Linaro-android January 2014

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Optimizing OVERLAY handling on android-build

by Paul Sokolovsky

Hello, There were increasing Android build times during last month again (going over 3.5hrs). Yesterday, I re-created the seed, but that didn't improve times match. I did more stats on builds and it turns out that we spend almost 1.5hrs in copying ever-growing overlay collection to the slaves via sluggish CopyToSlave Jenkins plugin. That's issues known for at least half-year, and was in queue for being reworked. I didn't work on android-build closely for few months, but now that I'm back on maintenance, I'd like to start with fixing this long-overdue issue. The idea was to pull all the needed overlay, straight to a slave. The complication here was handling of license protected files. ci.linaro.org had the same issue, and used a script to handle automatic downloads for some time. However, as of now, it was switched to other process and the script git bitrotted with recent linaro-license-protection codebase changes. I took a look at revamping it, but then though that it may be a good idea to use simpler and more explicit process, following closely click-thru usage. So, if you want to use a license-protected binaries in a build, you'd need to specify: ACCEPT_LICENSE=<license_id> Where <license_id> is id under which license is registered in linaro-license-protection. One good way to figure it out is to read the license page at all (well, as HTML source, the id is included in some links). Wording of variable name (as well as of commands in underlying implementation) is also explicit to point that its usage construes license acceptance. I prototypes these changes using https://android-build.linaro.org/builds/~pfalcon/panda-jb-gcc47-tilt-tracki… which is down to 2h10m build time. I'm ready to migrate all builds tomorrow, while we're early in cycle start. Please let me know if there're any issues with approach or proposed migration timeframe, otherwise let's make android-build rock again. 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

10 years, 7 months

Test Result Summary of Linux Linaro Android 14.01 Release.

by Soumya Basak

Linaro Android 14.01 Release (Calender Week: 5): Here is test result summary for Linaro Android 14.01 images on following targets: 1) TI Panda 4460; 2) TI Panda 4430; 3) Samsung Arndale; 4) Galaxy Nexus; 5) ARM Versatile Express A9; 6) ARM Versatile Express TC2; 7) ARM Versatile Express TC2 LSK; 1) TI Panda 4460 + Linaro Android Kitkat (Column: I) https://docs.google.com/a/linaro.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkxwyUNxNaAadGVWd… 2) TI Panda 4430 + Linaro Android Kitkat (Column: I) https://docs.google.com/a/linaro.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkxwyUNxNaAadGVWd… 3) Samsung Arndale + Linaro Android Kitkat (Column: G) https://docs.google.com/a/linaro.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AuNOCeo15fRHdDFaR… 4) Galaxy Nexus + Linaro Android Kitkat (Column: G) https://docs.google.com/a/linaro.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AuNOCeo15fRHdFhhe… 5) ARM Versatile Express A9 + Linaro Android Kitkat (Column: I) https://docs.google.com/a/linaro.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkxwyUNxNaAadExQd… 6) ARM Versatile Express TC2 + Linaro Android Kitkat (Column: T) https://docs.google.com/a/linaro.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkxwyUNxNaAadExQd… 7) ARM Versatile Express TC2 LSK + Linaro Android Kitkat (Column: M) https://docs.google.com/a/linaro.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkxwyUNxNaAadExQd… For Linux Linaro Android 14.01 release consolidated test result spreadsheet, please refer https://docs.google.com/a/linaro.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgB-fT5LL31CdFBSN… Thank You. Best Regards Soumya Basak. to this link:

11 years

[Q] How can I boot Linaro-android on Nexus 7 2012?

by 최윤호

Hello. How can I find the way of Linaro-android-booting on Nexus 7 2012? I hope that Linaro-android boot on Nexus 7 2012. Please Answer me ASAP. Thank ypu

11 years, 1 month

Using linaro android for custom qualcom based hardware.

by Subodh Nijsure

Hi, I am working on project where we are currently using Android 4.1.2 on our custom hardware. We are investigating moving our code based to kitkat 4.4 I am wondering about pros & cons of using google AOSP v/s using linaro android distribution. Has there been any discussion/blog posts that would help anyone that is trying to make that decision? I have done the normal search haven't found anything substantial. Also is there a published list of shipping hardware products that use linaro-android distribution instead of AOSP? Thanks. -Subodh Note: I went through list of android related mailing list ( http://www.linaro.org/engineering/mailing-lists ) thought this list would appropriate for this posting if not, point me right way please.

