Clutter Based Application running on i.MX51 Freescale's ARM Processor

GPU driver test on i.MX51 (EVK Board) over a 2D Graphics with 3D Manipulation (Clutter based) Application under UBUNTU Linux.
It uses AMD GPU driver.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• i.MX51
• mx51
• imx51
• arm core
• Freescale
• Babbage
• EVK
• cortex a8
• embedded
• low power
• image
• ubuntu
• linux
• clutter
• 3d graphics
• 2d graphics
• imx-possibility
• imx-enabled

[catchlin]

is the CPU usage 100%?

[DDoiS]

@catchlin

Nope, i.MX51 has Graphic acceleration in hardware, the cpu usage for this application running on Ubuntu is around 40%, but I don't remember the exactly value now.

[catchlin]

@DDoiS

That's really strange.

I tested with the clutter ver 0.8.8

"./configure --with-flavour=eglx --with-gles=2.0;make;make install

cd tests

sudo ./test-rotate"

The CPU usage is 100%.

I have asked the freescale FAE a week ago, but they still don't give the answer now @_@

[DDoiS]

@catchlin

Have you built the Clutter library with the hardware GL driver ? If you installed Clutter by via apt-get the 3D manipulation will be performed by software and it will slow down your application and the cpu usage will be very high.

[LMB222]

can you paste `uname -a` ? Thanks.

[DDoiS]

here is it:

ubuntu@ubuntu-desktop:~$ uname -a

Linux ubuntu-desktop 2.6.28-515-g4eec389 #3 PREEMPT Mon Nov 23 17:23:49 BRST 2009 armv7l GNU/Linux

ubuntu@ubuntu-desktop:~$

=)

[Deman444]

@Deman444 You are right. The eval boards with 9.04 do not have the OpenGL connections; therefore, you cannot use the hardware acceleration. The 9.10 BSP does and I got that to work. There are a few commands I ran before ./configure commands.

[Deman444]

@catchlin Oh. . . well I guess I was doing everything correctly then. Thanks for the quick reply :-D! 

[catchlin]

@Deman444 I report this to freescale, they said that's bug, they'll fix it in next BSP release.

[Deman444]

@catchlin Did you ever resolve your issue to the cpu usage? I am in the same boat, but I grabbed all the packages from the synaptic package manager then tried the configure, make, make-install steps.

[Deman444]

@Deman444 Any help* or assistance would be nice! Thanks again.

[Deman444]

Hey I am trying to do this. . . I installed The clutter packages from the synaptic package manager (0.9 dev and lib, and the 0.8 gtk since there was not an 0.9 version). How do you install the gpu?

I didn't see a final folder that you navigated to so is that another package I have to install? Any or assistance would be nice! Thanks!

[ttthttpd]

Wow ubuntu got flashy! Is it possible to make it look (login + tooltips) like it did for the 8.04 release? I find it perfect, but getting rather outdated under the hood.

[catchlin]

@DDoiS

That's really strange.

I tested with the clutter ver 0.8.8

"./configure --with-flavour=eglx --with-gles=2.0;make;make install

cd tests

sudo ./test-rotate"

The CPU usage is 100%.

I have asked the freescale FAE a week ago, but they still don't give the answer now @_@