Is there any framebuffer testcases?

Chris Johns chrisj at rtems.org
Thu Apr 14 21:16:26 UTC 2016


On 15/04/2016 1:34 AM, Gedare Bloom wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 2:12 AM, Chris Johns <chrisj at rtems.org> wrote:
>>
>> The Microwindows support is messy. The package references a personal github
>> repo, the RSB support is only for Linux and Microwindows is in need of build
>> system attention. Microwindows build support is gcc, gnu make, and
>> RTEMS_MAKEFILE_PATH centric and this last one is a dead end. No other 3rd
>> party package needs this file. Forcing gcc for the host means a standard
>> FreeBSD install does not work.
>>
>> Microwindows can be hacked so we can make it build however where do we keep
>> the patches and support long term. I am not comfortable with a personal repo
>> that could change at any point in time, it is personal after all.
>>
> Microwindows is now hosted as a github repo on Greg's account at
> https://github.com/ghaerr/microwindows and so that is the official
> upstream. I believe Pavel has write access to contribute/maintain it.

Great. We reference this repo and not a personal one.

> So, it would be best to work through the usual open-source upstream
> model. If you would like to mirror Greg's git repo, that would be
> appropriate risk management..

Lets hear what Pavel would like to do.

Chris




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