[Buildroot] [PATCH v2] configs/olimex_a20_olinuxino: fix mali not working because Linux version >= 4.20

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com
Mon Oct 18 21:40:37 UTC 2021


On Mon, 18 Oct 2021 21:59:41 +0200
Giulio Benetti <giulio.benetti at benettiengineering.com> wrote:

> They instead enable specifically sunxi-mali-mainline* in lime and
> lime2 defconfigs. So at the moment sunxi-mali-mainline is built but
> it can’t work and it doesn’t make sense. Also up to Linux 4.20 this
> neither worked because of lack of double buffer. So basically here
> sunxi-mali-mainline I’m pretty sure never worked.

Aah, I hadn't realized/verified that they enabled sunxi-mali-mainline*.
In this case, obviously your patch makes sense. I've switched it back
to "New" in patchwork.

Thanks for the additional explanation!

Thomas
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