[meta-freescale] fsl framebuffer image ?

[Daiane Angolini]

On 31-01-2014 19:47, David Hill wrote:
>
> Thanks Otavio,
>    I see now that I picked the wrong machine type for the SDP in this
> build, which now make clear to me why I had a failure building u-boot.
> Unfortunately I don't need to do a lot of this so it is easy to stumble
> on which board is which.
>
>     My need is for fsl-image-fb (or something close to it). Any recent
> kernel will do as long as I can get the accelerated framebuffer
> rendering stuff with a handful of other useful items like sshd.

You could copy only the fsl-image-fb image file, for your first tests.

But, the piece of code you need is:

DISTRO_FEATURES_remove = "x11 wayland"

x11 and wayland are the default DISTRO_FEATURES backend, if you remove 
both, you have framebuffer.


Daiane

>
> We have several different boards in my group, Freescale and Boundry and
> maybe even a Wandboard, so I would really prefer not to use the
> meta-fsl-bsp-release if there is an easier, mainline way that I can
> understand. (And I guess follow directions).
>
> Any suggestions as to how I should proceed with to get accelerated fb
> support with fsl-community-bsp other than the earlier suggestion of
> qt4e-demo-image?
>
> I really wish that fsl-image-x11 just contained the two needed GL
> libraries with different postfixes like it used to. (libEGL-fb.so) I
> don't care about the image size because I am not distributing it.
>
> thanks,
>      Dave
>
>
> On 1/31/14, Jan 31, 11:11 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>> Hello David,
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 7:55 PM, David Hill <David.Hill at oracle.com>
>> wrote:
>>> On 1/14/14, Jan 14, 9:25 PM, Lauren Post wrote:
>>>> You can use the one in our meta-fsl-bsp-release layer.  There is one
>>>> being
>>>> reviewed based on the one Freescale released in the
>>>> meta-fsl-bsp-release
>>>> layer.  Our current 3.10.17-1.0.0 beta has support for all the
>>>> graphical
>>>> backends including the related image recipes for each backend.
>>>>
>>>> Get meta-fsl-release-layer from git.freescale.com.
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Lauren,
>>>     could I trouble you for a quick question ? I am getting a build
>>> failure
>>> and have not a clue how to proceed.
>>>
>>> meta-fsl-bsp-release & git checkout origin/dora_3.10.17-1.0.0_beta
>>>
>>> MACHINE=imx6qsabrelite
>>> bitbake fsl-iamge-fb
>> ...
>>
>> Personally I don't use the meta-fsl-bsp-release layer as it's not a
>> community layer, and we cannot contribute back patches and fixes to
>> it.
>>
>> The  release layer is the official way Freescale is using to release
>> its new source code on top of meta-fsl-arm. The supported board list
>> is limited and is usually available in its release notes. But I don't
>> believe sabrelite is supported, as it's not a board from Freescale.
>>
>> I recommend you to use the fsl-community-bsp as is as sabrelite is
>> properly supported in there by Boundary Devices. You can see a blog
>> post[1] about how to build an image for Nitrogen6x (which works for
>> sabrelite board too). Just change "dylan" to "dora", the latest stable
>> release.
>>
>> If you need kernel 3.10.17 you can have an early snapshot on
>> master-next, although it's a work in progress, so far.
>>
>> 1.
>> http://www.ossystems.com.br/blog/2013/04/15/yocto-with-boundary-devices-nitrogen6x-5-steps-only.html
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>
>


-- 
Daiane