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[Krzysztof Tataradziński <ktatar156@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks all for response.
Like I read here
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/04/meizu-mx4-ubuntu-convergence-support
I just want to know if there is a hope: does anyone from our community
trying to get it working?
I'm not tech guy, but if there is anything that I can do (getting
logs, testings?) , I can help.

2016-06-01 21:04 GMT+02:00 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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