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[John Nelson <thatguruguy@xxxxxxxxx>]

That would be neat, but we've been told that for a long time.

On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 8:07 AM, Jelmer Prins <justcarakas@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> The porting guid will soon be on the site, for real :)
> There is someone working on it, they talked about it on the Q&A this week
>
> greetz
> justCarakas
>
> On 12 Feb 2015, at 13:55, John Nelson <thatguruguy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> A brief history lesson.
>
> 1. When I posted the port to the Tab 2 7.0, it wasn't some fringe piece of
> equipment no one had heard of, it was the best-selling 7" tablet in the
> world. In June of 2013, the port stopped working with the latest Touch
> builds, which suggested that the problem was with a change Canonical had
> made to the Touch builds. A request for help posted to this list to get to
> the bottom of the issue was ignored.
>
> 2. Following normal protocol, I posted a bug report about the problem,
> including full logs. The bug report has been ingnored since July of 2013.
>
> 3. Despite statements made from time to time in this list that a new
> porting guide would be posted, that never happened. Instead, the old
> porting guide was listed as "deprecated", and a "Coming soon" page was
> posted instead.
>
> 4. Other people, from time-to-time, post requests for help in porting on
> this list, all of which are ignored.
>
> Simply put, I think you are wrong when you talk about Canonical employees
> helping the community; rather, the community is expected to help Canonical.
> You may say something like, "Hey, but we help people when they are trying
> to get their apps working on Touch!", but I notice that only happens when
> it's an app that has broad appeal, and it should be obvious that the more
> apps that are available, the more likely that Ubuntu Touch will be
> successful.
>
> It is noteworthy that there seems to be no interest on Canonical's part to
> port some of the shiny new scopes developed for the Bq device to the Nexus
> devices that are supposedly fully supported. Again, the community is
> expected to help Canonical, not the other way around (unless such help is
> ultimately in Canonical's financial best interests).
>
>
> On Feb 12, 2015 7:24 AM, "Chris Wayne" <chris.wayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > That's really not fair to say, there are really only a few people that
> have the domain knowledge of bringing up a new device, and they are quite
> often helping the community in addition to their (more than) full-time work
> at Canonical
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 7:19 AM, John Nelson <thatguruguy@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> From my experience with porting Ubuntu Touch to the Samsung Tab 2 7.0,
> unsupported devices (everything except the official devices) are COMPLETELY
> unsupported. In other words, you're on your own, and any requests for help
> to this list will be ignored. Because, you know, community. That being
> said, good luck in your efforts.
> >>
> >> On Feb 11, 2015 3:24 PM, "Vladislav Evgeniev" <v.evgeniev@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Dear All,
> >>>
> >>> I'm trying to port Ubuntu Touch for Motorola Photon Q.
> >>>
> >>> I followed the deprecated porting guide and built and uploaded an
> image to the phone.
> >>> The phone bootloops with my image (recovery mode works).
> >>> I checked the last_kmsg file, which contains the following:
> >>>
> >>> [    4.291011,1] initrd: boot mode: ubuntu
> >>> [    4.339081,1] initrd: mounting system.img (user mode)
> >>> [    4.375888,1] EXT3-fs (loop1): error: couldn't mount because of
> unsupported optional features (40)
> >>> [    4.417305,1] EXT2-fs (loop1): error: couldn't mount because of
> unsupported optional features (40)
> >>> [    4.450480,1] EXT4-fs (loop1): mounted filesystem with ordered data
> mode. Opts: (null)
> >>> [    4.466503,1] initrd: device is moto_msm8960
> >>> [    4.608850,0] resout_irq_handler PMIC Initiated shutdown
> >>> [    4.608972,0] PMIC Initiated shutdown cpu_power_off cpu=0
> >>> [    4.608972,1] PMIC Initiated shutdown cpu_power_off cpu=1
> >>> [    4.609125,0] Powering off the SoC
> >>> [    4.609217,0] Calling scm to disable arbiter
> >>> [    4.609339,0] SCM returned even when asked to busy loop rc=-4
> >>> [    4.609400,0] waiting on pmic to shut msm down
> >>>
> >>> Can someone please tell me what might be wrong with the image? And in
> general, is there a troubleshooting guide somewhere?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks in advance!
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>>
> >>> Vladislav
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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