[Buildroot] [autobuild.buildroot.net] Build results for 2016-03-03

Peter Korsgaard peter at korsgaard.com
Tue Mar 8 21:59:19 UTC 2016


>>>>> "Gary" == Gary Bisson <gary.bisson at boundarydevices.com> writes:

Hi,

>> > I'm looking into a solution but those FREESCALE_IMX_PLATFORM_* are not
 >> > easy to play with.
 >> 
 >> What do you find not easy with those options?

 > The problem with those platform variables is that you can't select
 > them nor you can make imx-vpu easily dependent of them.

 > It requires to change all the packages that select imx-vpu
 > (libimxvpuapi, libfslvpuwrap, gst-fsl-plugins) with redundant
 > information like:
 > depends on BR2_PACKAGE_FREESCALE_IMX_PLATFORM_IMX27ADS || \
 >         BR2_PACKAGE_FREESCALE_IMX_PLATFORM_IMX51 || \
 >         BR2_PACKAGE_FREESCALE_IMX_PLATFORM_IMX53 || \
 >         BR2_PACKAGE_FREESCALE_IMX_PLATFORM_IMX6Q

 > Although I don't think it's possible, it'd be great to have a macro like:
 > depends on FREESCALE_IMX_PLATFORM_HAS_VPU()

Those _IMX_PLATFORM_IMXx option could presumably select a hidden
_FREESCALE_IMX_PLATFORM_HAS_VPU and then use it somewhat similar to our
BR2_PACKAGE_FOO_ARCH_SUPPORTS options.

 > Or we could drop old platforms support as well as gstreamer0.10 fsl
 > plugins like Yocto did, keeping only mx51/53/6q which are the only we
 > truly support.
 > https://github.com/Freescale/meta-fsl-arm/commit/83b240e7
 > https://github.com/Freescale/meta-fsl-arm/commit/3b698004

The question is, do we have users of the older variants? Does the old
stuff block anything?

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard


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