On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 9:03 AM, Gary Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2014-03-25 05:40, Otavio Salvador wrote: >> 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 >> > > Yes, it seems that I had missed this patch which seems to have only > been on master-next until 2014-03-20. > > I'll give it another go now.
Great; this should get it working. -- 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
