Re: port-evbarm/52984 (RPI/earmv6hf and earmv7hf: omxplayer abort trap)

[Nick Hudson <nick.hudson%gmx.co.uk@localhost>]

On 22/08/2018 04:00, Rin Okuyama wrote:
> Finally, omxplayer works fine on -current kernel without any tricks!!
>
> According to this thread in official RPI repository in github,
>
> https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/issues/763
>
> when v3d, hdmi, pixelvalve, or hvs are enabled in FDT blog, firmware
> turns off GPU functionality of VideoCore, expecting OS drivers control
> it appropriately.
>
> Therefore, these features are explicitly disabled in *.dtb, till we
> add drivers for them (hdmi is already turned off in our DTS):
>
> http://www.netbsd.org/~rin/rpi_dts_20180822.patch
>
> With this patch, omxplayer works fine on Raspberry Pi 3B. And
> everything including genfb and X also works fine as before.
>
> OK to commit this fix?

I think so, but Jared was keen to not touch the files directly and might 
have an alternative method here

> rin

Nick