Saturday, October 11, 2014

Qt on Linux i.MX 6

i.MX 6 is a good device. Qt runs pretty well on it. Also a plugin for hardware accelerated and zero-copy rendering seems to work pretty well. Simply building Qt for i.MX 6 makes it possible to use the Qt Multimedia plugin. This is the result (on Linux):
I also tested a provided Android port but the result was not as good.

11 comments:

  1. Hi Luca,

    What is this "plugin" that you speak of??

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    1. The one for i.MX 6 included in the Qt source tree.

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  2. Hi Luca,

    What board are you using for this test? I am looking to use this https://droidbox.co.uk/droidbox-imx6.html is that essentially the same thing that you have used in terms of spec etc?

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    1. Not sure, this seems to be a fake. In the description I read 1.5Ghz Dual Core Cortex A9 Amlogic Neon AML8726-MX Processor. Not i.MX 6. Also that is an Android box. The one you see in the video is Linux.

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    2. Hmm, confused now as the freescale website says the i.MX6 is a Cortex A9 chip... http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/taxonomy.jsp?code=IMX6X_SERIES&cof=0&am=0

      What board have you used? The only i.MX6 boards I could find were rather expensive eval boards, I am looking for something more in the Pi/Cubieboard price range.

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    3. Yes, i.MX 6 is a Cortex-A9. The sample was running on the dual i.MX 6 version. What is the confusion?

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    4. I am confused because I thought the Cortex A9 chip was the i.MX 6, but I presume that is not the case. I think I will go with the RiotBoard (riotboard.org) at £52 is a reasonable price, though sadly only single core.

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  3. Which kernel version are you using? And what about the BSP version?

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    1. I'm sorry, I can't provide that information. I don't have the board anymore.

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  4. No problem thank you.

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  5. Hi,
    did someone of you knows how to cross compile Qt for the RIoTboard ??
    please help.
    Regards.

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