[OE-core] [RFC][PATCH] mesa-gl: add GL-only Mesa recipe

[Denys Dmytriyenko]

On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 04:57:40PM +0000, Kamble, Nitin A wrote:
> Hi Ross,
>   This is a clever way to deal with unnecessary rebuilding of mesa we were 
> seeing earlier. With this mesa-gl, the mesa also need modification to remove 
> gl from the default recipe.
> 
> Also looks like there is a need from community for mesa-gl-lib and 
> mesa-gl-headers, as some platforms need just the mesa-gl-headers and not the 
> libs.
> 
> Nitin

Ross, Nitin,

This is a great and very welcomed development! This would definitely allow our 
TI machines (and other ARM ones, as you said) to happily co-exist with Mesa 
software rendering.

-- 
Denys


> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: openembedded-core-bounces at lists.openembedded.org
> > [mailto:openembedded-core-bounces at lists.openembedded.org] On Behalf
> > Of Ross Burton
> > Sent: Monday, September 09, 2013 5:27 AM
> > To: openembedded-core at lists.openembedded.org
> > Subject: [OE-core] [RFC][PATCH] mesa-gl: add GL-only Mesa recipe
> > 
> > Some machines have hardware-specific GL drivers that do EGL and GLES
> > (many ARM boards).  Others have their own EGL/GLES drivers and provide a
> > Mesa DRI driver (EMGD).  Previously adding Mesa, for software GL/GLX
> > rendering in the first case and hardware GLX in the second, involved
> > bbappends and changing Mesa to be machine-specific.
> > 
> > By adding a just-GL Mesa the machine definition can combine it with the
> > hardware drivers cleanly.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton at intel.com>
> > ---
> >  meta/recipes-graphics/mesa/mesa-gl_9.1.6.bb |    5 +++++
> >  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> >  create mode 100644 meta/recipes-graphics/mesa/mesa-gl_9.1.6.bb
> > 
> > diff --git a/meta/recipes-graphics/mesa/mesa-gl_9.1.6.bb b/meta/recipes-
> > graphics/mesa/mesa-gl_9.1.6.bb
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 0000000..521a830
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/meta/recipes-graphics/mesa/mesa-gl_9.1.6.bb
> > @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
> > +require mesa_${PV}.bb
> > +
> > +FILESPATH = "${FILE_DIRNAME}/mesa-${PV}:${FILE_DIRNAME}/mesa"
> > +
> > +PACKAGECONFIG ??= "dri gl"
> > --
> > 1.7.10.4
> > 
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