[meta-freescale] [meta-fsl-arm][PATCH 4/5] Enable Vivante kernel driver dynamic provider

Otavio Salvador otavio.salvador at ossystems.com.br
Thu Aug 20 04:09:59 PDT 2015


On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 12:03 PM, Daiane Angolini <daiane.list at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 6:26 AM, Otavio Salvador
> <otavio at ossystems.com.br> wrote:
>> The linux-imx.inc based kernels now can dynamically provide the
>> Vivante kernel driver and satisfy the runtime dependency added for the
>> Vivante GPU user space libraries. The beauty of this solution is that
>> it makes ease for 3rd party kernel to reuse the same infrastructure
>> and use the external module easily.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Otavio Salvador <otavio at ossystems.com.br>
>
> Let me think, it look works (-mx6) because the imx-gpu-viv recipe is
> only compatible with gpu socs and for a gpuless soc it will never be
> used, right?

Yes so this also reduces build time for those machines :-)

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