[yocto] Raspberrypi3 with Kodi (as an exercise)

[Khem Raj]

On 7/1/17 4:10 AM, Juan José Casafranca wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> I'm completely new to the Yocto project, just started playing with it
> and my rpi3 two days ago.
> 
> As an exercise to learn how Yocto works, I'm trying to build a rpi image
> which can launch kodi.
> 
> Right now I'm able of building an image which contains kodi,but when I
> try to launch it, it fails. It says that it cannot create the GUI. (I
> have tried kodi, kodi --standalone and kodi-standadlone, same result)
> 

do you have x11 and opengl in your DISTRO_FEATURES ? you can check it
with bitbake -e kodi | grep -e "^DISTRO_FEATURES="


> In order to build the image, I had to add
> 
> MACHINE_FEATURES += "vc4graphics" so it gets mesa as egl, gl and opengl
> provider.
>

it should work with both userland and vc4graphics.


> If I dont add that feature, kodi complains about not finding egl during
> configuration. I dont understand why it complains, since userland (the
> default) its a egl provider (as it says in the recipe at least, probably
> I am understanding something incorrectly).
> 
> Could you please guide me a little bit with this? As I said, it's my
> first time playing with embedded devices and with yocto, so some
> explanations would be nice :-)

This is good section to work on in OE in general.

> 
> 
> Thanks!
> 


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