imx-gpu-viv_6.4.3p2.6

[stefanogurrieri]

Hi all, 

We need to build a BSP Yocto Hardknott on our board based on i.MX6 quad where we need to use X11 backend; specifically our BSP is based on this NXP manifest:

https://source.codeaurora.org/external/imx/imx-manifest/tree/imx-5.10.72-2.2.2.xml?h=imx-linux-hardk...

In the README under meta-imx I see:

“The X11 and Framebuffer distros are only supported for i.MX 6 and i.MX 7.“

So in theory it should be possible use fsl-imx-x11 like distro or not?

Below my build configuration:

BB_VERSION           = "1.50.0"
BUILD_SYS            = "x86_64-linux"
NATIVELSBSTRING      = "ubuntu-20.04"
TARGET_SYS           = "arm-poky-linux-gnueabi"
MACHINE              = "imx6soloce"
DISTRO               = "fsl-imx-x11"
DISTRO_VERSION       = "5.10-hardknott"
TUNE_FEATURES        = "arm vfp cortexa9 neon thumb callconvention-hard"
TARGET_FPU           = "hard"

BUT, when we build imx-gpu-viv (6.4.3.p2.6) recipe into meta-imx, we have always this error:

cp: cannot stat '/tmp/work/tmp/work/cortexa9t2hf-neon-mx6qdl-poky-linux-gnueabi/imx-gpu-viv/1_6.4.3.p2.6-aarch32-r0/imx-gpu-viv-6.4.3.p2.6-aarch32/gpu-core/usr/lib/x11/*': No such file or directory

I found out that starting from imx-gpu-viv 6.4.3.p2.4, X11 doesn’t seem supported. So, maybe this could be the problem… could you confirm?

https://github.com/Freescale/meta-freescale/commit/747c96f5b82d12b135739f93a74e6ee6e9ed8f5b

Any suggestion?

Thanks a lot for any feedback!

cc

@paolamg 

[joanxie]

refer to the yocto user guide:

Note that fsl-imx-fb is not supported on i.MX 8 and fsl-imx-x11 is not supported anymore.

[stefanogurrieri]

So which could be the alternative on our i.MX6 quad if we need a graphic backend?

Our customer has some applications X11 based.

Thanks a lot for any  support!

[joanxie]

maybe they need use 4.9 bsp, in fact 5.x bsp should support x11, but customer need porting by themselves according to the 4.9 bsp