[Buildroot] [PATCH v1 1/2] package/mesa3d: add v3d driver support

[Peter Seiderer]

...hit the wrong button, so re-add CC: buildroot at busybox.net, Bernd Kuhls <bernd.kuhls at t-online.de>, Romain Naour <romain.naour at gmail.com>

On Tue, 4 Feb 2020 22:45:40 +0100, Peter Seiderer <ps.report at gmx.net> wrote:

> Hello Yann,
>
> On Tue, 4 Feb 2020 21:55:16 +0100, "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr> wrote:
>
> > Peter, All,
> >
> > On 2020-02-04 15:44 +0100, Peter Seiderer spake thusly:
> > > Signed-off-by: Peter Seiderer <ps.report at gmx.net>
> >
> > Applied to master, thanks. I did a few tweaks to the help text,though,
> > see below...
> >
> > > ---
> > >  package/mesa3d/Config.in | 12 ++++++++++++
> > >  package/mesa3d/mesa3d.mk |  3 +++
> > >  2 files changed, 15 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/package/mesa3d/Config.in b/package/mesa3d/Config.in
> > > index 5929e15442..1351d1cd97 100644
> > > --- a/package/mesa3d/Config.in
> > > +++ b/package/mesa3d/Config.in
> > > @@ -224,6 +224,18 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_MESA3D_GALLIUM_DRIVER_TEGRA
> > >  	help
> > >  	  Adds support for Nvidia Tegra GPUs, requires nouveau.
> > >
> > > +config BR2_PACKAGE_MESA3D_GALLIUM_DRIVER_V3D
> > > +	bool "Gallium v3d driver"
> > > +	depends on BR2_arm || BR2_aarch64
> > > +	select BR2_PACKAGE_MESA3D_GALLIUM_DRIVER
> > > +	select BR2_PACKAGE_MESA3D_GALLIUM_KMSRO
> > > +	select )
> > > +	select BR2_PACKAGE_MESA3D_OPENGL_EGL
> > > +	help
> > > +	  Driver for Broadcom VC6 (rpi4) GPUs (needs kmsro and vc4).
> >
> > I don't understand why you added that '(needs kmsro and vc4)': the
> > corresponding config entries are properly selected above, and thus
> > this part of the help text is of no use for the user, and tend to in
>
> kmsro/vc4 would mean BR2_PACKAGE_MESA3D_GALLIUM_DRIVER_KMSRO (not mixed up
> with the selected BR2_PACKAGE_MESA3D_GALLIUM_KMSRO) and
> BR2_PACKAGE_MESA3D_GALLIUM_DRIVER_VC4 (not mixed up with the selected
> BR2_PACKAGE_LIBDRM_VC4)...and all three mesa3d options (v3d, vc4, kmsro)
> are needed to get a functional RPi4-64bit graphic output (see e.g. [1]:
> The VC4 interface is via /dev/drm/card1. The V3D interface is via /dev/drm/card0.
> All drawing commands go to V3D (aka card0). All screen resolution and configuration
> commands go to VC4 (aka card1))...
>
> > fact be very confusing. But since this is the same mess with the other
> > options around, I left it. It would be nice to clean them away, though.
> >
> > > +	  It requires a recent enough mainline/raspberrypi kernel with
> > > +	  drm v3d (CONFIG_DRM_V3D, CONFIG_DRM_VC4) support enabled.
> >
> > "recent enough" is of no use to the user: some woudl consider 4.0 to be
> > recent, some would consider 5.0 to be old. Sol I replaced that with the
> > exact version v3d was merged in mainline linux, that is 4.18.
>
> Thanks for looking up at which kernel version CONFIG_DRM_V3D was added...,
> wanted to emphasize that both mainline and raspberrypi linux kernel
> are supported (some years ago only the mainline kernel supported DRM_VC4
> and/or 64-bit Rpi)...
>
> Regards,
> Peter
>
> [1] https://forum.qt.io/topic/107764/drm-kms-configuration-for-raspberry-pi-4
>
> >
> > Regards,
> > Yann E. MORIN.
> >
> > > +
> > >  config BR2_PACKAGE_MESA3D_GALLIUM_DRIVER_VC4
> > >  	bool "Gallium vc4 driver"
> > >  	depends on BR2_arm || BR2_aarch64
> > > diff --git a/package/mesa3d/mesa3d.mk b/package/mesa3d/mesa3d.mk
> > > index c7e5be55a0..1a18cf3c58 100644
> > > --- a/package/mesa3d/mesa3d.mk
> > > +++ b/package/mesa3d/mesa3d.mk
> > > @@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ MESA3D_GALLIUM_DRIVERS-$(BR2_PACKAGE_MESA3D_GALLIUM_DRIVER_RADEONSI) += radeonsi
> > >  MESA3D_GALLIUM_DRIVERS-$(BR2_PACKAGE_MESA3D_GALLIUM_DRIVER_SVGA)     += svga
> > >  MESA3D_GALLIUM_DRIVERS-$(BR2_PACKAGE_MESA3D_GALLIUM_DRIVER_SWRAST)   += swrast
> > >  MESA3D_GALLIUM_DRIVERS-$(BR2_PACKAGE_MESA3D_GALLIUM_DRIVER_TEGRA)    += tegra
> > > +MESA3D_GALLIUM_DRIVERS-$(BR2_PACKAGE_MESA3D_GALLIUM_DRIVER_V3D)      += v3d
> > >  MESA3D_GALLIUM_DRIVERS-$(BR2_PACKAGE_MESA3D_GALLIUM_DRIVER_VC4)      += vc4
> > >  MESA3D_GALLIUM_DRIVERS-$(BR2_PACKAGE_MESA3D_GALLIUM_DRIVER_VIRGL)    += virgl
> > >  # DRI Drivers
> > > @@ -162,6 +163,8 @@ endif
> > >  MESA3D_PLATFORMS = surfaceless
> > >  ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_MESA3D_DRI_DRIVER),y)
> > >  MESA3D_PLATFORMS += drm
> > > +else ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_MESA3D_GALLIUM_DRIVER_V3D),y)
> > > +MESA3D_PLATFORMS += drm
> > >  else ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_MESA3D_GALLIUM_DRIVER_VC4),y)
> > >  MESA3D_PLATFORMS += drm
> > >  else ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_MESA3D_GALLIUM_DRIVER_ETNAVIV),y)
> > > --
> > > 2.25.0
> > >
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