DRA7xx GLSDK 7.02.00.02 Release Notes

Generic Linux Software Development Kit (GLSDK) 7.02.00.02 for DRA7xx

September 7, 2015

This is the GA release of the Generic Linux Software Development Kit (GLSDK) for the DRA7xx platform. This GLSDK Software release gives developers the ability to evaluate the hardware and software capabilities of the DRA7xx platform.

This document is divided into the following sections:

Documentation

• Latest up to the minute information and updates may be found on the Texas Instruments Processors Wiki.

• The Quick Start Guide contains information on how to set up your EVM for an out of box demo showcase as well as for software development. It is located in the docs/ folder in the GLSDK along with other documentation.

• The Software Developer's Guide contains information on how to start developing software on the DRA7xx and is located in the docs/ folder in the GLSDK along with other documentation.

Components

The Linux GLSDK 7.02.00.02 release package for DRA75x/DRA72x includes the following components:

• U-boot support (2014.07)
  • Boot from: SD card, eMMC (FAT load), QSPI.
  • tftp, dhcp
• Linux kernel 3.14
  • FS Media: SD card, eMMC, NFS
  • USB Host: Isochronous A/V, HID, MSC
  • USB 3.0 Host: MSC
  • USB Peripheral: NCM Gadget
  • UART, I2C, QSPI, Ethernet
  • VIP (V4L2, DMABUF)
  • OV1063x, TVP5158 and FPD3 serdes drivers (i2c client, v4l2 subdev)
  • VPE (V4L2 M2M, DMABUF)
  • DSS (LCD, HDMI)
  • Audio playback and capture
  • WiLink 8 (WLAN/BT)
  • MPU DVFS, AVS Class 0, ABB
  • RTC
• Multimedia
  • H.264, MPEG2, MPEG4 & VC1 decoders @ 1080p60
  • MJPEG decoder
  • H.264, MPEG4 encoders
  • Gstreamer plugin for video decode acceleration
  • Gstreamer plugin for video encode acceleration
  • Gstreamer plugin for video processing acceleration (using VPE)
  • Gstreamer plugin for KMS display sink
  • Gstreamer plugin for Wayland sink
  • Gstreamer plugin for video capture (using VIP)
  • AAC audio codec (ARM based, open-source)
• Graphics
  • 3D graphics acceleration (OpenGL ES 2.0)
  • Wayland, with Weston compositor, multiple display support
• Frameworks
  • BIOS (IPU2, SMP-only)
  • DCE (IPU2)
  • IPC 3.x
  • OMAPDRM
• Demo applications
  • Single camera capture -> display demo using native VIP & DSS drivers
  • Dual-decode demo with one display on HDMI and other on LCD (VIDDEC3 interface)
  • Dual-decode demo on single display (Wayland) through Gstreamer
  • Dual-decode demo on two displays (Wayland) through Gstreamer
  • Video capture and encode demo through Gstreamer
  • Video capture and display pass through demo through Gstreamer

The Software Build of Materials is deprecated, please look at the repo manifest file and yocto layers for details.

What's New

Changes from GLSDK v7.01.00.03:

• Multimedia
  • Gstreamer decoder support for H264 Level 5 streams
  • Playbin picks up gst vpe plugin for de-interlacing
  • Mouse drag and drop support in gst waylandsink
• ALSA
  • eDMA support for McASP peripherals
  • JAMR3 sound card
• Kernel & U-boot
  • IOdelay configuration support for MMC in kernel
  • IOdelay configuration support for all peripherals in u-boot
  • DFU (Device Firmware Upgrade) support in U-Boot
• VIP
  • Support for VIP Port-A and Port-B simultaneous capture
• Tools
  • DDR Bandwidth measurement application
  • PVRTrace record utility

Installation and Usage

The Software Developer's Guide contains information on how to start developing software on the DRA7xx and is located in the docs/ folder in the GLSDK along with other documentation.

Host Support

This release supports Ubuntu 12.04 LTS as your development host.

