Tiny Core Linux

Tiny Core Base => Raspberry Pi => Topic started by: seandepagnier on December 20, 2016, 01:48:54 AM

Title: vc4 opengl driver
Post by: seandepagnier on December 20, 2016, 01:48:54 AM

I am interested in using the open source vc4 opengl driver.


I believe this needs kernel 4.10 or 4.11?   Has anyone rebuilt the kernel or mesa with success for this driver?

Title: Re: vc4 opengl driver
Post by: Paul_123 on December 20, 2016, 09:51:38 PM

The mainline kernel is only at 4.9.   So the kernels you referred to don't exist yet.

Title: Re: vc4 opengl driver
Post by: seandepagnier on December 21, 2016, 11:50:17 PM

The kernel I have is only 4.4


How would I compile the kernel?  Can I use the raspbian kernel?

Title: Re: vc4 opengl driver
Post by: Paul_123 on December 22, 2016, 08:31:32 AM

Assume that you are following http://anholt.livejournal.com/   this is all future discussion.   4.9 kernel is released now. Mainline will move to 4.10 soon.  There is obviously a process in which submissions for features are handled ahead of kernel releases.

As for building kernel,  if you google, you will find many pages giving you a step by step process to build a kernel.   There are several threads around here outlining remastering the kernel into tinycore.   Remastering is covered in the wiki too.

Not a simple feat if you haven't done kernel work before.