[meta-freescale] i.MX 3.10.31-1.1.0_beta release - community feedback requested

[John Weber]

The beta will be around for 3+ months after the release of 1.7, I don't
think we have an option but to keep 3.10.17 the preferred version.   Unless
it was really good.  And even it it was great, I wouldn't want to remove
3.10.17 recipes as that could be a fallback for users.

On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 2:35 PM, Carlos Rafael Giani <dv at pseudoterminal.org>
wrote:

> The EGL backend is broken? I didn't notice. I ran chromium with EGL and
> GLESv2 based rendering successfully with it.
>
> I vote for option 1. Option 2 means there wouldn't be an FSL supported
> kernel in master until January, which is a rather strange situation. I
> understand FSL wants to maximize the feedback they get, but isn't it
> important to have a FSL supported kernel available? Yes, it is there in
> daisy, but master is a reviewed branch, so customers can actually use it.
> Instead, I'd keep 3.10.17 , but encourage customers and hobbyists to try
> out the beta, since they would benefit from this as well.
>
>
> On 08/18/2014 05:54 PM, Alfonso Tamés wrote:
>
>> Option 2! 3.10.17 seems to have the EGL backend broken so let's embrace
>> the future in master branch.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Alfonso
>>
>>  On 18/08/2014, at 10:32, Lauren Post <Lauren.Post at freescale.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Our 3.10.31-1.1.0 Beta release is now in field trial to be completed by
>>> next week.  My team will be up-streaming this release next week into
>>> master-next branch.
>>>
>>> This release has the following new features
>>>     -  Kernel upgrade to 3.10.31
>>>     -  Supports new i.MX6 SoloX SabreSD machine
>>>     -  U-Boot-imx upgrade to 2014.04 version
>>>     -  New GPU Vivante version v5
>>>         o   Supports OpenGLES 3.0 APIs with backward compatibility with
>>> earlier version APIs.
>>>         o   DirectFB 1.7.1
>>>         o   Wayland 1.5
>>>         o   Xorg 1.15
>>>         o   Qt5 fixes for X11, Wayland and Framebuffer backends on i.MX
>>> parts containing 3D GPU.
>>>         o   i.MX 6 SoloLite fixes for DirectFB, Wayland and frame buffer
>>> backends.
>>>         o   fsl-gpu-sdk version 1.2 supporting all backends.
>>>     -   Multimedia Features
>>>         o   Freescale Gstreamer 1.0 support
>>>         o   Gstreamer 0.1 Fixes
>>>         o   Upgraded VPU firmware and wrapper software
>>>         o   G2D integration
>>>
>>> We have a question to community.  Our 3.10.31-1.1.0 GA release is not
>>> public/released until January.   We have two options for upstream of
>>> 3.10.31 into meta-fsl-arm and would like feedback from community.
>>>
>>> - Option 1 - Upstream 3.10.31 beta into master-next branch and branch
>>> master with 3.10.17 once Yocto Project 1.7 name is announced in late Sept
>>> or early October
>>>     o   This means that 3.10.31-1.1.0_beta will be in master-next branch
>>> during September.
>>>     o   Also means Freescale will get less feedback from community to
>>> fix for our 3.10.31-1.1.0 GA release.
>>>     o   3.10.31-1.1.0 GA will be part of Yocto Project 1.8 release only
>>> in April 2015.
>>> - Option 2 - Upstream 3.10.31-1.1.0 Beta into master branch and remove
>>> 3.10.17 from master branch.
>>>     o   This means Yocto Project 1.7 release will not be production code
>>> for i.MX6 until our 3.10.31-1.1.0 GA release planned in January.
>>>     o   Allows earlier production release of 3.10.31-1.1.0 GA with SoloX
>>> and Graphics as part of Yocto Project 1.7 in January.
>>>     o   Beta is not supported (by freescale/for production/by SR).
>>> However bugs can be sent to imx-community and if time before GA code freeze
>>> Freescale can try to fix in our GA release.
>>>
>>> Please provide your feedback.  Freescale prefers Option 2 because we can
>>> get more feedback about bugs to fix in our 3.10.31-1.1.0 GA release but we
>>> will abide by community wishes if they prefer Option 1.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Lauren Post
>>> Yocto Project i.MX Team Lead
>>>
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