[meta-freescale] Regarding bitbaking for custom board (IMX6Q)with no display, for adding GPU support

[Daiane Angolini]

On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 9:54 AM, Abhilash Abraham
<abhilash.abraham at vvdntech.com> wrote:
> Hi Daiane,
>
>                  Thanks for the information.
>
>                  I have one more query. After the GPU processing, I need to
> copy the processed frame to user space to send it to remote system. I'm
> confused whether I should be calling eglSwapBuffer and read from fb0, fb1
> alternately or read from fb0 alone after the buffer swap.

I'm sorry, this question I cannot answer. I'm not a GPU/opengl expert.
I suggest you enter this question on imx.community


Daiane
>
>
> With Warm Regards,
>
> Abhilash T Abraham
> VVDN Technologies Pvt Ltd
> Cell : +91 9995202916 | Skype : abhilashtabraham
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 5:44 PM, Daiane Angolini <daiane.list at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 7:38 AM, Abhilash Abraham
>> <abhilash.abraham at vvdntech.com> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> >           I'm having a custom board with IMX6Q with no display. I'm
>> > having
>> > my captured frame being send to a remote system via socket. I'm using
>> > the
>> > v4l2 interface for the capture and sending it to GPU for some processing
>> > and
>> > need to take the processed data and send to the remote system. I have
>> > the
>> > following queries:
>> >
>> > 1. Should I be using an image without x11 and wayland because to my
>> > understanding the GPU processed image is coming in the framebuffers
>> > /dev/fb*
>> > and to use this I presume both x11 and wayland should be removed. Or in
>> > other words can I read from /dev/fb* even if its a x11 build?
>>
>> If your board does not have a display, I think it's really better to
>> avoid X11 or Wayland and stick to Framebuffer
>>
>> > 2. Which is the best image to be bitbaked for my purpose?
>>
>> Your own image.
>>
>> Start with core-image-basic, and then include the packages you need.
>>
>>
>> Daiane
>> >
>> > With Warm Regards,
>> >
>> > Abhilash T Abraham
>> > VVDN Technologies Pvt Ltd
>> > Cell : +91 9995202916 | Skype : abhilashtabraham
>> >
>> >
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