[Bug 1883111] Re: [needs-packaging] raspberrypi-userland

[Dave Jones]

> Armhf binaries for the closed-source vcdbg and edidparser are
available with a compatible license in the upstream package. There are
currently no arm64 versions of these binaries.

> (They are closed source per Broadcom, the original author).

Yes, I've deliberately excluded those from our userland package partly
because the userland package has to have a common source for both armhf
and arm64 in Ubuntu, but mostly because I knew that would complicate the
MIR (closed-source stuff generally can't go into main so at that point
we'd have a package which would wind up in restricted because of two
minor binaries when the other 20+ were all open).

Once everything else we need for the new seeds (rpi-eeprom, userland,
pi-bluetooth, linux-firmware-raspi2 into main, + some gadget work) is
done I can look at getting the closed source bits into another package,
but I rather doubt it'll make it into groovy at this time.

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Title:
  [needs-packaging] raspberrypi-userland

Status in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in raspberrypi-userland package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in The Focal Fossa:
  Confirmed
Status in raspberrypi-userland source package in Focal:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  [Impact]

  As part of our HWE efforts for the Raspberry Pi, we need the latest VC
  (GPU) and camera-related libraries (and utilities) on the Raspberry Pi
  for focal as well.

  [Test Case]

  * Install libraspberrypi-bin package
  * Add "start_x=1" and "gpu_mem=128" to /boot/firmware/config.txt (note: must be config.txt and not one of the included files like syscfg.txt)
  * "sudo reboot" to load camera-enabled firmware and enable new udev rules
  * Run "vcgencmd commands" as the normal user and ensure it outputs a list of commands
  * Run "vcgencmd measure_temp" and ensure it outputs a valid temperature (e.g. typically in the region of 60C for an idle Pi4, lower for earlier models)
  * Run "vcgencmd get_camera" as the normal user and ensure it outputs "supported=1 detected=0"
  * If you have a camera module available, shut down the pi, install the camera module (see https://picamera.readthedocs.io/en/release-1.13/quickstart.html for details), then boot it again
  * Run "vcgencmd get_camera" as the normal user and ensure it outputs "supported=1 detected=1"
  * Run "raspivid -t 0" and check the camera's view is displayed on the screen (Ctrl-C to exit)

  Repeat for both armhf and arm64.

  [Regression Potential]

  Can't think of anything really. It's a new package that currently will
  not be installed by default on any device. We plan to preinstall it at
  one point, but then additional testing will be done by certification.
  Right now it's just a set of libraries and utilities that should not
  be harmful in any way.

  [Original Description]

  Provides VC (GPU) and camera-related libraries (and utilities) on the
  Raspberry Pi.

  URL: https://github.com/raspberrypi/userland
  License: BSD-3-Clause
  Notes:

  Test builds of packages available from the following PPA:
  https://launchpad.net/~waveform/+archive/ubuntu/userland/+packages
  built from the "debian" branch of
  https://github.com/waveform80/userland

  Upstream does not explicitly version their API (hence the lack of
  version suffixes on the shared objects). Furthermore, the Raspbian
  package isn't *precisely* the same as this one; it includes the
  closed-source vcdbg utility (which for obvious reasons we cannot
  include here).

  The intention is to include this package by default in the Raspberry
  Pi images (and thus in main), and to SRU to Focal; please review
  accordingly.

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