RFC Freescale i.MX multimedia libraries
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Cover letter [Buildroot] [PATCH RFC 0/6] Freescale i.MX multimedia libraries
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"Arnout" == Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <[email protected]> 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.
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