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

[Otavio Salvador]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 12:47 PM, Daiane Angolini <daiane.list at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

As I explained, we can backport fixes/improvements from next but all
needs to be done in linux-arm mailing list first.

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