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

[Richard Purdie]

On Sat, 2020-02-29 at 14:11 +0100, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
> 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.

OE-Core is meant to be usable for validating BSPs amongst other things
though. Testing virgl does prove the graphics stack is working too from
a software perspective so does have some value.

Cheers,

Richard