Re: Fido with kernel 3.10.17

[Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>]

On 2015-05-12 06:27, Nikolay Dimitrov wrote:
> Hi Gary,
>
> On 05/12/2015 02:48 PM, Gary Thomas wrote:
>> On 2015-05-12 05:34, Nikolay Dimitrov wrote:
>>> Hi guys,
>>>
>>> On 05/07/2015 06:39 PM, Nikolay Dimitrov wrote:
>>>> On 05/07/2015 06:29 PM, Gary Thomas wrote:
>>>>> On 2015-05-07 09:24, Nikolay Dimitrov wrote:
>>>>>> Hi Gary,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 05/07/2015 05:27 PM, Gary Thomas wrote:
>>>>>>> On 2015-05-07 08:23, Nikolay Dimitrov wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hi guys,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I'm updating an imx6d-based project from Dizzy to Fido.
>>>>>>>> I use all Fido components without changes, a customized
>>>>>>>> u-boot 2014.07 and kernel FSL 3.10.17. My Fido build
>>>>>>>> boots OK, but Xorg segfaults.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Which leads to my question - is the latest Vivante GPU
>>>>>>>> code compatible with 3.10.17 or I'll have to move to
>>>>>>>> 3.14.28?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> or 3.10.53
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Do you have kernel 3.10.53 working on Fido with Xorg?
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, many boards such as the ones from Boundary Devices (in
>>>>> meta-fsl-arm-extra) use this kernel (plus their own
>>>>> enhancements).
>>>>
>>>> OK, thanks!
>>>
>>> Just wanted to follow-up on this issue - after updating the kernel
>>>  to 3.10.53 and rebuilding the product image, Xorg no longer
>>> crashes and works fine. Thanks to everyone who helped!
>>
>> Does chrome work correctly?  What about the gstreamer-1.0 based media
>> player?
>
> Right now Chromium doesn't start at all (and I'm looking into it).
>
> Gstreamer-1.0 freezes instantly with my test video streams. As I've
> invested some time in the past to really force gstreamer-0.10 to work,
> I'm quite reluctant to go forward with gstreamer-1.0, especially when
> its MPEGTS implementation is, well... half-working. So I'm sticking with
> what I've made to work so far.

I'm glad that your experience, albeit not pleasant, matches mine on this
hardware - I thought I might be missing something.

>
> Regards,
> Nikolay
>
> PS: I'm dreaming for the day when I can ditch gstreamer and start using
> VLC with imx VPU...

Probably still some time from now - I built VLC and it doesn't
work any better (i.e. at all) on the i.MX6.  At least mplayer
does work, even if it's not accelerated "out of the box"

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