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

[Daiane Angolini]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 12:35 PM, Otavio Salvador
<otavio at ossystems.com.br> wrote:
> 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.

Are you sure you two are talking about the same thing?


JM, a complete mainline support for i.MX6 is fantastic. However it
must be done in kernel.org

Otavio, which patches to be backported are you talking about?

I only don´t want to have misunderstandings


Daiane
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