[OE-core] mesa, libgbm and weston

[Denys Dmytriyenko]

On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 12:59:05PM +0100, Burton, Ross wrote:
> On 25 April 2016 at 17:50, Denys Dmytriyenko <denis at denix.org> wrote:
> 
> > One other thing I was thinking is how to avoid conflict between separate
> > libgbm and the one provided by mesa-gl. As mesa-gl may be useful for
> > providing
> > SW rendering for OpenGL, while leaving OpenGLES to a separate provider,
> > like
> > SGX. Unfortunately, mesa-gl also provides libgbm - would PACKAGECONFIG to
> > use
> > a standalone external libgbm work and be acceptable here?
> >
> 
> I added a PACKAGECONFIG for libgbm to mesa.inc, enabled it for mesa and
> disabled it for mesa-gl, and mesa-gl still build fine but didn't ship a
> libgbm.
> 
> I've forgotten the details about all of this: does mesa-gl shipping libgbm
> make sense at all?  Or in the real world will BSPs either use mesa or their
> own GLES driver + their own libgbm + mesa-gl if required?

Hmm, that is a good question. Probably expecting a separate libgbm by default 
when using own GLES driver + mesa-gl does make sense. I wonder if anyone is 
using the one from mesa-gl with their own GLES, then we would need it 
configurable via PACKAGECONFIG...

-- 
Denys