11 years, 1 month

Nfacct binary in Android builds

by Mathieu Poirier

Good morning, I'm back to my upstreaming activities for a few hours. A couple of things to mention: 1) At this very minute it is Sunday January 19th on my side of the world. I wanted to install the latest and greatest vexpress-lsk build and as such went on [1] and selected build 147 (the newest at this time). The build finish time indicate "2014-01-18 21:10:33" so I assumed I'd be good. Clicking on the "Download" button brings me to the snapshot page [2] but it's empty - no images can be found there albeit no mention of a build failure for build 147. The same holds true for build 146. One has to go back to build 145 to see images. This look abnormal to me and may highlight an error in the process that takes images from jenkins and publish them on the snapshot server. 2) I have recently introduced the user space application "nfacct" to our Android code base but forgot to push the config file where the binary name would be added to PRODUCT_PACKAGES. As such the code is there but not being built. I want to fix that but need input on how to proceed. I can either add it to "device/linaro/vexpress/device.mk" or "device/linaro/common/common.mk". In my opinion the latter would be better as we add it once for all Linaro supported device. The problem is that for default.xml on branch "linaro_android_4.4.2" "device/linaro/common" is set to "linaro-jb". I would submit a patch for that but you may have reasons for not upgrading it to "linaro-kk". If I submit a fix for "device/linaro/vexpress/device.mk" it's easy as the branch already points to "linaro-kk". So two avenues here: 1) The android team move "device/linaro/common" to "linaro-kk" in default.xml on branch "linaro_android_4.4.2" and the I submit a fix to add nfacct on top of that. 2) I fix it only in "device/linaro/vexpress/device.mk" for "linaro-kk" but only vexpress gets to have "nfacct". Thanks, Mathieu [1].https://android-build.linaro.org/builds/~linaro-android/vexpress-lsk/ [2].http://snapshots.linaro.org/android/~linaro-android/vexpress-lsk/147/

11 years, 1 month

Get imx53 linaro android build failed

by Huzizhen

Hi linaros: I have a Freescale board named imx53, and wanted to porting android 4. The page https://android-build.linaro.org/builds/~linaro-android-community/imx53-lin… want to download the files,but failed, The page tell me "page not found". Can anyone tell me the steps to make android work on imx53. Thanks for help. 发自我的 iPad

11 years, 1 month

HowTo activate ION memory allocator on pandaboard

by ronny.bantin＠nexgo.de

Hi, a third party vendor driver need ION - support. (On start the driver request device /dev/ion, which is not found.). I see in the current source (linaro_android_4.4) that there is a possibility to activate that. So I try the kernel config options: CONFIG_ION=y CONFIG_ION_OMAP=y and got the error: /kernel/linaro/pandaboard/drivers/gpu/ion/ion.c:908:12: error: 'THIS_MODULE' undeclared here (not in a function) Any idea or it is currently not supported? Thanks Ronny.

11 years, 1 month

What does the symbol mean?... two clockwise arrows that form a broken circle

by Don Warner Saklad

What does the symbol mean?... two clockwise arrows that form a broken circle

11 years, 1 month

Galaxy Nexus: 13.10 Linaro android prebuilt image freezes at boot splash

by Chao Xu

Hello, I used the merge-gnexus-blobs script to flash the prebuilt image. The script worked smoothly except the make_ext4fs gave me a segmentation fault. So instead I just downloaded a prebuilt binary of make_ext4fs from here: https://code.google.com/p/archlive/downloads/detail?name=make_ext4fs.7z Then the script ran to the end and the phone rebooted. But it freezed at the boot splash of "google". My host is running ubuntu 12.04 64bit. I couldn't think of anyway to debug this problem and google doesn't help much. So any suggestion is appreciated. Thanks! -- Regards, Chao Xu

11 years, 1 month

Re: WiFi status on TI Panda 4460.

