[yocto] [meta-raspberrypi] Thoughts on Raspberry Pi firmware

[Philipp Wagner]

Am 15.05.2013 11:29, schrieb Tomas Frydrych:
> On 14/05/13 13:09, Paul Barker wrote:
>> Secondly, is there any use case for building vc-graphics or 
>> vc-graphics-hardfp to provide virtual/egl and virtual/libgles2
>> (which rely on binary files from the raspberry pi firmware repo)
>> instead of compiling from source using the userland package?
> 
> It would be preferable if we could build these from source; last time I
> tried (which, admittedly, is a long while back), this was not possible
> because of some missing broadcom-specific header files that seemed not
> available anywhere, but I guess this is no longer the case.

The graphics libraries can now be compiled from source (userland is part
of meta-raspberrypi) and in my tests it's equivalent to the binary
drivers. I'm not sure if those should be removed from meta-raspberrypi
or left there for somebody who still needs them (why?).

Philipp