[Buildroot] [PATCH v7 10/13] Vivante drivers: bump to version 3.10.17-1.0.1

[Gary Bisson]

Thomas, Antoine, Jerome, All

On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 11:13 AM, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> Gary,
>
> On Tue, 5 May 2015 11:07:59 +0200, Gary Bisson wrote:
>
>> > Well, you're only looking at boards that have a defconfig in Buildroot.
>> > But I'm pretty sure there are lots of people using Buildroot on custom
>> > i.MX6 boards, which may not necessarily be supported by all kernel
>> > versions.
>>
>> Sure but the other way around applies too, like what Antoine had to do
>> when working on a 3.10.53 kernel.
>
> Absolutely, but if the 3.10.53-compatible GPU drivers also work with
> 3.10.17, then we would have a situation where one single version of the
> GPU drivers can address both 3.10.17 and 3.10.53 based configurations.
> While what we have today only works for 3.10.17 based configurations.

Actually this is not the case, 3.10.53 gpu libs are not compatible
with 3.10.17 kernels, see the meta-fsl mailing list links below.
https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/meta-freescale/2015-April/013234.html
https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/meta-freescale/2015-April/013267.html

But the good news is that 3.14.28 and 3.10.53 kernels/libs are
compatible, so we could update to the 3.14.28 GA release directly.

Regards,
Gary