From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix, from userid 118) id DF508E00563; Tue, 19 Aug 2014 11:19:51 -0700 (PDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on yocto-www.yoctoproject.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Spam-HAM-Report: * -0.0 SPF_HELO_PASS SPF: HELO matches SPF record * -1.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% * [score: 0.0000] Received: from ptmx.org (ptmx.org [178.63.28.110]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94777E004F5 for ; Tue, 19 Aug 2014 11:19:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.178.14] (chello062178118086.5.14.vie.surfer.at [62.178.118.86]) by ptmx.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9B72422533 for ; Tue, 19 Aug 2014 20:19:41 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <53F3953D.6040500@pseudoterminal.org> Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 20:19:41 +0200 From: Carlos Rafael Giani User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: meta-freescale@yoctoproject.org Subject: Community-maintained 3.14.16 kernel for i.MX6 devices X-BeenThere: meta-freescale@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Usage and development list for the meta-fsl-* layers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 18:19:51 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello, I want to take a few minutes and mention in this mailing list the amazing work of Jon Nettleton, Russell King, and others. This is 3.14 kernel, with FSL patches, upstream patches, memleak fixes, and numerous improvements for stability that are not present in the linux-imx kernels. The target hardware for this has been the SolidRun product line so far (since the developers' time is limited, and they don't have every imx6 device under the sun to test with), but putting other devicetree files in it should not be difficult. Initial tests on SolidRun hardware show noticeable improvements. To list a few enhancements: * FEC ethernet performance, rated by Freescale at 470 Mbps; with Russell King's improvements pushed to 630+ down and 500+ up * lower I/O latencies * SDHC patchset for better UHS-I support * residue support for SDMA with FSL's custom firmware integrated to work with HDMI and optical SPDIF * higher DMA and GPU efficiency in general * and of course the upstream 3.14 improvements over 3.10 VPU and GPU have also successfully been tested with this kernel. The repository is available at: https://github.com/linux4kix/linux-linaro-stable-mx6 . Use the "linux-linaro-lsk-v3.14-mx6" branch. Some members of the community are in IRC channels. One is #cubox in the Freenode IRC network. Another is #imx6-devel (also in the Freenode network). Comments welcome! cheers