[meta-freescale] [meta-fsl-arm][PATCH] gstreamer1.0-plugins-imx: add i.MX7 support

[Gary Bisson]

Otavio, All,

On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 3:25 PM, Otavio Salvador
<otavio.salvador at ossystems.com.br> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 10:04 AM, Gary Bisson
> <gary.bisson at boundarydevices.com> wrote:
> ...
>> I'm not
>> sure why it would result in non-deterministic builds, would it be any
>> different than the current recipe to that regard?
>
> Consider if one of VPU libraries were build (by hand or being a
> dependency of any other recipe) and you later build the gstreamer-imx
> one. It will detect and use it. So depending on the build order you
> may have it with or without VPU support. So this is what we call a
> non-deterministic build.

But in this case we are talking about a platform which doesn't support
VPU right? Because the one supporting it (6QDL) have VPU libs in
DEPENDS, hence always generating the VPU plugins.
For other platforms, the VPU package won't build since the soc is not
compatible:
https://github.com/Freescale/meta-fsl-arm/blob/master/recipes-multimedia/libimxvpuapi/libimxvpuapi_0.10.1.bb#L16

The same goes for a platform which doesn't support GPU. I'm just
curious and want to understand in which case this can really happen.

Anyway, considering Carlos answer I think it makes sense to wait for
the new configuration options.

Regards,
Gary