Re: GStreamer VPU support on i.MX6

[Daiane Angolini <daiane.angolini@freescale.com>]

On 04/19/2013 02:25 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Daiane Angolini
> <daiane.angolini@freescale.com> wrote:
>> On 04/19/2013 02:09 PM, Gary Thomas wrote:
>>>
>>> On 2013-04-19 10:58, Daiane Angolini wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 04/19/2013 01:52 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Daiane Angolini
>>>>> <daiane.angolini@freescale.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> The firmware is installed by packagegroup-base-core; adding a
>>>>> dependency on this is not optimal IMO.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I almost remember we have already discussed why firmware is not a
>>>> dependency.
>>>>
>>>> I cannot remember what i understood.
>>>>
>>>> Why would I want to have gst-fsl-plugins installed WITHOUT the VPU
>>>> firmware?
>>>
>>>
>>> It gets you other pieces which don't need the VPU, e.g. the
>>> special V4L2 drivers.
>>>
>>> root@sabrelite:~# opkg files gst-fsl-plugin | sort
>>> /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libmfw_gst_aacdec.so
>>> /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libmfw_gst_aiur_demux.so
>>> /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libmfw_gst_amrdec.so
>>> /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libmfw_gst_audio_pp.so
>>> /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libmfw_gst_beep.so
>>> /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libmfw_gst_h264dec.so
>>> /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libmfw_gst_mp3dec.so
>>> /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libmfw_gst_mp3enc.so
>>> /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libmfw_gst_mpeg2dec.so
>>> /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libmfw_gst_mpeg4aspdec.so
>>> /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libmfw_gst_v4lsink.so
>>> /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libmfw_gst_v4lsrc.so
>>> /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libmfw_gst_vorbisdec.so
>>> /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libmfw_vpu.so
>>>
>>
>> I only means that when you decide to not install VPU dec/enc you don't need
>> vpu firmware.
>>
>> It does not mean that, when you install gst-fsl-plugins you don't expect to
>> find the vpu firmware
>
> So we might need to change packagegroup-fsl-vpu-support and make
> packagegroup-fsl-gstramer depends on it?

In fact I don't know.

I choose to keep going.
-- 
Daiane