NVIDIA or AMD accelerated graphics on x86 or x86-64 machine architecture

NVIDIA or AMD accelerated graphics on x86 or x86-64 machine architecture

[Matt Ervin]

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I’m creating a poky (sumo branch) based OS image for x86_64 PC hardware. 
It’s an embedded device that is essentially a desktop PC in a box with 
additional features. My device requires accelerated graphics (either 
NVIDIA or AMD, not Intel) and I’m having difficulty identifying which 
layer and recipe to use for either device. Are there any recipes that 
encapsulate the NVIDIA Linux desktop binary drivers for x86? If not then 
are there any consultants willing to sell me some time to help me create 
one, or to create one for me? I did some google searching and found a 
layer from OakLabs, but it doesn’t work (at least not with the sumo 
branch). The README file in the recipe also states that it’s likely to 
break the build, and it did produce errors for me. I’m not familiar with 
AMD on Linux so I don’t know if the xf86-video-ati recipe in the meta-oe 
layer provides accelerated desktop drivers or, if it does, which AMD 
devices it supports. I’m obviously very new to Yocto so any guidance is 
greatly appreciated.

- Matt


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Re: NVIDIA or AMD accelerated graphics on x86 or x86-64 machine architecture

[Jon Szymaniak]

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On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 15:51 Matt Ervin <matt.office@impsoftware.org>
wrote:

> I’m creating a poky (sumo branch) based OS image for x86_64 PC hardware.
> It’s an embedded device that is essentially a desktop PC in a box with
> additional features. My device requires accelerated graphics (either NVIDIA
> or AMD, not Intel) and I’m having difficulty identifying which layer and
> recipe to use for either device. Are there any recipes that encapsulate the
> NVIDIA Linux desktop binary drivers for x86? If not then are there any
> consultants willing to sell me some time to help me create one, or to
> create one for me? I did some google searching and found a layer from
> OakLabs, but it doesn’t work (at least not with the sumo branch). The
> README file in the recipe also states that it’s likely to break the build,
> and it did produce errors for me. I’m not familiar with AMD on Linux so I
> don’t know if the xf86-video-ati recipe in the meta-oe layer provides
> accelerated desktop drivers or, if it does, which AMD devices it supports.
> I’m obviously very new to Yocto so any guidance is greatly appreciated.
>
>
>
> - Matt
>

Hi Matt,

Any chance you share a bit more info including:

1) Which OakLabs layer you using, and what exactly the failures messages
are?

2) Which NVIDIA and AMD devices you need to support?  Specifically which
drivers do you want installed?


Thanks,
Jon

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Re: NVIDIA or AMD accelerated graphics on x86 or x86-64 machine architecture

[Matt Ervin]

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Hi Jon,

Q: 1) Which OakLabs layer you using, and what exactly the failures 
messages are?

A: I’m using the Oak Labs repo located here: 
https://github.com/OakLabsInc/meta-nvidia
I have the “pyro” branch checked out, as it’s the only branch in the 
repo, and I followed the instructions in the “README” to add the recipe 
to my build by modifying my “local.conf” file.  This is the output it 
produces:

$ bitbake sockeye-gm
WARNING: Layer nvidia should set LAYERSERIES_COMPAT_nvidia in its 
conf/layer.conf file to list the core layer names it is compatible with.
WARNING: Layer nvidia should set LAYERSERIES_COMPAT_nvidia in its 
conf/layer.conf file to list the core layer names it is compatible with.
WARNING: Host distribution "ubuntu-18.04" has not been validated with 
this version of the build system; you may possibly experience unexpected 
failures. It is recommended that you use a tested distribution.
Parsing recipes: 100% 
|########################################################################################################################################################| 
Time: 0:00:21
Parsing of 1553 .bb files complete (0 cached, 1553 parsed). 2188 
targets, 73 skipped, 0 masked, 0 errors.
ERROR: No recipes available for:
/home/peniwize/yocto/poky/meta-nvidia/recipes-graphics/mesa/mesa_17.0.2.bbappend
/home/peniwize/yocto/poky/meta-nvidia/recipes-graphics/xorg-xserver/xserver-xorg_1.19.1.bbappend

Q: 2) Which NVIDIA and AMD devices you need to support? Specifically 
which drivers do you want installed?

A: I’m planning to use an NVIDIA 1050 ti, if I can get the NVIDIA 
drivers working with Yocto.  The latest driver installer can be 
downloaded from: 
https://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/410.73/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-410.73.run, 
which I found from https://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/139110, which 
I found from https://www.geforce.com/drivers.

I’m not certain about which AMD device I would use.  I’m trying to find 
out which devices are supported by Yocto to see if I can find a hardware 
provider for any of them.  I currently have one hardware provider that 
offers these AMD devices:

AMD Embedded Radeon™ GFX-E9175
AMD Radeon™ RX 560 GFX-AR560F16-5A
AMD Radeon™ Pro WX 5100 GFX-5100 Radeon Pro
AMD Radeon™ HD7750 GPU
AMD Radeon™ E6760 Embedded GPU
AMD Radeon™ E6760 Embedded GPU
AMD Radeon™ E6760 Embedded GPU

A quick google search for drivers led me to: 
https://www.amd.com/en/support/graphics/radeon-500-series/radeon-rx-500-series/radeon-rx-560. 
It looks like I can download rpm’s or deb’s so perhaps I can extract the 
required drivers directly from those packages and use them verbatim.  
I’ve never used a Radeon so I don’t know it it requires kernel modules 
or if there is any compilation involved with installing its drivers like 
there is with NVIDIA drivers.

Thanks for the help!

- Matt

On 10/27/18 11:36 AM, Jon Szymaniak wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 15:51 Matt Ervin <matt.office@impsoftware.org 
> <mailto:matt.office@impsoftware.org>> wrote:
>
>     I’m creating a poky (sumo branch) based OS image for x86_64 PC
>     hardware. It’s an embedded device that is essentially a desktop PC
>     in a box with additional features. My device requires accelerated
>     graphics (either NVIDIA or AMD, not Intel) and I’m having
>     difficulty identifying which layer and recipe to use for either
>     device. Are there any recipes that encapsulate the NVIDIA Linux
>     desktop binary drivers for x86? If not then are there any
>     consultants willing to sell me some time to help me create one, or
>     to create one for me? I did some google searching and found a
>     layer from OakLabs, but it doesn’t work (at least not with the
>     sumo branch). The README file in the recipe also states that it’s
>     likely to break the build, and it did produce errors for me. I’m
>     not familiar with AMD on Linux so I don’t know if the
>     xf86-video-ati recipe in the meta-oe layer provides accelerated
>     desktop drivers or, if it does, which AMD devices it supports. I’m
>     obviously very new to Yocto so any guidance is greatly appreciated.
>
>
>
>     - Matt
>
>
> Hi Matt,
>
> Any chance you share a bit more info including:
>
> 1) Which OakLabs layer you using, and what exactly the failures 
> messages are?
>
> 2) Which NVIDIA and AMD devices you need to support?  Specifically 
> which drivers do you want installed?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Jon

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