[meta-freescale] Chromium acceleration

[Carlos Rafael Giani]

On 2014-04-02 12:21, Boszormenyi Zoltan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2014-04-01 21:22 keltezéssel, Eric Nelson írta:
>>
>> Mahyar updated these patches to apply against the chromium-35.0.1883.0
>> build currently in meta-browser.
>>
>> Additional notes to follow, but this appears to achieve HTML5 video
>> against Webm/Ogg videos when chromium is started with these command
>> line arguments:
>>      --ignore-gpu-blacklist --enable-gpu --usegl-egl
>
> you meant "--use-gl=egl".
>
> I have rebuilt Chromium with these patches. The result cannot play a 
> short MP4 video from a file:// URL.
> The console output is very suspicious, libGAL complains about a 
> missing ID file that actually exists.
> The image about the console is attached.
>
> Best regards,
> Zoltán Böszörményi
>

The VPU part could be because of missing firmware. Check if the vpu 
files are present in /lib/firmware.
As for MP4, this is a known problem. You are building Chromium, not 
Chrome. MP4 support is part of the restricted feature set, which is 
included in Chrome but not Chromium. Try a WebM file for example.