Another piece of information: someone posted last week in the Yocto Freescale mailing list a tip to make it works but only with Qt5.1.1
= it consists in adding fbpix=BGR32 to the kernel bootargs. I tested it myself to confirm it ! Unfortunately, it doesn't work with Qt5.2.1 Nicolas > >> On Tuesday, 01 April, 2014 15:48:01 Michael Olbrich wrote: >> Hi, >> >>> On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 11:27:09AM +0200, Thomas Senyk wrote: >>>> On Wednesday, 26 February, 2014 12:51:30 BERTIN, NICOLAS wrote: >>>> I'm trying to get WebKit2 running on a Linux/i.MX6Q board (sabresd). I >>>> succeeded in building Qt5.2.1+eglfs and the WebKit1 based examples are >>>> running well. >>>> >>>> Now, I'm trying to get WebKit2 running: the MiniBrowser example runs on >>>> the device, but only the navigation bar on top is functional, the >>>> webview >>>> area stays white and empty. The same issue occurs with the Flickrview >>>> example: only the thumbnails are shown... >>>> >>>> I'd like to know if some you are experiencing the same kind of issues >>>> and/or have managed to make WebKit2 working on the same kind of >>>> platform? >>>> >>>> Any advices to debug this problem are more than welcomed. >>>> >>>> Thanks! >>> >>> Looks like this issue is still present. >>> I can reproduce and on meta-fsl-arm mailing-list a couple of people can as >>> well. >>> >>> Has anyone investigated this so far? >>> >>> >>> (added dev as this seems to be a general problem on imx6 with webkit2 and >>> Qt5.2.1) >> >> This is not imx6 specific. WebKit2 works with out of process rendering. I >> don't think there is any API eglfs could use to share the textures between >> the processes. Something like wayland is needed for that. > > Actually your right. It has nothing to do with eglfs. > > Isn't webkit2 sharing it's tiles with shm? > At least that's how it used to be :) .. because: it used to work with eglfs > and your absolutely right, there is no way to share textures with a egl/fb > setup. > > > The possible points of failure I see: > - shm-setup > - the filling (/rendering) of the shm > - the take-out (/texture-upload) on gui side > > >> >> I've heard some rumors about wayland support for the binary vivante >> drivers, but I've not seen it anywhere. > > I've checked that, same issue: webkit2-rendering is white for qt-wayland- > clients! > >> >> Wayland + Etnaviv (the open source driver for vivante GPUs) is probably the >> way to go. But that's currently in the 'some demos are working' stage[1]. >> It's not really usable yet. >> >> Regards, >> Michael >> >> [1] https://plus.google.com/105928421692264581950/posts/2U7o9agHZ8z > > _______________________________________________ > Interest mailing list > Interest@qt-project.org > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest