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Splash Screen on U-boot for i.MX25 PDK Having a bitmap on the LCD a few seconds after boot is a requirement on several embedded systems, u-Boot supports this feature. However, currently, the code provided on Freescale's BSP only implements support for the LCD controller on Linux. This page provides instructions to add support for the LCDC on the u-boot. 1 - Install Freescale i.MX25 BSP, SDK 1.7 It is available on www.freescale.com. If needed follow the getting started section instructions. 2 - Update u-boot source After installing the BSP and running LTIB for the first time, it's time to update u-boot: - Download u-Boot patch and spec file. - Replace the file "u-boot.spec.in" located at <ltib_path>/config/platform/imx by the one downloaded - Copy the "u-boot-2009.08-1273860148.patch" downloaded to /opt/freescale/pkgs 3 - Extract and rebuild u-boot - To extract the source and aply the patch run: <Ltib_path>$ ./ltib -p u-boot -m prep - Now Build:     <Ltib_path>$ ./ltib -p u-boot -m scbuild    After completing this step an u-Boot binary (u-boot.bin) will be saved at <ltib_path>/rpm/BUILD/u-boot-2009.08 4 - Program the SD card Program a SD card with the new u-Boot binary and a bitmap image to be displayed. Insert the SD and run:      $sudo dd if=<ltib_path>/rpm/BUILD/u-boot-2009.08/u-boot.bin of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=512 "/dev/mmcblk0" should replaced according to your host, use "dmesg" after inserting the SD to find out where is the SD on your host. Unmount it before issuing the dd command. $sudo dd if="your_image".bmp of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=512 seek=608 Argument seek 608, skips the first 608 blocks of the SD (608x512) where the uboot is stored. If you need to relocate the image, update also the environment variable "splashimage_mmc_init_block", see step 6. 5 - Boot Boot the image from the SD. Personality Board settings:   12345678 SW22 -> 00000000 SW21 -> 11000000    Debug Board settings: SW5,6,7,8,9,10 -> OFF      12345678 SW4 -> 10000001 Turn on the board and stop at u-boot prompt: MX25 U-Boot > 6 - u-Boot environment variables Update u-Boot environment variables for the splash screen to work: The address in memory to load the splash screen from: MX25 U-Boot > setenv splashimage 0x80800000 The SD device on the board: MX25 U-Boot > setenv splashimage_mmc_dev 0 The block on the SD where the bitmap is stored, this must match the block on step 4. MX25 U-Boot > setenv splashimage_mmc_init_block 0x260  The amount in blocks to be read from the SD card, this depends on the bitmap size, i.e. for a 308278 bytes bitmap, 0x2B5 blocks are enough on a 512 bytes per block SD, (308278 / 512). MX25 U-Boot > setenv splashimage_mmc_blkcnt 0x2b5 The SD card block size in bytes: MX25 U-Boot > setenv splashimage_mmc_blksize 512 Save the environment variables: MX25 U-Boot > saveenv Now reboot the board and you should see the splash screen on the LCD. 7 - Booting Linux When Linux takes control of the board it initializes the LCD controller and Framebuffer again. To maintain the splash screen on the LCD you can replace the Linux Logo with the figure used for the splash screen, the side effect is a blink when Linux takes over the LCDC. To achieve this, create a new image in Gimp and save it as ".ppm". Copy it to Linux "logo" folder <ltib_path>/rpm/BUILD/linux-2.6.31/drivers/video/logo Run: $ ppmquant -mapfile clut_vga16.ppm "my_image.ppm" | pnmnoraw > logo_linux_vga16.ppm where: logo_linux_vga16.ppm is the current logo being used by Linux. Recompile the kernel and boot it.
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In this article, some experiments are done to verify the capability of i.MX6DQ on video playback under different VPU clocks. 1. Preparation Board: i.MX6DQ SD Bitstream: 1080p sunflower with 40Mbps, it is considered as the toughest H264 clip. The original clip is copied 20 times to generate a new raw video (repeat 20 times of sun-flower clip) and then encapsulate into a mp4 container. This is to remove and minimize the influence of startup workload of gstreamer compared to vpu unit test. Kernels: Generate different kernel with different VPU clock setting: 270MHz, 298MHz, 329MHz, 352MHz, 382MHz. test setting: 1080p content decoding and display with 1080p device. (no resize) 2. Test command for VPU unit test and Gstreamer The tiled format video playback is faster than NV12 format, so in below experiment, we choose tiled format during video playback. Unit test command: (we set the frame rate -a 70, higher than 1080p 60fps HDMI refresh rate)     /unit_tests/mxc_vpu_test.out -D "-i /media/65a78bbd-1608-4d49-bca8-4e009cafac5e/sunflower_2B_2ref_WP_40Mbps.264 -f 2 -y 1 -a 70" Gstreamer command: (free run to get the highest playback speed)     gst-launch filesrc location=/media/65a78bbd-1608-4d49-bca8-4e009cafac5e/sunflower_2B_2ref_WP_40Mbps.mp4 typefind=true ! aiurdemux ! vpudec framedrop=false ! queue max-size-buffers=3 ! mfw_v4lsink sync=false 3. Video playback framerate measurement During test, we enter command "echo performance > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor" to make sure the CPU always work at highest frequency, so that it can respond to any interrupt quickly. For each testing point with different VPU clock, we do 5 rounds of tests. The max and min values are removed, and the remaining 3 data are averaged to get the final playback framerate. #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 Min Max Avg Dec Playback Dec Playback Dec Playback Dec Playback Dec Playback Playback Playback Playback 270M unit test 57.8 57.3 57.81 57.04 57.78 57.3 57.87 56.15 57.91 55.4 55.4 57.3 56.83 GST 53.76 54.163 54.136 54.273 53.659 53.659 54.273 54.01967 298M unit test 60.97 58.37 60.98 58.55 60.97 57.8 60.94 58.07 60.98 58.65 57.8 58.65 58.33 GST 56.755 49.144 53.271 56.159 56.665 49.144 56.755 55.365 329M unit test 63.8 59.52 63.92 52.63 63.8 58.1 63.82 58.26 63.78 59.34 52.63 59.52 58.56667 GST 57.815 55.857 56.862 58.637 56.703 55.857 58.637 57.12667 352M unit test 65.79 59.63 65.78 59.68 65.78 59.65 66.16 49.21 65.93 57.67 49.21 59.68 58.98333 GST 58.668 59.103 56.419 58.08 58.312 56.419 59.103 58.35333 382M unit test 64.34 56.58 67.8 58.73 67.75 59.68 67.81 59.36 67.77 59.76 56.58 59.76 59.25667 GST 59.753 58.893 58.972 58.273 59.238 58.273 59.753 59.03433 Note: Dec column means the vpu decoding fps, while Playback column means overall playback fps. Some explanation: Why does the Gstreamer performance data still improve while unit test is more flat? On Gstreamer, there is a vpu wrapper which is used to make the vpu api more intuitive to be called. So at first, the overall GST playback performance is constrained by vpu (vpu dec 57.8 fps). And finally, as vpu decoding performance goes to higher than 60fps when vpu clock increases, the constraint becomes the display refresh rate 60fps. The video display overhead of Gstreamer is only about 1 fps, similar to unit test. Based on the test result, we can see that for 352MHz, the overall 1080p video playback on 1080p display can reach ~60fps. Or if time sharing by two pipelines with two displays, we can do 2 x 1080p @ 30fps video playback. However, this experiment is valid for 1080p video playback on 1080p display. If for interlaced clip and display with size not same as 1080p, the overall playback performance is limited by some postprocessing like de-interlacing and resize.
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Here we show how to bootstrap the Debian Linux distribution from a PC to the i.MX6 sabre sd platform. While bootstrapping Debian on any architecture "natively" is pretty straightforward, "cross-bootstrapping" requires some techniques that we will explain. This document assumes you are able to boot a Linux kernel on your platform already. See this post for details on how to do it. Also, this document assumes you are using a Debian PC for preparing your SD card. You will require the following packages to be installed: binfmt-support qemu-user-static debootstrap Note: all the commands found in the following steps need to be run as root. Formatting the SD card We need to format the SD card with two partitions; one small FAT partition to contain the Linux kernel and its dtb, and one large ext4 partition, which will contain the root filesystem with the Debian userspace. Also, we need to make sure we leave some space for u-boot starting from offset 1024B. Here is an example SD card layout:   +-----+------+--------+-----+---------------+-----------------   | MBR |  ... | u-boot | ... | FAT partition | Linux partition ...   +-----+------+--------+-----+---------------+-----------------   0     512    1024           1M              ~257M (offsets in bytes) Here is an example SD card layout, as displayed by fdisk:   Device    Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System   /dev/sdc1            2048      526335      262144    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)   /dev/sdc2          526336     8054783     3764224   83  Linux (units: 512B sectors) You can format and mount the Linux partition with:   # mkfs.ext4 /dev/<your-sd-card-second-partition>   # mount /dev/<your-sd-card-second-partition> /mnt Your SD card second partition is typically something in /dev/sd<X>2 or /dev/mmcblk<X>p2. Do not forget to install u-boot and a Linux kernel as explained in those posts. Bootstrapping Debian First stage The first stage of Debian bootstrapping is done with:   # debootstrap --foreign --arch=armhf testing /mnt This will retrieve the base Debian packages from the internet, and perform a first stage of installation:   I: Retrieving Release   I: Retrieving Release.gpg   I: Checking Release signature   I: Valid Release signature (key id A1BD8E9D78F7FE5C3E65D8AF8B48AD6246925553)   I: Validating Packages   I: Resolving dependencies of required packages...   I: Resolving dependencies of base packages...   I: Found additional required dependencies: insserv libbz2-1.0 libcap2 libdb5.1 libsemanage-common libsemanage1 libslang2 libustr-1.0-1   I: Found additional base dependencies: libee0 libept1.4.12 libestr0 libgcrypt11 libgnutls-openssl27 libgnutls26 libgpg-error0 libidn11 libjson-c2 liblognorm0 libmnl0 libnetfilter-acct1 libnfnetlink0 libp11-kit0 libsqlite3-0 libtasn1-3 libxapian22   I: Checking component main on http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian...   (...)   I: Extracting util-linux...   I: Extracting liblzma5...   I: Extracting zlib1g... At this point, the necessary tools for second stage of installation are under /mnt/debootstrap/. Second stage The second stage needs to run natively; on an arm platform, that is. But we can use the combination of two techniques to perform this stage on the PC anyway:   # cp /usr/bin/qemu-arm-static /mnt/usr/bin/   # chroot /mnt /debootstrap/debootstrap --second-stage Those commands copy an arm emulator on the target filesystem, and use the chroot command to execute the second stage of the installation into the SD card, on the PC, with transparent emulation:   I: Installing core packages...   I: Unpacking required packages...   I: Unpacking libacl1:armhf...   I: Unpacking libattr1:armhf...   I: Unpacking base-files...   (...)   I: Configuring tasksel...   I: Configuring tasksel-data...   I: Configuring libc-bin...   I: Base system installed successfully. You can now remove /mnt/usr/bin/qemu-arm-static, or keep it for later, subsequent chroot under emulation. Finetuning the root filesystem For development it is handy to remove the root password on the target by removing the '*' from /mnt/etc/shadow on the SD card:   root::15880:0:99999:7::: Also, we can add the following line in /mnt/etc/inittab to obtain a login prompt on the UART:   T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttymxc0 115200 vt100 You can now unmount the filesystem with:   # umount /mnt Boot! Your SD card is ready for booting. Insert it in the SD card slot of your i.MX6 sabre sd platform, connect to the USB to UART port with a serial terminal set to 115200 baud, no parity, 8bit data and power up the platform. At the time of writing u-boot tells the kernel to boot from the wrong partition by default, so we need to interrupt by pressing enter at u-boot prompt for the first boot and setup u-boot environment to fix this:   U-Boot > setenv mmcroot /dev/mmcblk0p2 rootwait rw   U-Boot > saveenv   Saving Environment to MMC...   Writing to MMC(1)... done As this is saved in the SD card it need only to be done once at first boot. You can reboot your board or type boot; your Debian system should boot to a prompt:   (...)   [ ok ] Starting periodic command scheduler: cron.   [ ok ] Running local boot scripts (/etc/rc.local).   Debian GNU/Linux jessie/sid debian ttymxc0   debian login: From there you may login as root. It is recommended to setup the network connection and install an ssh server inside the target for further development. Enjoy! See also... With the amounts of memory we have today in the systems, it is even possible to boot Debian in a ramdisk. See this post about busybox for the ramdisk generation. Another way of generating a root filesystem is by building it with buildroot. See and this post for details.
