[yocto] [meta-raspberrypi][PATCH 1/1] linux-raspberrypi: Update kernel to 3.12.21

Alex J Lennon ajlennon at dynamicdevices.co.uk
Sun Jun 8 04:10:07 PDT 2014


Amongst other patches, this release includes a fix to an issue with gstreamer1.0 and v4l2src blocking

ref: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=726521

ref: https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/commit/fd1355b22e5c52b5e31b936b5f68d3b62cb189c8

To make use of the optional fix the module parameter gst_v4l2src_is_broken needs to be set when loading bcm2835-v4l2.ko

With this in place, and with userland and gstreamer1.0-omx patches, gstreamer1.0 can be used with PiCam via v4l2src instead of raspivid.

(There may still be performance issues to be addressed for v4l2src vs raspivid pipe & fdsrc).

Change-Id: Ia0ed4e6c8f27df9bb12ae2350526f6314e016d51
Signed-off-by: Alex J Lennon <ajlennon at dynamicdevices.co.uk>
---
 .../{linux-raspberrypi_3.12.18.bb => linux-raspberrypi_3.12.21.bb}      | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
 rename recipes-kernel/linux/{linux-raspberrypi_3.12.18.bb => linux-raspberrypi_3.12.21.bb} (77%)

diff --git a/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-raspberrypi_3.12.18.bb b/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-raspberrypi_3.12.21.bb
similarity index 77%
rename from recipes-kernel/linux/linux-raspberrypi_3.12.18.bb
rename to recipes-kernel/linux/linux-raspberrypi_3.12.21.bb
index 736be5f..a40b54f 100644
--- a/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-raspberrypi_3.12.18.bb
+++ b/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-raspberrypi_3.12.21.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-SRCREV = "b09a27249d61475e4423607f7632a5aa6e7b3a53"
+SRCREV = "cb53ea88f75180cc1ba74f7f197c8e3fd4f47cfe"
 SRC_URI = "git://github.com/raspberrypi/linux.git;protocol=git;branch=rpi-3.12.y \
            file://sl030raspberrypii2ckernel.patch \
           "
-- 
2.0.0




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