The Linux L3.14.52_1.1.0 GA and i.MX 6SoloX FreeRTOS release is now available on www.nxp.com
- Target boards:
- i.MX 6Quad SABRE-SD Board and Platform
- i.MX 6DualLite SABRE-SD Board
- i.MX 6Quad SABRE-AI Board
- i.MX 6DualLite SABRE-AI Board
- i.MX 6SoloLite EVK Board
- i.MX 6SoloX SABRE-SD Board
- i.MX 6SoloX SABRE-AI Board
- i.MX 6UltraLite EVK Board
- What’s New:
- LinuxBSP
- New features added for all supported boards:
- Yocto Project upgraded to version 1.8 Fido.
- Supports the GCC 4.9.2 toolchain.
- The Linux kernel is upgraded to v3.14.52.
- The U-Boot is upgraded to 2015.04.
- New graphics features:
- GPU driver upgraded to Vivante v5.0.11p7.4.
- DirectFB support removed.
- XWayland support added.
- Last release to provide graphics software floating point binaries.
- New multimedia features and changes:
- Qt 5.5 support integrated, which supports hardware accelerated QML video.
- Qt 5 is not supported for SoC without hardware graphics. Qt 5 video is not supported on SoC without VPU.
- Video compositing plugins based on PXP are supported.
- GStreamer playback engine API is supported, providing high level APIs for media playback and operations.
- Video overlay composition meta (meta:GstVideoOverlayComposition) is supported in i.MX video sinks, convert and compositor. This feature accelerates the text image (such as subtitle, timestamp) blending with video in these plugins with hardwares.
- Supports the Broadcom/Murata BCM4339 Bluetooth/Wi-Fi module.
- FreeRTOS:
- Add Peripheral support: i.MX 6SoloX ADC, i.MX 6SoloX CCM, i.MX GPIO, i.MX I2C, i.MX MU, i.MX UART, i.MX WDOG, ECSPI, EPIT, FlexCAN, LEME, RDC, SEMA4
- Add Multi-core communication support: RPMsg
More details, please refer to formal Release Notes.