      >>
>      >>
>      >> We should be only applying tested part debugging these breakages
>     is very hard so when we know it will break we should be careful as
>     with this patch
>      >
>      >
>      > I have tested these things now:
>      >
>      > 1. Switching mips from cirrus to std vga works fine, as long as
>     xorg.conf is also deleted (it's written specifically for cirrus and
>     isn't working or needed with std vga). Both weston and sato boot and
>     look right. I'll send a patch for it.
>      >
>      > 2. Switching weston to kms backend degrades performance to
>     unusable level, as neither kvm nor virtio/virgl are available for
>     non-x86 qemu, and kms backend is using software renderer in mesa. So
>     fbdev is the only realistic option there. But for x86 qemu kms is
>     still viable. I'm not sure how to best configure it though.
> 
>     copy qemuall/weston.ini new folders qemux86 and qemux86-64 and point
>     to backend it should be using.
> 
>      >
>      > Alex
> 


  reply	other threads:[~2020-02-19 18:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-16 15:50 [PATCH 01/10] core-image-sato-sdk-ptest: do not pull in ptest-pkgs Alexander Kanavin
2020-02-16 15:50 ` [PATCH 02/10] procps: upstream has switched to gitlab Alexander Kanavin
2020-02-16 16:53   ` Khem Raj
2020-02-16 16:56     ` Alexander Kanavin
2020-02-16 20:06       ` Khem Raj
2020-02-16 20:45         ` Alexander Kanavin
2020-02-17  2:35           ` Khem Raj
2020-02-17  8:12             ` Alexander Kanavin
2020-02-17 18:39               ` Khem Raj
2020-02-16 15:50 ` [PATCH 03/10] qemux86: do not add vga=0 to kernel parameters Alexander Kanavin
2020-02-16 15:50 ` [PATCH 04/10] qemux86: drop resolution setting via uvesafb Alexander Kanavin
2020-02-16 16:01   ` Martin Jansa
2020-02-16 16:10     ` Alexander Kanavin
2020-02-16 16:15       ` Alexander Kanavin
2020-02-16 15:50 ` [PATCH 05/10] weston-init: use the drm backend rather than fbdev one Alexander Kanavin
2020-02-16 17:00   ` Khem Raj
2020-02-16 17:07     ` Alexander Kanavin
2020-02-16 20:09       ` Khem Raj
2020-02-16 21:03         ` Alexander Kanavin
2020-02-17  2:30           ` Khem Raj
2020-02-17  8:22             ` Alexander Kanavin
2020-02-17 13:16               ` Alexander Kanavin
2020-02-17 18:44                 ` Khem Raj
2020-02-17 19:29                   ` Alexander Kanavin
2020-02-18  1:56                     ` Khem Raj
2020-02-19  9:45                       ` Alexander Kanavin
2020-02-19 17:20                         ` Khem Raj
2020-02-19 18:06                           ` Alexander Kanavin
2020-02-19 18:37                             ` Khem Raj [this message]
2020-02-16 15:50 ` [PATCH 06/10] webkitgtk: x11 and wayland are not mutually exclusive Alexander Kanavin
2020-02-16 15:50 ` [PATCH 07/10] weston: add a basic runtime test Alexander Kanavin
2020-02-16 15:50 ` [PATCH 08/10] webkitgtk: unbreak wayland build Alexander Kanavin
2020-02-16 16:09   ` Martin Jansa
2020-02-16 16:14     ` Alexander Kanavin
2020-02-16 18:06       ` Richard Purdie
2020-02-16 20:14   ` Khem Raj
2020-02-16 20:51     ` Alexander Kanavin
2020-02-23 14:33       ` Joshua Watt
2020-02-27 15:49         ` [wpe-webkit] " Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
2020-02-27 16:04           ` Joshua Watt
2020-02-16 15:50 ` [PATCH 09/10] wayland: convert to meson build Alexander Kanavin
2020-02-17 14:35   ` Richard Purdie
2020-02-17 14:50     ` Alexander Kanavin
2020-02-17 14:52       ` Richard Purdie
2020-02-17 14:53       ` Alexander Kanavin
2020-02-16 15:50 ` [PATCH 10/10] ptest-packagelists: mention ifupdown ptest in a comment Alexander Kanavin

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