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This document shows the necessary steps to configure the Eclipse IDE for development of Yocto applications. Requirements 1) Linux machine. Ubuntu 12.4 or higher is recommended. 2) Yocto Freescale BSP Release or Freescale Community BSP. For this example we'll use the Freescale BSP Release L3.14.28 but you may use the FSL Community BSP. - Freescale Community BSP FSL Community BSP - Freescale BSP Release  Documentation L3.14.28 (login required) https://www.freescale.com/webapp/Download?colCode=L3.14.28_1.0.0_LINUX_DOCS&location=null&fpsp=1&WT_TYPE=Supporting%20In… 3) Poky Meta Toolchain (Poky 1.7 / L3.14.28 for our example but you should use the toolchain that corresponds to the BSP that will be used) For information on how to extract and install the meta toolchain please follow the steps on the next document. Task #7 - Create the toolchain 4) Eclipse Luna. We’ll use the Luna SR2 (4.4.2) version of the Eclipse IDE. You may find it on the following website: http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/release/luna/sr2 Look for the “Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Developers”, which contains the Eclipse Platform, the Java Development Tools (JDT), and the Plug-in Development Environment. Once you have downloaded the tarball extract it. The following command unpacks and installs the downloaded Eclipse IDE tarball into a clean directory using the default name eclipse:      $ cd ~      $ tar -xzvf ~/Downloads/eclipse-cpp-luna-SR2-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz Configuring the Eclipse IDE Once with Eclipse Luna installed you may run the Eclipse IDE with the following command: $ cd eclipse $ ./eclipse Select a new workspace. Chose "Install New Software" from the "Help" pull-down menu. Select the "Luna - http://download.eclipse.org/releases/luna" Find and expand the Linux Tools option and select: Linux Tools LTTng Tracer Control Linux Tools LTTng Userspace Analysis LTTng Kernel Analysis If some of these options are not listed it means that they are already installed. (To change this you may uncheck the Hide items that are already installed box) Find and expand the Mobile and Device Development and select the following:   C/C++ Remote Launch (Requires RSE Remote System Explorer)   Remote System Explorer End-user Runtime   Remote System Explorer User Actions   Target Management Terminal (Core SDK)   TCF Remote System Explorer add-in   TCF Target Explorer If some of these options are not listed it means that they are already installed. (To change this you may uncheck the Hide items that are already installed box) Expand Programming Languages and select:   C/C++ Autotools Support   C/C++ Development Tools Chose Next and accept the necessary EULA Clck on the Finish button. The selected packages will be downloaded and installed. You will be asked to restart Eclipse IDE to finish the installation. Adding the Yocto Plug-in to the Eclipse IDE Next step is to install the Eclipse Yocto Plug-in into the Eclipse IDE. We'll show how to install the pre-built plug in. Start the Eclipse IDE In Eclipse, select "Install new Software" from the "Help" menu Click the "Add..." button to add a repository and enter: Name: Any name, we will use Yocto Fio Location: http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/releases/eclipse-plugin/1.8/luna Click "Ok" and then chose this new repository on the "Work with" drop-down menu and select the following plug-ins from the list:   Yocto Project ADT Plug-in   Yocto Project Bitbake Commander Plug-in   Yocto Project Documentation plug-in Install these plug-ins and click "OK" when prompted about installing software that contains unsigned content. You may be asked to restart the Eclipse IDE. Configuring the Eclipse Yocto Plug-in With all the necessary packages installed we'll now configure the Eclipse Yocto Plug-in. In this steps we will configure the Cross Compiler options and the Target options. These will then be used as default for your projects from within your working workspace. Select "Preferences" from the "Window" menu. Click on Yocto Project ADT from the left options and then under Cross Compiler Options select the Standalone pre-built toolchain radio button. We need to point to the Toolchain Root location of our installed toolchain. This is covered on the following community document: Task #7 - Create the toolchain In this case we'll be using poky 1.7 tollchain which has the following default location: /opt/poky/1.7 As fo the Sysroot Location this would correspond to your build directory sysroot folder, which is located on the following path: <YOCTO_BSP_DIR>/<BUILD_DIR>/tmp/sysroots/<MACHINE> In our case our Tartget architecture would be the Cortex-A9, which correspond to the i.MX6 and which is also the only option installed on the chosen directory. For Target Options we would be using the actual HW in order to test our application so keep the External HW option selected. Creating a Hello World Project We are now ready to create our project. Just to test our configuration we'll create a Hello World project.We can do so by selecting File->New->C Project or C++ Project We must then select a Project name and in project type we can chose either an Empty project or as in our case a Hello World Project, all this under the Yocto Project ADT Autotools Project folder. We will have the GNU Autotools Tolchain selected. The next screen will show some of the Basic Properties for our project, including the GNU license. Fill these as required. You may clock on Finish at this point. We should see that the HelloWorld project was created. We should right-click on the project folder and then chose Reconfigure Project in order to fill the necessary libraries. After this is completed we can build our project either by choosing the hammer icon or in the Build Project option inside the Project menu. We can look for correct competition or any errors or warning on the Console tab. Further Application Development After this basic setup you may work on more complex examples like a GPU and a Gstreamer Application examples on the following nicely written document: Yocto Application Development Using Eclipse IDE
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I've done some research in Android boot optimization in the past months and have some getting. This page is for recording and sharing purpose only. It's target to provide some hints and directions for Android optimization. It's NOT a Freescale official document or patch release. The code/doc inside is only for reference. Background:      1. I've used SabreSD + Android KK 4.4.2 GA 1.0 as a reference platform.      2. I'm not doing some popular optimization way such as "hibernation", "suspend". I'm trying to "optimize" the boot process by re-arranging the boot process and make GUI related process run earlier and fine tune some boot code for running faster.      3. It's target to the Android IVI product. So, some features that will never be used in a IVI environment will be disabled or removed. Minor of them. I've come out with a patch package (latest is milestone 4 which is "_m4" in the version for short) and  a training document. I didn't find any confidential information from the patch or doc, so I'm open the sharing here. Updated on 2016/01/08 for new version (milestone m5): --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Change log against previous (milestone 4) version:      1. BSP base changed to Android KK 4.4.3 GA 2.0 which has a Linux kernel 3.10.53      2. Linux kernel and uboot optimization added. Kernel boot time (POR -> Android init entry) is less than 1.5s.      3. Some bug fixes.      4. Document updated accordingly. Total boot time tested on SabreSDP is about 8s.
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1. To setup the Yocto environment, from the BASE folder run fsl-community-bsp $ . setup-environment build 2. Build the toolchain build $ bitbake meta-toolchain # Other toolchains: # Qt Embedded toolchain build: bitbake meta-toolchain-qte # Qt X11 toolchain build: bitbake meta-toolchain-qt 3. Install it on your PC build $ sudo sh \   tmp/deploy/sdk/poky-eglibc-x86_64-arm-toolchain-<version>.sh 4. Setup the toolchain environment build $ source \   /opt/poky/<version>/environment-setup-armv7a-vfp-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi 5. Get the Linux Kernel's source code. $ git clone git://git.freescale.com/imx/linux-2.6-imx.git linux-imx $ cd linux-imx 6. Create a local branch linux-imx $ BRANCH=imx_3.0.35_4.0.0 # Change to any branch you want,   # Use 'git branch -a' to list all linux-imx $ git checkout -b ${BRANCH} origin/${BRANCH} 7. Export ARCH and CROSS_COMPILE linux-imx $ export ARCH=arm  linux-imx $ export CROSS_COMPILE=arm-poky-linux-gnueabi- linux-imx $ unset LDFLAGS 8. Choose configuration and compile linux-imx $ make imx6_defconfig  linux-imx $ make uImage  9. To Test your changes, copy the `uImage` into your SD Card linux-imx $ sudo cp arch/arm/boot/uImage /media/boot 10. If case you want your changes to be reflected on your Yocto Framework, create the patches following the document i.MX Yocto Project: How can I patch the kernel?
