4.1. Release notes - 10_01_00¶

4.1.1. Documentation¶

The documentation included with the PSDK QNX J722S is specific to the PSDK QNX J722S package.

PSDK RTOS J722S package documentation (PSDK RTOS Components) must also be referenced, for full understanding of PSDK QNX J722S support.

4.1.2. PSDK QNX J722S Features¶

Note

Reference PSDK RTOS J722S 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 J722S specific.
For features & drivers enabled by the QNX BSP, please refer to BSP Documentation or contact QNX. Specifically starting in SDP 8.0 this includes the CPSW io-sock networking driver(s).
The release is tested on Ubuntu (x86_64) 22.04 system and may not work on earlier or later Ubuntu systems.
In order to be compatible with ti-u-boot-24.04 / upstream u-boot v2024.07-rc1 or newer, an additonal 512KB carveout was added at 0x80000000 to protect the new Arm Trusted Firmware load address space. This is required for SPL boot to work properly.

4.1.2.1. Enabled in this release¶

Features enabled in this release, specific to PSDK QNX J722S addon package are:

Freed up unused low-mem codec careveout (256MB) in j722s-evm-ti.build file

OMX IL Component support for VPU video encoder

Added SPS & PPS NAL units along with each IDR frame

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

4.1.2.2. Enabled in previous releases¶

Features enabled in previous release, specific to PSDK QNX J722S 8.0 addon package are:

Support for QNX SDP 8.0

Shared Memory Allocator Resource Manager

SCIClient Resource Manager

UDMA Resource Manager

IPC Resource Manager

K3conf utility

Validation with the PSDK RTOS release

SBL Boot (SD and OSPI)

IPC echo test remote core firmware

PDK library build updated from using PDK makefile system to QNX makefile

Update to build system to use QCONF_OVERRIDE and support for .sym file

Debug build profile deprecate from the PSDK QNX build system

Established a new carveout for Arm Trusted Firmware in the TI Build file to allow for SPL boot to work properly with new versions of u-boot

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

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

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

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.

VPU changes

Encoder: Descope configurable block sizes due to lack of HW support

Decoder: Move non-fatal error code support to 10.1 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 J722S 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 addon package is dependent on installations from QNX Software Center. The below QNX packages were used for PSDK QNX 10_01_00 build and verification.

4.1. QNX SDP 8.0¶

QNX SDP 800 Package	Build ID	Package ID	Package Version
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 Screen Board Support J722S (with Debug Symbols)	128	com.qnx.qnx800.target.screen.board.j722s	4.0.1.00128T202405150459L
QNX® SDP 8.0 BSP for Texas Instruments Jacinto 7 J722S Evaluation Modules	64	com.qnx.qnx800.bsp.hw.ti_j722s_evm	0.0.1.00064T202405101113L
QNX® SDP 8.0 Networking - io-sock	135	com.qnx.qnx800.target.net.iosock	0.0.1.00135T202311191043L

4.1.3.2. PSDK RTOS Dependency¶

The PSDK QNX package is an addon package to the PSDK RTOS release, as such the PSDK RTOS is required.

4.1.4. Device Support and Validation Information¶

SoC

Build Host (OS)

Run Target (OS)

Test Platform

J722S

x86_64 (Linux Ubuntu 22.04)

R5F & C7x running TI-RTOS

A72 running QNX

TI EVM with daughter cards

Note

Refer EVM Setup for J722S 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-19	J722S: Cache invalidate on A53 inconsistent for remoteproc use cases
EXT_PSDKQA-23	Address Compiler Warning -Wno-address-of-packed-member
EXT_PSDKQA-24	SDK to evaluate and remove short_enums compiler flag across modules

4.1.6. Closed Issues¶

Below table lists all the defects closed from previous releases:

ID	Head Line
EXT_PSDKQA-21	[IPC]: RPMessage_recv sometimes returns SOK with no data
EXT_PSDKQA-22	SafeRTOS: IPC echo test fails to ping mcu cores

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.
2	QNX virtual display config	QNX virtual display configuration update is needed to get the virtual display to work. Please refer to the scren package release notes for more details.
3	QNX Networking (io-sock)	Issues have been seen trying to run io-sock with revision com.qnx.qnx800.target.net.iosock/0.0.2.00417T202407041502L. Please use the specified revision mentioned above. Further support should be directed to QNX.

Note

SafeRTOS is not enabled for J722S for the PSDK RTOS 10.0 release. Some of the Vision app test cases fail.

4.1.8. Additional Reports¶

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