Dependencies

The GLSDK requires the Linaro toolchain, more information is there in the Software Developer's Guide

Device Support

This GLSDK release supports the DRA7xx EVM and has been validated on the following boards:

• DRA75x Rev-H EVM
  • JAMR3 Apps board
  • 10" OSD LCD display
  • PG 2.0 Silicon
• DRA75x Rev-G EVM
  • JAMR3 Apps board
  • 10" LG LCD display
• DRA72x Rev-B EVM

The DRA72x Rev-B EVM is not compatible with Vision application card. Therefore, the vision OVcamera and LVDS cameras cannot be used as is. The baseboard needs modification to support these use cases.

Validation Information

Please get in touch with your TI contact for validation information / test report.

Upgrade and Compatibility Information

This is the refresh release of GLSDK on 3.14 kernel and 2014.07 u-boot

Known Issues and Limitations

This section contains the snapshot of Known Issues and Limitations at the time of making the release.

Known Issues

Key	ID	Module	Summary	Work Around	Impact
GLSDK-1379	OMAPS00316458	DRM / DSS	K3.14: libdrm errors (warning) seen during viddec3test single decode dual display	None	Warnings can be ignored
GLSDK-1493	OMAPS00319136	DRM / DSS	DRA7xx: At times the hdmi driver in omapdss, results I2C master Error	Switch to another display	Observed with only specific HDMI monitors
GLSDK-1296	OMAPS00319231	DRM / DSS	J6/J6Eco: K3.x: HDMI/OMAPDSS: Some HDMI monitors are not detected by DRA7xx EVM h/w	Switch to another display	Observed with only specific HDMI monitors
GLSDK-1369	OMAPS00319260	DRM / DSS	J6/J6Eco: K3.x: HDMI/DSS: modetest not listing all the modes for some hdmi monitors.	Switch to another display	Observed with only specific HDMI monitors
GLSDK-1628	OMAPS00323194	DRM / DSS	J6: Jitter in output while running dual decode test cases with h264 1080p interlaced streams	Use scaling to lower resolutions like 720p	Board has to be rebooted
GLSDK-1766	OMAPS00324202	DRM / DSS	K3.14: omap_crtc_flush() timeout seen while playing videos on kmscube	None	Warnings can be ignored
GLSDK-2273	OMAPS00325338	DRM / DSS	K3.14: omapdrm: could not allocate mmap offset during long run test.	None	Warnings can be ignored
GLSDK-1364	OMAPS00319096	Ethernet	DRA7xx(J6/J6Eco) : ethernet : reliability issues/link failure with gigabit mode of operation(on some boards)	Connect to 100 Mbps port	Observed only on specific boards
GLSDK-1387	OMAPS00319406	Ethernet	DRA7xx : ethernet : 10Mbps mode does not work	None	HW limitation on EVM
GLSDK-1325	OMAPS00319130	Graphics	SGX: SGX Kernel module crash when Weston is killed while client applications are running	Close all Weston clients before closing Weston	This is not the typical scenario
GLSDK-1342	OMAPS00319349	Graphics	SGX/DRM: GLBenchmark test for offscreen test leads to kernel crash	Do not run the offscreen tests from GLBenchmark	Kernel crash and board needs to be rebooted. Not observed with other functional GLSDK use cases
