From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix, from userid 118) id 387CAE006C6; Mon, 13 Jul 2015 04:53:59 -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=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Spam-HAM-Report: * -0.7 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, low * trust * [212.227.17.24 listed in list.dnswl.org] * -1.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% * [score: 0.0000] Received: from mout.kundenserver.de (mout.kundenserver.de [212.227.17.24]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52EC3E00306 for ; Mon, 13 Jul 2015 04:53:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from berar-macpro.stagetec.com ([79.247.185.219]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (mreue102) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0LkhPw-1YgNPn3VTQ-00aS1J; Mon, 13 Jul 2015 13:53:51 +0200 Message-ID: <55A3A6CD.1080106@stagetec.com> Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 13:53:49 +0200 From: Dirk Berar User-Agent: Postbox 3.0.11 (Macintosh/20140602) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Heikki Sarkanen References: <001701d0b986$6ad785d0$40869170$@gasera.fi> <559D414F.7010308@stagetec.com>, <9C17661F-955A-4F2C-BB8A-415C5A6EA5D2@gasera.fi> , <559E5C86.8070906@stagetec.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.2.3 X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:qutp5iQPe47EMTiVRUM5j63hs1VojfsXz7oQDKUFy2zOffWnPcm Re+IeHjDsU8TWlxgdDWJFPrjycl/vk6+dSN7YVDatZUOs6H2QMukWRpLBqIeozi+/gmxMMR A4UUWl3lBJAJyZJnE67SNWWxoRKGpL5yyvmEzEiSb9qrE6FfM0W513UevJ0hoomFITspwgT 0RQyrRAVeA4zdv+83lLKw== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:+l1ZEj45cJE=:hRR2dOsq9NQ9hYvz40nHwP QTk5hXp8trOvXKdruNsDwDMNJ7SNnGBlAJjJfzJrj8aCXnnnuJTQnx5h+w+YZLiUzmXIYpx3f ZwBpwbZS0UMMqof7QjzwxFkVego9XkEC5fAkm22FZoxN6qX/KFttruMEhS67XC9+AI7lSZKgD tlJQk3ynCblLILc7vvpFwFgouk3+xrCI59D5LSIbP9l6Jr9woJV85HtdzfBsGo2yHfNEgUPtX qHdmr727e00cTTatpWpSRClSDM0VOxWQYC1mt8oXLSSfpf7/1W7YZh3c4aNPJLL/M+O6Gm+Qa XYEFO8R8Uko9+uvGPzsj6gffNdaLDxllLI9G4HYsPGbY1F86q0WJPSlh/U9KD8Co4NkNOO3RG 2OIHKIpcUF++9GZvF2gi1d86jLzpAdAmPAWZkA/NcmljNV9kBYQYTWzrPxGGLjFoauEQl4COw bz7btKh2BF6gBQenwBwL54Vk6oxLzGWMDvctbAKdrhWIy7zven/I/2XLtjqYYukl8XsjSnd2b g9rhOxJy6xiY6Ge+BlqfC1jKHmdlnGIAhq+v12pYUCLeny3rFtfacmbmJ7lPKHRIbDC/ETLk4 ZNlgij9QJsxXsLMZKLnFV7y/cAV7Q1pS2kn74HYqEa/P929YW8kd5MRa0LHWObqQFGlpsPPw1 bhgh885OnU9uED0ZYSW9kZHE16c7EgA6bxK1ZTdIH0adV5g== Cc: "meta-freescale@yoctoproject.org" Subject: Re: Image building and deployment to SMARC-sAMX6i 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: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 11:53:59 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello Heikki, once more, thank you! I am currently not working on the project related with the yocto stuff. Soon I will come back to the project. I will report on my progress. Regards Dirk Heikki Sarkanen schrieb: > Hello Dirk, > > If you are running something GPU intensive I would recommend > upgrading at least to 3.10.53 kernel so then you could use the newer > GPU drivers. With daisy/3.10.17 you cannot: > https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/meta-freescale/2015-April/013234.html > I have tried Qt 5.4 on X11 and Wayland. Both of them got some > performance boost from that update. Although I have not tested how > this benefits on FB. It's a bit hard to follow what have changed in > Vivante GPU but documents like this one: > http://cache.freescale.com/files/32bit/doc/support_info/IMX6YOCTOPATCHRN.pdf > at Freescale listing: > http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=i.MX6Q&fpsp=1&tab=Documentation_Tab > gives some hints. Also this: > https://community.freescale.com/docs/DOC-104266 explains something > about the compatible versions and all things around Yocto and iMX6. > > I didn't have any big issues on the upgrade to 3.10.53 although I > skipped some of the backlight related patches. Biggest thing for me > was LVDS driver related changes in devicetree: > http://git.freescale.com/git/cgit.cgi/imx/linux-2.6-imx.git/commit/arch/arm/boot/dts?h=imx_3.10.53_1.1.0_ga&id=b8a5656180f4eee73437263c58d1973a89454843 > But following the Freescale and Congatec examples: > https://git.congatec.com/arm/qmx6_kernel/commit/23ba00c5aeabc44decbaf151c733a1add38390cf > it was easy though. I would be interested of the results especially > if you go straigth to 3.14.28. > > And let's hope that Kontron does the official update soonish. > > BR, Heikki > > ________________________________________ From: > meta-freescale-bounces@yoctoproject.org > on behalf of Dirk Berar > Sent: 09 July 2015 14:35 To: > meta-freescale@yoctoproject.org Subject: Re: [meta-freescale] Image > building and deployment to SMARC-sAMX6i > > Hello Heikki, > > thank you for the informations! > > Especially the link to the "gpu performance" thread is very > interesting