[Development] i.MX8 embedded Linux support

[Laszlo Agocs]

Hi,

Yes, it is a trend to move away from basing EGL/OpenGL implementations on top of the (deprecated) fbdev, and instead move onto drm. Sometimes, and I suspect this is the case with Vivante as well, vendors offer both variants of the drivers. With eglfs this means the backend has to be selected based on what's there in the system at run time. (in this case this means choosing between eglfs_viv[_wl] or eglfs_kms)

Qt upstream has no explicit support for i.MX8 (there are no device specs in mkspecs/devices since none got contributed so far), but, as you also found out, eglfs is known to work, so in that sense the i.MX8 is supported. Don't know if Wayland got tested so far.

I suppose Yocto and other distro build tools have Qt available for i.MX8 targets as well. How they configure things there (what drivers, which eglfs backend) is up to them. For example, as I understand, the pre-built, Yocto-based reference images from the commercial Qt for Device Creation offering are still using the fbdev-based stack and so the eglfs_viv path for i.MX8. (but I could be wrong here)

Best regards,
Laszlo

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Subject: [Development] i.MX8 embedded Linux support

Hi,

So unless I misunderstand something, for the i.MX8 NXP/Vivante changed
their proprietary graphic stack significantly. The framebuffer and X11
driver are deprecated, only Wayland will be supported, and they have
switched from the Linux framebuffer interface to (a fork of) libdrm.

I was able to run a Qt Quick application on an i.MX8M Mini using this
new infrastructure, i.e. using the regular eglfs_kms platform plugin. So
I am wondering if the qtbase configure script should be adapted to
detect i.MX8, and for that not build eglfs_viv, eglfs_viv_wl and
eglfs_kms_egldevice anymore.

Or more generally I'd like to ask if there is already further work or
information on supporting embedded Linux on i.MX8. For example, I
suppose the yocto layer needs some updates to reflect all this.


Thanks,

Zeno Endemann
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