[Buildroot] [PATCH 3/3] sdl2: Add KMS/DRM(experimental) video driver support

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

On Tue, 26 Sep 2017 21:36:40 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:

>  XORG7 is a special case, we never select it (and we assume it's obvious that
> you need X to be able to use X stuff). But if you look at e.g.
> BR2_PACKAGE_SDL2_X11, it selects BR2_PACKAGE_XLIB_LIBX11 and
> BR2_PACKAGE_XLIB_LIBXEXT rather than depending on them.
> 
>  BR2_PACKAGE_DIRECTFB should indeed be selected instead of depended on. That's
> historical accident, because sdl2 was largely copied from sdl, and sdl had this
> construct since 2009 when there were no clear rules yet about select/depend.

For sdl2, it would be useful to look at the review discussion. I'm
wondering if I didn't suggest to have a "depends on" for DirectFB, just
for the sake of having something consistent between the different
graphics backends. I don't remember.

Thomas
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