i.MX6 4.4 kernel: update the patches set to all known in the wild #883
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There's DVB and HID input drivers update, a bug fix to eMMC card booting, etc. It's a safe patches set used by a lot of projects using kernel 4.4 for i.MX6 Signed-off-by: Jérôme Benoit <jerome.benoit@piment-noir.org>
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I really doubt that out there are users which are using all those remote controls and dvb devices. But probably can't hurt to include them anyway. Btw: which projects using kernel 4.4 for i.MX6 (because you wrote a lot)? I don't know many of them. |
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armbian, xbian, RPI v1 v2 and v3 projects are based on 4.4 often with some of the patches here, all GNU/Linux distributions that ship ARMv7 variant have used 4.4 at some point (Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, Arch Linux ARM, etc.) Fedora 24 is based on 4.7.X and lack OpenEGL support on i.MX6 but work with some bugs. The patches set is tested here since 24 h on playlist that loop without any issues so far. Regards. |
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@jerome-benoit LE has a minimalist approach towards hardware support. We are happy to add support for specific things that will be used (for a new hardware platform or a specific user request) but we do not speculatively add support for things that might be used. This approach helps us avoid "the death of a thousand cuts" and unnecessary bloat in our images. Attempting to support all possible devices is the job of general purpose distro's. NB: If we add support we generally try to keep things in-sync across multiple build-system projects. In the case of iMX6 we also need to consider that we are downstream from mk01's Xbian work and some changes may be more appropriate there to reduce our local patch set. |
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Please read the patches set, it simply cover support for hardware that is commonly used and not might used by other projects. New DVB drivers support and bugs fixed in the kernel DVB layer is not optional to a mediacenter distro. I agree that the handling of kernel patches in LE should be done differently but since LE do not have a smart way to share them across projects and same major kernel version, for now I've added them where it's relevant and known to work flawlessly. Make use of them across more projects can be done later when/if LE have the infrastructure to share patches across projects with same major kernel version. And as a bonus the patches set will benefit of some testing by i.MX6 users. And pushing them in your i.MX6 upstream is orthogonal to adding them in LE, it's a simple matter of "git rm" when it's merged. |
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There are not much imx6 users and I really doubt there will be anyone using any new dvb device or remote. Most only needs working cec. Maybe @kivutar can comment if anything is useful for Lakka. |
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Yeah OUYA can be useful. |
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On Wed, 26 Oct 2016 11:06:19 -0700 in
Probably because there's no documentation detailing the The joystick support will be more important with the games repo in Kodi.
Lakka already use this patches set with a 3.14.X kernel base. Cheers, Jérôme Benoit aka fraggle |
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On Wed, 26 Oct 2016 11:06:19 -0700 in
In fact this patches set is not an improvement, it fix a regression LE were shipping stable version based on 3.14 with this patches set Regards, Jérôme Benoit aka fraggle |
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imx6 le project will always be far, far back from other ones. |
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On Thu, 27 Oct 2016 08:57:38 -0700 in
If LE project policy is to ship regression between release, do not Jérôme Benoit aka fraggle |
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Seems you are offering yourself for imx6 project head? Just let us know - but keep CEC working (which is broken atm) and keep my LVDS display working on Udoo dual/quad (which is also broken). And I will finally have much more free time :D Oh, and I forgot TBS matrix v1.1 and v2.3. |
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This PR breaks these two things? |
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No, both things are broken without this pr in master. |
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Then if this PR is not breaking things, and fixes a regression on eMMC I think it's worth merging it. @jerome-benoit said they were safe and well tested. |
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Le 28/10/2016 à 14:54, Peter V. a écrit :
Not at all, just a power user that can't use anymore is AverTV Volar HD
Is it broken on other hardware too ? Regards, Jérôme Benoit aka fraggle |
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Let's merge then. |
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@jerome-benoit: I am not aware of any other LE platform with broken CEC. The only other platform that has CEC is Amlogic. I forgot Raspberry Pi, but this drivers are even more different. |
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Broken cec on imx6 has nothing to do with amlogic. |
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@vpeter4: but that is exactly what I told. It was jerome-benoit that was asking for other platforms. |
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if it means anything this works fine for me (not using any of the extra features) |
There's DVB and HID input drivers update, a bug fix to eMMC card booting, etc.
It's a safe patches set used by a lot of projects using kernel 4.4 for i.MX6
Signed-off-by: Jérôme Benoit jerome.benoit@piment-noir.org