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Note: All these gstreamer pipelines have been tested using a i.MX6Q board with a kernel version 3.0.35-2026-geaaf30e. Tools: gst-launch gst-inspect FSL Pipeline Examples: GStreamer i.MX6 Decoding GStreamer i.MX6 Encoding GStreamer Transcoding and Scaling GStreamer i.MX6 Multi-Display GStreamer i.MX6 Multi-Overlay GStreamer i.MX6 Camera Streaming GStreamer RTP Streaming Other plugins: GStreamer ffmpeg GStreamer i.MX6 Image Capture GStreamer i.MX6 Image Display Misc: Testing GStreamer Tracing GStreamer Pipelines GStreamer miscellaneous
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It is based on 3.0.35 GA 4.1.0 BSP.   0001-Correct-mipi-camera-virtual-channel-setting-in-ipu_c.patch It is the updated IPU code for MIPI ID and SMFC setting in ipu_capture.c. These setting should not be combined with MIPI virtual channel value, they shoule be fixed with ID 0.   0002-Use-virtual-channel-3-for-ov5640-mipi-camera-on-iMX6.patch The sample code to modify ov5640_mipi camera to use virtual channel 3 on SabreSD board.   The followed command can be used to verify the mipi camera function after booted into Linux: $ gst-launch mfw_v4lsrc capture-mode=1 device=/dev/video1 ! mfw_v4lsink     2014-09-30 update: Added the patch for 3.10.17_GA1.0.0 BSP. "L3.10.17_1.0.0_mipi_camera_virtual_channel_3.zip"  
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Overview As more and more communication required between online and offline, the QR code is widely used in the mobile payment, mobile small apps, industry things identification and etc. The i.MX6UL/ULL has the IP of CSI and PXP for camera connection and image CSC/FLIP/ROTATION acceleration. A LCDIF IP is supporting the display, but no 3D IP support. This means this low power and low end AP is very suitable for the industry HMI segment, which does not require a cool 3D graphic display, but a simple and straightforward GUI for interaction. QR code scanner is one of the use cases in the industry segment, which more and more customer are focusing on. The i.MX6UL CPU freq of i.MX6UL is about 500Mhz, and it does not have GPU IP, so a lightweight GUI and window system is required. Here we recommend the QT with wayland backend (without X11), which would make the window system small and faster than traditional X11 UI. Why chose QT is because of it has open source version, rich components, platform independent, good performance for embedded system and strong development staffs like QtCreator for creating application. How to enable the QT development environment, check this: Enable QT developement for i.MX6UL (v2)  Here I made a QR code scanner demo based on QT5.6 + QZXing (QR/Bar code scan engine) running on the i.MX6UL EVK board with a UVC camera (at least 640x480 resolution is required) and 480x272px LCD. Source code is open here (License Apache2.0): https://github.com/muddog/QRScanner  Implementation To do camera preview and capture, you must think on the gstreamer first, which is easy use and has the acceleration pads which implemented by NXP for i.MX6UL. Yes, it's very easy for you to enable the preview in console like: $ gst-launch-1.0 v4l2src device=/dev/video1 ! video/x-raw,format=YUY2,width=640,height=320 ! imxvideoconvert_pxp ! video/x-raw,format=RGB16 ! waylandsink It works under the i.MX6UL EVK, with PXP IP to do color space convert from YUY2 -> RGB16 acceleration, also the potential scaling of the image. The CPU loading of this is about 20-30%, but if you use the component of "videoconvert" to replace the "imxvideoconvert_pxp", we do CSC and scale by CPU, then the loading would increase to 50-60%. The "/dev/video1" is the device node for UVC camera, it may different in your environment. So our target is clear, create such pipeline (with PXP acceleration) in the QT application, and use a appsink to get preview images, do simple "sink" to one QWidget by drawing this image on the widget surface for preview (say every 50ms for 20fps). Then in other thread, we fetch the preview buffer in a fixed frequency (like every 0.5s), then feed it into the ZXing engine to decode the strings inside this image. Here are the class created inside the source code: ScannerQWidgetSink It act as a gstreamer sink for preview rendering. Init the pipeline, create a timer with timeout every 50ms. In the timer handler, we use appsink to copy the camera buffer from gstreamer, and tell the ViewfinderWidget to do update (re-draw event). ViewfinderWidget This class inherit from the QWidget, which draw the preview buffer as a QImage onto it's own surface by using QPainter. The QImage is created at the very begining with the image buffer created by the ScannerQWidgetSink. Because QImage itself does not maintain the image buffer, so the buffer must be alive during it's usage. So we keep this buffer during the ScannerQWidgetSink life cycle, copy the appsink buffer from pipeline to it for preview. MainWindow Create main window, which does not have title bar and border. Start any animation for the red line scan bar. Create instance of DecoderThread and ScannerQWidgetSink. Setup and start them. DecoderThread A infinite loop, to wait for a available buffer released by the ScannerQWidgetSink every 0.5s. Copy the buffer data to it's own buffer (imgData) to avoid any change to the buffer by sink when doing decoding. Then feed this copy of buffer into ZXing engine to get decoder result. Then show on the QLabel. Screenshot under wayland (weston) desktop: Customize Camera instance Now I use the UVC camera which pluged in the USB host, which device node is /dev/video1. If you want to use CSI or other device, please change the construction parameters for ScannerQWidgetSink(): sink = new ScannerQWidgetSink(ui->widget, QString("v4l2src device=/dev/video1")); Image resolution captured and review Change the static member value of ScannerQWidgetSink class: uint ScannerQWidgetSink::CAPTURE_HEIGHT = 480; uint ScannerQWidgetSink::CAPTURE_WIDTH = 640; Preview fps and decoding frequency Find the "framerate=20/1" strings in the ScannerQWidgetSink::GstPipelineInit(), change to your fps. You also have to change the renderTimer start timeout value in the ::StartRender(). The decoding frequency is determined by renderCnt, which determine after how many preview frames showed to feed the decoder. Main window size It's fixed size of main window, you have to change the mainwindow.ui. It's easy to do in the QtCreate Designer. FAQ Why not use CSI camera in demo? Honestly, I do not have CSI camera module, it's also DNP when you buying the board on NXP.com. So a widely used UVC camera is preferred, it's also easy for you to scan QR code on your phone, your display panel etc. Why not use QCamera to do preview and capture? The QCamera class in the Qtmultimedia component uses the camerabin2 gstreamer plugin, which create a very long pipeline for different usage of viewfinder, image capture and video encoder. Camerabin2 would eat too much CPU and memory resource, take picture and recording are very very slow. The preview of 30fps would eat about 70-80% CPU loading even I hacked it using imxvideoconvert_pxp instread of software videoconvert. Finally I give up to implement the QRScanner based on QCamera. How to make sure only one instance of QT app is running? We can use QSharedMemory to create a share memory with a unique KEY. When second instance of app is started, it would check if the share memory with this KEY is created or not. If the shm is there, it means there's already one instance running, it has to exit(). But as the QT mentioned, the QSharedMemory can not be destroyed correctly when app crashed, this means we have to handle each terminate signal, and do delete by ourselves: static QSharedMemory *gShm = NULL; static void terminate(int signum) {    if (gShm) {       delete gShm;       gShm = NULL;    }    qDebug() << "Terminate with signal:" << signum;    exit(128 + signum); } int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {    QApplication a(argc, argv);    // Handle any further termination signals to ensure the    // QSharedMemory block is deleted even if the process crashes    signal(SIGHUP, terminate ); // 1    signal(SIGINT, terminate ); // 2    signal(SIGQUIT, terminate ); // 3    signal(SIGILL, terminate ); // 4    signal(SIGABRT, terminate ); // 6    signal(SIGFPE, terminate ); // 8    signal(SIGBUS, terminate ); // 10    signal(SIGSEGV, terminate ); // 11    signal(SIGSYS, terminate ); // 12    signal(SIGPIPE, terminate ); // 13    signal(SIGALRM, terminate ); // 14    signal(SIGTERM, terminate ); // 15    signal(SIGXCPU, terminate ); // 24    signal(SIGXFSZ, terminate ); // 25    gShm = new QSharedMemory("QRScannerNXP");    if (!gShm->create(4, QSharedMemory::ReadWrite)) {       delete gShm;       qDebug() << "Only allow one instance of QRScanner";       exit(0);    } .....
