On Thu, Jan 07, 2016 at 11:44:45PM +0000, Vladimir Lushnikov wrote:
Just looking at the sources now, I see that the only framebuffer driver written for iMX has been for the iMX53 - doing a quick search leads me to think that the IPU on the iMX6 is a very similar interface (http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/drivers/gpu/ipu-v3/ipu-common.c)
Interesting- I wouldn't be surprised if there's not much difference, when looking at the security sheet I saw it has the same problem of the GPU acceleration being tied to the rest of the graphics when it comes to TrustZone.
Have you tried playing with the framebuffer driver? I imagine quite a few other things don't work (USB for sure, but probably ethernet as well?)
I haven't tested Genode on it, I'm planning on toying with it on a T400 thinkpad with Libreboot installed before devoting time to porting things, or trying to as I have no hardware experience. I've been spending my time getting to know the existing toolchain and setting up NixOS on The Novena - I've chosen NixOS given the work on using the Nix package manager in Genode.
Vladimir
Jookia. :)