[meta-freescale] [meta-fsl-arm-extra PATCH v3 0/3] Add Vivante 4.6.9p13 GPU support

[Otavio Salvador]

Hello John,


On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 8:33 PM, John Weber <rjohnweber at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/29/2014 2:10 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>>
>> This adds support for 3.0.35 based boards to work with the new
>> GPU drivers.
>>
>> The Wandboard kernel does not build, the GPU patch does not apply and
>> we need to update it to 3.0.35-4.1.0 or stright to the 3.10.17. I'd
>> like to get a feedback from John on this.
>
> I've given Tapani's 3.0.35_4.1.0 kernel a try on Wandboard and it seems to
> work well with the prebuilt Ubuntu images that they post on the Wandboard
> site, but I (and others) have seen some stability problems with it in Yocto
> during boot.  I haven't spend any time trying to isolate the problems with
> it because it didn't seem that pressing of an upgrade.
>
> I would rather spend the time upgrading straight to 3.10.17 assuming that it
> is going to GA from Freescale sometime in the near future. I have some
> features working on it but not enough to justify making it the default
> kernel yet.  I'll get more time to spend on that towards the end of next
> week as this week all of my free time is spent working or on another
> pressing project.
>
> If anyone else in the community wants to help fix this in the meantime by
> working on 3.0.35_4.1.0 for Wandboard, don't let me stand in your way.  :-)

I don't think it is a problem at this moment as we're stuck awaiting a
feedback from Freescale about the Xorg resolution regression. So I
think we have some time for it. In either case, if we end merging it
before you're done we can re-evaluate this and decide what to do next.

Does it sounds fine?

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