[Buildroot] [PATCH] kmscube: Move to the new repository
Peter Korsgaard
peter at korsgaard.com
Fri Mar 10 09:59:52 UTC 2017
>>>>> "Gary" == Gary Bisson <gary.bisson at boundarydevices.com> writes:
Hi,
>> The question is what happens if kmscube is run on a kernel that doesn't
>> support DRM_MODE_OBJECT_PLANE (E.G. kernel < 4.7)?
> I believe it would work since the declaration was in the kernel
> already, just missing from the uapi header:
> http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=8812f38141
Ahh, ok - Good. And looking at the state before that, the drm plane
stuff was added in 3.3 (8cf5c91771515).
>> If it really needs
>> support for this then we should simply make the package depend on >= 4.7
>> headers, and if not we could add a patch to add the include.
> Adding a dependency on headers >= 4.7 would definitely work and I
> think it's the easiest/cleanest option here.
> I'll just be sad not to be able to use the prebuilt (linaro) toolchain ;)
It is indeed a bit stupid to not allow the Linaro toolchain when the fix
is so easy. Have you tried to contact upstream about either adding the
drm include and/or local definitions for this define?
--
Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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