[meta-freescale] imx6q: support in mainline Linux kernel ?

[Otavio Salvador]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 11:28 AM, Jean-Michel Hautbois
<jean-michel.hautbois at vodalys.com> wrote:
> 2014-07-22 14:32 GMT+02:00 Daiane Angolini <daiane.list at gmail.com>:
>> On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 5:52 AM, Eric Bénard <eric at eukrea.com> wrote:
>>> Le Tue, 22 Jul 2014 10:43:41 +0200,
>>> Eric Bénard <eric at eukrea.com> a écrit :
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Le Tue, 22 Jul 2014 09:53:09 +0200,
>>>> Jean-Michel Hautbois <jean-michel.hautbois at vodalys.com> a écrit :
>>>> > I can't find VPU/IPU drivers, are they on the mainline tree maintained
>>>> > by the community ?
>>>> >
>>>> if you need IPU you are actually stuck on the Freescale's kernel.
>>>>
>>> or you can try this serie which brings IPU support through imx-drm :
>>> http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg325638.html
>>
>>
>> Wasn´t IPU code under staging? Almost being promoted?
>>
>> And for VPU, I don´t know if it´s complete (I think it´s not), but
>> would it be under CODA name?
>>
>> For GPU, maybe etnaviv has the integration......
>>
>> (I´m sorry, I don´t have concrete facts to share, only mismatched
>> memories from past discussions.)
>>
>
> Otavio maybe, as I can see you are the maintainer of the linux-fslc
> repository on github ?
> Having a complete mainline support for i.MX6 would be great but I know
> this is hard to achieve.

The linux-fslc is in fact the mainline plus bugfixes/backports. We
need that people ask for patches to be backported.

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