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

[Otavio Salvador]

On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Daiane Angolini
<daiane.angolini at freescale.com> wrote:
> On 04/19/2013 02:25 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>>
>> 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?
>
>
> In fact I don't know.
>
> I choose to keep going.

Ok; we discuss it more for 1.5 ;-)

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