[meta-freescale] [meta-fsl-arm-extra] Problems building for RIoTboard

[Nikolay Dimitrov]

Hi Gary,

On 04/24/2015 01:04 PM, Gary Thomas wrote:
> The imx6dl-riotboard has been updated to Linux 4.0 kernel.
> Sadly, this breaks a number of related packages, in particular
> any that are directly tied to the kernel sources.  These packages
> no longer build for the RIoTboard:
>
> meta-fsl-arm/recipes-bsp/imx-lib/imx-lib_3.10.53-1.1.0.bb
> | mxc_ipu_hl_lib.h:104:25: fatal error: linux/mxcfb.h: No such file or
> directory
> |  #include <linux/mxcfb.h>
>
> meta-fsl-arm/recipes-multimedia/alsa/fsl-alsa-plugins_1.0.25.bb:
> |
> /local/p0382-cutting-edge_2014-11-21/tmp/work/imx6dl_riotboard-amltd-linux-gnueabi/fsl-alsa-plugins/1.0.25-r0/fsl-alsa-plugins-1.0.25/asrc/asrc_pair.h:28:28:
> fatal error: linux/mxc_asrc.h: No such file or directory
> |  #include <linux/mxc_asrc.h>
>
> I'm really interested in getting X going on my RIoTboard.
> Are there any workarounds (or fixes) that might get me going?

Btw, mainline kernels have support only for the imx framebuffer, but no
additional acceleration (VPU, GL, probably ASRC also). All these extras
are available only with the vendor's kernel.

If you need the acceleration, I would suggest going back to 3.14.28.

Regards,
Nikolay