[meta-freescale] [meta-fsl-arm][PATCH 0/2] Fixes for current state of 1.4

[Otavio Salvador]

On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Gary Thomas <samoht.yrag at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2012-12-19 08:35, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Gary Thomas <samoht.yrag at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> ...
>>>
>>> Thanks, I'm now using the yoctoproject.org repository and can see the
>>> recent changes.
>>>
>>> Sadly though, I can't build X11 drivers - full log attached.
>>> | In file included from ./vivante_util/vivante_common.h:69:0,
>>> |                  from vivante_fbdev/vivante_fbdev_driver.c:23:
>>> |
>>>
>>> /home/local/imx6_poky/tmp/sysroots/sabrelite/usr/include/xorg/fbdevhw.h:50:23:
>>> note: declared here
>>> | vivante_fbdev/vivante_fbdev_driver.c:780:26: warning: assignment from
>>> incompatible pointer type [enabled by default]
>>> | vivante_fbdev/vivante_fbdev_driver.c: In function 'VivCloseScreen':
>>> | vivante_fbdev/vivante_fbdev_driver.c:826:5: warning: passing argument 1
>>> of
>>> 'pScreen->CloseScreen' makes pointer from integer without a cast [enabled
>>> by
>>> default]
>>> | vivante_fbdev/vivante_fbdev_driver.c:826:5: note: expected 'ScreenPtr'
>>> but
>>> argument is of type 'int'
>>> | vivante_fbdev/vivante_fbdev_driver.c:826:5: error: too many arguments
>>> to
>>> function 'pScreen->CloseScreen'
>>> | make[2]: *** [vivante_fbdev_driver.lo] Error 1
>>> | make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
>>> | make[2]: Leaving directory
>>>
>>> `/home/local/imx6_poky/tmp/work/sabrelite-amltd-linux-gnueabi/xf86-video-imxfb-vivante/2_12.09.01-r20.1/xserver-xorg-video-imx-viv-12.09.01/src'
>>> | make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>>> | make[1]: Leaving directory
>>>
>>> `/home/local/imx6_poky/tmp/work/sabrelite-amltd-linux-gnueabi/xf86-video-imxfb-vivante/2_12.09.01-r20.1/xserver-xorg-video-imx-viv-12.09.01'
>>>
>>> Any ideas?  Maybe I've missed something else.
>>>
>>
>> It seems xf86 api changes; you need to check the change in API and
>> prepare a patch to the driver ... otherwise I can do it ...
>
>
> OK, I'll look at this.  I had expected this to already work, based on
> the earlier comments, but no problem.

I've researched how to make it in a flexible way and I found
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-geode/commit/?id=a83fcb6f84995dc50b8adffc27e264a663fbd606

So it's adviced to use a compat-api.h header that allows it to be
usable in old and new Xorg API's.

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