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[Daniel Wood <s.d.wood.82@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Simon,

Thanks for your detailed response. I like many other would very much like
to see Aethercast on the MX4 and I am wondering if there is any scope to
crowd fund a port to BSP 5?

Is that a conversation that could lead somewhere?

Thanks,

Dan



On 1 June 2016 at 19:06, Simon Fels <simon.fels@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 01.06.2016 18:50, Krzysztof Tataradziński wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I just want to sum up what we know about wireless display support. For
> now,
> > theoretically we've two options to get it working on Meizu MX4:
> > (1) Change Android BSP from 4.x to 5.x.
> > (2) Backport MediaCodecSource class (and maybe some other bits) to actual
> > Android BSP 4.x.
> >
> > Am I right?
>
> That is correct. I did that already for the Nexus 4 and pushed patches
>
> https://code-review.phablet.ubuntu.com/444
> https://code-review.phablet.ubuntu.com/445
> https://code-review.phablet.ubuntu.com/446
>
> That enables the basic bits for the media encoding side. On the Nexus 4
> the more hard thing is the getting WiFi Direct support working as the
> WiFi driver we have in the kernel seems to be quite busy.
>
> However to highlight the important thing: The Android side source of the
> MX4 is not available to the public and will not. Only people inside
> Canonical have access to it. We don't have any plans to enable
> aethercast on the MX4 and krillin by default. I've shared those patches
> basically for community ports based on Android 4.x.
>
> Also don't expect you're done with just importing those three patches
> into your tree. Depending on how the encoder is structured and
> performing there are more changes necessary involving debugging and
> insight into the whole thing.
>
> > Regarding (1) - Meizu released 5.x OS recently. I'm not a tech guy, but
> is it
> > not 'only' to grab what we need from that release and put it instead of
> actual one?
> > Where is a problem with changing BSP to 5.x?
>
> Changing to a newer BSP requires a two to three month effort for
> multiple people involved. Not an easy thing and isn't really worth for
> Ubuntu Touch as we don't gain any new features and will only risk
> regressions etc. The BSP we have stabilized very much over time so there
> is absolutely no reason to change to a newer version of Android for the
> MX4.
>
> regards,
> Simon
>
>
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