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[Tushar Gohad <tusharsg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Any updates on the i386 emulator image?  Are any preview images available?
 Thanks!


On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 10:18 PM, Ricardo Salveti de Araujo <
ricardo.salveti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hey,
>
> I know everybody is waiting for a working X86 emulator, so just an
> update at what was done and what we're currently working on.
>
> Done:
>  * Android package is now generating images for the generic_x86 target
>  * Images for generic_x86 are now published by live-build, cdimage and
> system-image
>  * Initial i386 android toolchain published in the archive, but not
> yet functional (image fails to boot if built with it)
>
> In Progress:
>  * Packaging split and rebuild to create a Qt stack which is
> compatible with OpenGLES on i386
>    - As we found out that libqt5gui5 is not ABI compatible when built
> with a different gl (e.g. gles) backend, we decided to update the
> original symbols and rebuild everyone to have a dependency chain that
> is either compatible with either versions, or specifically to the
> GL/GLES ones.
>    - An updated version of qtbase and qtdeclarative (together with the
> ones built with the gles backend by default) are already available in
> a private PPA (so we can have builds on real machines). Work is in
> progress to rebuild the reverse dependency chain, at least enough to
> create a working X86 image.
>  * Investigating the issue with our i386 android toolchain
>
> To be done:
>  * Working image based on a PPA that proves that we're able to have a
> Qt stack which is compatible with OpenGLES (only replacing the
> packages that are affected by the GL backend configure option).
>  * Update our ubuntu-emulator flashing tool to be able to create and
> run x86 images.
>
> As we're hitting final freeze this thursday (and the Qt packages are
> not only common to the Touch image), we should only be good to land
> this once 'u' is open for development. If everything goes as planned,
> it should be available from our archive by the end of this month.
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Ricardo Salveti de Araujo
>
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