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NFS and TFTP Boot 1  Introduction This document explains the required steps to boot Linux Kernel and mount a NFS on your target. 2 Requirements A functional Yocto environment (Images generated for your target). Your preferred target.  (SABRE-AI, SABRE-SD) 1 Ethernet Cable 1 Micro USB cable USB to Serial converter depending on your target features. 3 Yocto Folders When you develop your Linux kernel and Root File System with Yocto, different folders are created and each folder contains different information. {YOCTO_BUILD_DIR}/tmp/deploy/images/ {TARGET}/  This directory contains the output images, like Kernel, U-Boot and the File System in a tar file. This directory will be used to fetch the kernel and device tree blob file only. {YOCTO_BUILD_DIR}/tmp/sysroot/{TARGET}/  This folder contains all the development files used to generate our Yocto images. Here we can find all the dynamic libraries and headers used for development. This folder is used as parameter for cross-compilation. {YOCTO_BUILD_DIR}/tmp/work/{TARGET}-poky-linux-gnueabi/{IMAGE}/1.0-r0/rootfs This folder contains the uncompressed rootfs of our target. This folder will be used as entry in the host NFS server. 4 IP Address and Network Setup This section covers how to boot Linux that mounts the root file system (RFS) over the network. Remember that in this scenario, the RFS exists on the laptop hard drive, and the kernel that runs on the target board will mount the RFS over Ethernet. This setup is used for developing and debugging Linux applications. It allows for applications to be loaded and run without having to re-boot the kernel each time. First some packages on your host need to be installed: # apt-get install xinetd tftp tftpd isc-dhcp-server nfs-kernel-server portmap For development, it is best to have a static IP setup for the board and Linux environment. This way U-Boot options won’t change between reboots as you get a new IP address as you would using DHCP. 4.1 Linux Host Setup This section describes how to setup a static IP in your Linux host environment. This is not required but will allow the IP address of your virtual host system to remain unchanged. Because u-boot parameters use specific IP addresses, this step is recommended because u-boot parameters may need to be updated in the future to match your virtual IP address if it should ever change. You could take the existing IP address and make it static, but you would lose the Internet connection in your virtual machine. Instead we want to make use of the virtual environment and add a secondary Ethernet port that is tied to your wired Internet connection, while keeping the original Ethernet port which can use the wireless connection on your laptop. In the Linux virtual environment, type sudo ifconfig and note that you should have one Ethernet adapter (eth0). The other item listed (lo) is a virtual port for loopback mode. Shutdown the Linux virtual machine In VMware Player, go to Edit virtual machine settings. And add a Bridged Network Adapter, choosing only the wired Ethernet port. And click on OK.  See below for example: Start up the Linux VM. Open a terminal and type: sudo ifconfig You should have a new entry (eth1). This is the new Ethernet port you created in the virtual machine, and it is bridged to your wired Ethernet port. This is the port we want to make a static IP address. To set eth1 to a static IP, open /etc/nework/interfaces sudo gedit /etc/network/interfaces Add the following to set eth1 to your desired IP address. auto eth1 iface eth1 inet static address 192.168.0.100      <-- Your HOST IP netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.0.1 Save the file Restart eth1 sudo ifdown eth1 sudo ifup eth1 4.2 Target Setup We need to setup the network IP address of our target. Power On the board and hit a key to stop the U-Boot from continuing. Set the below parameters: setenv serverip 192.168.0.100 <-- This must be your Host IP address setenv ipaddr 192.168.1.102  <-- This must be your target IP addres setenv ip_dyn no The path where the rootfs is placed in our host has to be indicated in the U-Boot: setenv nfsroot /home/usuario/fsl-release-bsp/buildimx6q/tmp/work/imx6qsabresd-poky-linux-gnueabi/fsl-image-gui/1.0-r0/rootfs setenv image zImage setenv fdt_file uImage-imx6q-sabresd.dtb setenv netargs 'setenv bootargs console=${console},${baudrate} ${smp} root=/dev/nfs ip={ipaddr} nfsroot=${serverip}:${nfsroot},v3,tcp' 4.3 TFTP and NFS Configuration Now configure the Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) server and Networked File System (NFS) server. This is how U-Boot will download (via TFTP) the Linux kernel, and then the kernel will mount (via NFS) its root file system on the computer hard drive. 4.3.1 TFTP Setup Next setup the TFTP server. The following commands show that we are logged in as root (#). If you are not root ($) then precede each instruction with “sudo”. Edit /etc/xinetd.conf gedit /etc/xinetd.conf Add and save the following lines in the file service tftp { socket_type = dgram protocol = udp wait = yes user = root server = /usr/sbin/in.tftpd server_args = -s {YOCTO_BUILD_DIR}/tmp/deploy/images/ {TARGET}/  disable = no } Notice that {YOCTO_BUILD_DIR}/tmp/deploy/images/ {TARGET}/   has to be written as absolute path. Restart the xinetd service service xinetd restart Test that TFTP is working tftp localhost tftp> get {An Image found in the tftp folder} tftp> quit 4.3.2 NFS Setup Edit the /etc/exports file gedit /etc/exports Add the path where the rootfs is found in your host. {YOCTO_BUILD_DIR}/tmp/work/{TARGET}-poky-linux-gnueabi/{IMAGE}/1.0-r0/rootfs *(rw,no_root_squash)                                                                 NOTE:      {YOCTO_BUILD_DIR}/tmp/work/{TARGET}-poky-linux-gnueabi/{IMAGE}/1.0-r0/rootfs may work most of the times,        but it is recommended to untar the {IMAGE}.bz2 in an exported           folder keeping using sudoand keeping the chmod of each file.     3. Restart the NFS service sudo service portmap stop sudo service nfs-kernel-server stop sudo service portmap start sudo service nfs-kernel-server start 5 Host Final Configuration and Booting Linux over NFS In your host, under the images folder {YOCTO_BUILD_DIR}/tmp/deploy/images/ {TARGET}/ create the below links ln -s zImage_imx_v7_defconfig zImage      2. In U-boot type the below command:                run netboot After a pair of minutes you should get a Linux working system on your target.
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There is no Freescale GStreamer element which does the JPEG decoding, so we must rely on a standard one, like 'jpegdec'. In case your Linux system was built using LTIB, in order to have the jpegdec element included on the gst-plugin-good, follow these steps: On the LTIB menuconfig, make sure the following packages are selected: gstreamer-plugins-good libjpeg libpng Remove the configure parameters '--disbale-libpng' and '--disable-jpeg' on the file './dist/lfs-5.1/gst-plugins-good/gst-plugins-good.spec' Rebuild and flash your board (or SD card) again. Image display VSALPHA=1 gst-launch filesrc location=sample.jpeg ! jpegdec ! imagefreeze ! mfw_isink Important: non 8 pixel aligned width and height is treated as not supported format in isink plugin.
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Introduction The "smart" package management system is available in  Yocto Project for managing  packages on a target machine. A host is configured as a server for the packages and on the target the "package-management" feature is enabled for working with the packages. The steps for setup and usage are described below. Resources The Yocto Project package management system will work with many hosts and targets. The following were used for creating this document: Host: Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit Target: MCIMX6Q-SDP Freescale Yocto Project Release Documentation: Linux 3.14.38_6ul BSP & Multimedia Codecs Documentation (fsl-yocto-L3.14.38_6ul-ga.tar.gz) Host You have successfully installed a Freescale Yocto Project release. (Refer to Freescale Yocto Project Release Documentation). There are two steps for adding package management and then building: 1. Modify conf/local.conf EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES = "debug-tweaks package-management" ‍ 2. Build the image: bitbake core-image-minimal ‍ The core-image-minimal recipe provides an image enabling the target board to boot and support a serial console. 3. Create SDCARD: $ cd <build>/tmp/deploy/images/imx6qsabresd $ sudo dd if=core-image-minimal-imx6qsabresd.sdcard of=/dev/sdb bs=4M && sync ‍‍ Note - verify location of SDCARD on your host, /dev/sdb in this example. Examine 'cat /proc/partitions' 4. Setup web server and add link to rpm packages A web server, lighttpd, is installed. $ sudo apt-get install lighttpd ‍ Provide user write capability in /var/www $ sudo chmod 777 /var/www ‍ Create a soft link in the default web server directory to the rpm directory from the build. Note: Please update $HOME/<build> to your actual location: $ ln -s $HOME/<build>/tmp/deploy/rpm /var/www/imx6qsd ‍‍‍ Target Insert the SDCARD created from step 3 above, connect power and console cable  and power on the MCIMX6Q-SDP. Login using the "root" id, no password required. The /usr/bin/smart application is now used to setup the channels and perform package commands. For all smart options: smart --help ‍ 1. Add channels To add the packages from the host to your target, the smart  channel --add is used: Please enter the IP adress of your server, replacing SERVERIP below: smart channel --add all type=rpm-md name=all baseurl= http://SERVERIP/imx6qsd/all smart channel --add cortexa9hf_vfp_neon type=rpm-md name=cortexa9hf_vfp_neon baseurl= http://SERVERIP/imx6qsd/cortexa9hf_vfp_neon smart channel --add imx6qsabresd type=rpm-md name=imx6qsabresd baseurl= http://SERVERIP/imx6qsd/imx6qsabresd ‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ Check  the added channels: root@imx6qsabresd:~# smart channel --list all imx6qsabresd rpmsys cortexa9hf_vfp_neon ‍‍‍‍‍ 2. Update  local package cache Once the chanels have been added, the local package cache is updated. Note  SERVERIP below will be the host IP address in your network. root@imx6qsabresd:~# smart update Loading cache... Updating cache...               ######################################## [100%] Fetching information for 'all'...                                           -> http://SERVERIP/imx6qsd/all/repodata/repomd.xml                          repomd.xml                      ######################################## [ 16%]                                                                             Fetching information for 'imx6qsabresd'... -> http://SERVERIP/imx6qsd/imx6qsabresd/repodata/repomd.xml                 repomd.xml                      ######################################## [ 41%]                                                                             Fetching information for 'cortexa9hf_vfp_neon'... -> http://SERVERIP/imx6qsd/cortexa9hf_vfp_neon/repodata/repomd.xml          repomd.xml                      ######################################## [ 66%] Updating cache...               ######################################## [100%] Channels have no new packages. 3. Searching for packages Let us look at all packages containing the string client root@imx6qsabresd:~# smart search client* Loading cache... Updating cache...               ######################################## [100%] libice-dbg - ICE: Inter-Client Exchange library - Debugging files libice-dev - ICE: Inter-Client Exchange library - Development files libice-doc - ICE: Inter-Client Exchange library - Documentation files libice-staticdev - ICE: Inter-Client Exchange library - Development files (Static Libraries) libice6 - ICE: Inter-Client Exchange library libsm-dbg - SM: Session Management library - Debugging files libsm-dev - SM: Session Management library - Development files libsm-doc - SM: Session Management library - Documentation files libsm-staticdev - SM: Session Management library - Development files (Static Libraries) libsm6 - SM: Session Management library libx11-6 - Xlib: C Language X Interface library libx11-dbg - Xlib: C Language X Interface library - Debugging files libx11-dev - Xlib: C Language X Interface library - Development files libx11-doc - Xlib: C Language X Interface library - Documentation files libx11-locale - Xlib: C Language X Interface library libx11-staticdev - Xlib: C Language X Interface library - Development files (Static Libraries) libx11-xcb1 - Xlib: C Language X Interface library libxau-dbg - Xau: X Authority Database library - Debugging files libxau-dev - Xau: X Authority Database library - Development files libxau-doc - Xau: X Authority Database library - Documentation files libxau-staticdev - Xau: X Authority Database library - Development files (Static Libraries) libxau6 - Xau: X Authority Database library python-netclient - Python Internet Protocol clients xtrans-dbg - XTrans: X Transport library - Debugging files xtrans-dev - XTrans: X Transport library - Development files xtrans-doc - XTrans: X Transport library - Documentation files ‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ Adding openssh client to core-image minimal The core-image-minimal does not provide openssh client applications like ssh or scp. Let's add them on the host then update the target cache of packages and then install. Host Run bitbake to exercise all the tasks for packagegroup-core-ssh-openssh $ bitbake packagegroup-core-ssh-openssh ‍ After building a package individually, always update the package-index $ bitbake package-index ‍ Target Run smart to update the local cache which will pickup the new packages from the bake above. root@imx6qsabresd:~# smart update Loading cache... Updating cache...               ######################################## [100%] Fetching information for 'all'...                                              -> http://SERVERIP/imx6qsd/all/repodata/repomd.xml                           repomd.xml                      ######################################## [ 16%] -> http://SERVERIP/imx6qsd/all/repodata/primary.xml.gz                       primary.xml.gz                  ######################################## [ 25%] -> http://SERVERIP/imx6qsd/all/repodata/filelists.xml.gz                     filelists.xml.gz                ######################################## [ 33%]                                                                                Fetching information for 'imx6qsabresd'... -> http://SERVERIP/imx6qsd/imx6qsabresd/repodata/repomd.xml                  repomd.xml                      ######################################## [ 50%] -> http://SERVERIP/imx6qsd/imx6qsabresd/repodata/primary.xml.gz              -> http://SERVERIP/imx6qsd/imx6qsabresd/repodata/filelists.xml.gz            filelists.xml.gz                ######################################## [ 58%] primary.xml.gz                  ######################################## [ 66%]                                                                                Fetching information for 'cortexa9hf_vfp_neon'... -> http://SERVERIP/imx6qsd/cortexa9hf_vfp_neon/repodata/repomd.xml           repomd.xml                      ######################################## [ 83%] -> http://SERVERIP/imx6qsd/cortexa9hf_vfp_neon/repodata/primary.xml.gz       primary.xml.gz                  ######################################## [ 91%] -> http://SERVERIP/imx6qsd/cortexa9hf_vfp_neon/repodata/filelists.xml.gz     filelists.xml.gz                ######################################## [100%] Updating cache...               ######################################## [100%] Channels have 15 new packages. Saving cache... ‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ Examine information about local cache: root@imx6qsabresd:~# smart stats Loading cache... Updating cache...               ######################################## [100%] Installed Packages: 80 Total Packages: 3586 Total Provides: 6580 Total Requires: 1611 Total Upgrades: 3565 Total Conflicts: 25 ‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ See what ssh packages are now available: root@imx6qsabresd:~# smart search *ssh* Loading cache... Updating cache...               ######################################## [100%] openssh - Secure rlogin/rsh/rcp/telnet replacement openssh-dbg - Secure rlogin/rsh/rcp/telnet replacement - Debugging files openssh-dev - Secure rlogin/rsh/rcp/telnet replacement - Development files openssh-doc - Secure rlogin/rsh/rcp/telnet replacement - Documentation files openssh-keygen - Secure rlogin/rsh/rcp/telnet replacement openssh-misc - Secure rlogin/rsh/rcp/telnet replacement openssh-ptest - Secure rlogin/rsh/rcp/telnet replacement - Package test files openssh-scp - Secure rlogin/rsh/rcp/telnet replacement openssh-sftp - Secure rlogin/rsh/rcp/telnet replacement openssh-sftp-server - Secure rlogin/rsh/rcp/telnet replacement openssh-ssh - Secure rlogin/rsh/rcp/telnet replacement openssh-sshd - Secure rlogin/rsh/rcp/telnet replacement packagegroup-core-ssh-openssh - OpenSSH SSH client/server packagegroup-core-ssh-openssh-dbg - OpenSSH SSH client/server - Debugging files packagegroup-core-ssh-openssh-dev - OpenSSH SSH client/server - Development files ‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ Install openssh root@imx6qsabresd:~# smart install openssh Loading cache... Updating cache...               ######################################## [100%] Computing transaction... Installing packages (9):   openssh-6.7p1-r0@cortexa9hf_vfp_neon                                            openssh-keygen-6.7p1-r0@cortexa9hf_vfp_neon                                     openssh-scp-6.7p1-r0@cortexa9hf_vfp_neon                                        openssh-ssh-6.7p1-r0@cortexa9hf_vfp_neon                                        openssh-sshd-6.7p1-r0@cortexa9hf_vfp_neon                                       shadow-4.2.1-r0@cortexa9hf_vfp_neon                                             shadow-base-4.2.1-r0@cortexa9hf_vfp_neon                                        shadow-securetty-4.2.1-r3@imx6qsabresd                                          util-linux-sulogin-2.25.2-r1@cortexa9hf_vfp_neon                              1.4MB of package files are needed. 3.2MB will be used. Confirm changes? (Y/n): y Fetching packages...                                                           -> http://SERVERIP/imx6qsd/.../openssh-6.7p1-r0.cortexa9hf_vfp_neon.rpm      -> http://SERVERIP/imx6qsd/.../shadow-securetty-4.2.1-r3.imx6qsabresd.rpm    shadow-securetty-4.2.1-r3.imx.. ######################################## [ 11%] -> http://SERVERIP/imx6qsd/.../openssh-scp-6.7p1-r0.cortexa9hf_vfp_neon.rpm openssh-scp-6.7p1-r0.cortexa9.. ######################################## [ 22%] openssh-6.7p1-r0.cortexa9hf_v.. ######################################## [ 33%] -> http://SERVERIP/imx6qsd/.../openssh-sshd-6.7p1-r0.cortexa9hf_vfp_neon.rpm openssh-sshd-6.7p1-r0.cortexa.. ######################################## [ 44%] -> http://SERVERIP/imx6qsd/.../shadow-4.2.1-r0.cortexa9hf_vfp_neon.rpm       -> http://SERVERIP/imx6qsd/.../openssh-ssh-6.7p1-r0.cortexa9hf_vfp_neon.rpm openssh-ssh-6.7p1-r0.cortexa9.. ######################################## [ 55%] -> http://SERVERIP/imx6qsd/.../shadow-base-4.2.1-r0.cortexa9hf_vfp_neon.rpm shadow-base-4.2.1-r0.cortexa9.. ######################################## [ 66%] shadow-4.2.1-r0.cortexa9hf_vf.. ######################################## [ 77%] -> http://SERVERIP/.../util-linux-sulogin-2.25.2-r1.cortexa9hf_vfp_neon.rpm util-linux-sulogin-2.25.2-r1... ######################################## [ 88%] -> http://SERVERIP/.../openssh-keygen-6.7p1-r0.cortexa9hf_vfp_neon.rpm       openssh-keygen-6.7p1-r0.corte.. ######################################## [100%]                                                                                Committing transaction... Preparing...                    ######################################## [  0%]    1:Installing openssh-ssh     ######################################## [ 11%] Output from openssh-ssh-6.7p1-r0@cortexa9hf_vfp_neon:                          update-alternatives: Linking /usr/bin/ssh to /usr/bin/ssh.openssh                 2:Installing openssh-scp     ######################################## [ 22%] Output from openssh-scp-6.7p1-r0@cortexa9hf_vfp_neon:                          update-alternatives: Linking /usr/bin/scp to /usr/bin/scp.openssh                 3:Installing shadow-secure.. ######################################## [ 33%]    4:Installing shadow-base     ######################################## [ 44%] Output from shadow-base-4.2.1-r0@cortexa9hf_vfp_neon:                          update-alternatives: Linking /usr/bin/newgrp to /usr/bin/newgrp.shadow         update-alternatives: Linking /usr/bin/groups to /usr/bin/groups.shadow update-alternatives: Linking /bin/login to /bin/login.shadow update-alternatives: Linking /bin/su to /bin/su.shadow    5:Installing util-linux-su.. ######################################## [ 55%] Output from util-linux-sulogin-2.25.2-r1@cortexa9hf_vfp_neon:                  update-alternatives: Linking /sbin/sulogin to /sbin/sulogin.util-linux            6:Installing openssh-keygen  ######################################## [ 66%]    7:Installing shadow          ######################################## [ 77%] Output from shadow-4.2.1-r0@cortexa9hf_vfp_neon:                               update-alternatives: Linking /usr/bin/passwd to /usr/bin/passwd.shadow         update-alternatives: Linking /usr/bin/chfn to /usr/bin/chfn.shadow update-alternatives: Linking /usr/bin/chsh to /usr/bin/chsh.shadow update-alternatives: Linking /usr/sbin/chpasswd to /usr/sbin/chpasswd.shadow update-alternatives: Linking /sbin/vipw to /sbin/vipw.shadow update-alternatives: Linking /sbin/vigr to /sbin/vigr.shadow Output from openssh-sshd-6.7p1-r0@cortexa9hf_vfp_neon:                         Removing any system startup links for sshd ...                                Running useradd commands... NOTE: Performing useradd with [ --system --no-create-home --home-dir /var/run/sshd --shell /bin/false --user-group sshd] and 10 times of retry    8:Installing openssh-sshd    ######################################## [ 88%] Adding system startup for /etc/init.d/sshd.                                   Starting OpenBSD Secure Shell server: sshd   generating ssh RSA key...   generating ssh ECDSA key...   generating ssh DSA key...   generating ssh ED25519 key... done.    9:Installing openssh         ######################################## [100%] ‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ Check for the scp command: root@imx6qsabresd:~# which scp /usr/bin/scp ‍‍ Summary To add a new package on the server host, run bitbake <recipe> then bitbake package-index to update the rpm tracking information. On the target board, run smart update and then smart install <package>. Use smart search <regular expression string> to hunt for a package to install.
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Application Note AN13872  Enabling SWUpdate on i.MX 6ULL, i.MX 8M Mini, and i.MX 93 is available on www.nxp.com    SWUpdate: Embedded Systems become more and more complex. Software for Embedded Systems have new features and fixes can be updated in a reliable way. Most of time, we need OTA(Over-The-Air) to upgrade the system. Like Android has its own update system. Linux also need an update system. SWUpdate project is thought to help to update an embedded system from a storage media or from network. However, it should be mainly considered as a framework, where further protocols or installers (in SWUpdate they are called handlers) can be easily added to the application. Mongoose daemon mode: Mongoose is a daemon mode of SWUpdate that provides a web server, web interface and web application. Mongoose is running on the target board(i.MX8MM EVK/i.MX8QXP MEK).Using Web browser to access it.   Suricatta daemon mode: Suricatta regularly polls a remote server for updates, downloads, and installs them. Thereafter, it reboots the system and reports the update status to the server. The screenshot is SWUpdate scuricatta working with hawkbit server.          
