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

[Luca Ceresoli]

Hi Manjukumar,

On 08/06/2017 18:02, Manjukumar Harthikote Matha wrote:
> 
> 
>> -----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

Many thanks for the prompt reply!

I suspected some licensing restriction issue... I hope they can be
resolved soon.

I noticed the Mali libraries for other projects are downloadable without
troubles, so I hope the same can be done for Xilinx as well:

 * https://github.com/linux-sunxi/sunxi-mali-proprietary
 * https://github.com/mdrjr/c2_mali

Best regards,
-- 
Luca