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

[Alfonso Tamés]

Qt5 and the Vivante demos fail in EGL: https://community.freescale.com/thread/326402

On 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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