APF6 legacy Linux 4.1 kernel status
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The APF6 Linux distribution can be found here: latest stable installation tarball from gitlab
Current version
Currently (armadeus-6.0) default supported Linux version for APF6 is: vanilla 3.19. Details about this kernel can be found here.
We also support "legacy" kernels, based on Freescale/Wandboard's versions, to have GPU/VPU functionalities available until integrated in vanilla/mainline. This page detail the Freescale 4.1.xxx Linux version support.
Details concerning the drivers usage can be found below.
- NT = Not Tested
- NA = Not Available / Not possible
APF6 module
| 4.1.15_2.0.0_ga legacy | ||||
| Driver | Compiling ? Static / Module |
Working ? | Comments | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| eMMC | OK | NT | OK | |
| SPI | OK | NT | NT | SPI / Not tested yet. |
| I2C | OK | NT | OK | I2C |
| Keypad | NT | NT | NT | Not tested yet |
| MMC/SD/SDIO | OK | NT | OK | |
| UART | OK | NT | OK | |
| Ethernet | OK | NT | OK | |
| USB OTG | OK | NT | OK | USB |
| USB HOST1 | OK | NT | OK | USB |
| PWM | OK | NT | OK | PWM |
| RTC | OK | NT | NT | i.MX6 internal RTC |
| Watchdog | NT | NT | NT | Watchdog |
| PM sleep/wakeup | OK | NT | NT | Power management |
| Frequency scaling | OK | NT | NT | Not tested yet |
| CSI (Camera) | OK | NT | NT | Tested with a wandcam and SDL capture demo. |
| SSI (Audio) | OK | NT | OK | ALSA |
| Video codec (H.263/4) | OK | NT | OK | H.264 with Gstreamer |
| 3D GPU | OK | NT | OK | OpenGLES 2.0 |
| Security/Sahara/RTIC | NT | NT | NT | Not tested yet |
| Wi-Fi (b/g) | OK | OK | NT | Wifi - Wl12xx_driver |
| Bluetooth | OK | OK | NT | Bluetooth / No RTS/CTS Bluetooth |
| FPGA POD interface | NT | NT | NT | Not tested yet |
| FPGA loading | OK | NT | NT | Only available on APF6SP |
| Xenomai | NT | NT | NT | |
APF6Dev development baseboard
- NT = Not Tested
- NA = Not Available / Not possible
| 4.1.15_2.0.0_ga legacy | ||||
| Driver | Compiling ? Static / Module |
Working ? | Comments | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SATA | NT | NT | NT | |
| PCIe | OK | NT | NT | |
| microSD | OK | NT | OK | |
| Ethernet | OK | NT | ~OK | 100M only at the moment |
| LCD | OK | NT | NT | Tested with LW700. LCD |
| Backlight | NT | NT | NT | Not tested yet |
| Headphone audio Out | OK | NT | OK | ALSA |
| SPDIF Optical audio Out | OK | NT | OK | ALSA be sure to force SPDIF output with: aplay -D "default:CARD=imxspdif" /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Side_Left.wav |
| HDMI audio Out | OK | NT | OK | ALSA |
| MIC audio In | OK | NT | OK | ALSA |
| Touchscreen | OK | OK | NT | Single touch only. |
| USB Host 1 | OK | NT | OK | High Speed |
| CAN Bus | OK | OK | NT | CAN_bus_Linux_driver |
| HDMI | OK | NT | OK | Issues with some DVI monitor. |
| GPS | OK | NT | NT | GPS |
| GSM / 3G | OK | NT | NT | Gsm |
| GPIO | OK | NT | OK | GPIOlib |
| User LED | OK | NT | OK | GPIO LEDS |
| User button | OK | NT | OK | GPIO keys |
| RTC MCP79400 | NT | OK | NT | RTC. Timekeeping only. |
