[Buildroot] [PATCH] package/freescale-imx/imx-gpu-viv: force wayland backend for all i.MX8

[Sébastien Szymanski]

Hello Gary,

On 4/27/21 2:04 PM, Gary Bisson wrote:
> - As Vivante blobs only support Wayland for all i.MX 8

Are you sure about that ? The examples (vv_launcher, tiger and
cover_flow) are working fine on my i.MX8MM platform with the Framebuffer
output.
The libraries need libdrm, though. I will send a patch to fix the
missing dependency here.

Regards,

> - Previously was only checking on IMX8M platform, allowing other
> platforms to select another backend which was wrong
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gary Bisson <gary.bisson at boundarydevices.com>
> ---
> Hi,
> 
> I know creating such empty config is not recommended, but it appeared to
> be the cleanest solution not to copy the platform names many times.
> But I'm open to another approach, let me know.
> 
> Regards,
> Gary
> ---
>  package/freescale-imx/imx-gpu-viv/Config.in | 15 ++++++++++++---
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/package/freescale-imx/imx-gpu-viv/Config.in b/package/freescale-imx/imx-gpu-viv/Config.in
> index cca2689905..ba1baa6b7b 100644
> --- a/package/freescale-imx/imx-gpu-viv/Config.in
> +++ b/package/freescale-imx/imx-gpu-viv/Config.in
> @@ -29,6 +29,15 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_IMX_GPU_VIV
>  
>  if BR2_PACKAGE_IMX_GPU_VIV
>  
> +config BR2_PACKAGE_IMX_GPU_VIV_OUTPUT_WL_ONLY
> +	bool
> +	default y if BR2_PACKAGE_FREESCALE_IMX_PLATFORM_IMX8 || \
> +		BR2_PACKAGE_FREESCALE_IMX_PLATFORM_IMX8M || \
> +		BR2_PACKAGE_FREESCALE_IMX_PLATFORM_IMX8MM || \
> +		BR2_PACKAGE_FREESCALE_IMX_PLATFORM_IMX8MN || \
> +		BR2_PACKAGE_FREESCALE_IMX_PLATFORM_IMX8MP || \
> +		BR2_PACKAGE_FREESCALE_IMX_PLATFORM_IMX8X
> +
>  choice
>  	prompt "Output option"
>  	help
> @@ -40,19 +49,19 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_IMX_GPU_VIV_OUTPUT_X11
>  	bool "X11"
>  	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_XORG7
>  	# The i.MX8 blob doesn't support X11 output
> -	depends on !BR2_PACKAGE_FREESCALE_IMX_PLATFORM_IMX8M
> +	depends on !BR2_PACKAGE_IMX_GPU_VIV_OUTPUT_WL_ONLY
>  	select BR2_PACKAGE_XLIB_LIBXDAMAGE
>  	select BR2_PACKAGE_XLIB_LIBXEXT
>  	select BR2_PACKAGE_XLIB_LIBXFIXES
>  
>  comment "X11 backend needs Xorg package"
>  	depends on !BR2_PACKAGE_XORG7
> -	depends on !BR2_PACKAGE_FREESCALE_IMX_PLATFORM_IMX8M
> +	depends on !BR2_PACKAGE_IMX_GPU_VIV_OUTPUT_WL_ONLY
>  
>  config BR2_PACKAGE_IMX_GPU_VIV_OUTPUT_FB
>  	bool "Framebuffer"
>  	# The i.MX8 blob doesn't support FB output
> -	depends on !BR2_PACKAGE_FREESCALE_IMX_PLATFORM_IMX8M
> +	depends on !BR2_PACKAGE_IMX_GPU_VIV_OUTPUT_WL_ONLY
>  
>  config BR2_PACKAGE_IMX_GPU_VIV_OUTPUT_WL
>  	bool "Wayland"
> 


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Sébastien Szymanski, Armadeus Systems
Software engineer