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Notes: First run the playback pipeline then the streaming pipeline. The above example streams H263 video and AMR audio data. Change codec format to your needs. In case where the iMX is the streaming machine, the audio encoder 'amrnbenc' must be installed before. This scenario has not been tested Shell variables and pipelines Playback machine (receiver) # On playback machine, set either IMX2PC or PC2IMX variables, then run the pipeline ## IMX2PC: Case where PC does the playback     AUDIO_DEC_SINK="rtpamrdepay ! amrnbdec ! alsasink "     VIDEO_CAPS="\"application/x-rtp,media=(string)video,clock-rate=(int)90000,encoding-name=(string)H263-1998\""     VIDEO_DEC_SINK="rtph263pdepay ! ffdec_h263 ! autovideosink" ## End of IMX2PC Settings ## PC2IMX: Case where iMX does the playback     AUDIO_DEC_SINK="rtpamrdepay ! mfw_amrdecoder ! alsasink "     VIDEO_CAPS="\"application/x-rtp,media=(string)video,clock-rate=(int)90000,encoding-name=(string)H263-1998\""     VIDEO_DEC_SINK="rtph263pdepay ! vpudec ! mfw_v4lsink " ## End of PC2IMX Settings PLAYBACK_AUDIO="udpsrc caps=\"application/x-rtp,media=(string)audio,clock-rate=(int)8000,encoding-name=(string)AMR,encoding-params=(string)1,octet-align=(string)1\" \             port=5002 ! rtpbin.recv_rtp_sink_1 \         rtpbin. ! $AUDIO_DEC_SINK \      udpsrc port=5003 ! rtpbin.recv_rtcp_sink_1 \      rtpbin.send_rtcp_src_1 ! udpsink port=5007 sync=false async=false" PLAYBACK_VIDEO="udpsrc caps=$VIDEO_CAPS port=5000 ! rtpbin.recv_rtp_sink_0 \         rtpbin. ! $VIDEO_DEC_SINK \         udpsrc port=5001 ! rtpbin.recv_rtcp_sink_0 \         rtpbin.send_rtcp_src_0 ! udpsink port=5005 sync=false async=false" PLAYBACK_AV="$PLAYBACK_VIDEO $PLAYBACK_AUDIO" # Playback pipeline gst-launch -v gstrtpbin name=rtpbin $PLAYBACK_AV Streaming Machine (sender) # On Streaming machine, set either IMX2PC or PC2IMX variables, then run the pipeline ## IMX2PC: Case where iMX does the streaming     IP=x.x.x.x # IP address of the playback machine     VIDEO_SRC="mfw_v4lsrc"     VIDEO_ENC="vpuenc codec=h263 ! rtph263ppay "    AUDIO_ENC="audiotestsrc ! amrnbenc ! rtpamrpay " ## END IMX2PC settings ## PC2IMX: Case where PC does the streaming     IP=y.y.y.y # IP address of the playback machine     VIDEO_SRC="v4l2src"     VIDEO_ENC="ffenc_h263 ! rtph263ppay "     AUDIO_ENC="audiotestsrc ! amrnbenc ! rtpamrpay " # END PC2PC settings STREAM_AUDIO="$AUDIO_ENC ! rtpbin.send_rtp_sink_1 \         rtpbin.send_rtp_src_1 ! udpsink host=$IP port=5002 \         rtpbin.send_rtcp_src_1 ! udpsink host=$IP port=5003 sync=false async=false \         udpsrc port=5007 ! rtpbin.recv_rtcp_sink_1" STREAM_VIDEO="$VIDEO_SRC ! $VIDEO_ENC ! rtpbin.send_rtp_sink_0 \         rtpbin.send_rtp_src_0 ! queue ! udpsink host=$IP port=5000 \         rtpbin.send_rtcp_src_0 ! udpsink host=$IP port=5001 sync=false async=false \         udpsrc port=5005 ! rtpbin.recv_rtcp_sink_0" STREAM_AV="$STREAM_VIDEO $STREAM_AUDIO" # Stream pipeline gst-launch -v gstrtpbin name=rtpbin $STREAM_AV
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GmSSL is an open source cryptographic toolbox that supports SM2 / SM3 / SM4 / SM9 and other national secret (national commercial password) algorithm, SM2 digital certificate and SM2 certificate based on SSL / TLS secure communication protocol to support the national security hardware password device , To provide in line with the national standard programming interface and command line tools, can be used to build PKI / CA, secure communication, data encryption and other standards in line with national security applications. For more information, please access GmSSL official website http://gmssl.org/english.html.   Software environments as the belows: Linux kernel: imx_4.14.98_2.0.0_ga cryptodev: 1.9 HW platform: i.MX6UL, i.MX7D/S, i.MX8M/MM, i.MX8QM/QXP. The patches include the following features: 1, Support SM2/SM9 encryption/decryption/sign/verify/key exchange, RSA encryption/decryption, DSA/ECDSA sign/verify, DH/ECDH key agreement, ECC & DLC & RSA key generation and big number operation and elliptic curve math by CAAM hardware accelerating. 2, run "git apply 0001-Enhance-cryptodev-and-its-engine-in-GmSSL-by-CAAM-s-.patch" under folder sources/poky, and "git apply 0001-Add-public-key-cryptography-operations-in-CAAM-drive.patch" under folder sources/meta-fsl-bsp-release for patch these codes. 3, GmSSL Build command: $ tar zxvf GmSSL-master-iMX.tgz $ cd GmSSL-master-iMX (For i.MX8M/MM, i.MX8QM/QXP) $ source /opt/arm-arch64/environment-setup-aarch64-poky-linux  $ ./Configure -DHAVE_CRYPTODEV -DUSE_CRYPTODEV_DIGESTS -DHW_ENDIAN_SWAP  --prefix=~/install64 --openssldir=/etc/gmssl --libdir=/usr/lib no-saf no-sdf no-skf no-sof no-zuc -no-ssl3 shared linux-aarch64 $ make  $ make install                            /*image and config file will be installed to folder ~/install64 */   (For i.MX6UL, i.MX7D/S) $ source /opt/arm-arch32/environment-setup-cortexa7hf-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi $ ./Configure -DHAVE_CRYPTODEV -DUSE_CRYPTODEV_DIGESTS --prefix=~/install32 --openssldir=/etc/gmssl --libdir=/usr/lib no-saf no-sdf no-skf no-sof no-zuc -no-ssl3 shared linux-armv4 $ make  $ make install                            /*image and config file will be installed to folder ~/install32 */   4, How to use GmSSL: copy image gmssl to /usr/bin on i.MX board; copy gmssl libcrypto.so.1.1 and libssl.so.1.1 to /usr/lib on i.MX board; copy folder etc/gmssl to /etc/ on i.MX board. copy test examples (dhtest, dsatest, rsa_test, ecdhtest, ecdsatest, eciestest, sm3test, sms4test, sm2test, sm9test) under GmSSL-master-iMX/test  to U disk for running. You can run test examples by the following commands: #insmod /lib/modules/4.14.98-imx_4.14.98_2.0.0_ga+g5d6cbeafb80c/extra/cryptodev.ko #/run/media/sda1/dhtest #/run/media/sda1/dsatest #/run/media/sda1/rsa_test #/run/media/sda1/ecdhtest #/run/media/sda1/ecdsatest #/run/media/sda1/eciestest #/run/media/sda1/sm3test #/run/media/sda1/sms4test #/run/media/sda1/sm2test #/run/media/sda1/sm9test and speed test commands: #gmssl speed sm2 #gmssl genrsa -rand -f4 512 #gmssl speed dsa #gmssl genrsa -rand -f4 1024 #gmssl speed rsa #gmssl genrsa -rand -f4 2048 #gmssl speed ecdsa #gmssl genrsa -rand -f4 3072 #gmssl speed ecdh #gmssl genrsa -rand -f4 4096   ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++     updating at 2019-09-10   +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 0001-fix-the-bug-which-hash-and-cipher-key-don-t-use-DMA-.patch fix the issue which dismatching on key buffer between crytodev and caam driver. Crytodev uses stack's buffer for key storage and caam driver use it to dma map which cause flush cache failure. The patch need to apply on cryptodev-module in Yocto build.   ++++++++++++++++++  updating at 2019-10-14 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ This updating is for China C-V2X application. The meta-gmcrypto is Yocto layer which bases on GmSSL and Cryptodev. I add HW SM2 verification by dedicated CAAM job descriptor and enhanced SW SM2 verification by precomputed multiples of generator and ARMv8 assembler language to accelerate point  operation. Software environments as the belows: Linux kernel: imx_4.14.98_2.0.0_ga cryptodev: 1.9 HW platform: i.MX8M/MM/MN, i.MX8QM/QXP. How to build: 1, You need to git clone https://gitee.com/zxd2021-imx/meta-gmcrypto.git, and git checkout Linux-4.14.98_2.0.0.  Copy meta-gmcrypto to folder (Yocto 4.14.98_2.0.0_ga dir)/sources/ 2, Run DISTRO=fsl-imx-wayland MACHINE=imx8qxpmek source fsl-setup-release.sh -b build-cv2x and add BBLAYERS += " ${BSPDIR}/sources/meta-cv2x " into (Yocto 4.14.98_2.0.0_ga dir)/build-cv2x/conf/bblayers.conf and  IMAGE_INSTALL_append += " gmssl-bin "  into local.conf 3, Run bitbake fsl-image-validation-imx. 4, You can find cv2x-verify.c under (build dir)/tmp/work/aarch64-poky-linux/cryptodev-tests/1.9-r0/git/tests. It is example for using CAAM cryptdev interface to do C-V2X verification (includes SM2 p256, NIST p256 and brainpoolP256r1).  cv2x_benchmark.c under (build dir)/tmp/work/aarch64-poky-linux/gmssl/1.0-r0/gmssl-1.0/test is the benchmark test program of C-V2X verifying. It includes HW, SW and HW+SW(one CPU) verifying for SM2 p256, NIST p256 and brainpoolP256r1. 