From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix, from userid 118) id CCC4DE00655; Tue, 19 Aug 2014 14:47:33 -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=-2.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU, FREEMAIL_FROM, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Spam-HAM-Report: * 0.0 FREEMAIL_FROM Sender email is commonly abused enduser mail provider * (rjohnweber[at]gmail.com) * -0.7 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, low * trust * [209.85.160.170 listed in list.dnswl.org] * -1.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% * [score: 0.0000] * -0.1 DKIM_VALID_AU Message has a valid DKIM or DK signature from author's * domain * 0.1 DKIM_SIGNED Message has a DKIM or DK signature, not necessarily * valid * -0.1 DKIM_VALID Message has at least one valid DKIM or DK signature Received: from mail-yk0-f170.google.com (mail-yk0-f170.google.com [209.85.160.170]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32363E004F5 for ; Tue, 19 Aug 2014 14:47:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-yk0-f170.google.com with SMTP id 9so6021368ykp.29 for ; Tue, 19 Aug 2014 14:47:24 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=FKCimeVqiMwHnTvFUSobCOGbLxbcLE/YD26YX1o0E1M=; b=Xi1PPXbdX5PvzgVpZI08vMK1HsTCpJKcYruOpctUIr+90VFoUjIG7WQSMpk+j2Ytui jlp77kH/vOLP1qJsngkohPHQG5ZsDhwvs5Zxn45XP159slg4gLqR2xO2ZDWXShmP9z6b dbornha1I19Yw2DPBpIW1xqfGUj9l9+SFtfm717Y6Ad7nb2s965enTr8dqefSFdHTMXu cvnPqNdw+CB28PWpR8M2lyCXvxcXSRo15jU2DPgBabhjhNe52K5e5iBlkkJ1ZJf5ryaX b0Mf9DJHZD3aMYqqjI/Nq/6LD243WqNo408jDArU0Ndc/k0qgR2dW+eVP+S2kg+QfHKp Up4w== X-Received: by 10.236.133.165 with SMTP id q25mr67713083yhi.62.1408484843897; Tue, 19 Aug 2014 14:47:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from goober-2.local ([75.76.45.160]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id d66sm2792188yhb.37.2014.08.19.14.47.23 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 19 Aug 2014 14:47:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <53F3C5EA.3000300@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 16:47:22 -0500 From: John Weber User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: meta-freescale@yoctoproject.org References: <53F3953D.6040500@pseudoterminal.org> In-Reply-To: <53F3953D.6040500@pseudoterminal.org> Subject: Re: 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 21:47:33 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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