On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 8:03 AM, Gary Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2014-03-24 20:07, Otavio Salvador wrote: >> Hello Gary, >> >> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Gary Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I have a board which uses the i.MX6solo chip. This CPU (SOC) has >>> a different GPU than its cousins i.MX6Q and i.MX6dual. When I try >>> to run anything using the accelerated graphics, e.g. X server using >>> the Vivante libraries, it crashes hard. >>> >>> I know that my SOC has a Vivante GC880 whereas the i.MX6Q uses the >>> Vivante GC2000. >>> >>> Is there any way to get Vivante GPU support for my board/SOC? >> >> Well, it is lacking a lot of information so it is quite hard to guess. >> My guess is that you have an old BSP kernel and without the 4.6.9p13 >> patches. When those things happen you see a segfault in Xorg >> initialization using the Vivante drivers. > > This well could be - I use the linux-boundary recipe for 3.0.35+ > (my board is nearly identical to a SabreLite from Boundary Devices)
Currently linux-boundary has it right. It depends if you have dropped the patches applied in our recipe or not. > I'm a bit confused by the '4.6.9p13' reference. Is that part of > a GPU recipe version? or a kernel version? Yes, GPU driver version. > Can you point me to any discussion of this, or the kernel (which tree) > revision that made this change, etc? https://github.com/Freescale/meta-fsl-arm-extra/commit/37c793bea49a1140a414660c262d62c3e2b130c9 -- Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems http://www.ossystems.com.br http://code.ossystems.com.br Mobile: +55 (53) 9981-7854 Mobile: +1 (347) 903-9750 -- _______________________________________________ meta-freescale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/meta-freescale