for me, because we're running a javafx project on top of > FB based opengl. > > I didn't make the step to fido yet. So it's also interesting for me > to hear about your success. > > Kind Regards Dirk > > Heikki Sarkanen schrieb: >> Hello Andreas and Dirk, >> >> Nice to see other SMARC-sAMX6i users. I have also tried to ask >> Kontron official support for FSL Community BSP but without luck >> yet. I hope if there is enough of us so we may get it someday. >> >> As I have understood there was some intention to add the FSL >> Community BSP support last December: >> https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/meta-freescale/2014-December/011842.html. >> >> But when Otavio asked for some more things like support for master >> branch and U-boot recipe they didn't continue. >> >> They did some experiments on March with newer meta-fsl-arm master, >> but for some reason they haven't released nothing more than the >> patch for daisy. Maybe the reason for that was this GPU performance >> gap between master(current fido) and dizzy branches: >> https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/meta-freescale/2015-March/013135.html. >> >> I have done my own experiment to rebase their daisy patch on top of >> fido and 3.10.53 kernel. It seems to work pretty well, just >> waiting if Kontron comes up with official patch someday. >> >> When you get access to their EMD Customer section you will find >> that PDF documentation provided with the patch is pretty good. I >> have found using NFS boot the easiest way to deploy the rootfs and >> device tree to eMMC. It is also well documented by Kontron (chapter >> 7.5). Also they have great support (must go through your HW >> supplier) for their own U-boot fork if you need to change something >> there. Good luck! >> >> BR, Heikki Sarkanen >> >> ________________________________________ From: >> meta-freescale-bounces@yoctoproject.org >> on behalf of Andreas >> Enbacka Sent: 08 July 2015 18:53 To: >> Dirk Berar Cc: meta-freescale@yoctoproject.org; Otavio Salvador >> Subject: Re: [meta-freescale] Image building and deployment to >> SMARC-sAMX6i >> >> Hello Dirk, >> >> Thank you very much for the detailed steps, it will be of great >> help. I have still to wait for access to the Kontron customer >> support section, will be able to test it out after that. >> >> Best regards, Andreas >> >>> 8 jul 2015 kl. 18:27 skrev Dirk Berar : >>> >>> Hi Andreas, >>> >>> I asked Kontron to contribute to the community. Unfortunately >>> they didn't until today. Poor. >>> >>> I'll try to give you a little help from my documentation. Do the >>> following from scratch: >>> >>> # to install the repo tool (and a bunch of other software) under >>> Ubuntu # 12.04 or 14.04 $ sudo apt-get install phablet-tools >>> >>> $ mkdir fsl-community-bsp; cd fsl-community-bsp $ repo init -u >>> https://github.com/Freescale/fslcommunity-bsp-platform \ -b >>> daisy >>> >>> # The Kontron BSP is based on daisy. I also tried dizzy >>> successfully. >>> >>> # pull the sources $ repo sync >>> >>> # apply the Kontron Patch for SMARC-sAMX6i $ cd >>> sources/meta-fsl-arm-extra $ patch -p1 < >>> /path/to/smarc-samx6i-support-R01.00.diff >>> >>> # initialise Yocto Build Environment $ cd ~/fsl-community-bsp $ >>> MACHINE=smarc-samx6i . ./setup-environment [build-directory] >>> >>> # start Yocto Build $ bitbake core-image-full-cmdline >>> >>> I also tried "core-image-sato" successfully. Interesting, if you >>> have connected a LVDS display. >>> >>> To flash the Yocto image to the board, use the live media of the >>> Linaro based BSP (Linux_BSP_SMX6 1.2): >>> http://emdcustomersection.kontron.com/wp-content/plugins/download-monitor/download.php?id=1164 >>> >>> >>> >>> Good luck >>> Dirk >>> >>> Otavio Salvador schrieb: >>>> On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Andreas Enbacka >>>> wrote: >>>>> I am currently trying to build a Yocto image for the >>>>> SMARC-sAMX6i (SMARC evaluation kit from Kontron), and have >>>>> some questions regarding it. First, what reference image >>>>> recipe is suitable for the SMARC-sAMX6i eval kit? And second, >>>>> what is the optimal way to deploy / flash the Yocto image to >>>>> the board? Any information would be greately appreciated. >>>> Kontron is not supported by the FSL Community BSP so the right >>>> place to ask for help is their support channel. Plus, pester >>>> them to add proper support to the community so your turn-key >>>> experience will be nicer next time ;) >>>> >> -- _______________________________________________ meta-freescale >> mailing list meta-freescale@yoctoproject.org >> https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/meta-freescale > > -- _______________________________________________ meta-freescale > mailing list meta-freescale@yoctoproject.org > https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/meta-freescale