[Sound-open-firmware] Initial support for i.MX8 platform

[Pan, Xiuli]

在 5/27/2019 16:27, Daniel Baluta 写道:
> On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 9:52 AM Pan, Xiuli <xiuli.pan at linux.intel.com> wrote:
>>
>> 在 5/27/2019 14:43, Pan, Xiuli 写道:
>>> 在 5/21/2019 00:26, Liam Girdwood 写道:
>>>> Hi Daniel,
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, 2019-05-20 at 14:26 +0000, Daniel Baluta wrote:
>>>>> Hi Liam / Pierre,
>>>>>
>>>>> I've sent initial patches for i.MX8 FW [1]. There are still a lot
>>>>> of things to be done but I will to solve them step by step.
>>>>>
>>>> Great !
>>>>
>>>> Btw, I've not had time to check GH yet, been travelling last week and
>>>> installing a new PC (as my previous machine suddenly died 2 hours
>>>> before my travel). Should be back to normal tomorrow.....
>>>>
>>>>> Appreciate any review and hope to get at least the basic support
>>>>> accepted then build on top of that.
>>>>>
>>>>> Next steps:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1) Add CI support to compile for imx architecture (both FW/Linux)
>>>> Xiuli can you help with this. I gues we need to add imx compilers to
>>>> the CI containers ?
>>> Yeah, I am here. We may need some guide about how to build the FW for
>>> the i.MX8 with imx compiler after the PR is merged.
>>>
>> I think it would be better if you can provide the build guide and
>> compiler before this merge, so we can test before the PR is merged and
>> enable it as the PR is merged.
> Hi Xiuli,
>
> crosstool-ng [1] and xtensa-overlay [2] imx patches are already
> accepted to github repos.
>
> The documentation patch is here:
>
> https://github.com/thesofproject/sof-docs/pull/125/commits/56f74662e86fc873ba307b9eb543c3b191a6be1b

I checked the doc, there are some minor detail need update also. Please 
see my comment in that PR

> Basically, it is the same procedure as for Intel architectures. I hope
> it works flawlessly on your machine.
> Let me know if is there anything I can help with.

All thing gose well on my local machine, I will try to update our Docker 
image contains the cross-compilers first and try to update Travis and 
sof-ci scirpts later

Thanks

Xiuli

> thanks,
> Daniel.
>
> [1] https://github.com/thesofproject/xtensa-overlay/commit/2d30f07842f73d9bf0749528b2cdbc71cea1d998
> [2] https://github.com/thesofproject/crosstool-ng/pull/2/commits/3bc97c223a0e2e19411428e2177e02a6dc6e28da