[meta-intel] [OE-core] [Patch-v2 1/1] mesa: avoid unnecessary rerunning of tasks

[Burton, Ross]

On 7 September 2013 00:56, Otavio Salvador <otavio at ossystems.com.br> wrote:
>> Maybe it is time to have a mesa-gl recipe alongside mesa that *just*
>> builds the GL libraries.  EMGD can depend on it for the driver modules
>> it installs, and presumably other vendors with binary drivers can
>> install it for the software rendering/GLX support (Otavio etc, please
>> step in here!).
>
> Yes; we have both situations at Freescale ARM BSP.
>
> For the AMD GPU binaries, which are used in MX5 SoCs we *just* use
> mesa GL and do software rendering.

So mesa-gl will work fine there.

> For Vivante GPU binaries, used for
> MX6, we use mesa GL *headers* but Vivante provides a libGL binary.

My, that's horrific.  I'd forgotten about this, for good reason clearly.

Ross