[meta-freescale] GStreamer VPU support on i.MX6

[Otavio Salvador]

On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Daiane Angolini
<daiane.angolini at freescale.com> wrote:
> On 04/19/2013 02:09 PM, Gary Thomas wrote:
>>
>> On 2013-04-19 10:58, Daiane Angolini wrote:
>>>
>>> On 04/19/2013 01:52 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Daiane Angolini
>>>> <daiane.angolini at freescale.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> The firmware is installed by packagegroup-base-core; adding a
>>>> dependency on this is not optimal IMO.
>>>
>>>
>>> I almost remember we have already discussed why firmware is not a
>>> dependency.
>>>
>>> I cannot remember what i understood.
>>>
>>> Why would I want to have gst-fsl-plugins installed WITHOUT the VPU
>>> firmware?
>>
>>
>> It gets you other pieces which don't need the VPU, e.g. the
>> special V4L2 drivers.
>>
>> root at sabrelite:~# opkg files gst-fsl-plugin | sort
>> /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libmfw_gst_aacdec.so
>> /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libmfw_gst_aiur_demux.so
>> /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libmfw_gst_amrdec.so
>> /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libmfw_gst_audio_pp.so
>> /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libmfw_gst_beep.so
>> /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libmfw_gst_h264dec.so
>> /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libmfw_gst_mp3dec.so
>> /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libmfw_gst_mp3enc.so
>> /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libmfw_gst_mpeg2dec.so
>> /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libmfw_gst_mpeg4aspdec.so
>> /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libmfw_gst_v4lsink.so
>> /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libmfw_gst_v4lsrc.so
>> /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libmfw_gst_vorbisdec.so
>> /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libmfw_vpu.so
>>
>
> I only means that when you decide to not install VPU dec/enc you don't need
> vpu firmware.
>
> It does not mean that, when you install gst-fsl-plugins you don't expect to
> find the vpu firmware

So we might need to change packagegroup-fsl-vpu-support and make
packagegroup-fsl-gstramer depends on it?

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