Buildroot:GSoC2013 ARM Multimedia

Status and TODO

Checkout Information

Code is located in Spenser309's Github Account.

To do a checkout:

$ git clone git://github.com/Spenser309/buildroot.git -b <board> <directory>

Board List

Board	Status	Branch	Notes
RaspberryPi	WIP	rpi	gst-omx patches (Submitted)
PandaBoard	WIP	panda	none
BeagleBoardXM	WIP	beaglexm	defconfig patches (Brewing) ti-gfx patches (Brewing)
BeagleBoneBlack	WIP	beagleblack	none
Efika MX	Need Dev Board	imx5	none
SABRE	WIP	imx6	none
Cubieboard	WIP	cubieboard	none
ODROID-U2	WIP	exynos	none

TODO

1. ti-gfx patches.
2. package opengl benchmarks.
3. package arm-fpu openmax libraries.
4. omxplayer patches.
5. mali driver patches.
6. package libhybris.
7. get daily builds running.

Weekly achievements

Week 22

• Booted basic Buildroot on BeagleBoard xM.
• Resubmit v9 of gst-omx patchset with webkit fixes.
  • Required bump of libgtk2, libsoup, etc.
• Started automated builds at https://gillilanding.com/jenkins/job/buildroot-arm-minimal/

Week 23

• RFC ti-gfx patches
• v10 gstreamer and omx patches.
• Accepted libglib and webkit patches.

Week 24

• Published a Journal Paper which mentions Buildroot :)

Week 25

• Accepted Gstreamer 1.x and gst-omx patches.
• Created Video showing off gst-omx on RPi. See: http://blog.spensergilliland.com/2013/06/accelerated-video-decoding-on-rpi-using.html .

Week 26

• ti-gfx RFC v2 & v3
• ti-gfx v1
• working qt4 integration.

Week 27

• ti-gfx v2
• ti-gfx v3
  • Fix headers
• confirm plan of action with prabu on pandaboard support
  • newest pandaboard graphics is available from ubuntu launchpad
  • only supports hard float
• beaglebone black up and running but no output on display.
  • investigating adding cape support as it may be required for hdmi out.
  • need to add firmware_install to linux.
  • Sent patches for firmware install.

Week 28

• ti-gfx/qt patch
  • pvr2d.h and wsegl.h issues. Demos segfault when using WindowSystem=libpvrQWSWSEGL.so.1 . Was a unclean build issue.
  • Fix eglimage build.
  • PowerVR virtual package.
  • Release v4 patch
  • Release v5 patch
• Beaglebone Black
  • Working HDMI output.
  • submit patch for beagle-capes package that installs in-kernel dtbos
• Sunxi Mali
  • Created RFC for adding sunxi-mali drivers

Week 29

• Send patch to fix libglib2 autobuild failures.
• ti-gfx/qt patch
  • Release v6 patch - Merged!
• Improved and mainlined sunxi-mali, and sunxi-cedarx patches

Week 30

• Out of Town

Week 31

• Out of Town

Week 32

• Attempting to build enc_dec_demo for sunxi in cedarx-libs
  • Add includes to fix some build errors.
  • preprocessor failures at https://gist.github.com/anonymous/6194508 . File does not exist in repo.
  • Talk to #linux-sunxi suggested by wingrime to replace encoder_type.h with type.h .
  • Deal with awful makefile which uses CFLAGS improperly so set all -I includes in buildroot.
  • Finally beat the preprocessor only to find a bunch of errors at the compile stage. https://gist.github.com/anonymous/6194791
  • Suggested by wingrime to move to A20 SDK but he did not elaborate further. The errors appear to be an out of date version of types.h .
  • Notice libcedarv/<plat>/sample: attempt to build sample. Success!
  • New issue on udev created by rebase. https://gist.github.com/anonymous/6195121 (possibly due to linaro toolchain)
  • Small udev bug fix patch for udev http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2013-August/076370.html. Accepted.
  • Need to find *.pmp for input to sample application.
• Adding glmark2
  • Created package dir and added basic info.
  • requires jpeglib.h. fixed.
  • requires libpng12. Fixed.
  • requires libdrm and libdrm requires xlibs. build fails due to same error as https://gist.github.com/anonymous/6195121 therefore switch to soft-float CS toolchain.
  • requires mesa3d. Fixed
    • Bug in mesa3d build see https://gist.github.com/anonymous/6197590 .
    • host-libxml2 does build the python bindings and something is installed (not sure if everything.) Attempting to determine if this is an unclean build issue. It may have been.
    • Another bug https://gist.github.com/anonymous/6197871 . It appears -m32 is passed in some absurd way. Added patch from http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2012-April/021046.html
  • Bug GLchar https://gist.github.com/anonymous/6198693

Notes

Pandaboard powervr drivers https://launchpad.net/~tiomap-dev/+archive/omap-trunk/+packages . Also, official omap4 & 5 ddx releases http://git.ti.com/graphics .

QT5 http://gpupowered.org/node/8