From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 16:22:43 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH RFC 0/6] Freescale i.MX multimedia libraries In-Reply-To: <1355960256-10786-1-git-send-email-arnout@mind.be> (Arnout Vandecappelle's message of "Thu, 20 Dec 2012 00:37:30 +0100") References: <1355960256-10786-1-git-send-email-arnout@mind.be> Message-ID: <87sj63ssak.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "Arnout" == Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) writes: Arnout> This patch series adds Freescale's proprietary multimedia libraries for Arnout> the i.MX platform. Arnout> I only tested it on mx6q (SabreLite). I'm sending it now even Arnout> though there are still a few major shortcomings, so Peter (and Arnout> others) have the chance to test it on different platforms while Arnout> I'm on vacation. Thanks. Nobody commented on these patches, and it's obviously useful for some people even if it isn't perfect, so I've committed them, thanks. I haven't gotten to runtime test it yet, just done a tets build based on nitrogen6x_defconfig. I will try to find time to runtime test stuff as well soonish. Arnout> These are the things I'd like to see improved - feedback is Arnout> very welcome! Arnout> * The platform stuff. A separate choice in imx-lib and Arnout> gst-fsl-plugins really doesn't work, because they are not kept Arnout> consistent (the 'select' doesn't always work). Agreed. My build first failed because I had just enabled gst-fsl-plugins but forgotten to track down the imx-lib option to build for mx6. I wonder where we should put such a "global" option though. Together with the arch settings? Arnout> * All the binary libraries are installed, even though they are Arnout> for other platforms. The whole thing is about 10MB. Yeah, that could presumably be trimmed fairly easily if we had a global imx variant setting. Arnout> * I couldn't find an official upstream download site, so I used Arnout> a mirror, but it risks disappearing unexpectedly. Yeah :/ It should get mirrored on sources.buildroot.net soon though. It's not completely clear to me if we are strictly allowed to mirror these though. Arnout> For the platform stuff, one idea I had was to create a new menu for Arnout> platform-specific packages. In that menu, you'd have a menuconfig per Arnout> platform, and this menu could give a SoC choice. The platform-specific Arnout> menus can collect all the platform-specific packages which are now Arnout> "polluting" the rest of the menus. For example: Arnout> menu "Platform-specific packages" Arnout> menuconfig "Freescale i.MX" Arnout> choice "i.MX SoC" Arnout> config "i.MX 51" Arnout> config "i.MX 6" Arnout> endchoice Arnout> menuconfig "Freescale QorIQ" Arnout> menuconfig "Raspberry Pi" Arnout> menuconfig "Snowball" Arnout> source "package/snowball-hdmiservice" Arnout> source "package/snowball-init" Arnout> menuconfig "TI Davinci" Yes, I guess that's what we need to move towards. It gets complicated when things either don't fit nicely within a single family though. -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard