[meta-freescale] packagegroup-fsl-tools-gpu vs gpu-viv-bin-mx6q

[Otavio Salvador]

On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 5:55 PM, Pushpal Sidhu <psidhu at gateworks.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Pushpal Sidhu <psidhu at gateworks.com> wrote:
>>> When including gpu-viv-bin-mx6q and the packagegroup-fsl-gstreamer packages,
>>> the board begins to behave very strange.
>>>
>>> For example, applications such as 'wget' and 'gst-inspect' will segfault
>>> immediately. Running find on the /sys directory will result in a segfault. I
>>> also noted that during kernel boot, there are several segfaults through
>>> udevd.
>>>
>>> However, when I include the packagegroup-fsl-tools-gpu package (which
>>> includes gpu-viv-bin-mx6q, gpu-viv-g2d as rdepends), I don't see the
>>> problem.
>>>
>>> Note that this occurs only on the i.mx6q processor, though not across
>>> multiple products. Meaning, one product with the i.mx6q processor exhibited
>>> the problem, while another with the same processor did not. Also, I included
>>> the gpu-viv-bin-mx6q package as an IMAGE_INCLUDE (not sure if pertinent?),
>>> but the packagegroup includes them as RDEPENDS.
>>>
>>> Any help on this issue is greatly appreciated, thanks.
>>
>> Are you using read-only rootfs?
>>
>> How much free space you got in the partitions, once you boot it?
>>
>
> I have plenty of free space. I have at least 25% on a UBIFS which, to
> my understanding, means that there is at least that much free space
> available on the NAND flash.
>
> After exploring this issue some more, it seems that there is an LDO
> configuration issue. This board does not have a driver for controlling
> the pmic and therefore can't be put into bypass mode (which is how it
> is wired). I will consider this thread moot since it doesn't really
> have anything to do with the different packages included. Thanks for
> your help, Otavio.

Great news; I am happy you found the root cause of the issue.

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