[meta-freescale] Community-maintained 3.14.16 kernel for i.MX6 devices

[Carlos Rafael Giani]

Hello,

I want to take a few minutes and mention in this mailing list the 
amazing work of Jon Nettleton, Russell King, and others. This is 3.14 
kernel, with FSL patches, upstream patches, memleak fixes, and numerous 
improvements for stability that are not present in the linux-imx 
kernels. The target hardware for this has been the SolidRun product line 
so far (since the developers' time is limited, and they don't have every 
imx6 device under the sun to test with), but putting other devicetree 
files in it should not be difficult. Initial tests on SolidRun hardware 
show noticeable improvements.

To list a few enhancements:
* FEC ethernet performance, rated by Freescale at 470 Mbps; with Russell 
King's improvements pushed to 630+ down and 500+ up
* lower I/O latencies
* SDHC patchset for better UHS-I support
* residue support for SDMA with FSL's custom firmware integrated to work 
with HDMI and optical SPDIF
* higher DMA and GPU efficiency in general
* and of course the upstream 3.14 improvements over 3.10

VPU and GPU have also successfully been tested with this kernel.

The repository is available at: 
https://github.com/linux4kix/linux-linaro-stable-mx6   . Use the 
"linux-linaro-lsk-v3.14-mx6" branch.

Some members of the community are in IRC channels. One is #cubox in the 
Freenode IRC network. Another is #imx6-devel (also in the Freenode network).

Comments welcome!

cheers