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

[Daniel Baluta]

On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 6:39 AM Pan, Xiuli <xiuli.pan at linux.intel.com> wrote:
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> 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
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> I checked the doc, there are some minor detail need update also. Please
> see my comment in that PR
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> > 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

Perfect, thanks for help!