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

[John Weber]

On 8/19/14, 1:19 PM, Carlos Rafael Giani wrote:
> 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.
This looks pretty awesome.  Thanks for sharing.  What versions of SolidRun HW is 
it supporting?
>
> 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.
Cool! What GPU and VPU tests have you been running?
>
> The repository is available at: 
> https://github.com/linux4kix/linux-linaro-stable-mx6   . Use the 
> "linux-linaro-lsk-v3.14-mx6" branch.
I'll have to mess with this soon and check it out.
>
> 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