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Re: Xenial (16.04) Status on Touch

 

Hi,

Is there a xenial-based build for cooler (M10 FHD)?
ubuntu-touch/staging/bq-aquaris-pd.en doesn't seem to have one.

Regards,
Andrew Penkrat

On Mon, 21 Nov 2016 at 15:35 Lukasz Zemczak <lukasz.zemczak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hey,
>
> As mentioned by YC already, the most effort right now was to get
> xenial arm64 working on frieza (M10). There was basically no work done
> on the mako or any other platforms so far so it's rather 'expected'
> that staging doesn't work on this platform. Devel-proposed was
> yakkety/zesty based and got developer attention. Devel is very old -
> it was a manual promotion channel from devel-proposed.
>
> Anyway, the consensus: we have no idea of the mako state with xenial,
> I wouldn't really count on it being usable anytime soon (it's a really
> really old device). I did try krillin a few weeks before and it was
> booting, at least, but best bet is to just use frieza.
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> On 21 November 2016 at 12:42, Dave Morley <davmor2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, 21 Nov 2016 08:36:40 -0300
> > Felipe De La Puente <fdelapuente@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Yc,
> >>
> >> Thanks for the feedback, good to know what was the purpose of the
> >> staging channel.
> >>
> >> I did some experiments yesterday:
> >>
> >> 1. Tried ubuntu-touch/staging/ubuntu: It doesn't boot.
> >>
> >> 2. Tried ubuntu-touch/devel: It doesboot, is xenial but the latest
> >> image is from 2016-02. Tried to install my app using the 15.04
> >> framework and it fails due to invalid apparmor (probably infebruary
> >> this framework didn't exist, and the 14.10 framework uses apparmor
> >> 1.2, while now its 1.3). Didnt try that yet.
> >>
> >> 3. Tried the latest img of devel-proposed: As expected, doesnt boot
> >> and is probably based on the current devel ubuntu zitsy?
> >>
> >> 4. Tried the oldest img of devel-proposed: Probably based on yaketty
> >> and doesnt boot.
> >>
> >> 5. Tried rc-proposed, does boot, looks nice but qt version is the
> >> same as stable, so my app doesnt work.
> >>
> >> Should I expect the apparmor trick to work on (2)?
> >>
> >> Is there a recommended way to push a newer version of qt to
> >> rc-proposed?
> >>
> >> Is there a way to update devel?  (On (2) I tried writable fs, apt
> >> dist-upgrade, but then it doesnt boot).
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >>
> >> Best Regards,
> >> Felipe.
> >>
> >> On Monday, November 21, 2016, YC Cheng <yc.cheng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Hi Felipe,
> >> >
> >> > This is not official answer, but the status I know:
> >> >
> >> > We won't have xenial in stable this year.
> >> >
> >> > I happened to know an activity related is an effort to make xenial
> >> > arm64 + snapd working in frieza. (channel
> >> > ubuntu-touch/staging/ubuntu with device name frieza_arm64).
> >> >
> >> > YC
> >> >
> >> > 2016-11-20 9:07 GMT+08:00 Felipe De La Puente <fdelapuente@xxxxxxxxx
> >> > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','fdelapuente@xxxxxxxxx');>>:
> >> >
> >> >> Hi,
> >> >>
> >> >> Any idea on the status or ETA for the stable move to xenial in
> >> >> ubuntu touch?
> >> >>
> >> >> Any idea how the current xenial images are running on mako?
> >> >>
> >> >> I need to use some features that are only available in xenial and
> >> >> was wondering what are my options to have it working for
> >> >> december...
> >> >>
> >> >> Thanks!
> >> >>
> >> >> Best Regards,
> >> >> Felipe.
> >> >>
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> >> >
> >
> > I assume you are flashing the m10 tablet correct if not then there is
> > no way to flash it to xenial it simply isn't supported.
> >
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