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Subject:    Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 6/7] default-distrovars.inc: add wayland/opengl to default distro features
From:       "Kevin Hao" <kexin.hao () windriver ! com>
Date:       2021-04-28 3:42:25
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On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 12:09:51PM -0400, Randy MacLeod wrote:
> Cross-posting to yocto since this is of general interest.
> 
> On 2021-04-23 2:02 p.m., Alexander Kanavin wrote:
> > This puts them on equal terms with x11 distro feature
> > (which I think is due).
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Alexander Kanavin <alex.kanavin@gmail.com>
> > ---
> > meta/conf/distro/include/default-distrovars.inc | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/meta/conf/distro/include/default-distrovars.inc \
> > b/meta/conf/distro/include/default-distrovars.inc index 9fcc10f83a..384ee7fc98 \
> >                 100644
> > --- a/meta/conf/distro/include/default-distrovars.inc
> > +++ b/meta/conf/distro/include/default-distrovars.inc
> > @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ LOCALE_UTF8_ONLY ?= "0"
> > LOCALE_UTF8_IS_DEFAULT ?= "1"
> > LOCALE_UTF8_IS_DEFAULT_class-nativesdk = "0"
> > -DISTRO_FEATURES_DEFAULT ?= "acl alsa argp bluetooth debuginfod ext2 ipv4 ipv6 \
> > largefile pcmcia usbgadget usbhost wifi xattr nfs zeroconf pci 3g nfc x11 vfat" \
> > +DISTRO_FEATURES_DEFAULT ?= "acl alsa argp bluetooth debuginfod ext2 ipv4 ipv6 \
> > largefile pcmcia usbgadget usbhost wifi xattr nfs zeroconf pci 3g nfc x11 vfat \
> > wayland opengl" DISTRO_FEATURES ?= "${DISTRO_FEATURES_DEFAULT}"
> > IMAGE_FEATURES ?= ""
> > 
> 
> We (Wind River) already drop the x11 DF from some of our distros and
> we'd likely do the same for wayland and opengl so while this seems
> like the wrong change for headless systems it is one we could deal with.
> 
> There was some discussion about this topic on the tech call today and
> people were concerned about BSP support for opengl since the software
> rendering in mesa is horridly slow.
> 
> Kevin, Bryan,
> Can you comment if you think we'd have any show-stopper problems
> with opengl support for BSPs?

Thanks for the notice. Hmm, it seems that we have done little validation
for the weston image on the Yocto BSPs, I got a boot failure with the
weston image on my beaglebone black board. I will try to figure out what is
wrong there. But I don't think it should block the change in this patch.

Thanks,
Kevin

> 
> Joshua said that weston has a usable RDP (remote desktop backend) but
> I'm not sure how usable it is especially for single application sharing.
> This contrasts with x11 where you can use X11 forwarding over
> ssh trivially for whole desktops or an application.
> 
> In conclusion, I see the value in pushing yocto forward but we may need
> to wait for agreement from BSP folks so let's see what they say.
> 
> ../Randy
> 
> 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> -- 
> # Randy MacLeod
> # Wind River Linux


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