[meta-intel] Xrandr support on CrownBay with EMGD

[Kamble, Nitin A]

Hi Chat,

I have resurrected coupel of xrandr recipes in the meta-intel test branch here:
http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-intel-contrib/log/?h=nitin/misc

I have not got a chance to validate these commits. In addition, I am not sure whether both xrander and libxrander need to be changed.
If you get a chance, can you try these commits? Mark these specific versions as a dependency on the EMGD, and rebuild and test the BSP. If it solves the issue we can push some commits to fix this issue in the meta-intel.

Thanks,
Nitin


From: Chad Bishop [mailto:Chad.Bishop at ravenind.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2014 4:31 PM
To: Kamble, Nitin A
Cc: Seow, Chen Yong
Subject: RE: Xrandr support on CrownBay with EMGD

Hello Nitin,

The last version 1.2 release of xrandr was in 2009.

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/xrandr/tag/?id=xrandr-1.2.99.4

My understanding of the BSP and distro created for crownbay early on, by TimeSys for Intel was last reved in October of 2012.    That shipped with 1.3.0-5.

However, that version of xrandr in that distribution doesn't work either for runtime rotation.

We've been retrieving the F14 flavor from here :

[cid:image002.png at 01CF0D31.CA0CF880]
https://linuxlink.timesys.com/intel/linux/crownBay/#<https://linuxlink.timesys.com/intel/linux/crownBay/>

I did notice the Fedora Core 11 was repackaged to initially support this hardware.  The original delivery of that distro is in the 2009 time frame :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Fedora_releases#Fedora_11



Before I go running off down rabbit holes, can you please inquire as to the distribution where xrandr 1.2.x was determined to be running successfully for runtime rotation?

I have begun to download the FC11 install packages provided by timesys, which may be the distro in question.  If it works I'll at least know which version of xrandr was confirmed to work with which EMGD version.

I hope to have time to try to pull in a xrandr 1.2.x recipe into our layer tomorrow sometime and give it a go, but I fear, given the time since its release that there will be a non-trivial number of incompatibilities.

The last and knowingly most painful question I need to ask is, are there any plans to bring EMGD on crownbay up to compatibility with these newer packages?  Or is it being mothballed?

I apologize for the long note.  I appreciate your efforts.

Best Regards,
Chad
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