[meta-freescale] Chromium acceleration

[Otavio Salvador]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Christian Betz
<christian.betz at gmail.com> wrote:
>> \m/ bear on mind I pushed Chromium 35 in meta-browser ;-)
>
>
> this is great news. with any luck we'll let you know how it builds and works
> for us sometime next week. thank you!
>
> i assume you got it built successfully and have it running in some fashion.
> In case we have trouble, can you share what your exact setup was? I'm just
> assuming you used a imx6qsabresd machine with code from fsl master-next or
> master-branches (i.e. latest GPU drivers).

Gary did.

> did you look at chrome://gpu and confirm various acceleration modes are
> enabled? i attached a screenshot from my **intel/nvidia** system for
> reference.
>
> I think lauren is curious if webgl is working for you with latest vivante
> drivers. And *I* am curious about 'accelerated compositing'.

I didn't build the new chromium for a while (working for a customer
with a way older version for a specific version).

> btw everyone: m35 is a very ambitious release where google has ripped out
> GTK and replaced it with 'Aura' (a combined widget and compositing toolkit
> apparently). i just wanted to mention that.

Yes; this also opens the door for Wayland support in future ;-)

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