Ok. Understood. Last question: > Well it depends on the peripherals you use. We have customers using mainline > and keeping it alive.
Does it support GPU/VPU/IPU? Thank you. -----Mensagem original----- De: Otavio Salvador [mailto:[email protected]] Enviada em: quinta-feira, 3 de dezembro de 2015 17:44 Para: Mauricio Cirelli Cc: [email protected] Assunto: Re: [meta-freescale] [fsl-community-bsp-platform][PATCH] Adding new i.MX53 TURING machine definitions On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 5:35 PM, Mauricio Cirelli <[email protected]> wrote: > I did not notice that. > > We were working on fido branch instead of master, because we heard that > kernel 2.6.35 would not build on newer Yocto versions than Fido (as it seems > to be true, but I am afraid that even Fido does not fully support i.MX5). Fido does however we don't accept new machines for old releases. So you must base patches on master. This is documented: http://freescale.github.io/doc/release-notes/2.0/index.html#main-branch-names > I have read that patch you point out and it seems that any i.MX5 dependancy > for 2.6.35 drivers have been removed from the i.MX5 recipes. Despite of > upgrading for kernel 4.1, it seems that several GPU drivers would need to be > ported to the newer kernel, is that correct? This seems to be a lot a work > (not sure if that is even possible as several of these drivers are not > open-source). From this point of view, it seems that i.MX5 is essentially > dead in newer Yocto versions. Is it correct? Well it depends on the peripherals you use. We have customers using mainline and keeping it alive. > If that is the case, which is the latest Yocto version that fully supports > i.MX5? I could use that as the base version for our board and create a custom > layer for that if patches targeting this old release are not acceptable > anymore. We can work with newer versions when we release our i.MX6 boards. Fido. > What should be the best way to go? As I said, use master for upstream work. Fido is dead for development purposes. -- Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems http://www.ossystems.com.br http://code.ossystems.com.br Mobile: +55 (53) 9981-7854 Mobile: +1 (347) 903-9750 -- _______________________________________________ meta-freescale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/meta-freescale
