[meta-freescale] iMX6UL EVK and Qt QML - Am I missing something?

[Otavio Salvador]

On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 2:03 PM, Cjb_SW Freescale
<cjb.sw.nospam at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear All,
> I've just build an image "fsl-image-multimedia-full" for the imx6ulevk
> platform, including Qt5, and based on Krogoth branch.
> Everything work fine, the board boot and kernel is loaded without problems,
> I can see the terminal on the screen.
>
> Now, I try to launch qt5 demos (cinematicexperience) but it does not start,
> and after a little investigations I discovered that qt5 QML is not supported
> on this platform, due to the fact that the cpu does not have a GPU.
>
> Since in our applications we use QML, and if it is not possible to have it
> in Qt5, I can even use the old Qt4.8, with raster engine, but I see that it
> is not available in openembedded, anymore..
>
>
> Any suggestion?

The UltraLite does not provide a 3D GPU so community Qt5 does not work
for QML apps. For this you need the commercial Qt5 or the upcoming 5.7
release.


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