[meta-freescale] yocto, linux-fslc and xorg

[Otavio Salvador]

On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 8:53 AM, Vanhauwaert Wouter
<W.Vanhauwaert at televic.com> wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Daiane Angolini [mailto:daiane.angolini at freescale.com]
>> Sent: maandag 16 september 2013 13:33
>> To: Vanhauwaert Wouter
>> Cc: meta-freescale at yoctoproject.org; Otavio Salvador
>> Subject: Re: [meta-freescale] yocto, linux-fslc and xorg
>>
>> On 09/16/2013 03:22 AM, Vanhauwaert Wouter wrote:
>> > Hello all,
>> >
>> > I want to do some tests with the mainline yocto (poky) with the meta-arm-fsl
>> layers and X.
>> > I want to make use of the latest mainline kernel. I added
>> PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel = "linux-fslc" to my local.conf and do
>> "bitbake core-image-web-kiosk"
>> >
>> > Then I'm facing a problem in the build (I'm building it for an imx53qsb):
>> >
>> > What is happening?
>>
>> What is happening is that the xf86-video-imxfb_11.09.01 expects the kernel
>> headers from kernel 2.6.35_11.09.01 and you only have the kernel headers from
>> 3.11, so you face a mismatch.
>>
>> Are you avalilable to change the xf86-video-imxfb_11.09.01 source code in
>> order to get it compatible with both kernels?
>>
>
> Well I don't know... Do you mean that the imx driver is not yet available for a recent kernel?
> Is adjusting this driver to work on a recent kernel good enough then / good starting point? Is there no mainline xorg driver available?
> These are my first steps with yocto in general, so I don't really know how much work it would be...

For now, you will need to use xf86-video-fbdev. Currently kernel
mainline does not have support for AMD GPU.

>> Otavio, do you think a bug must be created?

It would be good so people interested on it could contribute to the bug.

Regards,

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