[Buildroot] GSoC Weekly Update

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Mon Aug 19 22:23:32 UTC 2013


Dear Spenser Gilliland,

On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 16:44:30 -0500, Spenser Gilliland wrote:

> As some of you may be aware, I am the GSoC student for Buildroot this
> Summer. Starting this week, I will be providing weekly updates to the
> mailing list with information on my activities.

Great!

> My main goals for last week were the integration of the glmark2
> benchmark into Buildroot.  I'm currently testing this support on many
> of the boards (rpi/beaglexm/cubieboard) and will hopefully post these
> patches this week.  To get to the glmark2 benchmark a number of
> changes were required, specfically a new package for libpng12, a bump
> in libdrm, and a bump in mesa3d.  In addition, the mesa3d support was
> partially rewritten in order to support a more granular selection of
> graphics drivers.  This will allow, future limare/freedreno
> integration, which looks very promising (especially freedreno).

Nice! Have you been able to get glmark2 running on at least one of the
platforms?

> Furthermore, this weeks goal is to get both i.MX6 based platforms up
> and running.  I currently have both a Wandboard [1] and a SABRE [2]
> for testing the imx6 packages in Buildroot.

Excellent.

Definitely looking forward to the patches. Keep up the good work!

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
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