[Buildroot] [PATCH v7 10/13] Vivante drivers: bump to version 3.10.17-1.0.1

Gary Bisson gary.bisson at boundarydevices.com
Tue May 5 09:07:59 UTC 2015


Thomas, All,

On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 10:10 AM, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> Gary,
>
> On Tue, 5 May 2015 10:06:11 +0200, Gary Bisson wrote:
>
>> > Jérôme, Gary, would you be able to test the new version of the GPU
>> > drivers, and see if they work with both 3.10.17 and 3.10.53 ?
>>
>> I'll try it out, but why don't we update the package and the kernel
>> versions at once. A quick glance at the git repos shows that there's a
>> 3.10.53 version for QMX6, Nitrogen6x and all the Freescale boards.
>> Then the Wandboard doesn't appear to be maintained as it's still using
>> a 3.0.x kernel and the riotboard uses mainline kernel.
>
> Well, you're only looking at boards that have a defconfig in Buildroot.
> But I'm pretty sure there are lots of people using Buildroot on custom
> i.MX6 boards, which may not necessarily be supported by all kernel
> versions.

Sure but the other way around applies too, like what Antoine had to do
when working on a 3.10.53 kernel.

> That being said, the jump from 3.10.17 to 3.10.53 is probably
> relatively easy, so people having such custom i.MX6 boards could just
> as well do the jump.

Agreed, although Freescale changed quite a few things in the display sub-system.

> So, I'd indeed suggest to move all i.MX6 defconfigs in Buildroot to
> 3.10.53, and update the GPU drivers accordingly.

I'll prepare patches to upgrade every packages to 3.10.53 GA release
and there's a few.

Antoine, do you have a patch ready for the GPU package? Because it
seems that it's not just a version bump:
https://github.com/Freescale/meta-fsl-arm/commit/74c86aa9639f6f20991ab64ea75177a017f8749a

Regards,
Gary


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