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Re: ARM enablement nearly complete; testing needed

 

Only problem is - it seemed like a huge pain in the arse to get Ubuntu
working last time I checked. I'll give it a go though :)
On 3 Jan 2013 19:45, "Daniel Foré" <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Do it Sam!
>
> Best Regards,
> Daniel Foré
>
> El ene 3, 2013, a las 11:06 a.m., Sam Tate <s@xxxxxxxxxxx> escribió:
>
> 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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