[meta-freescale] [Sumo] Freescale iMX6 vivante support with EGLFS Qt5

[Joe Rutledge]

Thanks for the breakdown and the help both of you. I'll give etnaviv a go.

Joe


On 31/08/18 18:27, Fabio Estevam wrote:
> Hi Joe.
>
> On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 12:22 PM, Joe Rutledge <joe.rutledge at phabrix.com> wrote:
>> Hi Otavio,
>>
>> Sorry, I'm still not clear! In order to get h/w graphics acceleration on the
>> iMX6 I have to use the Vivante driver (correct?), which means I have to use
>> either linux-imx or linux-fslc-imx. You have had success with other
>> customers with Qt based on the linux-fslc-imx kernel? This is what I should
>> use in order to get Qt with h/w GPU acceleration (the vivante driver)?
> linux-fslc uses a mainline kernel (4.17) and  the graphics userspace
> packages are standard ones: mesa, libdrm.
>
> Mainline kernel has support for mx6 GPUs through the etnaviv driver.
>
> Please give this is a try as it is a better solution for long time support.
>
>