[meta-freescale] Removing gpu-viv-bin-mx6q from custom image

[Jean-Michel Hautbois]

2015-06-30 14:13 GMT+02:00 Daiane Angolini <daiane.list at gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 9:01 AM, Jean-Michel Hautbois
> <jhautbois at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Daiane,
>>
>> 2015-06-30 13:37 GMT+02:00 Daiane Angolini <daiane.list at gmail.com>:
>>> On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 2:33 AM, Jean-Michel Hautbois
>>> <jhautbois at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi !
>>>>
>>>> I have a custom image for a I.MX6 board and I don't need to have the
>>>> gpu-viv-bin-mx6q package installed. I am depending in my image on
>>>> core-image-base and I don't add it in the EXTRA_IMAGE_INSTALL variable. But
>>>> I still get it installed.
>>>>
>>>> What is it installed by and how can I remove it ?
>>>
>>> The complete BSP is built targeting the maximum use of GPU
>>> acceleration for any imx6Q boards. That's why you cannot "remove" GPU
>>> packages. Too many dependencies making you use it by default.
>>>
>>> You can try to blacklist it
>>> (http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.8/mega-manual/mega-manual.html#ref-classes-blacklist)
>>>
>>> Or, you can override several BSP configurations:
>>>
>>> http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-fsl-arm/tree/conf/machine/include/imx-base.inc#n23
>>> http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-fsl-arm/tree/conf/machine/include/imx-base.inc#n94
>>> (from line 94 to 108)
>>
>> Just tested to add this to my custom machine :
>> XSERVER_DRIVER_mx6 ?= ""
>> PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/egl_mx6 ?= ""
>> PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/libgles1_mx6q ?= ""
>> PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/libgles1_mx6dl ?= ""
>> PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/libgles1_mx6sx ?= ""
>> PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/libgles1_mx6sl ?= ""
>> PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/libgles2_mx6q ?= ""
>> PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/libgles2_mx6dl ?= ""
>> PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/libgles2_mx6sx ?= ""
>> PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/libgles2_mx6sl ?= ""
>> PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/libgl_mx6q ?= ""
>> PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/libgl_mx6dl ?= ""
>> PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/libgl_mx6sx ?= ""
>> PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/libgl_mx6sl ?= ""
>> PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/libg2d_mx6 ?= ""
>>
>> But the following command still shows gpu-viv-bin-mx6q :
>> bitbake -g my-image && cat pn-depends.dot | grep -v -e '-native' |
>> grep -v digraph | grep -v -e '-image' | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq
>
>
> I would use a stronger assignemnt instead of ?=
> (http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.6/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual.html#setting-a-default-value)
>
> Maybe imx-base.inc from BSP is stronger than you machine config file.
>
> However, maybe I forgot one BSP dependency. Which package your
> dependency graph say is bringing the vpu package?

You mean bitbake -g gpu-viv-bin-mx6q ?
Or something else ?

JM