[meta-freescale] [meta-fsl-arm-extra PATCH 2/2] linux-boundary: Add support to Vivante 4.6.9p12 GPU code

[Otavio Salvador]

On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 12:48 PM, Eric Nelson
<eric.nelson at boundarydevices.com> wrote:
> On 08/12/2013 08:18 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 11:05 AM, Eric Nelson
>> <eric.nelson at boundarydevices.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 08/12/2013 05:50 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 7:12 PM, Eric Nelson
>>>> <eric.nelson at boundarydevices.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Right now, gpu-viv-bin-mx6q-3.5.7-1.0.0-hfp.bin only supports hard
>>>>> float. Will the EABI (4.0.0) binaries continue to be supported or
>>>>> will there be a corresponding package of EABI binaries?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> There's also a gpu-viv-bin-mx6q-3.5.7-1.0.0-sfp.bin and it is taken in
>>>> case you're building for Soft Float-Point. It should 'Just Work'.
>>>>
>>>
>>> If that's the case, we can just push the patches onto our
>>> main branch and not deal with the old/new GPU package question.
>>
>>
>> Not really as it will make impossible for your customers to use the
>> kernel with LTIB at 4.0.0 BSP (well, I'd love they stop using it
>> but...).
>>
>
> It's not just LTIB that's a question mark. The same comment
> goes for Debian, Buildroot, Timesys, Ubuntu, Arch or home-brew
> userspaces.
>
> If it's Freescale's recommendation that this GPU package is
> the **right** one for production use, our primary kernel
> branch should probably reflect that.

I think the recommendation is to stay in their 'official' and 'test'
set of packages so I think it is better to have p12 support as patches
so it is clear it is something we are doing 'by ourselves'.

> There's no reason someone using another userspace builder
> can't patch their process to update things.

Well yes but it makes their life harder and a branch which won't work
with 'official' package set. So I think patches are the way to go for
now.

> That said, I haven't quite heard this as Freescale's recommendation.
> Daiane, I don't suppose you want to stick your neck out...?

Poor Daiane ;-)

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