Linaro-android March 2012

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56 discussions

linaro-android/tracking-panda-11.10-release:-Source Build Download Error

by Vinayak K. Tulasidas Bhat

Hi all, I happen to find out through the link given below that Linaro 11.10 Release-tracking panda-android is supporting Audio Record feature and hence decided to try it out. https://blueprints.launchpad.net/linaro-android/+spec/enable-audio-on-le b-panda I downloaded the LEB's for the Linaro 11.10 tracking-panda-android Release and tested it on a Pandaboard. Audio recording was working fine. Now I wanted to download the Source build for the LEB's and also the kernel. When I tried to download the Source build as per the steps explained in the link below given below, https://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/Android/GetSource I encounter the following error:- >>From git://android.git.linaro.org/platform/development >> 6c368d2..799fada master -> korg/master >>Fetching projects: 28% (52/185) fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly >>fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly >>error: Cannot fetch people/pawelmoll/gator Please let me what can be done to resolve this error. Thanks and regards, Vinayak The information contained in this e-mail message and in any attachments/annexure/appendices is confidential to the recipient and may contain privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender and delete the message along with any attachments/annexure/appendices. You should not disclose, copy or otherwise use the information contained in the message or any annexure. Any views expressed in this e-mail are those of the individual sender except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Toshiba Embedded Software India Pvt. Ltd. (TESI),Bangalore. Although this transmission and any attachments are believed to be free of any virus or other defect that might affect any computer system into which it is received and opened, it is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that it is virus free and no responsibility is accepted by Toshiba Embedded Software India Pvt. Ltd, for any loss or damage arising in any way from its use.

13 years, 11 months

Linaro embedded Linux distro?

by Zach Pfeffer

During ELC a few people asked me if Linaro had something bigger than nano and smaller than Ubuntu that they could use to build stuff. Of course I said Android, but a lot of people actually want a regular Linux platform where they can easily recompile what they need to hack on, add their own libs and scripts and generally work in an "embedded, cross build way." I know there's OpenEmbedded and I've heard of something called "livebuild." Does anyone have anymore info? This class of users is arguably the largest class of people using these boards so creating something targeted at them would allow them to get all the benefits of Linaro in a easy to use fashion. -- Zach Pfeffer Android Platform Team Lead, Linaro Platform Teams Linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Linaro http://twitter.com/#!/linaroorg - http://www.linaro.org/linaro-blog

13 years, 11 months

[ANN] Android Build Jenkins upgrade on Fri

by Paul Sokolovsky

Hello, We recently upgraded Jenkins on ci.linaro.org to the latest version, and it works quite well. It's our aim to stay in sync, so I would like to propose upgrade on android-build.linaro.org on Friday, as soon as Android release is made. Please let me know if you have any concerns. -- Best Regards, Paul Linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Linaro http://twitter.com/#!/linaroorg - http://www.linaro.org/linaro-blog

13 years, 12 months

Disabling the Android boot animation... ?

by Dave Martin

Hi all, It seems that the Android boot animation really consumes a lot of CPU. At least when running on the ARM fast models, I see a typical steady- state load (bootanimation+surfaceflinger) of about 65% CPU. I can kill the boot animation interactively, but does anyone know how to disable it properly? This would likely be a benefit to the test and validation work on the models. After killing the boot animation, I can boot a fresh release to the desktop in under 8 minutes on the model, with full cache modelling disabled. A preinitialised image will boot to the unlock screen in around 2.5 minutes. Cheers ---Dave

13 years, 12 months

usb mass storage not working on pandaboard

by Gopal Jee

Hi I am trying linaro on pandaboard . But usb mass storage is not detected on file system. i am using file manager HD to browse file system on android. i would appreciate if you can tell me linaro version which supports usb mass storage. Thanks --

14 years

3, 2, 1....BLASTOFF

by Zach Pfeffer

The preliminary 12.03 Android plan is up. https://launchpad.net/linaro-android/+milestone/12.03 ARM A15, A7 and A15/A7 Fast Models running Android, big.LITTLE testing, dual SD cards, unit tests, more enablement, improved Android SMP, and more!!! -- Zach Pfeffer Android Platform Team Lead, Linaro Platform Teams Linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Linaro http://twitter.com/#!/linaroorg - http://www.linaro.org/linaro-blog

14 years

Syntax for custom LAVA tests

by Paul Sokolovsky

Hello, Yong Qin is working on the blueprint https://blueprints.launchpad.net/lava-android-test/+spec/modify-android-bui… to add arbitrary custom client-side scripts to Android Build. He submitted first implementation of it as https://code.launchpad.net/~liuyq0307/linaro-android-build-tools/run-custom… and documented as https://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/Android/AndroidBuild-LavaIntegration . Unfortunately, I'm not thrilled with that implementation, more specifically, its "user interface" (i.e. any parts which user directly faces) by the following reasons: 1. The idea behind Android Build's build config was that they're short and easy for human to parse, essentially one glance-over would enough to get a good idea what is built here, even for outsider. Consequently, the configs should not be overloaded with details not related to building. If there's a need for integration with other systems, we have good pattern of externalizing such details and then just referring to them with a single variable in a build config. 2. The whole approach in https://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/Android/AndroidBuild-LavaIntegration seems like trying to encode hierarchical structure in the shell syntax, which is not much supporting of that. The end result looks pretty much like representation of graph structure in raw assembler - it's spaghetti mix of data pieces and labels, requiring long time to wrap hand around to understand it, and cumbersome and error-prone to write. So, I would like to propose alternative syntax solving the issues above. I probably should start with saying that if the talk is about LAVA, then using native LAVA JSON request immediately comes to mind. Well, I guess human-writability wasn't a design goal for that, so I skip it. It still makes sense to stick to general-purpose hierarchical structure syntax though. Except that JSON has 2 problems: a) it doesn't support comments natively, so we'll need to pre-process it; b) error reporting/localization may be still no ideal. Anyway, here's my try, it is presented as a comment to https://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/Android/AndroidBuild-LavaIntegration and then full example at https://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/Android/AndroidBuild-LavaIntegration/pfalc… Let's discuss if that covers our needs and constraints. Thanks, Paul Linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Linaro http://twitter.com/#!/linaroorg - http://www.linaro.org/linaro-blog

14 years

Had some fun last night...

by Bernhard Rosenkränzer

... and created a 4.0.4 build. linaro_android_4.0.4 branches are created where necessary. The most interesting piece of news is probably that we no longer need linaro_* branches of platform/system/extras and platform/external/ipsec-tools - the patches we've had there are obsolete. This may be a good time to submit more patches to AOSP given the divergence should be rather low right now. ttyl bero

14 years

How do I rename an Android device?

by Jon Medhurst (Tixy)

I want to rename vexpress-a9 to just plain vexpress, because it also supports A15 and A5 cores and the current name confuses everyone. Are these the steps I would need to follow...? 1. To avoid breaking people trying to build previous releases I would need to get a new git repo created called device/linaro/vexpress.git which is a copy of the existing vexpress-a9.git and then edit the contents of this to remove references to 'a9'. 2. Copy the manifest file staging-vexpress-a9.xml to staging-vexpress.xml (or should it be landing-vexpress.xml)? Then edit the device path to the new device git. 3. Update build jobs on android-build.l.o 4. Tell someone about this so the instructions on the download pages get updated for next month's release. 5. Anything else? (I've already updated l-a-m-c to accept the new name) -- Tixy

14 years

Hackbox is full

by Mathieu Poirier

Friends for the green man, Hackbox's /mnt2 is full - please clean your old builds. Thanks, Mathieu.

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Linaro-android March 2012