[meta-freescale] imx6q animated splash screen using plymouth

[Otavio Salvador]

On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 5:02 PM, Prasant J <pj0585 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 9:14 PM, Otavio Salvador
> <otavio.salvador at ossystems.com.br> wrote:
>> Prasant,
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 8:53 AM, Prasant J <pj0585 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I'm using toradex imx6q SOM module with yocto 'jethro' release.
>>>
>>> Currently we are using psplash for boot screen logo and progress bar.
>>> I would like to know if its possible to run animated splash screen
>>> with plymouth?
>>
>> Depending on the animation you intend to use, it might not work well
>> as using software rendering is slow. It'd need to have the GPU backend
>> support to work fine.
>>
>
> @Otavio,
>
> Thanks for inputs.
> A while back I was looking into GPU/viv topics but that had taken a back
> seat (for like 2 years). Now I have moved to a different project and
> we need a headful system. So I'm little out of touch with the updates
> on the GPU end.
>
> Why do you say it will use software rendering?
> We have GPU libraries built in.
>
> What am I missing here?

I am in doubt it will use GLES 2 automatically; I hope I am wrong.

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