5, Run the below command on your i.MX8QXP MEK board. modprobe cryptodev ./cv2x_benchmark Note: the udpated GmSSL also support projective coordinates and affine coordinates (CAAM only support affine coordinates). Affine coordinates is used by default. You can call EC_GROUP_set_coordinates() and EC_GROUP_restore_coordinates() to change coordinates and restore default. When you hope to use some EC APIs under expected coordinates, you need to call EC_GROUP_set_coordinates() before EC APIs and EC_GROUP_restore_coordinates() after them. Like the below example: orig_coordinate = EC_GROUP_set_coordinates(EC_PROJECTIVE_COORDINATES); group = EC_GROUP_new_by_curve_name(NID_sm2p256v1); EC_GROUP_restore_coordinates(orig_coordinate);   ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++     updating at 2020-11-09   +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ This updating is for Yocto release of Linux 5.4.47_2.2.0​​. The meta-gmcrypto is Yocto layer which also support c-v2x feature in previous release.  Software environments as the belows: Linux kernel: imx_5.4.47_2.2.0 cryptodev: 1.10 HW platform: i.MX6UL, i.MX7D/S, i.MX8M/8M Mini/8M Nano/8M Plus, i.MX8/8X. How to build: 1, You need to git clone https://gitee.com/zxd2021-imx/meta-gmcrypto.git, and git checkout Linux-5.4.47-2.2.0. Copy meta-gmcrypto to folder (Yocto 5.4.47_2.2.0 dir)/sources/ 2, Run DISTRO=fsl-imx-xwayland MACHINE=imx8mmevk source imx-setup-release.sh -b build-imx8mmevk and add BBLAYERS += " ${BSPDIR}/sources/meta-gmcrypto " into (Yocto 5.4.47_2.2.0 dir)/build-imx8mmevk/conf/bblayers.conf and  IMAGE_INSTALL_append += " gmssl-bin "  into local.conf 3, Run bitbake fsl-image-validation-imx. 4, You can find cv2x-verify.c under (build dir)/tmp/work/aarch64-poky-linux/cryptodev-tests/1.10caam-r0/git/tests. It is example for using CAAM cryptdev interface to do C-V2X verification (includes SM2 p256, NIST p256 and brainpoolP256r1).  cv2x_benchmark.c under (build dir)/tmp/work/aarch64-poky-linux/gmssl/1.0-r0/gmssl-1.0/test is the benchmark test program of C-V2X verifying. It includes HW, SW and HW+SW(one CPU) verifying for SM2 p256, NIST p256 and brainpoolP256r1. 5, Run the below command on your i.MX8M Mini evk board. modprobe cryptodev ./cv2x_benchmark gmssl speed sm2 gmssl speed dsa gmssl speed rsa gmssl speed ecdsa gmssl speed ecdh gmssl genrsa -rand -f4 -engine cryptodev 4096 Note: 1, the udpated GmSSL also support projective coordinates and affine coordinates (CAAM only support affine coordinates). Affine coordinates is used by default. You can call EC_GROUP_set_coordinates() and EC_GROUP_restore_coordinates() to change coordinates and restore default. When you hope to use some EC APIs under expected coordinates, you need to call EC_GROUP_set_coordinates() before EC APIs and EC_GROUP_restore_coordinates() after them. Like the below example: orig_coordinate = EC_GROUP_set_coordinates(EC_PROJECTIVE_COORDINATES); group = EC_GROUP_new_by_curve_name(NID_sm2p256v1); EC_GROUP_restore_coordinates(orig_coordinate); 2, Yocto Zeus integrates openssl 1.1.1g, so I change library name of gmssl from libcrypto to libgmcrypto and from libssl to libgmssl to avoid name confliction with openssl 1.1.1g (lib name are also libcrypto.so.1.1 and libssl.so.1.1). You should use -lgmcrypto and -lgmssl when you link gmssl library instead of -lcrypto and -lssl.   +++++++++++++++++++++++    updating at 2021-02-08  ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ This updating is for Yocto release of Linux 5.4.70_2.3.0​​. The package meta-gmcrypto is Yocto layer which also support c-v2x feature in previous release. You need to git clone https://gitee.com/zxd2021-imx/meta-gmcrypto.git, and git checkout Linux-5.4.70-2.3.0.    +++++++++++++++++++++++    updating for Linux-5.10.52-2.1.0  +++++++++++++++++++++++ This updating is for Yocto release of Linux 5.10.52_2.1.0​​. The package meta-gmcrypto is Yocto layer which also support c-v2x feature in previous release.  1, You need to git clone https://gitee.com/zxd2021-imx/meta-gmcrypto.git, and git checkout Linux-5.10.52-2.1.0.  Copy meta-gmcrypto to folder (Yocto 5.10.52_2.1.0 dir)/sources/. 2, Run DISTRO=fsl-imx-xwayland MACHINE=imx8mmevk source imx-setup-release.sh -b build-imx8mmevk and add BBLAYERS += " ${BSPDIR}/sources/meta-gmcrypto " into (Yocto 5.10.52_2.1.0 dir)/build-imx8mmevk/conf/bblayers.conf and  IMAGE_INSTALL_append += " gmssl-bin "  into local.conf 3, Run bitbake imx-image-multimedia. 4, Run the below command on your i.MX8M Mini EVK board. modprobe cryptodev gmssl speed sm2 gmssl genrsa -rand -f4 -engine cryptodev 512 gmssl speed dsa gmssl genrsa -rand -f4 -engine cryptodev 1024 gmssl speed rsa gmssl genrsa -rand -f4 -engine cryptodev 2048 gmssl speed ecdsa gmssl genrsa -rand -f4 -engine cryptodev 3072 gmssl speed ecdh gmssl genrsa -rand -f4 -engine cryptodev 4096 gmssl speed -evp sha256 -engine cryptodev -elapsed gmssl speed -evp aes-128-cbc -engine cryptodev -elapsed gmssl speed -evp aes-128-ecb -engine cryptodev -elapsed gmssl speed -evp aes-128-cfb -engine cryptodev -elapsed gmssl speed -evp aes-128-ofb -engine cryptodev -elapsed gmssl speed -evp des-ede3 -engine cryptodev -elapsed gmssl speed -evp des-cbc -engine cryptodev -elapsed gmssl speed -evp des-ede3-cfb -engine cryptodev -elapsed +++++++++++++++++++++++    updating for Linux-5.15.71-2.2.0 +++++++++++++++++++++++ This updating is for Yocto release of Linux 5.15.71-2.2.0​​. The package meta-gmcrypto is Yocto layer which also support c-v2x feature in previous release.  1, You need to git clone https://gitee.com/zxd2021-imx/meta-gmcrypto.git, and git checkout Linux-5.15.71-2.2.0.  Copy meta-gmcrypto to folder (Yocto 5.15.71-2.2.0 dir)/sources/. 2, Run DISTRO=fsl-imx-xwayland MACHINE=imx8mmevk source imx-setup-release.sh -b build-imx8mmevk and add BBLAYERS += " ${BSPDIR}/sources/meta-gmcrypto " into (Yocto 5.15.71-2.2.0 dir)/build-imx8mmevk/conf/bblayers.conf and  IMAGE_INSTALL:append = " gmssl-bin "  into local.conf 3, Run bitbake imx-image-multimedia. 4, Run the below command on your i.MX8M Mini EVK board. modprobe cryptodev gmssl speed sm2 gmssl genrsa -rand -f4 -engine cryptodev 512 gmssl speed dsa gmssl genrsa -rand -f4 -engine cryptodev 1024 gmssl speed rsa gmssl genrsa -rand -f4 -engine cryptodev 2048 gmssl speed ecdsa gmssl genrsa -rand -f4 -engine cryptodev 3072 gmssl speed ecdh gmssl genrsa -rand -f4 -engine cryptodev 4096 gmssl speed -evp sha256 -engine cryptodev -elapsed gmssl speed -evp aes-128-cbc -engine cryptodev -elapsed gmssl speed -evp aes-128-ecb -engine cryptodev -elapsed gmssl speed -evp aes-128-cfb -engine cryptodev -elapsed gmssl speed -evp aes-128-ofb -engine cryptodev -elapsed gmssl speed -evp des-ede3 -engine cryptodev -elapsed gmssl speed -evp des-cbc -engine cryptodev -elapsed gmssl speed -evp des-ede3-cfb -engine cryptodev -elapsed   +++++++++++++++++++++++    Updating for Linux-6.1.55-2.2.0 +++++++++++++++++++++++ This updating is new GmSSL 3.1.1 and Yocto release of Linux 6.1.55-2.2.0. 主要特性 超轻量:GmSSL 3 大幅度降低了内存需求和二进制代码体积,不依赖动态内存,可以用于无操作系统的低功耗嵌入式环境(MCU、SOC等),开发者也可以更容易地将国密算法和SSL协议嵌入到现有的项目中。 更合规:GmSSL 3 可以配置为仅包含国密算法和国密协议(TLCP协议),依赖GmSSL 的密码应用更容易满足密码产品型号检测的要求,避免由于混杂非国密算法、不安全算法等导致的安全问题和合规问题。 更安全:TLS 1.3在安全性和通信延迟上相对之前的TLS协议有巨大的提升,GmSSL 3 支持TLS 1.3协议和RFC 8998的国密套件。GmSSL 3 默认支持密钥的加密保护,提升了密码算法的抗侧信道攻击能力。 跨平台:GmSSL 3 更容易跨平台,构建系统不再依赖Perl,默认的CMake构建系统可以容易地和Visual Studio、Android NDK等默认编译工具配合使用,开发者也可以手工编写Makefile在特殊环境中编译、剪裁。 More information, please refer to Readme Recipe file is the attached gmssl_3.1.1.bb.tar.gz
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i.MX6Q Automotive board has one ADV7180 analog video decoder with 2 video inputs. By default, only input 1 is used (connector J42).     To connect 2 analog video sources and switch the display between them, the following changes are needed:   1 - Create a new IOCTL on V4L2_capture and ADV7180 device drivers to receive the information from user space application on what input will be selected. 2 - In this new IOCTL, use the "Fast Switch Script" for ADV7180 described at Analog Devices site: ADV7180 Fast Switch Script | EngineerZone  3 - Create a user space application to call the IOCTL mentioned on step 1.   See attached:   1 - 0001-ADV7180-Adding-input-switch-IOCTL.patch.zip - Patch to be applied on NXP kernel 4.1.15_1.0.0_ga 2 - example2.c.zip - Source code example of user space application. It changes the video input in each 2 seconds. (See it working on attached video) 3 - example2.zip - User space application executable file  4 - Makefile.zip - Makefile of user space application to be used as example 5 - adv7180_switch.mp4 - Video showing the application   In the application, VIDIOC_S_CHIP_INPUT IOCTL is called to change the input:   int input = 0; if (ioctl(fd_capture_v4l, VIDIOC_S_CHIP_INPUT, &input) < 0) { printf("VIDIOC_S_CHIP_INPUT failed\n"); return TFAIL; }‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍   This IOCTL calls the ADV7180 Fast Switch Script, added on ADV7180 driver (see attached patch).
