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Re: ARM enablement nearly complete; testing needed

 

Alright, it's downloading. You'll have to wait a little while for the video
though - my internet is going at like 1Mbps.


On 3 January 2013 19:49, Sam Tate <s@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
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