4.1. Release notes - 11_01_00

4.1.1. Documentation

The documentation included with the PSDK QNX SDK is specific to the PSDK QNX J742S2 package and for SDP 8.0.

PSDK RTOS J742S2 package documentation (PSDK RTOS Components) must also be referenced for full understanding of PSDK QNX J742S2 support.

4.1.2. PSDK QNX J742S2 Features

Note

  • Reference PSDK RTOS J742S2 package documentation (LINK) for an extensive list of new and current features supported by PSDK QNX + PSDK RTOS. This section lists only the features that are PSDK QNX J742S2 specific.

  • For features & drivers enabled by the QNX BSP, please refer to BSP Documentation or contact QNX.

  • This release is tested on Ubuntu (x86_64) 22.04 systems and may not work on earlier or later Ubuntu systems.

  • Support for io-pkt is not available for J742S2.

4.1.2.1. Enabled in this Release

Features enabled in this release, specific to the PSDK QNX J742S2 package are:

  • IPC Resource manager now has an argument to configure the ISR thread priority.

    • Non-ISR threads remain configurable via the QNX on -p <priority> <executable> utility.

  • Added support for reading CPU load information in app_utils.

  • Added utility reading DIE ID information (run use ti-hwmon for more details).

  • Added utility for reading VTM temperature sensor information (run use ti-hwmon for more details).

  • Bug fixes

    • OSAL: Fixed HwiP_create not respecting requested thread priorities.

4.1.2.2. Enabled in Previous Releases

Features enabled in this release, specific to PSDK QNX J742S2 addon package are:

  • A developer note for enabling QNX display driver is available.

  • Safety qualified drivers for UDMA, OSAL, SCIClient and safety qualified OSAL library

    • Please get in touch with your TI contact for details on how to request for the CSP. For J742S2, please refer to the J784S4 collaterals.

  • VPU video codec updates

    • Empirical values for internal and external buffers used for Codec published.

    • Various encode and decode fps rates published.

    • Resource manager support for VPU video encoder

    • Resource manager support for VPU video decoder

    • Multicore codec support.

    • Codec IO-buffer and Internal buffer management using SharedMemoryAllocator.

    • Supports usage of DDR high-mem (>4G range). Default base address is “0x8 C000 0000” with a total of 768MB.

  • OMX IL Component support for VPU video encoder and File-based OMX encoder test application (H.264 & HEVC)

    • Configurable GOP Preset support. Can configure combinations of I and P frames

    • Supports logging at different levels

    • Supports a multi-threaded implementation

    • Encoder multichannel support upto 8x1080p streams

    • Encoder supports performance upto 1x1080p at 60fps and 2x1080p at 30fps

    • Added SPS & PPS NAL units along with each IDR frame

  • OMX IL Component support for VPU video decoder and File-based OMX decoder test application (H.264 & HEVC)

    • Support for YUV 420 and pseudo-YUV 422 output formats.

    • Supports zero-copy buffer passing between application and codec

    • Supports I, P and B frame decoding

    • Supports decode of stream headers in advance

    • Supports logging at different levels

    • Supports a multi-threaded implementation

    • HW Watchdog for Decoder

    • Decoder to recovery from SW stream errors

    • Decoder supports deblocking filter

    • Support for block-level spatial & temporal error concealment

    • Support for user input to determine number of non-linear frame buffers

  • VPU codec (encoder and decoder) with test app

    • HEVC & H.264 4K Encode support with file-to-file encode test app

    • HEVC & H.264 4K Decode support with file-to-file decode test app

    • Multi-instance HEVC/H.264 Encode & Decode support with multi-inst test app

  • OMX IL Component support for VPU video encode & decode (H.264 & HEVC)

    • Decode/Encode: Support for 2x HW VPU instances for Video Encode / Decode

    • Decode/Encode: Supports Interrupt mode for VPU codec

    • Decode/Encode: Supports 8 channel D1@30fps Encode + 8 channel D1@30fps Decode

    • Encode: Supports Rate control - VBR and CBR

    • Encode: Supports CBR (e.g., for Video Conferencing), 2-10 Mbps

    • Decode: Performance profiler added for VPU decode

    • Decode: Publish Codec Capabilities through API

  • Bug fixes

    • Sciclient random ACK failure fixed.