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There is GPU SDK for i.MX6D/Q/DL/S: IMX_GPU_SDK.  This is to share the experience when compiling the example code from the SDK with Linux BSP release: L3.0.35_1.1.0_121218 and  L3.0.35_4.0.0_130424 . Minimal profile is using and have been verified on both i.MX6Q SDP and i.MX6DL SDP. To start: Please make sure “gpu-viv-bin-mx6q” has been selected in the Package list and compiled to your rootfs. After finished the compilation of the rootfs, you should find some newly added libraries for GLES1.0, GLES2.0, OpenVG and EGL in <ltib>/rootfs/usr/lib However, you should find libOpenVG.so is actually copied from libOepnVG_3D.so: vmuser@ubuntu:~/ltib_src/ltib/rootfs/usr/lib$ ls -al libOpen* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 115999 2013-06-06 18:31 libOpenCL.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 515174 2013-06-06 18:31 libOpenVG_355.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 272156 2013-06-06 18:31 libOpenVG_3D.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 272156 2013-06-06 18:31 libOpenVG.so So, in this way, i.MX6D/Q will no use libOpenVG_355.so in the build. Also, if you run NFS, the libOpenVG.so will change to symbolic link:           For example, run on i.MX6Q SDP, it will link to /usr/lib/libOpenVG_355.so                          For example, run on i.MX6DL SDP, it will link to /usr/lib/libOpenVG_3D.so                Then, when you compile the OpenVG example code, it is becoming very confusing.  Thus, it needs to pay attention when doing the compilation.  For example, delete the symbolic link and make copy of the corresponding library: For i.MX6D/Q, please do this: $ sudo /bin/rm libOpenVG.so $ sudo cp libOpenVG_355.so libOpenVG.so For i.MX6S/DL, please do this: $ sudo /bin/rm libOpenVG.so $ sudo cp libOpenVG_3D.so libOpenVG.so To compile the sample code in the GPU SDK, you could refer to iMXGraphicsSDK_OpenGLES2.0.pdf or iMXGraphicsSDK_OpenGLES1.1.pdf in ~/gpu_sdk_v1.00.tar/Documentation/Tutorials to set up the cross compilation environment; which is assuming the LTIB and the rootfs is ready. $ export ROOTFS=/home/vmuser/ltib_src/ltib/rootfs $ export CROSS_COMPILE=/opt/freescale/usr/local/gcc-4.6.2-glibc-2.13-linaro-multilib-2011.12/fsl-linaro-toolchain/bin/arm-none-linux-gnueabi- For OpenVG: $ cd ~/gpu_sdk_v1.00/Samples/OpenVG $ make -f Makefile.fbdev clean $ make -f Makefile.fbdev $ make -f Makefile.fbdev install The executable will then be copied to this directory: ~/gpu_sdk_v1.00/Samples/OpenVG/bin/OpenVG_fbdev For GLES2.0 $ cd ~/gpu_sdk_v1.00/Samples/ GLES2.0 $ make -f Makefile.fbdev clean $ make -f Makefile.fbdev $ make -f Makefile.fbdev install The executable will then be copied to this directory: ~/gpu_sdk_v1.00/Samples/ GLES2.0/bin/GLES20_fbdev For GLES1.1, please modify the Makefile.fbdev to remove the compilation of example codes "18_VertexBufferObjects" and "19_Beizer" that are not exist. Then, $ cd ~/gpu_sdk_v1.00/Samples/ GLES1.1 $ make -f Makefile.fbdev clean $ make -f Makefile.fbdev $ make -f Makefile.fbdev install The executable will then be copied to this directory: ~/gpu_sdk_v1.00/Samples/ GLES1.1/bin/GLES11_fbdev Finally, you could copy the executable to the rootfs and test on i.MX6Q SDP/SDB or i.MX6DL SDP board. NOTE: the newly added makefiles.tgz contains Makefile.x11 hacked from GLES2.0 example code to make OpenVG to compile and run on Ubuntu 11.10 rootfs.
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BlueZ5 provides support for the core Bluetooth layers and protocols. It is flexible, efficient and uses a modular implementation. BlueZ5 has implemented the Bluetooth low level host stack for Bluetooth core specification 4.0 and 3.0+HS which includes GAP, L2CAP, RFCOMM, and SDP. Besides the host stack, BlueZ5 has also supported the following profiles itself or via a third party software. Profiles provided by BlueZ: A2DP 1.3 AVRCP 1.5 DI 1.3 HDP 1.0 HID 1.0 PAN 1.0 SPP 1.1 GATT (LE) profiles: PXP 1.0 HTP 1.0 HoG 1.0 TIP 1.0 CSCP 1.0 OBEX based profiles (by obexd): FTP 1.1 OPP 1.1 PBAP 1.1 MAP 1.0 Provided by the oFono project: HFP 1.6 (AG & HF)Supported Profiles BlueZ5 has been supported in the latest Freescale Linux BSP release, so it would be pretty easy to generate the binaries for Bluetooth core stack and its profiles. In order to support A2DP sink on a SabreSD board, the following software should be downloaded and installed onto the target rootfs too. sbc decoder version 1.3 (http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/bluetooth/sbc-1.3.tar.gz) PulseAudio 5.0 (http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/releases/pulseaudio-5.0.tar.xz) PulseAudio package has some dependencies with bluetooth and sbc packages, and pulseaudio will detect if the two packages have been built and then decide which pulse plugin modules to be generated. So the building order will be 1) bluez5_utils or bluez_utils   2) sbc   3) pulseaudio. After compile and install the above software onto the target rootfs, you should be able to see the following executable under the directory /usr/bin From BlueZ5: bluetoothctl, hciconfig, hciattach (Needed by operating a UART bluetooth module) From PulseAudio: pulseaudio, pactl, paplay If the building dependency has been setup correctly, the following pulse plugin modules should be located under the directory /usr/lib/pulse-5.0/modules module-bluetooth-discover.so      module-bluetooth-policy.so        module-bluez5-device.so   module-bluez5-discover.so Edit the file /etc/dbus-1/system.d/pulseaudio-system.conf, and add the following lines in red: <policy user="pulse">     <allow own="org.pulseaudio.Server"/>    <allow send_destination="org.bluez"/>     <allow send_interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.ObjectManager"/> </policy> Edit the file /etc/dbus-1/system.d/bluetooth.conf, and add the following lines: <policy user="pulse">      <allow send_destination="org.bluez"/>      <allow send_interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.ObjectManager"/> </policy> Adding the following settings at the bottom of the pulseaudio system configuration file which locates in /etc/pulse/system.pa ### Automatically load driver modules for Bluetooth hardware .ifexists module-bluetooth-policy.so load-module module-bluetooth-policy .endif .ifexists module-bluetooth-discover.so load-module module-bluetooth-discover .endif load-module module-switch-on-connect load-module module-alsa-sink device_id=0 tsched=true tsched_buffer_size=1048576 tsched_buffer_watermark=262144 On the system that can automatically detect the alsa cards, the above line #13 should be removed.  Also make sure "auth-anonymous=1" is added to the following line, which can resolve the issue: "Denied access to client with invalid authorization data". load-module module-native-protocol-unix auth-anonymous=1 Selecting a audio re-sampling algorithm and configuring the audio output by adding the following settings to the file daemon.conf locating in /etc/pulse resample-method = trivial enable-remixing = no enable-lfe-remixing = no default-sample-format = s16le default-sample-rate = 48000 alternate-sample-rate = 24000 default-sample-channels = 2 Pulseaudio can be started as a daemon or as a system-wide instance. To run PulseAudio in system-wide mode, the program will automatically drop privileges from "root" and change to the "pulse" user and group. In this case, before launching the program, the "pulse" user and group needs to be created on the target system.  In the example below, "/var/run/pulse" is the home directory for "pulse" user. adduser -h /var/run/pulse pulse addgroup pulse-access adduser pulse pulse-access Because PulseAudio needs to access the sound devices, add the user "pulse" to the "audio" group too. adduser pulse audio Starting bluetoothd and pulseaudio: /usr/libexec/bluetooth/bluetoothd -d & pulseaudio --system --realtime & To verify if the pulseaudio has been set up correctly, you can play a local wave file by using the following command. If you can hear the sound, the system should have been configured correctly. paplay -vvv audio8k16S.wav After setting up the pulseaudio, launch bluetoothctl to pair and connect to a mobile phone. After connecting to a mobile phone, you should be able to see the following information in bluetoothctl console: [bluetooth]# show Controller 12:60:41:7F:03:00         Name: BlueZ 5.21         Alias: BlueZ 5.21         Class: 0x1c0000         Powered: yes         Discoverable: no         Pairable: yes         UUID: PnP Information           (00001200-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)         UUID: Generic Access Profile    (00001800-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)         UUID: Generic Attribute Profile (00001801-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)         UUID: A/V Remote Control        (0000110e-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)         UUID: A/V Remote Control Target (0000110c-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)         UUID: Message Notification Se.. (00001133-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)         UUID: Message Access Server     (00001132-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)         UUID: Phonebook Access Server   (0000112f-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)         UUID: IrMC Sync                 (00001104-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)         UUID: OBEX File Transfer        (00001106-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)         UUID: OBEX Object Push          (00001105-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)         UUID: Vendor specific           (00005005-0000-1000-8000-0002ee000001)         UUID: Audio Source              (0000110a-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)         UUID: Audio Sink                (0000110b-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)         Modalias: usb:v1D6Bp0246d0515         Discovering: no If you can see the audio sink UUID, you are ready to enjoy the bluetooth music now.
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i.mx8x启动代码定制文档   目录 1    i.MX8X 板级开发包镜像结构... 2 2    创建 i.MX8QXP Linux 4.14.78_ga 板级开发包编译环境... 2 2.1  下载板级开发包... 2 2.2  创建yocto编译环境: 3 3    i.MX8X SC firmware. 11 3.1  SC firmware 目录结构... 11 3.2  SC firmware 启动流程... 12 3.3  SC firmware定制... 12 4    i.MX8X ATF. 18 5    FSL Uboot 定制... 20 5.1  FDT支持... 21 5.2  DM(driver model)支持... 27 5.3  Uboot目录 结构... 40 5.4  Uboot编译... 42 5.5  Uboot初始化流程... 43 5.6  uboot 定制... 53 5.7  uboot debug信息... 60
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Video, bad performance gst-launch filesrc location=test.mp4 typefind=true ! aiurdemux ! vpudec ! mfw_v4lsink Video, better performance gst-launch filesrc location=sample.mp4 typefind=true ! aiurdemux ! queue max-size-time=0 ! vpudec ! mfw_v4lsink # typefind=true allows to 'type find' the source file before negotiating # max-size-time=0 indicates to ignore possible blocking issues # In case of ASF files gst-launch filesrc location=sample.asf typefind=true ! aiurdemux ! queue max-size-time=0 ! mfw_wmvdecoder ! mfw_v4lsink Audio gst-launch filesrc location=sample.mp3  typefind=true ! beepdec ! audioconvert  ! 'audio/x-raw-int, channels=2' ! alsasink Audio with visualization gst-launch filesrc location=sample.mp3 typefind=true ! beepdec ! tee name=t ! queue ! audioconvert  ! 'audio/x-raw-int, channels=2' ! alsasink t. ! queue ! audioconvert ! goom ! autovideoconvert ! autovideosink Video/Audio long version gst-launch filesrc location=sample.avi typefind=true ! aiurdemux name=demux demux. ! queue max-size-buffers=0 max-size-time=0 ! vpudec ! mfw_v4lsink demux. ! queue max-size-buffers=0 max-size-time=0 ! beepdec ! audioconvert ! 'audio/x-raw-int, channels=2' ! alsasink # queue properties, max-size-buffers=0 and max-size-time=0, allows a smoother playback; type 'gst-inspect queue' for more info VA short version gplay sample.avi VA short version gst-launch playbin2 uri=file://<full path to sample file>
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