GLSDK-2324	OMAPS00325884	Graphics	DRA7xx: Graphics/Display - Two GEM objects, 8KB memory leak observed when an EGL application is closed	Close and relaunch Weston	Memory leak observed when Weston is running and Weston EGL clients are closed
GLSDK-1307	OMAPS00316736	I2C	J6/J6Eco: I2C: EEPROM read/write test failed during intergration check.	None
GLSDK-1383	OMAPS00313927	Kernel / Uboot	DRA7X: Kernel: stress: boot failure seen 5 out of 1000 times, while performing kernel boot stress testing(external power on reset).	None
GLSDK-1363	OMAPS00316544	Kernel / Uboot	DRA7X: U-BOOT: UART-boot mode is not working on DRA7X platform in 2014.07 u-boot, unable to load u-boot image with YMODEM	Use USB peripheral mode if feasible
GLSDK-1771	OMAPS00324225	Kernel / Uboot	DRA7X: Kernel: Kernel Soft reboot fails few times when tested for 100 times.	None
GLSDK-2190	OMAPS00324617	Kernel / Uboot	IPC/BIOS: Suspend to Ram: Suspend/resume support for DSP is missing which prevents system from entering suspend state	Manually unbind DSP before initiating Suspend	Suspend fails
GLSDK-2383	OMAPS00326590	Kernel / Uboot	u-boot: secure: dra7x: device tree (DTB) authentication fails if dtb file size is not 4 byte aligned	Fix available. Use the patch from post-release page	Authentication of DTB will fail
GLSDK-2387		Kernel / Uboot	DRA7x: UBOOT: QSPI :cannot access more than 16MB of address space	Fix available. Use the patch from post-release page
GLSDK-1527	OMAPS00321953	MMC/SD	J6Eco: Sd card is not detected after using the HS card for long duration	None	Only observed on one board
GLSDK-1728	OMAPS00324050	Multimedia	J6:multimedia: DSP based application like copycodec fails	None	DCE framework cannot be used for exercising DSP applications
GLSDK-1727	OMAPS00324041	SATA	DRA7X: SATA: 3.0 Gbps SATA devices get enumerates in 1.5Gbps when connected through Port multiplier	None
GLSDK-1725	OMAPS00323987	Thermal	Thermal: MPU: Thermal_zone_0 (MPU) is disabled by default in kernel	Manually enable by writing to sysfs entry as "echo enabled > /sys/devices/virtual/thermal/thermal_zone0/mode"	MPU Thermal zone will not be enabled, MPU temperature will not be actively monitored
GLSDK-1293	OMAPS00314408	UART	DRA7x: UART: UART3/4 ports do not support early debugging	None
GLSDK-1305	OMAPS00315589	UART	DRA7x: UART : DMA mode is not supported	Disable DMA for UART transfers
GLSDK-1389	OMAPS00318710	USB	USB: DWC3: warning occurs when the usb camera is removed while capturing the usb video	None	Warnings can be ignored
GLSDK-1769	OMAPS00324229	VIP / VPE	DRA7xx: VPE: File2File checksum changes across multiple runs	None	No visual artifacts, but checksum on initial frame differs as couple of bytes are incorrect
GLSDK-2358	OMAPS00326112	VIP / VPE	Failure to allocate a memory in vpe driver causes ioctl to hang	None
GLSDK-2386		VIP / VPE	VIP: Failed to capture from analog camera	Fix available as patch
GLSDK-2385	OMAPS00326620	WiLink	K3.14: Wilink: Performance degradation observed with wl18xx when running udp iperf tests	None

