[meta-ti] [daisy][PATCH] dra7xx: add "mmip" to MACHINE_FEATURES

[Denys Dmytriyenko]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 08:33:39PM +0000, Cooper Jr., Franklin wrote:
> So this patch shouldn't be needed.
> 
> The only recipe that is using mmip is ipumm-fw. Currently the recipe has 
> COMPATIBLE_MACHINE set to only omap-a15. So why do we also need to add this 
> to the SOC family?

The above statement is not correct.

The flag mmip in MACHINE_FEATURES was introduced to handle cases of hardware 
accelerated multimedia, when some software components needs to be replaced 
with "forked" patched and modified versions. Take a look at gstreamer pieces 
in meta-arago...


> Honestly for ipumm-fw the below code should be removed.
> python __anonymous() {
>      features = bb.data.getVar("MACHINE_FEATURES", d, 1)
>      if not features:
>          return
>      if "mmip" not in features:
>          raise bb.parse.SkipPackage('ipumm-fw does not apply to systems without the "mmip" flag in MACHINE_FEATURES')
>  }
> 
> Plus this patch will break things for am57xx-evm. By allowing this change 
> ipumm-fw would not be skipped for am57x evm and the current recipe will fail 
> because of it.

So, am57xx-evm should not build and load ipumm-fw is what you are saying?

-- 
Denys


> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: meta-ti-bounces at yoctoproject.org [mailto:meta-ti-
> > bounces at yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Stiffler, Jacob
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2014 9:42 AM
> > To: meta-ti at yoctoproject.org
> > Subject: Re: [meta-ti] [daisy][PATCH] dra7xx: add "mmip" to
> > MACHINE_FEATURES
> > 
> > ping
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Stiffler, Jacob
> > Sent: Monday, September 15, 2014 8:32 AM
> > To: meta-ti at yoctoproject.org
> > Cc: Stiffler, Jacob
> > Subject: [daisy][PATCH] dra7xx: add "mmip" to MACHINE_FEATURES
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jacob Stiffler <j-stiffler at ti.com>
> > ---
> >  conf/machine/include/dra7xx.inc |    2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/conf/machine/include/dra7xx.inc
> > b/conf/machine/include/dra7xx.inc index 857e1b3..a7c8782 100644
> > --- a/conf/machine/include/dra7xx.inc
> > +++ b/conf/machine/include/dra7xx.inc
> > @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> >  require conf/machine/include/omap-a15.inc  SOC_FAMILY_append =
> > ":dra7xx"
> > 
> > -MACHINE_FEATURES += "pci"
> > +MACHINE_FEATURES += "pci mmip"
> > --
> > 1.7.9.5
> > 
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