[meta-freescale] Vivante softfp with Yocto dora ??

[David Chirgwin]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Otavio Salvador" <otavio at ossystems.com.br>
> To: "David Chirgwin" <dchirgwin at bluechiptechnology.co.uk>
> Cc: "meta-freescale Mailing List" <meta-freescale at yoctoproject.org>
> Sent: Thursday, 6 March, 2014 12:33:58 PM
> Subject: Re: [meta-freescale] Vivante softfp with Yocto dora ??
> 
> On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 6:14 AM, David Chirgwin
> <dchirgwin at bluechiptechnology.co.uk> wrote:
> > I have a customer who wants to add vivante support to an existing
> > softfp rootfs (their own custom distro).
> > At the moment I have supplied them a Yocto distro as a
> > proof-of-concept (based on Dora branch, using hardfp).
> >
> > I have seen this post
> > https://community.freescale.com/message/372390#372390 which tells
> > me how to persuade Yocto to use softfp for compilation. But how
> > would I tell Yocto I want the softfp versions of pre-compiled
> > binaries (in particular the vivante drivers)?
> >
> > Is there a setting in conf/local.conf, or do I need a new recipe or
> > something else?
> 
> If you use a Soft-FP build  it will do the right thing for you. Or it
> is a bug ;-)

Thanks for this. 

I added this line to conf/local.conf :
 
DEFAULTTUNE_mx6 = "cortexa9-neon"

and it all worked after that. :-)

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