Buildroot:GSoC2014 Multimedia

Boards

From the 2013 Google Summer of Code:

• Pandaboard (TI OMAP4)
  • 3D acceleration: normally supported by the ti-gfx package. Should work with EGL, support under X.org unknown.
  • video decoding acceleration: unknown.
  • Misc: how does gst-omapfb fit in the picture?
• BeagleBoneBlack (TI AM335x)
  • 3D acceleration: normally supported by the ti-gfx package. Should work with EGL, support under X.org unknown. Was not tested last year, since 3D acceleration was not ready yet at the time.
  • video decoding acceleration: unknown.
• BeagleBoard XM (TI OMAP3)
  • 3D acceleration: normally supported by the ti-gfx package. Should work with EGL, support under X.org unknown.
  • video decoding acceleration: unknown.
• SABRE (Freescale i.MX6)
  • 3D acceleration: normally supported by the gpu-viv-bin-mx6q package. Should work with EGL. For X.org, there are some patches pending.
  • video decoding acceleration: unknown.
• Wandboard (Freescale i.MX6)
  • 3D acceleration: normally supported by the gpu-viv-bin-mx6q package. Should work with EGL. For X.org, there are some patches pending.
  • video decoding acceleration: unknown.
• Cubieboard (Allwinner)
  • 3D acceleration: normally supported by the sunxi-mali package. Should work with EGL, support under X.org unknown.
  • video decoding acceleration: normally supported by the sunxi-cedarx package. Not sure with what they are interfaced, though.
• ODROID-U2 (Samsung Exynos)
  • 3D acceleration: not done
  • video decoding acceleration: not done

To buy or get sponsored:

• An x86 platform with an Intel card (to test full OpenGL support in Mesa)
  • Minnowboard Max could be a candidate, see http://www.minnowboard.org/meet-minnowboard-max/
  • Thomas has requested sponsoring from CircuitCo on this topic.
• An x86 platform with an AMD APU (ditto mesa3d)
• A RaspberryPi:
  • 3D acceleration: through the rpi-userland package. Works with EGL, support under X.org unknown.
  • video decoding acceleration: through the rpi-userland and gst-omx packages.

Bonus:

• An x86 platform with an NVidia card
  • using nouveau (to test full OpenGL support in Mesa)
  • using the NVidia blob (to be packaged)

TODO

• Support OpenGL on Exynos
• Make sure OpenGL on Beagle Bone Black is working
• Help mainlining all the pending Buildroot patches related to multimedia
  • http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/278299/
  • http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/278300/
  • http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/278301/
  • http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/278304/
  • http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/278305/
  • http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/315600/
  • http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/336028/
  • http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/336031/
  • http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/336827/
  • http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/336825/
  • http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/336830/
  • http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/336824/
  • http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/336828/
  • http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/336826/
• Add support for etnaviv (i.MX6 open-source OpenGL implementation)
• Create new packages for (no specific ordering):
  • x86-video-fbturbo driver, see https://github.com/ssvb/xf86-video-fbturbo
  • glamor for 2D acceleration using OpenGL, see: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Glamor/
  • Qt5 Cinematic Experience demonstration, see http://quitcoding.com/?page=work
  • demo/benchmark application, see https://github.com/prabindh/xgxperf
  • gtk3
• Update Webkit

Weekly reports

Week 22

Day 1

• OpenGL on BeagleBone Black
  • Defconfig based on beaglebone_defconfig with mainly ti-gfx
  • Kernel boot: OK
  • Init: OK
  • Fail to load ti-gfx module
    • track: fbset missing
• Patchwork
  • #278305 (mesa3d-demos: new package): updating, currently not working