    • UDMA Resource Manager fixed the duplicate UDMA flow-id allocation

    • Running iperf with parallel instance of cpsw2g and cpsw9g

    • The ipc_test failing to ping ipc echo testb DM image

    • The tiudma-mgr cannot be restarted after being slayed

    • The udma_memcpy_test hangs forever in case of failure

    • CPSW2G direct ethernet cable connection

    • Decode: Fixed junk frames at the end for streams greater than 1080p

    • Decode/Encode: Multi-instance decode/encode failure fixed

    • Decode: OMX decoder fails to decode H.264 Level5 bitstreams of long play length

    • Decode: VPU fails to decode high-bitrate (>100 Mbps) 4K resolution videos

    • Decode: OMX decoder fails to decode 2x 4K HEVC/H264 bitstreams due to out-of-memory

    • Decode: OMX decode application does not check for num input bufs being exactly 2

    • Decode: OMX decode of 4x H.264 1080p bitstreams produces incorrect output frames

    • UDMA driver refactor to enable concurrent access of udma resources

    • Added test capability to support larger memcpy for UDMA

    • IPC driver returns incorrect return code during a timeout

    • Remove dependency on bootloader to set the MMCSD clocks

    • Added support to allocate UDMA proxy per process

    • Remove DEBUG_PRINT flag in the ipclld common.mk file

    • Address Compiler Warning -Wno-address-of-packed-member

    • OSAL: DebugP_log1 using _SLOG_ERROR instead of _SLOG_LOG

For additional new updates, please refer PSDK RTOS package documentation (PSDK RTOS Components).

4.1.2.3. Change Requests

The following Change requests have been made for this release.

  • Re-evaluate safety requirement for TI’s reference shared memory allocator

4.1.2.4. Errata

Please refer release note in the PSDK RTOS J742S2 package documentation (PSDK RTOS Components) for the complete errata list.

4.1.2.5. Hardware support

Note

Refer to Release Notes in PSDK RTOS User Guide(LINK) for detailed information on supported Hardware.

4.1.3. Software Dependencies

4.1.3.1. QNX Dependency

Note

The PSDK QNX package is dependent on installations from QNX Software Center. The below QNX packages were used for PSDK QNX 11_01_00 build and verification.

4.1. QNX SDP 8.0

Important

For information on io-sock ethernet driver refer to the developer note CPSW Ethernet driver support - io-sock vs io-pkt.

QNX SDP 800 Package

Build ID

Package ID

Package Version

QNX® Software Development Platform 8.0

141

com.qnx.qnx800

8.0.0.00141T202311271501L (Validated against this version contact QNX for latest)

QNX® SDP 8.0 BSP for Texas Instruments Jacinto 7 J742S2 Evaluation Modules

35

com.qnx.qnx800.bsp.hw.ti_j742s2_evm

0.1.0.00035T202411151542L

QNX® SDP 8.0 Screen Board Support J742S2 (with Debug Symbols)

132

com.qnx.qnx800.target.screen.board.j742s2

4.0.2.00132T202501161817L

QNX® SDP 8.0 Networking - io-sock

600

com.qnx.qnx800.target.net.iosock

0.3.0.00600T202507302003L

QNX® SDP 8.0 Networking - io-sock cpsw Drivers

104

com.qnx.qnx800.target.net.devs.cpsw

0.3.0.00104T202507311314L

4.1.4. Device Support and Validation Information

SoC

Build Host (OS)

Run Target (OS)

Test Platform

J742S2

x86_64 (Linux Ubuntu 22.04)

R5F & C7x running TI-RTOS

A72 running QNX

TI EVM with daughter cards

Note

Refer EVM Setup for J742S2 for more details on the TI EVM support.

4.1.5. Open Defects

Below table lists all the current open defects:

ID

Head Line

EXT_PSDKQA-8

VPU: OMX decoder fails to decode H.264 mixed resolution 1080p/720p video

EXT_PSDKQA-16

VPU: QNX Encoder Performance - 4x 1080p60 not met. At 47fps now

EXT_PSDKQA-24

SDK to evaluate and remove short_enums compiler flag across modules

EXT_PSDKQA-28

QNX IPC - Need to make the task priority a configurable item

EXT_PSDKQA-29

TDA4VM: Duplication of messages received by RPMessage_recv()

4.1.6. Closed Issues

Below table lists all the defects closed from previous releases:

ID

Head Line

EXT_PSDKQA-18

CPSW5G/9G: Destroying interface freezes prompt

EXT_PSDKQA-23

Address Compiler Warning -Wno-address-of-packed-member

EXT_PSDKQA-25

OSAL: DebugP_log1 using _SLOG_ERROR instead of _SLOG_LOG

EXT_PSDKQA-27

Remove DEBUG_PRINT flag in the ipclld common.mk file

4.1.7. Known Issues

A list of key known issues with the PSDK QNX release is provided below.

Note

Refer to individual PSDK RTOS Components release notes for known issues in each component

Index

Module

Description

1

QNX UDMA RM

UDMA resource manager may not free UDMA resources when client exits unexpectedly.

4.1.8. Additional Reports

For additional reports like test report, traceability refer PSDK RTOS Additional Reports