[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?
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Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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