| Message ID | 20250603113558.3104618-4-alex.kanavin@gmail.com (mailing list archive) |
|---|---|
| State | New |
| Headers | show |
| Series | [1/4] meta/conf/templates: add a blank template | expand |
On Tue, 2025-06-03 at 13:35 +0200, Alexander Kanavin via lists.yoctoproject.org wrote: > From: Alexander Kanavin <alex@linutronix.de> > > This has been the default in poky's local.conf template for > a long time, but it's not enabled directly in poky distro. > To allow better sstate reuse and a better user experience > on a typical laptop (qemu will pop up a graphical window directly), > let's add this fragment and enable it in official bitbake-setup > configurations. > > Signed-off-by: Alexander Kanavin <alex@linutronix.de> > --- > meta/conf/fragments/qemu/enable-native-sdl.conf | 8 ++++++++ > 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) > create mode 100644 meta/conf/fragments/qemu/enable-native-sdl.conf > > diff --git a/meta/conf/fragments/qemu/enable-native-sdl.conf b/meta/conf/fragments/qemu/enable-native-sdl.conf > new file mode 100644 > index 00000000000..21c1298171e > --- /dev/null > +++ b/meta/conf/fragments/qemu/enable-native-sdl.conf > @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ > +BB_CONF_FRAGMENT_SUMMARY = "Enable SDL support for direct graphical output on the build host." > +BB_CONF_FRAGMENT_DESCRIPTION = "By default qemu is built with a internal VNC server \ > +support. To see graphical output from the guest system, one can use a VNC client to \ > +connect to it. This fragment enables Simple Directmedia Layer support, which allows \ > +seeing the graphical output from guest directly in a X/Wayland session on the build host machine. \ > +" > + > +PACKAGECONFIG:append:pn-qemu-system-native = " sdl" I have to wonder whether rather than making this a fragment, we should just change the default... Cheers, Richard
On Tue, 3 Jun 2025 at 21:44, Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > This has been the default in poky's local.conf template for > > a long time, but it's not enabled directly in poky distro. > > To allow better sstate reuse and a better user experience > > on a typical laptop (qemu will pop up a graphical window directly), > > let's add this fragment and enable it in official bitbake-setup > > configurations. > I have to wonder whether rather than making this a fragment, we should just change the default... Yes. I am somewhat unsure where to set it: in the recipe, or in poky distro? I'm leaning towards the former, as both oe-core and poky default local.conf templates add the setting. Alex
On Wed, 2025-06-04 at 09:40 +0200, Alexander Kanavin wrote: > On Tue, 3 Jun 2025 at 21:44, Richard Purdie > <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > > This has been the default in poky's local.conf template for > > > a long time, but it's not enabled directly in poky distro. > > > To allow better sstate reuse and a better user experience > > > on a typical laptop (qemu will pop up a graphical window > > > directly), > > > let's add this fragment and enable it in official bitbake-setup > > > configurations. > > > I have to wonder whether rather than making this a fragment, we > > should just change the default... > > Yes. I am somewhat unsure where to set it: in the recipe, or in poky > distro? I'm leaning towards the former, as both oe-core and poky > default local.conf templates add the setting. I agree, I think we should change the recipe. Cheers, Richard
diff --git a/meta/conf/fragments/qemu/enable-native-sdl.conf b/meta/conf/fragments/qemu/enable-native-sdl.conf new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..21c1298171e --- /dev/null +++ b/meta/conf/fragments/qemu/enable-native-sdl.conf @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +BB_CONF_FRAGMENT_SUMMARY = "Enable SDL support for direct graphical output on the build host." +BB_CONF_FRAGMENT_DESCRIPTION = "By default qemu is built with a internal VNC server \ +support. To see graphical output from the guest system, one can use a VNC client to \ +connect to it. This fragment enables Simple Directmedia Layer support, which allows \ +seeing the graphical output from guest directly in a X/Wayland session on the build host machine. \ +" + +PACKAGECONFIG:append:pn-qemu-system-native = " sdl"