[Freedreno] [GSoC-15] Enabling Freedreno on Android

[Varad Gautam]

Just received my IFC6410!

On 03/29/2015 01:48 AM, Emil Velikov wrote:
> You're welcome and thank you for the update.
> 
> Meanwhile I had some fun yesterday beating mesa into shape (wrt Android-x86):
>  - Android builds NIR now.
>  - The classic i915/i965 drivers should be ok.
>  - Initial support for st/dri with the gallium drivers. Still a bit more to go.
>  - A ton of small fixes all over.
> Some of the above was done by the Android-x86 folk, so credit goes
> where credit is due :-)
> 
> Varad from the things listed only st/dri might be of interest for you.
> Up-to mesa 10.5 we've had a so called EGL state-tracker (st/egl)
> although with that one is no longer present in master. So I'm not sure
> how useful it would be to actually test against it. Will try to get
> things done in the next week or so but as originally planned -
> rebasing android-x86/kitkat-x86 on top of upstream/10.4 would be a
> nice start. Kindly related - what is the machine (specs) that you're
> planning to do the builds on ?
> 

Thanks, sounds good. Once things work out with 10.4, we can try a later,
non-st/egl mesa. I have an Intel i5-450M notebook with 4GB RAM running
openSUSE that I'll be using to develop.

> And one not so good news - seems that git.android-x86.org is down, and
> the sf.net mirror is out of date (not sure how much exactly). If
> things stay as is I'll mirror my latest checkout (plus some local
> changes) to github. I'll be only the relevant ~5 projects rather than
> the ~120 that I have currently checked out (note that this is only a
> small part from the whole Android project).

Still down :(. Luckily, I've got shallow clones of kitkat-x86 and
android-ifc6410 [1], and I have rebased mesa to 10.4 as you suggested
(not tried to build yet). I am trying out the CAF build that shipped
with the board and will see if I can build kitkat-x86 soon.

One thing -- would someone from the community be willing/available to
mentor me for this project and in general?

[1] https://git.linaro.org/people/daniel.thompson/device/linaro/ifc6410.git

Thanks,
Varad
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Emil
>