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[Vladislav Evgeniev <v.evgeniev@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for your responses.

The porting guide has been down for almost 3 months now. Of course
applications are important, but I think that porting the OS to more devices
is essential for its adoption.

Recently I read the Tizen porting guide. Unfortunately the comparison is
not in favor of Ubuntu Touch.

Regards,

Vladislav

2015-02-12 8:14 GMT-05:00 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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