Debian wheezy on RIoTboard

Former Member over 11 years ago

I'm not quite ready to post the next pieces, but thought you might like to see where I've got to:

running XFCE 4.8 here.

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Former Member over 11 years ago

Do you have the vivante driver working?
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Former Member over 11 years ago

Do you have the vivante driver working?
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Former Member over 11 years ago in reply to Former Member

haven't tried yet, I've been looking at https://github.com/laanwj/etna_viv but as always with some of this stuff we get into having to replace various debian packages with ones that have been altered to support the GPU.
Last I looked the freescale binary drivers were still armel instead of armhf which doesn't make a lot of sense, but anyway various things to consider no matter what direction you look.
I'd like to get the basic stuff done first, hopefully that opens the doors for other people to help out with the vivante driver. Although I don't know that there's any ongoing effort to get it upstreamed, I havent found any and don't know if something with a binary backend would ever get accepted, but it would make it easier if there is something going on in that area.
Otherwise it may make sense to see what Robert Nelson has and go for a common version.
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Former Member over 11 years ago in reply to Former Member

One thing to add... It's not my goal to do everything myself.. For the RIoT community to grow and thrive we need other interested people to pitch in and help out. It won't work if it's just me - I know there's a bus out there somewhere just waiting to run me over

So, help is always very much appreciated !
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steevdave over 11 years ago in reply to Former Member

Timesys have released binaries of the vivante gpu in both armel and armhf formats - http://repository.timesys.com/buildsources/g/gpu-viv-bin-mx6q/
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