[meta-freescale] Removing gpu-viv-bin-mx6q from custom image

[Daiane Angolini]

On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 10:20 AM, Jean-Michel Hautbois
<jhautbois at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2015-06-30 14:13 GMT+02:00 Daiane Angolini <daiane.list at gmail.com>:
>> On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 9:01 AM, Jean-Michel Hautbois
>> <jhautbois at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi Daiane,
>>>
>>> 2015-06-30 13:37 GMT+02:00 Daiane Angolini <daiane.list at gmail.com>:
>>>> On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 2:33 AM, Jean-Michel Hautbois
>>>> <jhautbois at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Hi !
>>>>>
>>>>> I have a custom image for a I.MX6 board and I don't need to have the
>>>>> gpu-viv-bin-mx6q package installed. I am depending in my image on
>>>>> core-image-base and I don't add it in the EXTRA_IMAGE_INSTALL variable. But
>>>>> I still get it installed.
>>>>>
>>>>> What is it installed by and how can I remove it ?
>>>>
>>>> The complete BSP is built targeting the maximum use of GPU
>>>> acceleration for any imx6Q boards. That's why you cannot "remove" GPU
>>>> packages. Too many dependencies making you use it by default.
>>>>
>>>> You can try to blacklist it
>>>> (http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.8/mega-manual/mega-manual.html#ref-classes-blacklist)
>>>>
>>>> Or, you can override several BSP configurations:
>>>>
>>>> http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-fsl-arm/tree/conf/machine/include/imx-base.inc#n23
>>>> http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-fsl-arm/tree/conf/machine/include/imx-base.inc#n94
>>>> (from line 94 to 108)
>>>
>>> Just tested to add this to my custom machine :
>>> XSERVER_DRIVER_mx6 ?= ""
>>> PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/egl_mx6 ?= ""
>>> PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/libgles1_mx6q ?= ""
>>> PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/libgles1_mx6dl ?= ""
>>> PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/libgles1_mx6sx ?= ""
>>> PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/libgles1_mx6sl ?= ""
>>> PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/libgles2_mx6q ?= ""
>>> PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/libgles2_mx6dl ?= ""
>>> PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/libgles2_mx6sx ?= ""
>>> PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/libgles2_mx6sl ?= ""
>>> PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/libgl_mx6q ?= ""
>>> PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/libgl_mx6dl ?= ""
>>> PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/libgl_mx6sx ?= ""
>>> PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/libgl_mx6sl ?= ""
>>> PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/libg2d_mx6 ?= ""
>>>
>>> But the following command still shows gpu-viv-bin-mx6q :
>>> bitbake -g my-image && cat pn-depends.dot | grep -v -e '-native' |
>>> grep -v digraph | grep -v -e '-image' | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq
>>
>>
>> I would use a stronger assignemnt instead of ?=
>> (http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.6/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual.html#setting-a-default-value)
>>
>> Maybe imx-base.inc from BSP is stronger than you machine config file.
>>
>> However, maybe I forgot one BSP dependency. Which package your
>> dependency graph say is bringing the vpu package?
>
> You mean bitbake -g gpu-viv-bin-mx6q ?
> Or something else ?

I though about using the same command line you shared before:

>>> bitbake -g my-image && cat pn-depends.dot | grep -v -e '-native' |
>>> grep -v digraph | grep -v -e '-image' | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq

But without the grep's

Daiane
>
> JM