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

[Manjukumar Harthikote Matha]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Luca Ceresoli [mailto:luca at lucaceresoli.net]
> Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2017 7:17 AM
> To: meta-xilinx at yoctoproject.org
> Cc: Madhurkiran Harikrishnan <MADHURKI at xilinx.com>; Manjukumar Harthikote
> Matha <MANJUKUM at xilinx.com>
> Subject: libmali-xlnx fetch from unknown host gitenterprise.xilinx.com
>
> 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?
>
Agreed it is pain, but the restriction is due to ARM licensing. We are working to get it resolved with ARM

Thanks
Manju

> 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


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