[meta-freescale] qt5 toolchain

[Otavio Salvador]

On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 7:03 PM, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
<mail at webthatworks.it> wrote:
> On 10/15/2015 06:48 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>
>>> I'll subscribe to openembedded ML and move the topic there to see what
>>> would
>>> be the quality level required for a patch to
>>> packagegroup-qt5-toolchain-target.bb
>>> or if I should just write my own layer to _remove stuff from there.
>
>
>>>  From my point of view disabling opengl (and other things strictly HW
>>> related) should be something set in the lowest layer and be passed on to
>>> higher software layer so to make it clearer to higher layers that they
>>> should take it into account ASAP and not as a "retro-fit".
>
>
>>> qtlocation doesn't seem to depend on qt3d anymore, but it still depends
>>> on
>>> qtquickcontrols that up to my memory depends on opengl.
>
>
>> All your feedback is valuable and I agree with it. We welcome patches
>> to improve the support for opengl-less CPUs or you can hire someone
>> (us - O.S. Systems, or other software vendor) to do the work.
>> Personally I do my best to address as many things as my free time can
>> fit so I apologize for your turn-key experience not being as good as
>> you wished but you can help to improve it (in one way or another).
>
>
> That's my free time as well, if I had to make things "just work" I'd build
> the sdk and then just ./configure and copy stuff to the image by hand.
> Unfortunately I'm pretty new to qt and yocto and sooner or later things will
> have to "just work". I'm concerned that the solution I'll come up with will
> be substandard to be merged to meta-qt5, especially if I'll be left alone in
> the cold, before the time I'll have to make things "just work" will come and
> all my efforts will be lost in time like tears in the rain.
>
> Still putting together the right knowledge to try to contribute a bit back.

The community, myself included, can review patches and provide
feedback and possible advises how to better rework the patches. For
sure.

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