| jack__ | lool, ogra, or NCommander... Are you around? | 01:48 |
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| NCommander | jack__, I am | 03:01 |
| jack__ | Good to see you here... | 03:02 |
| jack__ | Have you read through the above? | 03:02 |
| jack__ | Is this a discussion we can have by email? | 03:03 |
| jack__ | NCommander? | 03:32 |
| NCommander | jack__, which discussion specifically? | 03:32 |
| NCommander | oh | 03:33 |
| jack__ | I guess you cannot see the multiple posts above... that said, David Mandala sent me here as he is on vacation, to get some quick answers re: the i.MX515 port... | 03:33 |
| NCommander | right, no, I saw that | 03:33 |
| jack__ | I am leading a hardware project for a major CHina company that has just committed to Freescale, and I'm the guy who has to coordinate the software + hardware decisions and dev plan from our side. | 03:34 |
| NCommander | Righjt | 03:34 |
| jack__ | I have a small flurry of specific questions. | 03:34 |
| NCommander | Sure | 03:35 |
| NCommander | I can answer some questions. | 03:35 |
| jack__ | My first is to what degree is the graphics being run in the OpenGL ES 2.0 and OpenVG1.1 cores?... what degree of optimization? Enough to support Compiz, or a subset of Compiz functionalities?... or, amd I just dreaming? | 03:37 |
| NCommander | At the moment, there is no hardware acceleration support on the MX51 | 03:38 |
| jack__ | Actually, I guess my more fundamental question is if we're talking about Netbook Remix here, or Desktop? | 03:38 |
| NCommander | huh? | 03:39 |
| jack__ | OKay... "at the moment." Is the dev roadmap aimed at making this a priority for 2009? | 03:39 |
| jack__ | I do not even know what version/flavor of "Ubuntu" is being ported, my friend. This project landed on my desk 3-days ago. | 03:40 |
| NCommander | jack__, I'm not sure if I can answer that, I recommend asking David on the roadmap question. | 03:40 |
| NCommander | As for the version and favor | 03:40 |
| NCommander | The 9.04 release of Ubuntu will be the first with the ARM port (development snapshots are available) | 03:40 |
| jack__ | I'll do that. He says he'll have occasional email while traveling... | 03:40 |
| jack__ | So, it's the Desktop flavor... | 03:41 |
| jack__ | What's the barroer to then porting the Netbook Remix flavor?... substantial?... trivial? | 03:41 |
| NCommander | Well, there is one repository for Ubuntu, which contains the desktop, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, etc. | 03:41 |
| NCommander | UNR is compiled for ARM | 03:41 |
| jack__ | Okay... I knew that much... :-) I'm asking for a i.MX515-specific answer | 03:42 |
| NCommander | All packages expect the kernel are shared across all supported boards | 03:42 |
| jack__ | So... once the port of 9.04 is done, the others are "automatically" also done? | 03:43 |
| NCommander | Well, all the variants exist in our repos, so pretty much. | 03:43 |
| NCommander | jack__, how much do you know about Ubuntu itself? | 03:43 |
| jack__ | I'm a Mac guy who has flirted with Ubuntu on and off as a user for several years... have an old Dell laptop here wiht Hardy Heron on it. | 03:44 |
| NCommander | ah | 03:44 |
| jack__ | So... the basics, fomr that perspective. But.. | 03:44 |
| jack__ | I am also a CE industru project manager who has more than a dozen PC architecture designs, including a Linux PowerPC architecture on my resume. I know how PCs work and how the parts all fit together wiht the software. | 03:45 |
| NCommander | right | 03:45 |
| jack__ | I'm just at that "first few days" on this one and am tryign to get dialed into the variables I'll have to be chasing. | 03:46 |
| NCommander | sure | 03:46 |
| jack__ | We'll be doing all of the non-reference low-level device code from our side. | 03:46 |
| NCommander | I can understand that. | 03:46 |
| jack__ | Give me an email address and I'll email a PDF showing the product we're discussing. Or, email me at jack@aboutjack.com and I'll reply. | 03:47 |
| NCommander | jack__, michael.casadevall@canonical.com | 03:47 |
| jack__ | Done. | 03:48 |
| jack__ | Obviously: Confidential | 03:49 |
| NCommander | jack__, sure | 03:49 |
| jack__ | I'll hang around for any reactions... | 03:50 |
| NCommander | jack__, check your private messages ;-) | 03:51 |
| jack__ | LOL... I don't know how. | 03:51 |
| NCommander | jack__, what IRC client are you using? | 03:52 |
| jack__ | Nevermind... I figured it out. | 03:52 |
| lool | jack__: We have no 2D/3D acceleration at the moment; we rely on FSL for drivers | 08:45 |
| jack__ | Hi lool | 08:56 |
| jack__ | Yes, I had an extensive private chat with NComander earlier... | 08:57 |
| jack__ | I've since gone back and forth with the Freescale guys again, and we're going to tackle the OPen GL ES and OpenVG 1.1 drivers ourselves | 08:57 |
| jack__ | We'll very, very likely draw Caonnical into this effort, too. | 08:58 |
| lool | jack__: Nice | 08:58 |
| jack__ | Michael says you are more familiar with the status of UNR? | 08:58 |
| jack__ | In a perfect world, once the kernel work is done to get 9.04 running on the i.MX515, we could move it over and get UNR running on the chip. | 08:59 |
| jack__ | Your opinion of the challenge involved? | 08:59 |
| jack__ | Yes. I know we need the graphics core drivers, first. | 09:00 |
| jack__ | I'm aiming about 10 seasoned low-level Linux guys at that problem this week. | 09:00 |
| jack__ | Me thinks that a 10.2 inch 1024x600 LCD screen 1GHz ARM Cortex product would be much more usable and "correct" with UNR, not 9.04 | 09:01 |
| jack__ | Got your email. WIll switch to there. | 09:02 |
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| fta | i'm having a problem with the mid lpia image (a6) on a samsung nc10. | 21:31 |
| fta | just after squashfs is loaded, i get a bunch of "FAT: Filesystem panic (dev sdb)", and it stops there | 21:33 |
| fta | the unr image worked just fine. | 23:19 |
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