I've been traversing the pages here on freescale.com and I can't seem to find any packages for hardfloat ubuntu or debian. I've been a keen owner of a genesi efikamx netbook, and it had hardfloat drivers for debian, so I was hoping to be able to find them for the sabre lite as well.
I'm attempting to get mythtv running on the sabre lite and the old softfloat ubuntu 11.10 is falling abit short.
Does anybody know where to find ubuntu or debian (or any other linux for that matter) hardfloat packages for kernel/gpu ?
Timesys has posted hard float binaries compatible with the FSL 1.1.0 release in the thread above. There are fbdev and X11 drivers available. We are working on wayland, but it is not available yet. Check out the thread I posted above to obtain the SDK.
Hello Lars,
I work for Timesys and we recently built and published some SDKs which include hard float binaries. These binaries may be compatible with other systems as well. If you are still searching, try checking out this thread:
https://community.freescale.com/thread/307061
We're trying to strengthen our accelerated support for this platform including framebuffer, X, directfb, and wayland. Also we are working on Qt4 & 5.
Currently we provide X & framebuffer acceleration, and are trying to get more feedback on these drivers.
Hello,
We don't have hardfloat binaries for the gpu, or a toolchain with hardfloat enabled to build the kernel and kernel modules, neither for Ubuntu or Linux only.
We will have hardfloat deliverables at least for linux only in a short while (There is no hard date but it would in around a Month or so).
Some of our customers have used third parties to get custom toolchains or built them themselves.
Also using Yocto can help but it's not officially supported yet. (It would be officially supported on July).
Keep in mind that even when building whit hardfloat yourself you will still be missing the gpu binary with hardfloat.
I hope this info helps
Attached is the Linux_Multimedia_Framework_User_Guide.pdf.
You can find the information in it for installing .deb files for i.MX.
The demo images can be downloaded from here.
http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=IMX6_SW
Please note that the demo images and BSP only tested on the specific board.
The images are not tested on SabreLite. But I think you can have a try.
Thank you, I will look into it. The information seems a bit scarce though.
How do I define what linux distribution do use, or does it only work with ubuntu 11.10? - As I mentioned, ubuntu 11.10 is soft-float, and not very usable for an application like MythTV. I didn't get it to run properly on my imx51 device until I used an armhf (hardfloat) distro. But the imx51 is too slow for full hd video.