[Buildroot] [PATCH] package/freescale-imx/imx-gpu-viv: force wayland backend for all i.MX8

Gary Bisson gary.bisson at boundarydevices.com
Tue Apr 27 13:25:03 UTC 2021


Hi,

On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 03:04:46PM +0200, Sébastien Szymanski wrote:
> Hello Gary,
> 
> On 4/27/21 2:04 PM, Gary Bisson wrote:
> > - As Vivante blobs only support Wayland for all i.MX 8
> 
> Are you sure about that ? The examples (vv_launcher, tiger and
> cover_flow) are working fine on my i.MX8MM platform with the Framebuffer
> output.

Well the thing is the package doesn't include a framebuffer backend, so
you really use the libraries meant for Wayland.

> The libraries need libdrm, though. I will send a patch to fix the
> missing dependency here.

Yes, the Wayland libraries can be used with with libgbm without a
Wayland compositor (what Qt does), but the libraries are still for
"Wayland" backend.

Please review the ARM32 package and compare with ARM64, you'll see the
difference.

Regards,
Gary



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