[Buildroot] [PATCH v7 10/13] Vivante drivers: bump to version 3.10.17-1.0.1

[Jérôme Pouiller]

Hello Gary,

On Monday 11 May 2015 18:32:35 Gary Bisson wrote:
> Antoine, All,
> 
> On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Antoine Ténart
> <antoine.tenart at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 11:07:59AM +0200, Gary Bisson wrote:
> >> On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 10:10 AM, Thomas Petazzoni
> >> <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> >> > On Tue, 5 May 2015 10:06:11 +0200, Gary Bisson wrote:
> >>
> >> Antoine, do you have a patch ready for the GPU package? Because it
> >> seems that it's not just a version bump:
> >> https://github.com/Freescale/meta-fsl-arm/commit/74c86aa9639f6f20991ab64ea75177a017f8749a
> >
> > Please find the patch I used to bump the Vivante version to 5.0.11.p4.1
> > attached.
> >
> > I'll be happy to have some feedbacks and to update the patch
> > accordingly.
> 
> Thanks for the patch! Maybe we should start a new thread for this?
> 
> Here are my remarks with the current version:
> - The package has been renamed from gpu-viv-bin-mx6q to imx-gpu-viv in
> Yocto, I guess it'd be nice to follow their lead as I'm sure it
> announces that this package will be used on other iMX platforms. Then
> I don't know if it's better to have a commit just for renaming the
> package and another one for the version bump.
Since this package seems to be incompatible with kernels < 3.10.54, maybe we 
should provide imx-gpu-viv AND gpu-viv-bin-mx6q, no?

> - Also in Yocto they get rid of all the pkg-config files, do we still
> need those in our case?
True, it seems they are not needed anymore.


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