[meta-freescale] imx6: webkit html5 video with hardware acceleration

[Eric Nelson]

Hi Richard,

On 09/23/2014 09:50 PM, Richard Cochran wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 10:46:42PM +0200, Carlos Rafael Giani wrote:
>> Merely starting Chromium triggers the OOM killer already?
> 
> Yup.
> 
>> How much RAM does your board have?
> 
> 256 MB.
> 
>> And how much *free* RAM was
>> available when you started Chromium?
> 
> The Freescale kernel hackery is really hurting us. With the kernel in
> the alpha/beta branch, we need 144 MB for CMA. I am sure this is due
> to something dumb in the thousands of new FSL kernel patches, but I
> haven't had the time to track this down.
> 
> The daisy kernel worked on that board (with full screen video) with a
> CMA of 64 MB, but unfortunately the newer user space does *not* work
> with the daisy kernel. Brilliant stuff, that.
> 

You can tweak this through a kernel parameter:

	root at nitrogen:~# cat /sys/module/galcore/parameters/contiguousSize
	134217728

So if you add "galcore.contiguousSize=64M" to the kernel command-line,
you should get the old default.