Limitations

• Audio - Primary sound card only supports 44.1kHz. Other sample rates require SRC before passing to ALSA pcm device
• VIP - Driver does not support in-line CSC and scaling
• Display - FPDLink display interface is not supported
• Display - HDMI is not supported with Rev-D and earlier versions of DRA75x EVM
• DRA7x: Power/Thermal - DVFS supports only MPU frequency and voltage changes
• J6Eco: Power/Thermal - On a few samples dynamic detection MPU OPPs doesnt work due to wrong efuse values. Only OPP_NOM is enabled in such cases
• WiLink - Wilink and bluetooth are not functional on J6Eco
• Graphics - GC320 is not supported
• Early Boot and Late Attach has only been verified with IPU2 and in two stage SD boot mode
• System - NAND/NOR FS support is not available
• EVM - JAMR3 sound card cannot be used simultaneously with Software Defined Radio
• J6Eco: Boot - ROM - If an empty SD card is inserted in SD boot mode system hangs with some cards
• J6: MMC/SD: UHS mode is not enabled on DRA75x

Issues closed since GLSDK v7.01.00.03

Key	ID	Module	Summary
GLSDK-2241	OMAPS00324871	Audio / Radio	J6: ALSA: no sound when playing audio files on J6 Rev E in 7.01.00.03 release
GLSDK-1998	OMAPS00324299	Audio / Radio	J6: Missing pinmux and i2c4 node for JAMR3 radio/audio
GLSDK-1398	OMAPS00313913	Audio / Radio	Radio Sync loss during long time testing (~18hrs)
GLSDK-1504	OMAPS00321321	Ethernet	J6Eco: Ethernet: DHCP not functional with Power on reset button
GLSDK-1311	OMAPS00319131	Graphics	SGX: Functionality: SGX HW recovery observed during termination of EGL based Wayland clients such as simple-egl / gst-wayland
GLSDK-2296	OMAPS00325389	Graphics	wayland client apps hang up
GLSDK-2311	OMAPS00325847	Graphics	K3.14: SGX: Clock frequency is 425.6Mhz
GLSDK-1720	OMAPS00323962	Graphics	SGX: HMI hang observed for a GL context for specific UI operations
GLSDK-2281	OMAPS00325345	Graphics	Weston segfaults and exits when EGL application is ended using Ctrl-C
GLSDK-1773	OMAPS00324259	Kernel / Uboot	script: emmc: update the script to copy uenv-emmc.txt to eMMc device for succesful eMMC-boot.
GLSDK-1763	OMAPS00324213	Kernel / Uboot	DRA7XX: U-BOOT-2014.07: Early Boot: ELF loader does not skip sections with type PT_DYNAMIC
GLSDK-1764	OMAPS00324214	Kernel / Uboot	DRA7XX: U-BOOT-2014.07: Early Boot: Does not handle resource table sections with size less than 1 MB
GLSDK-2189	OMAPS00324615	Multimedia	J6: Rpmsg: suspend to ram "MmRpc_create: Error: open failed, name=/dev/rpmsg-dce" post resume
GLSDK-2191	OMAPS00324616	Multimedia	J6: Remoteproc: suspend to ram: IPU crash detected on resume
GLSDK-1392	OMAPS00313144	Multimedia	Trickplay in a loop gets stuck
GLSDK-1729	OMAPS00324063	Multimedia	J6:multimedia:ducati gets starved of buffers during certain test case leading to increase in playback time
GLSDK-1717	OMAPS00323843	Multimedia	DRA7xx: Gstreamer: IPU crashed when playing H.264 L5.0 video
GLSDK-1685	OMAPS00323283	Multimedia	K3.14: J6: M4 subsystem: IPU crash during GST Trick play usecase
GLSDK-2333	OMAPS00325892	Multimedia	Remove hardcoded path to "/dev/video0" in gst-plugin-vpe source code
GLSDK-1370	OMAPS00319089	Multimedia	J6eco:gst1.2:functionality dual decode with waylandsink returns error and hangs the system
GLSDK-1730	OMAPS00324065	Multimedia	J6:multimedia:long run viddec3test dual decode throws extended decoder error for nth iteration of random stream
GLSDK-1344	OMAPS00318674	QSPI	J6-RevG: QSPI: Stress QSPI read/write operation casues CRC failure
GLSDK-1386	OMAPS00317927	USB	USB: DRA7X: DRD: erratic dwc3 interrupts occurs in device mode causing more than 2 sec delay to connect to host on 3.12 kernl
GLSDK-2299	OMAPS00325395	VIP / VPE	vip can not get correct filed ID
GLSDK-1770	OMAPS00324235	VIP / VPE	J6: Camera: OV10635 camera when connected via LVDS interface generates noise in the video capture

Post Release Updates

There are some defect fixes/patches which did not make it to the 7.02.00.02 release. As and when the patches for defect fixes are available, they will be documented in DRA7xx GLSDK 7.02.00.02 Post-release Updates page. Please register for changes to post-release-update page to be notified when a defect fix is available.

Versioning

This is GA release based on kernel version 3.14 (GLSDK 7.02.00.02) for DRA75x PG 1.0 and DRA72x.

Technical Support and Product Updates

Latest up to the minute information and updates may be found on the http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Category:GLSDK.
Please contact your FAE or CPM for any support requests on GLSDK

Download the Latest GLSDK

The latest GLSDK is available for download from http://downloads.ti.com/infotainment/esd/jacinto6/glsdk/latest/index_FDS.html

GLSDK releases can be downloaded from http://downloads.ti.com/infotainment/esd/jacinto6/glsdk/

The current version is 7.02.00.02.