On Thu, 2013-09-05 at 10:57 +0100, Burton, Ross wrote: > On 5 September 2013 01:18, Darren Hart <[email protected]> wrote: > > In support of the more generic x86 BSPs, pull in the Matrox driver > > recipe from meta-intel. > > What machine is this for in particular? In discussion with Nitin > about MGA a few weeks back the conclusion was that the vesa driver > should be sufficient. As far as I'm aware the reference platforms > don't ship with MGA hardware so it's up to the owner of the platform > to install whatever they have to hand (mga, nvidia, ATI, etc), or am I > wrong about that? >
It's my understanding that some of these server-type systems like Romley and Crystal Forest have on-chip graphics disabled and ship with ancient MGA graphics, which apparently we have a cheap source of chips for... Probably vesa would work for these systems, cc'ing those in the know... Tom > > Remove the checkfile patch from Ross as this is now handled adequately > > with the configure prepend hack which assumes success for any checkfile > > calls. > > Assuming success in an distro where opengl isn't enabled will result > in the driver believing that DRI is enabled when it isn't, so expect > to see build failures from this. > > Ross _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
