[Buildroot] Towards 2015.05-rc1

[Bernd Kuhls <bernd.kuhls@t-online.de>]

Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com> wrote in
news:87sibutq0q.fsf at dell.be.48ers.dk: 

>>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni
>>>>>> <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
>>>>>> writes: 
> 
> > Bernd,
> > On Sun, 19 Apr 2015 22:14:24 +0200, Bernd Kuhls wrote:
> 
> >> if possible and time allows for all involved persons I would like to
> >> see the libudev series stuff in the next buildroot release. 
> 
> > As far as I remember, someone needs to take over this series, no? I
> > believe you originally authored it, then Yann took over, then Peter
> > proposed to take over but did not resend it as far as I know.
> 
> Yes, sorry - I haven't forgotten about it, but I haven't been able to
> find time for it yet. Realisticly seen, I probably won't be able to make
> it within the next 10 days.
> 
> > On my side, I am still a bit concerned by the usefulness of this
> > series. The use cases you have are anyway running big things (Kodi,
> > etc.) so I'm not sure why running udevd or not makes a big difference.
> > It does seem a lot of additional complexity for not such a huge
> > benefit.
> 
> I agree that it is a tradeoff. In the worst case it can be handled in a
> post-build script.
> 
> My own usecase was to use libinput for some keyboard/mouse/touchscreen
> handling on a small system and disliking the udevd dependency.
> 

Hi Peter, hi Thomas,

my plan is to provide a Kodi package for an existing distro (www.fli4l.de)
which uses buildroot to compile its binaries and uses this option: 

BR2_ROOTFS_DEVICE_CREATION_STATIC=y

and CONFIG_MDEV=y in busybox.config

These settings forbid enabling udev which blocks mesa3d, and therefore
kodi, on x86. 

Regards, Bernd