[yocto] NVIDIA or AMD accelerated graphics on x86 or x86-64 machine architecture

[Jon Szymaniak]

On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 15:51 Matt Ervin <matt.office at impsoftware.org>
wrote:

> I’m creating a poky (sumo branch) based OS image for x86_64 PC hardware.
> It’s an embedded device that is essentially a desktop PC in a box with
> additional features. My device requires accelerated graphics (either NVIDIA
> or AMD, not Intel) and I’m having difficulty identifying which layer and
> recipe to use for either device. Are there any recipes that encapsulate the
> NVIDIA Linux desktop binary drivers for x86? If not then are there any
> consultants willing to sell me some time to help me create one, or to
> create one for me? I did some google searching and found a layer from
> OakLabs, but it doesn’t work (at least not with the sumo branch). The
> README file in the recipe also states that it’s likely to break the build,
> and it did produce errors for me. I’m not familiar with AMD on Linux so I
> don’t know if the xf86-video-ati recipe in the meta-oe layer provides
> accelerated desktop drivers or, if it does, which AMD devices it supports.
> I’m obviously very new to Yocto so any guidance is greatly appreciated.
>
>
>
> - Matt
>

Hi Matt,

Any chance you share a bit more info including:

1) Which OakLabs layer you using, and what exactly the failures messages
are?

2) Which NVIDIA and AMD devices you need to support?  Specifically which
drivers do you want installed?


Thanks,
Jon
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