[Buildroot] [PATCH 3/3] sdl2: Add KMS/DRM(experimental) video driver support

Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind.be
Tue Sep 26 19:50:05 UTC 2017



On 26-09-17 21:42, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Tue, 26 Sep 2017 21:36:40 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
> 
>>  XORG7 is a special case, we never select it (and we assume it's obvious that
>> you need X to be able to use X stuff). But if you look at e.g.
>> BR2_PACKAGE_SDL2_X11, it selects BR2_PACKAGE_XLIB_LIBX11 and
>> BR2_PACKAGE_XLIB_LIBXEXT rather than depending on them.
>>
>>  BR2_PACKAGE_DIRECTFB should indeed be selected instead of depended on. That's
>> historical accident, because sdl2 was largely copied from sdl, and sdl had this
>> construct since 2009 when there were no clear rules yet about select/depend.
> 
> For sdl2, it would be useful to look at the review discussion. I'm
> wondering if I didn't suggest to have a "depends on" for DirectFB, just
> for the sake of having something consistent between the different
> graphics backends. I don't remember.

 Nope, it was like that in Guillaume's first submission and nobody commented on it.

 Regards,
 Arnout

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