[Buildroot] [RFC] kernel-module-imx-gpu-viv:compaling error

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

On Tue, 18 Jul 2017 10:33:18 +0200, Gary Bisson wrote:

> > Please indicate the Buildroot version being used, and provide the
> > Buildroot .config file that allows to reproduce this issue.
> >
> > But I believe the answer is pretty simple: you're trying to build the
> > i.MX GPU Vivante kernel module against Linux 4.11, and the i.MX GPU
> > Vivante kernel module hasn't been modified to work with such a recent
> > Linux kernel.
> >
> > I believe the i.MX GPU Vivante kernel module is most likely designed to
> > work with the Linux 4.1 based BSP provided by Freescale/NXP.  
> 
> Thomas is correct, this GPU module is only meant for NXP-based kernels
> from 3.10.x to 4.1.x.

Perhaps we should update the Config.in help text of the
kernel-module-imx-gpu-viv package to indicate this ?

I know people don't read the help text, but at least when it exists, we
can point them to the help text, and the fact that they should read the
documentation :-)

Best regards,

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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