From: John Weber <rjohnweber@gmail.com>
To: meta-freescale@yoctoproject.org
Subject: Re: Community-maintained 3.14.16 kernel for i.MX6 devices
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 16:47:22 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53F3C5EA.3000300@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53F3953D.6040500@pseudoterminal.org>
On 8/19/14, 1:19 PM, Carlos Rafael Giani wrote:
> 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.
This looks pretty awesome. Thanks for sharing. What versions of SolidRun HW is
it supporting?
>
> 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.
Cool! What GPU and VPU tests have you been running?
>
> The repository is available at:
> https://github.com/linux4kix/linux-linaro-stable-mx6 . Use the
> "linux-linaro-lsk-v3.14-mx6" branch.
I'll have to mess with this soon and check it out.
>
> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-19 21:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-19 18:19 Community-maintained 3.14.16 kernel for i.MX6 devices Carlos Rafael Giani
2014-08-19 21:47 ` John Weber [this message]
2014-08-20 7:47 ` Rabeeh Khoury
2014-08-20 7:50 ` Carlos Rafael Giani
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