From: Gary Bisson <gary.bisson@boundarydevices.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/8] imx-vpu: rename package to imx-vpu-cnm
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2018 08:45:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180726064502.GA20581@g751.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180725162658.w46nlncptoxgukrj@sapphire.tkos.co.il>
Hi Baruch,
On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 07:26:58PM +0300, Baruch Siach wrote:
> Hi Gary,
>
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 05:01:43PM +0200, Gary Bisson wrote:
> > So far the i.MX processors have been using a Chips&Media CODA VPU.
> > But the latest generation of processors (starting with i.MX8MQ) uses
> > VPU cores from Hantro which is provided as imx-vpu-hantro package.
> >
> > NXP chose in Yocto to keep the imx-vpu naming for Chips&Media package
> > and created a virtual "imxvpu" package that can either be provided by
> > imx-vpu or imx-vpu-hantro.
> >
> > Since this naming can be confusing (IMO), renaming the imx-vpu package
> > to imx-vpu-cnm and then create a virtual imx-vpu one should be clearer.
>
> What about Config.in.legacy?
Yep, good catch, I always forget about this.
> [..]
>
> > -config BR2_PACKAGE_IMX_VPU
> > - bool "imx-vpu"
> > +config BR2_PACKAGE_IMX_VPU_CNM
> > + bool "imx-vpu-cnm"
> > depends on BR2_arm # Only relevant for i.MX
> > depends on BR2_PACKAGE_FREESCALE_IMX_HAS_VPU
> > select BR2_PACKAGE_FIRMWARE_IMX
> > help
> > Library of userspace helpers specific for the Freescale i.MX
> > - platform. It wraps the kernel interfaces for the i.MX platform
> > - Video Processing Unit (VPU) driver. It requires a kernel that
> > - includes the i.MX specific headers to be built.
> > + platform integrating a Chips&Media CODA Video Processing Unit
> > + (VPU). It requires a kernel that includes the i.MX specific
> > + headers to be built.
>
> I think it is worth mentioning here which i.MX variants have this VPU.
> Otherwise the user has no easy way to know which package supports a specific
> SoC.
That makes sense, will be fixed in V2.
Thanks,
Gary
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-26 6:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-25 15:01 [Buildroot] [PATCH 0/8] imx: update multimedia packages to 4.9.88_2.0.0_ga Gary Bisson
2018-07-25 15:01 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/8] firmware-imx: bump to version 7.5 Gary Bisson
2018-07-28 21:53 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2018-07-29 13:08 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2018-07-30 8:59 ` Gary Bisson
2018-07-25 15:01 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/8] imx-vpu: rename package to imx-vpu-cnm Gary Bisson
2018-07-25 16:26 ` Baruch Siach
2018-07-26 6:45 ` Gary Bisson [this message]
2018-07-25 15:01 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 3/8] imx-vpu-cnm: bump version to 5.4.38 Gary Bisson
2018-07-25 15:01 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 4/8] imx-vpu-hantro: new package Gary Bisson
2018-07-25 16:29 ` Baruch Siach
2018-07-26 6:45 ` Gary Bisson
2018-07-26 9:41 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2018-07-26 10:02 ` Gary Bisson
2018-07-25 15:01 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 5/8] imx-vpu: new virtual package Gary Bisson
2018-07-25 15:01 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 6/8] imx-vpuwrap: bump version to 4.3.5 Gary Bisson
2018-07-25 15:01 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 7/8] imx-codec: " Gary Bisson
2018-07-25 15:01 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 8/8] imx-parser: " Gary Bisson
2018-07-26 9:26 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 0/8] imx: update multimedia packages to 4.9.88_2.0.0_ga Arnout Vandecappelle
2018-07-26 9:45 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2018-07-26 9:58 ` Gary Bisson
2018-07-28 8:08 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
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