[OE-core] [PATCH 1/2] piglit: move to meta-oe

[Alexander Kanavin]

On Sat 29. Feb 2020 at 11.40, Richard Purdie <
richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> On Sat, 2020-02-29 at 11:14 +0100, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
> > This recipe is build-heavy, yet is not part of any images and isn't
> > runtime tesed as
> > part of oe-core. There's no evidence of anyone using it, as all
> > commits are revision updates. It also pulls in NumPy, which is also
> > a significant support item, and wouldn't otherwise be part of core.
>
> I'm not sure about this. The intent was to use piglit as a way of
> improving our graphics testing, particularly allowing it to be
> automated.
>
> Whilst we've had to focus on getting the basics right, I'm not sure
> that objective isn't still a worthy goal over time?


Piglit is meant for testing and validating OpenGL drivers for real
hardware. While we can put it on top of software Mesa driver or virgl, I am
not sure there is much value in that? Software rendering might even be too
slow to run in practice.

Alex

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