Am Do, 19. Aug 2021, um 00:22, schrieb Khem Raj:
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 3:06 PM Manuel Wagesreither <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I'm building an image to run on various SBCs and would like to equip it 
> > with a graphical interface.
> >
> > There are quite a few things very unclear to me. Can someone help me with 
> > that?
> >
> > * Why is X11 enabled by setting an IMAGE_FEATURE (namely  x11, x11-base or 
> > x11-sato), while Wayland is enabled by IMAGE_INSTALL only (weston-init and 
> > weston)?
> 
> x11-* features is primarily to control what kind of x11 packages you
> want to include in image e.g.
> ./meta/recipes-sato/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-x11-sato.bb is
> pulled in when x11-sato is added to IMAGE_FEATURES
> we have many X11 based images and sato is one of them so thats why its
> separated out.
> 
> you should really is looking at DISTRO_FEATURES e.g. wayland distro
> feature is needed for core-image-weston to build.
> 
> > * Theory: Is IMAGE_FEATURE +=x11 manipulating IMAGE_INSTALL under the hood 
> > so you don't have to do it manually? And as there is no IMAGE_FEATURE 
> > "wayland", you have do it manually. Correct?
> > * Why is Wayland different in that it doesn't need an IMAGE_FEATURE to 
> > enable it?
> 
> there are not many wayland based compositors or images we have in core
> as of now.
> 
> > * Why does core-image-weston.bb need to enable IMAGE_FEATURE hwcodec, while 
> > core-image-x11.bb does not? (Dunfell branch.)
> 
> openGL is needed for wayland/weston to work too but hwcodec feature is
> infact to pull in machine specific drivers MACHINE_HWCODECS into image
> if a given BSP defined it.
> e.g. intel bsps define vaapi codecs and mediasdk for specific machines
> via MACHINE_HWCODECS
> defaults for this image features are empty
>
Hi Khem, thanks! will need to look into this and digest what you said.

Thanks, regards, Manuel
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