[meta-freescale] imx6q: Graphics hardware acceleration with x11 (old topic)

[Otavio Salvador]

On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 2:45 AM, Prasant J <pj0585 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 6:53 PM, Otavio Salvador
> <otavio.salvador at ossystems.com.br> wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 6, 2018 at 3:26 PM, Prasant J <pj0585 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I happen to return to imx6 mailing  list after a long break.
>>> I vaguely recollect an old issue: on imx6q vivante graphics hardware
>>> rendering (for x11 build) did not work because the vivante libraries
>>> (x11 build) were not DRI2 compatible. As a result when using x11 then
>>> graphics is not hardware accelerated.
>>>
>>>
>>> Is this issue resolved? If yes, in which yocto release is this resolved?
>>>
>>>
>>> Any inputs will be of great help!
>>
>> X11 acceleration is supported using X11 and XWayland backends.
>
> @Otavia: Thanks so much for the information.
>
> We get this error:
> (II) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI2 capable
> (EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering
>
> Is AIGLX now supported by Vivante libraries?
> If yes, which yocto version will fix this issue?

This is still acelerated. You can confirm using glxgears for example.

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