[Interest] Qt5/OMAP4/EGLFS: Strange animation behaviour

[Samuel Rødal]

On 11/21/2012 09:17 AM, Stephan Kanthak wrote:
> Hi Samuel,
>
> On 11/21/2012 08:43 AM, Samuel Rødal wrote:
>> On 11/20/2012 09:12 PM, Stephan Kanthak wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> one final word to this list on my fix. I think that the fix I did to Qt5
>>> is not in good shape to be integrated. My fix interfaces directly with
>>> OMAP-specific ioctl's to a linux framebuffer device in code that is
>>> generic to all egl platforms. I'll continue to discuss this first with
>>> Prabindh from TI to find out more about where to best fix this. Maybe
>>> I'm also not using the TI driver to its best, but I already tried hard
>>> to understand the problem in more general.
>> For eglfs we have a solution for device / device-family specific
>> work-arounds, they're the QEglFSHooks, in
>> src/plugins/platforms/eglfs/qeglfshooks.h
>>
>> beforeSwapBuffers() and/or afterSwapBuffers() could be added to the
>> hooks for instance, so that you could put your work-around in a file
>> specified by a custom mkspec.
>>
>> As an example, ee mkspecs/devices/linux-rasp-pi-g++ for the hooks used
>> on the raspberry pi, qeglfshooks_pi.cpp, enabled by setting the
>> EGLFS_PLATFORM_HOOKS_SOURCES variable in the qmake.conf in the same
>> directory.
> That's indeed a good suggestion. I already noticed those hooks when I
> inspected the mkspecs files in linux-rasp-pi-g++, but yet didn't take
> the time to fully understand the concept. But it does make sense to me now.
>
> In order to make that lean & clean, I assume it's best to also create a
> separate directory for my config in mkspecs/devices, right? So far, I
> was using the default linux-arm-gnueabi-g++.

Yep.

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Samuel