[Buildroot] [RFC] kernel-module-imx-gpu-viv:compaling error

Refik Tuzaklı tuzaklirefik at gmail.com
Tue Jul 18 10:51:25 UTC 2017


Thomas Petazzoni-2 wrote
> Hello,
> 
> On Tue, 18 Jul 2017 10:33:18 +0200, Gary Bisson wrote:
> 
>> > Please indicate the Buildroot version being used, and provide the
>> > Buildroot .config file that allows to reproduce this issue.
>> >
>> > But I believe the answer is pretty simple: you're trying to build the
>> > i.MX GPU Vivante kernel module against Linux 4.11, and the i.MX GPU
>> > Vivante kernel module hasn't been modified to work with such a recent
>> > Linux kernel.
>> >
>> > I believe the i.MX GPU Vivante kernel module is most likely designed to
>> > work with the Linux 4.1 based BSP provided by Freescale/NXP.  
>> 
>> Thomas is correct, this GPU module is only meant for NXP-based kernels
>> from 3.10.x to 4.1.x.
> 
> Perhaps we should update the Config.in help text of the
> kernel-module-imx-gpu-viv package to indicate this ?
> 
> I know people don't read the help text, but at least when it exists, we
> can point them to the help text, and the fact that they should read the
> documentation :-)
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Thomas
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> Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
> Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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Thanks for your quick replay,


how can use Linux 4.1 based BSP provided by Freescale/NXP on buildroot. Is
it enought to change kernel version to 4.1 under kernel and toolchain in
Buildroot or should it be more specific like 4.1.15 as in Freescale website?

regards



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