[meta-xilinx] Using GPU on UltraScale+ MPSoC ZCU102 Evaluation

[Mike Looijmans]

On 23-01-17 17:35, Giordon Stark wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> As it's probably apparent, this comes with the ARM Mali GPU that would be
> useful for some of our applications. I'm curious about what you need to do to
> interface with this (from say C/C++ and/or Python). What recipes are needed to
> compile so we can access the GPU when cross-compiling a custom-written
> C-script/binary?

meta-xilinx provides a mali kernel module. Haven't tried yet, but I'd expect 
it to need some firmware 'blob' from linux-firmware too.

Then add "opengl" to your FEATURES (dunno which, machine, distro, ...)

And from there it's OpenGL "as usual". First step there would be to develop 
something that runs on your desktop Linux PC and uses the video card, it'll 
use the MALI when running on the board. That's the nice thing about an 
operating system, you don't have to target particular hardware...



Kind regards,

Mike Looijmans
System Expert

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