[meta-freescale] [PATCH 10/52] wayland-protocols: Use i.MX fork

[Otavio Salvador]

On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 11:53 AM, Max Krummenacher <max.oss.09 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is this forking really needed? Really?
>
> E.g. libdrm is now forked for i.MX (at version 2.4.84 + ~ 10 i.MX patches)
> mesa in openembedded core got updated and in its configure step errors out
> because it requires a version > 2.4.84.
>
> With every such fork the version lock in forced onto users of
> meta-freescale becomes a bigger pain.
> With a PREFERRED_VERSION to something older + i.MX patches in SRC_URI
> one at least has a change to forward port within reasonable time.

It ended not being ported and with the forks we can disable them and
use mainline when possible. We need to push them to keep it up to date
and we as community is the best chance to push for it.

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