On 10/02/2013 11:02 AM, Alex J Lennon wrote:
On 02/10/2013 14:37, Daiane Angolini wrote:
On 10/02/2013 10:12 AM, Alex J Lennon wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to qualify a decision to use Yocto / meta-freescale for an
upcoming
i.MX6 board variant (based on the Sabre reference) instead of using the
officially supported release based on LTIB.
My preference is strongly for the Yocto/OpenEmbedded build environment,
for various reasons, but I understand that the Freescale i.MX6 BSP is
not
officially supported at this time.
Knowing the experience and activity levels of the people working via
these
lists, I suspect that meta-freescale is by now significantly ahead of
the current
release of LTIB.
That said I wonder if there are any known issues with using
meta-freescale
which might give me pause, and cause me to use LTIB at this time?
You can see all current known issues here
https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=meta-fsl-arm&list_id=105732
As you may know, the last LTIB release from Freescale was 3.0.35_4.1.0.
Thanks Daiane,
I guess what I'm really asking is, what are the drawbacks and
limitations (just just bugs per-se)
with using the current under-development i.MX6 OpenEmbedded BSP vs the
released LTIB BSP
Maybe to put it another way, functionally is there a roadmap for where
the i.MX6 BSP is at
and what isn't yet working or supported. Presumably there are things
that are not working
or supported or FSL would be offically supporting at this time...?
I don't like to leave non replied questions along my way. Although, this
is the most difficult kind of question to answer.
I, personally, cannot promise you what Freescale will or will not
officially support. I can say what I'm supposed to support. And,
officially, I'm only supposed to support imx-community.
Although, I've been working a lot with meta-fsl-arm, and everything I
can do internally to improve meta-fsl-arm technical support I've been doing.
I've been using only yocto since 2 years ago. Last time I installed a
new Ubuntu on my machine I even tried to install LTIB.
I don't have any LTIB installed on my machine any more \o/
And, every time I need to reproduce a customer's issue, I use yocto to
generate whatever I need. (but for Android)
The things that are not working and I would love to see working is;
* all user-space package independent on kernel headers
* MM support for linux mainline
* Wayland accelerated for imx6 (all other board by SW only)
* I know there are details on GPU support that is not perfect enough,
but you must judge if it's needed or not for you.
For official support and roadmap, please contact you local Freescale
representative.
For kernel feature list (linux-imx), please, consult linux reference
manual from the proper release version.
Again, I cannot say "official" things to you. I'm not the official
Freescale voice.
And, as already said in ML, next release 3.10.9_1.0.0 will be Yocto
Apparently so :) I just wasn't sure whether I could mention that yet,
but as you already have... ;)
I saw this already public on imx-community
And I'm sorry not being able to make you feel more comfortable.
--
Daiane
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