[meta-freescale] [meta-fsl-arm][PATCH 1/5] libfslcodec: Upgrade to v4.0.9

Otavio Salvador otavio.salvador at ossystems.com.br
Thu Mar 31 09:22:33 PDT 2016


On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 12:14 PM, Carlos Rafael Giani
<dv at pseudoterminal.org> wrote:
> I have a suggestion for this recipe.
>
> The uniaudio codecs require knowledge about the SONAME of the plugin.
> Without this SONAME, accessing these plugins is not possible. For this
> reason, imx-gst1.0-plugin installs a file in /etc/ that contains a list of
> these plugins.
> (gstreamer-imx scans for plugins and extracts the SONAME at build time
> instead.)
>
> It would make more sense to add such a file to the libfslcodec package. This
> list would contain a list of each uniaudio plugin along with its SONAME.
> This way, other packages such as imx-gst1.0-plugin and gstreamer-imx do not
> have to scan the plugins on their own for the SONAME - they can just rely on
> this list file to exist in the rootfs.

I agree with the general idea however this needs to be done for next
imx-codec release as this must be included in the build process; to be
honest, the backward compatibility will be a headache as the content
user may, or may not, have it at disposal.

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