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

[Rob Clark]

On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 3:26 AM, Varad Gautam <varadgautam at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Emil,
>
> On 03/29/2015 01:48 AM, Emil Velikov wrote:
>> 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.
>
> I get a number of conflicts when rebasing kitkat-x86 over 10.4, while
> upstream/master builds under Android. Would you suggest I skip these and go with
> the rebase? I was wondering if, with st/egl removed, master can build all the
> needed components under Android - so that I can use it instead.
>
> ---
>
> I have documented the build procedure I followed for Android-x86 over IFC6410 at
> [1] and am tracking progress at [2].
>
> Offtopic: What would be a good way for me to get more involved with the
> community and keep up with the recent developments?

jfwiw, #freedreno on freenode is probably best place to keep up to
date (and to a lesser extent, #dri-devel .. and for random msm kernel
stuff, ##linux-msm)

There is also dri-devel and mesa-dev lists for general drm kernel and
mesa userspace stuff (in addition to freedreno list, ofc).  Although I
don't even try to read everything on those two lists.

BR,
-R

> [1] https://varadgautam.wordpress.com/2015/04/29/android-x86-on-ifc6410/
> [2] https://trello.com/b/bIXu6QL6/freedreno-android
>
> Thanks,
> Varad