[yocto] [meta-raspberrypi][PATCH 5/8] Support for vc4 graphics driver: upgrade 4.4 kernel to 4.4.10

[Andrei Gherzan]

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 08:28:00AM +0200, Andreas Müller wrote:
> On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 7:21 AM, Herve Jourdain <herve.jourdain at neuf.fr> wrote:
> > Hi Andreas,
> >
> > I've been able to do some testing with the latest 4.1 kernel.
> > So it can actually "work" in a way, but both the device tree overlay and the driver in the kernel are "old".
> > This has an impact on stability: I can definitely start wayland/weston, and it's "responsive", BUT after I started playing out with the demo applications, it quickly crashed...
> > So we could either try to backport the newer driver / dt overlay to the 4.1, which could be possible, or we could just support vc4graphics only for 4.4.10+...
> >
> > Since 4.1 is not heavily maintained anymore on github, since 4.4 is now the default revision on github, and since development branches for 4.5 and 4.6 are already there on github, I would personally be inclined to support vc4graphics only for 4.4.10+...
> > And I would also be in favor of moving the default version of the kernel to the 4.4 series...
> >
> > What do you think is the best option there?
> >
> No need to backport to 4.1. 4.4 is fine. One question: are you able to
> change screen resolution for HDMI monitor (elder sdl fullscreen games
> need that)? This was not possible for kernel 4.1.
>
> Just to avoid misunderstandings: I like this patch series very much
> and would be happy to see it applied.
>

Santa heard you.

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Andrei Gherzan
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