[Buildroot] [PATCH v5 2/3] ti-gfx: add new package

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Sat Jul 13 17:14:41 UTC 2013


Dear Spenser Gilliland,

On Sat, 13 Jul 2013 12:08:45 -0500, Spenser Gilliland wrote:

> > No, if you have introduced the powervr virtual package, then libegl
> > should not directly depend on ti-gfx, but instead libegl should depend
> > on powervr, which itself will depend on ti-gfx.
> 
> I don't believe this to be correct.  There is not specific dependency
> chain as each powervr package implements its own set of egl/gles/vg.
> The point of the PowerVR package is for each package that takes
> advantage of PowerVR specific features.  IE. QT4.
> 
> Therefore, ti-gfx should depend on libgles, libegl,and powervr.

I guess you mean "should provide" and not "should depend". But ok, as
discussed on IRC, I see what you mean. We consider libegl, libgles2 and
powervr to be separate virtual features, and it happens that ti-gfx
provides all of them.

Best regards,

Thomas
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