Kudos, really a nice work! Now it's an pleasant experience to use Debian on EfikaMX devices (xfce rocks).
Sound works fine but only with internal speaker :/ altought spdif module is loaded.

Btw, can you make available an mpg123 deb with neon and pulseaudio support? It's not available on armhf repos.

With pavucontrol (or the gnome audio control applet) you should be able to select between which output to use.

So adding this repo is not needed animore to add to file /etc/modules , the next lines?



and even is not needed to add to the file /etc/initramfs-tools/modules the next lines?



Thanks

First of all, thanks for providing this repository.

Are you guys planning to add other EfikaMX-optimized packages, like an OpenGL ES2 enabled Qt?

Yes, a qt4-x11 package with NEON and GLES2 enabled are in the todo list.

Hi,

that sounds great but I still have some stupid questions.

* Are these real hard-float drivers for Efika MX?
* Can I expect a little performance gain from them? I try to use every little performance gain for xbmc.
* Am I allowed to "repackage" them for my Gentoo system? By "repackaging" I mean to refer to them although the target system is not Debian.

And many thanks for your work :)

Regards,
Stephan

considering that armhf is 100% hardfloat, yes.



well, for 3d, performance gain is typically 20-35% depending on the app -though it's hard to prove that now as some GLES benchmarks that used to run now don't, working on that!



You are as long as you present the end user with the Freescale EULA, at least for those packages that need it.



Glad you like it! :)

You shouldn't have answered so quickly. Now I'm really really exicited :D


Okay, that's no problem.


:wink:

Just tried to enable this repo on a freshly updates system. No luck:

Yeah, that's just my luck, just when I made the repo public, Debian uploaded a new X.org server with a new abi version, so I have to rebuild the packages and upload them to the repo. However, I'm in San Antonio right now and my armhf builder system back home is down due to a power failure. I'm returning in a few days so it should not be long until it gets fixed, though in the meantime, get the package from here:

http://people.debian.org/~markos/armhf/ ... video-imx/

Luca (Gentoo developer lu_zero) and myself have been working on this already (repackaging for Gentoo); the overlay can be found on my github, git://github.com/steev/efikamx.git ; it's still in the early stages, but what is in there (aside from some older packages, and the bins being missing (we'll get them hosted soon) works so far.

Included is a mesa and eselect-opengl that handle the gles/openvg usecase. More in the coming week(s)

To be honest this overlay was my source to set up my own overlay ;) But I'm not very good in writing stable ebuilds but my xbmc-11.0 ebuild is working ok with hw acceleration through vpu. I could provide the latest ebuild and patches if you're interested.

Would it be possible to have a new debian image with these repos added uploaded?

Got it running on a fresh install from the installer script, using the xorg driver posted earlier.
I'm missing Xv support, however. I think it is related to these errors from the xorg log:

[ 8408.194] (EE) IMX(0): Unable to acquire GPU context (code: 0x00000001)
[ 8408.194] (II) IMX(0): Using software fallback backend
[ 8408.194] (II) IMX(0): IMX EXA acceleration setup failed - no acceleration in use
[ 8408.195] (==) IMX(0): Backing store disabled
[ 8408.195] (==) IMX(0): DPMS enabled
[ 8408.195] (EE) IMX(0): XV adaptor does not currently support the active EXA backend.

Is this a problem with the temporary driver, or am I missing something ? - I only did an apt-get -u install imx-essential.

Did you create the xorg.conf file described in the first post? I had a similar problem, which was fixed by using the Z160 backend instead of Z430.