[meta-freescale] [PATCH v2 2/2] wayland-protocols: Fix PACKAGE_ARCH for i.MX-specific version

Andreas Müller schnitzeltony at gmail.com
Tue Sep 11 04:14:44 PDT 2018


On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 1:03 PM, Gary Bisson
<gary.bisson at boundarydevices.com> wrote:
>> For both is builds wayland-protocols_1.13.imx. So now the situation is
>> even worth: It builds fine but the wrong version of wayland protocols.
>> I think we need something like wayland-protocols-imx and
>> PREFERRED_PROVIDER solution
>
> The preferred_provider should indeed fix the use-mainline-bsp usecase.
At the risk of me repeating myself: All boards get wayland-protocols
V3 tailored for imx. This is something a BSP should not do.
>
> However I wonder why we need such recipe, wouldn't a bbappend to the
> wayland protocol recipe be sufficient?
If yes: same - please make sure other boards are not affected.
>
> Looking at the patches, they could actually be brought down to 2 patches:
> 1- add hdr10-metadata protocol
> 2- add alpha-compositing protocol
>
> Those patches really are not intrusive so I'm pretty sure they'd apply
> nicely on any version of wayland-protocol.
>
> Or maybe using the upstream version breaks things?
>
> As a FYI, I revived the alpha-compositing thread upstream so that it
> could be merged someday [1].
>
> Tom, is there any plan to upstream the hdr10-metadata protocol?
>
> Regards,
> Gary
>
> [1] https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/170804/

Andreas


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