[Buildroot] xf86-video-armsoc

[Maxime Ripard]

On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 12:11:58PM +0100, Giulio Benetti wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Il 14/11/2017 12:08, Maxime Ripard ha scritto:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 08:00:40PM +0100, Giulio Benetti wrote:
> > > to get r6p2 mali openGL working with X11 DMA_BUF,
> > > do I need xf86-video-armsoc?
> > 
> > Yes, from here:
> > https://github.com/mripard/xf86-video-armsoc
> > 
> > You'll also need that patch:
> > https://github.com/NextThingCo/linux/commit/e390023d73a8dcbea85e5156e3930e37ca431472
> > 
> > But I'm not sure this is wise to add support for it in buildroot. That
> > ioctl will never be merged in the upstream kernel.
> 
> So what could be the right way to keep up to date with upstream
> kernel?

There's no proper way available at the moment. One could try using ION
to achieve the same results, but I'm not sure whether that would be
accepted upstream either.

Maxime

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Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com
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