[meta-xilinx] libmali-xlnx fetch from unknown host gitenterprise.xilinx.com

[Luca Ceresoli]

Hi,

I have an issue downloading the Mali 400 userspace libraries for ZynqMP.

I'm using the rel-v2017.1 branch of the meta-xilinx layer (from github
[0]). The libmali-xlnx recipe [1] tries to fetch from
gitenterprise.xilinx.com, but this host name cannot be resolved so the
fetch step fails.

The documented at [2] has a link to a web page where a tarball can be
downloaded. That tarball contains instructions to extract a second
tarball and put a third tarball a directory, then configure bitbake to
locate it as if it had been downloaded normally. This works but needs
several manual steps, which must be repeated on any development host.
Moreover it requires using SOURCE_MIRROR_URL, which thus cannot be used
for other purposes.

I'm currently writing a script to partially automate it, but it's a
waste of time for me and everybody else wanting to just use this
package. I also expect it to break as soon as a new version of the
tarball is released and the meta-xilinx recipe updated.

It is desirable that libmali-xlnx can download its files without any
human intervention, just like any other recipe. Is there a plan to
achieve that?

Thanks in advance!

[0] https://github.com/Xilinx/meta-xilinx

[1]
https://github.com/Xilinx/meta-xilinx/blob/33014f8bdcbc8991088/recipes-graphics/libgles/libmali-xlnx_git.bb#L16

[2]
https://github.com/Xilinx/meta-xilinx/blob/33014f8bdcbc8991088/docs/MALI-binaries

-- 
Luca