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Re: ARM enablement nearly complete; testing needed

 

So this means elementary on my Nexus 7? I might try this and record a video
On 3 Jan 2013 11:25, "Craig Errington" <craigerrington@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I've just installed the Pantheon group from the daily ppa on a Samsung ARM
> Chromebook running an Ubuntu Build..
>
> Everything installed fine and is running great. The only issue is the
> FBDEV xorg driver I'm using isn't rendering pantheon brilliantly. I'm going
> to switch over to the amsoc driver later today to try it out instead.
>
>
> On 15 December 2012 00:38, Cody Garver <cody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Great news! Posted it to reddit<https://lists.launchpad.net/elementary-dev-community/msg01889.html>
>> .
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 6:14 PM, Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff <
>> sergey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Hey guys,
>>>
>>> The armhf enablement of Daily PPA is nearly complete now. The only
>>> remaining items are failed builds of some Switchboard plugs which
>>> should resolve themselves in an hour or two. In all other respects
>>> armhf situation is 1:1 equal to the i386 and amd64 ones. And guess
>>> what it means? Exactly - it's time to test this stuff!
>>>
>>> If you happen to be running Ubuntu's armhf port, please take a backup
>>> of your system (just in case), add ppa:elementary-os/daily to your
>>> software sources and install the "pantheon" package (or cherrypick
>>> whatever dependencies of it you prefer). Then check out how apps work
>>> (and if they work at all) and report your findings to this mailing
>>> list!
>>>
>>> I don't anticipate any major issues in applications because all Vala
>>> code is translated to C+GLib code and thus is portable by definition.
>>> Also, we're not yet in a position to consider any crashes appearing on
>>> ARM architecture-specific :) I don't code in Vala myself so developers
>>> may correct me on this point further in this thread.
>>> Still, SoCs may have different performance bottlenecks than desktops
>>> do, so please report anything that works unusually slowly.
>>>
>>> The situation with Pantheon Shell is more interesting. In theory, Gala
>>> should run on OpenGL ES 2.0 (and OpenGL 1.3 too, which took me by
>>> surprise). However, I'm not aware of anybody actually trying that. So
>>> if you happen to have hardware 3D acceleration on your ARM device,
>>> please test Gala and report your findings. Don't forget to include the
>>> output of "es2_info" command!
>>>
>>> Also, it would be nice to be able to retrace Apport crashes submitted
>>> from armhf, so that developers can investigate and fix them. This
>>> requires an armhf-capable machine to run the retracer on. If you have
>>> any resources to spare on an armhf-capable server you run, or know how
>>> to set up ARMv7 emulation on amd64, please contact me.
>>>
>>> Kudos to Rico for making the armhf enablement happen!
>>>
>>> --
>>> Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff
>>> OS architect @ elementary
>>>
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