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

[Matt Ervin]

Hi Jon,

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

A: I’m using the Oak Labs repo located here: 
https://github.com/OakLabsInc/meta-nvidia
I have the “pyro” branch checked out, as it’s the only branch in the 
repo, and I followed the instructions in the “README” to add the recipe 
to my build by modifying my “local.conf” file.  This is the output it 
produces:

$ bitbake sockeye-gm
WARNING: Layer nvidia should set LAYERSERIES_COMPAT_nvidia in its 
conf/layer.conf file to list the core layer names it is compatible with.
WARNING: Layer nvidia should set LAYERSERIES_COMPAT_nvidia in its 
conf/layer.conf file to list the core layer names it is compatible with.
WARNING: Host distribution "ubuntu-18.04" has not been validated with 
this version of the build system; you may possibly experience unexpected 
failures. It is recommended that you use a tested distribution.
Parsing recipes: 100% 
|########################################################################################################################################################| 
Time: 0:00:21
Parsing of 1553 .bb files complete (0 cached, 1553 parsed). 2188 
targets, 73 skipped, 0 masked, 0 errors.
ERROR: No recipes available for:
/home/peniwize/yocto/poky/meta-nvidia/recipes-graphics/mesa/mesa_17.0.2.bbappend
/home/peniwize/yocto/poky/meta-nvidia/recipes-graphics/xorg-xserver/xserver-xorg_1.19.1.bbappend

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

A: I’m planning to use an NVIDIA 1050 ti, if I can get the NVIDIA 
drivers working with Yocto.  The latest driver installer can be 
downloaded from: 
https://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/410.73/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-410.73.run, 
which I found from https://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/139110, which 
I found from https://www.geforce.com/drivers.

I’m not certain about which AMD device I would use.  I’m trying to find 
out which devices are supported by Yocto to see if I can find a hardware 
provider for any of them.  I currently have one hardware provider that 
offers these AMD devices:

AMD Embedded Radeon™ GFX-E9175
AMD Radeon™ RX 560 GFX-AR560F16-5A
AMD Radeon™ Pro WX 5100 GFX-5100 Radeon Pro
AMD Radeon™ HD7750 GPU
AMD Radeon™ E6760 Embedded GPU
AMD Radeon™ E6760 Embedded GPU
AMD Radeon™ E6760 Embedded GPU

A quick google search for drivers led me to: 
https://www.amd.com/en/support/graphics/radeon-500-series/radeon-rx-500-series/radeon-rx-560. 
It looks like I can download rpm’s or deb’s so perhaps I can extract the 
required drivers directly from those packages and use them verbatim.  
I’ve never used a Radeon so I don’t know it it requires kernel modules 
or if there is any compilation involved with installing its drivers like 
there is with NVIDIA drivers.

Thanks for the help!

- Matt

On 10/27/18 11:36 AM, Jon Szymaniak wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 15:51 Matt Ervin <matt.office at impsoftware.org 
> <mailto: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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