Qualcomm Developer Network has just sent the October Newsletter by email, and they had some news specific to Ubuntu / Linux support on IFC6410 development board powered by a Snapdragon 600 processor. Firs they link to a guest blog post on Qualcomm website entitled “Video Conferencing on Linux with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 Processor“, where Qualcomm partner eInfochips stated:
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.’s leadership in mobile market with Linux Android support is well established. As the demand for Qualcomm Snapdragon processors, a product of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., increase in adjacent markets, the need for non-Android Linux support becomes evident.
Which is always good to read. The rest of the post blog provides a few more details about their a low-latency (50ms glass-to-glass) video conferencing solution based on OpenEmbedded build with Linaro Linux Kernel, and making use of Qt5, Gstreamer, and Sofia SIP library. Further improvements will be achieved with hardware video decoding.
Qualcomm also released a developer preview user-mode Ubuntu Linux driver binaries for Qualcomm Adreno 320 GPU on Inforce IFC6410 board. Linaro already releases a monthly Linaro Member Build for IFC6410 board. This release includes support for OpenGL ES 3.0 and has been tested with the Linaro 14.09 Ubuntu release. The Linaro image already included OpenGL 2.1 support for Adreno 320 GPU, but based on the open source freedreno GPU driver, instead of an official release by Qualcomm.
You can download adreno-ubuntu.tar.gz with your Qualcomm developer credentials.
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No userspace drivers for VPU hardware video decode yet though right?
@Harley
Correct, but eInfoChips mentions “With hardware accelerated codecs in place, we should be able to achieve the full potential of the Snapdragon platform, with HD resolution conferencing.” at the end of their blog, so it must be coming.