Re: Status of Emdebian Grip
>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Whittaker <whitpa@velocitynet.com.au> writes:
Hi,
>> > Wheezy-Grip is okay (barely) for our current product. The official
>> > version of eglibc in Wheezy (2.13) is already too old for us, since
>> > Citrix has (to my annoyance) released Receiver for ARMHF with a higher
>> > glibc requirement; I had to substitute eglibc 2.17 from Sid. At the
>> > moment we're using proprietary TI and in-house code to compensate for
>> > the lack of open source support for certain OMAP features in the 3.0
>> > kernel we're forced to use, but for future products we could avoid
>> > some wheel reinvention by leveraging improvements in more recent
>> > kernel and Xorg releases, such as open sourced OMAP KMS DRM, PowerVR
>> > SGX 3D, and DSP bridge drivers.
>>
>> Except that there's basically no mainline support for dm8148, and you
>> are stuck with the evil 2.6.37-based vendor kernel.
> Yes, unfortunately true. Right now, at least.
Hah, optimist ;)
These devices have recently gained mainline support for a few of their
peripherals as they are reused on the am335x (beaglebone), but I would
be very (positive) surprised if TI would do any serious upstream work
for them in the future, they are basically legacy - I know as I'm stuck
on a dm8168 project :/
Unless you need massive video encode performance, I would suggest you
look elsewhere - E.G. iMX6 or similar.
--
Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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