rpi-config,README: Add option to enable offline image compositing

Set this variable to enable support for dispmanx offline compositing
DISMANX_OFFLINE = "1"

This will enable the firmware to fall back to off-line compositing of
Dispmanx elements. Normally the compositing is done on-line, during scanout,
but cannot handle too many elements. With off-line enabled, an off-screen
buffer is allocated for compositing. When scene complexity (number and sizes
of elements) is high, compositing will happen off-line into the buffer.

Heavily recommended for Wayland/Weston.

See: http://wayland.freedesktop.org/raspberrypi.html

Change-Id: I722b20ff5bdba1bdd0683d30bee07c3934c95a1f
Signed-off-by: Alex J Lennon <ajlennon@dynamicdevices.co.uk>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/recipes-bcm/bootfiles/rpi-config_git.bb b/recipes-bcm/bootfiles/rpi-config_git.bb
index 9b5c1e6..29ced34 100644
--- a/recipes-bcm/bootfiles/rpi-config_git.bb
+++ b/recipes-bcm/bootfiles/rpi-config_git.bb
@@ -60,6 +60,12 @@ do_deploy() {
         echo "# Enable video camera" >>${DEPLOYDIR}/bcm2835-bootfiles/config.txt
         echo "start_x=1" >>${DEPLOYDIR}/bcm2835-bootfiles/config.txt
     fi
+
+    # Offline compositing support
+    if [ -n "${DISPMANX_OFFLINE}" ]; then
+        echo "# Enable offline compositing" >>${DEPLOYDIR}/bcm2835-bootfiles/config.txt
+        echo "dispmanx_offline=1" >>${DEPLOYDIR}/bcm2835-bootfiles/config.txt
+    fi
 }
 
 addtask deploy before do_package after do_install