by Botao Sun

+ Linaro Android Mailing List On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 7:44 PM, Botao Sun <botao.sun(a)linaro.org> wrote: > Hi Vishal, > > Do you think we need a bug in Launchpad to track this issue? > > Thanks. > > > Best Regards > Botao Sun > > > On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 5:38 PM, Soumya Basak <soumya.basak(a)linaro.org>wrote: > >> Hi Botao, >> I have checked twice the image with panda 4460 board: >> >> http://snapshots.linaro.org/android/~linaro-android-member-ti/panda-linaro/… >> >> http://snapshots.linaro.org/android/~linaro-android-member-ti/panda-linaro/… >> >> http://snapshots.linaro.org/android/~linaro-android-member-ti/panda-linaro/… >> >> 1. basically, when eth0 cable is plugged in hw, and wifi is not turned on >> from UI, >> # busybox ifconfig -a not shown the wlan0 >> only eth0 up and accessing network. >> 2. when you turn on wifi it will ask you password, after assign password, >> wifi shown connected (but inactive), >> # busybox ifconfig -a shown the wlan0 candidate but no inet address, >> and mask. >> 3. when unplugged the eth0, wlan0 is get inet address and musk, and >> connected. >> >> on the other hand wifi is working well, there is no issue with Youtube >> playback, or enable from UI, after assign Password. >> >> so, both are not up at the same time. >> >> this stuff is observed from since Android version: 4.3 >> >> @Botao, what is your opinion ? >> >> Thank You. >> Best Regards >> Soumya Basak. >> >> >> >> >> On 21 November 2013 20:40, Botao Sun <botao.sun(a)linaro.org> wrote: >> >>> OK, with more tests, the problem is, if no Ethernet cable attached, WiFi >>> works, otherwise, it shows the error I mentioned in previous 2 emails. >>> >>> root@pandaboard:/ # busybox ifconfig -a >>> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 0E:60:CF:E5:49:01 >>> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1488 Metric:1 >>> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 >>> TX packets:14 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 >>> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 >>> RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:2510 (2.4 KiB) >>> >>> ip6tnl0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr >>> 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 >>> NOARP MTU:1452 Metric:1 >>> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 >>> TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 >>> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 >>> RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) >>> >>> lo Link encap:Local Loopback >>> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 >>> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 >>> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 >>> TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 >>> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 >>> RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) >>> >>> sit0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr >>> 00-00-00-00-0F-00-01-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 >>> NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1 >>> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 >>> TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 >>> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 >>> RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) >>> >>> wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 0E:20:CF:E5:49:01 >>> inet addr:10.0.0.25 Bcast:10.0.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 >>> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 >>> RX packets:96 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 >>> TX packets:105 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 >>> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 >>> RX bytes:97780 (95.4 KiB) TX bytes:14813 (14.4 KiB) >>> >>> root@pandaboard:/ # >>> >>> Is it a "work-as-design" stuff or a bug? If we keep it likes this, then >>> in order to test WiFi, I have to disable Ethernet first, then restore it >>> after the test is done. >>> >>> Thanks. >>> >>> >>> Best Regards >>> Botao Sun >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 2:02 AM, Botao Sun <botao.sun(a)linaro.org> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Soumya, >>>> >>>> The WiFi doesn't work on 13.10 release image either: >>>> >>>> >>>> https://android-build.linaro.org/builds/~linaro-android-member-ti/panda-lin… >>>> >>>> On my TI Panda 4460 board, same behaviour observed, and following >>>> output shows: >>>> >>>> [ 148.630249] wl1271: loaded >>>> [ 149.538604] wl1271: firmware booted (Rev 6.3.0.0.77) >>>> [ 149.556671] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready >>>> [ 250.320129] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready >>>> [ 250.383636] wl1271: Association completed. >>>> [ 251.542541] cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain >>>> [ 261.064025] wl1271: Scan completed due to error. >>>> [ 261.069000] wl1271: Reading FW panic log >>>> [ 261.074127] wl1271: Hardware recovery in progress. FW ver: Rev >>>> 6.3.0.0.77 pc: 0x0 >>>> [ 261.074127] wl1271: down >>>> [ 261.086059] ieee80211 phy0: Hardware restart was requested >>>> [ 261.714691] wl1271: firmware booted (Rev 6.3.0.0.77) >>>> >>>> Would you double check it on your side? Based on the output of >>>> "ifconfig", there is no IP assigned to wlan0 interface: >>>> >>>> root@pandaboard:/ # busybox ifconfig -a >>>> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 0E:60:CF:E5:49:01 >>>> inet addr:10.0.0.24 Bcast:10.0.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 >>>> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1488 Metric:1 >>>> RX packets:34 errors:0 dropped:2 overruns:0 frame:0 >>>> TX packets:13 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 >>>> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 >>>> RX bytes:3870 (3.7 KiB) TX bytes:1901 (1.8 KiB) >>>> >>>> ip6tnl0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr >>>> 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 >>>> NOARP MTU:1452 Metric:1 >>>> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 >>>> TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 >>>> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 >>>> RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) >>>> >>>> lo Link encap:Local Loopback >>>> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 >>>> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 >>>> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 >>>> TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 >>>> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 >>>> RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) >>>> >>>> sit0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr >>>> 00-00-00-00-0F-00-01-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 >>>> NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1 >>>> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 >>>> TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 >>>> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 >>>> RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) >>>> >>>> wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 0E:20:CF:E5:49:01 >>>> UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 >>>> RX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 >>>> TX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 >>>> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 >>>> RX bytes:607 (607.0 B) TX bytes:655 (655.0 B) >>>> >>>> root@pandaboard:/ # >>>> >>>> Thanks. >>>> >>>> >>>> Best Regards >>>> Botao Sun >>>> >>>> >>>> On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 12:40 AM, Botao Sun <botao.sun(a)linaro.org>wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi Soumya, >>>>> >>>>> Please take a look at WiFi status on TI Panda 4460, with Linaro >>>>> Android build 479: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> http://snapshots.linaro.org/android/~linaro-android-member-ti/panda-linaro/… >>>>> >>>>> http://snapshots.linaro.org/android/~linaro-android-member-ti/panda-linaro/… >>>>> >>>>> http://snapshots.linaro.org/android/~linaro-android-member-ti/panda-linaro/… >>>>> >>>>> You can use "wget" to download them in your local terminal if the web >>>>> page can't be shown up. >>>>> >>>>> I ask because I just found WiFi doesn't work via GUI on my side, >>>>> following log shows in serial console: >>>>> >>>>> [ 25.692474] wl1271: loaded >>>>> [ 26.373870] smsc95xx 1-1.1:1.0: eth0: link up, 100Mbps, >>>>> full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1 >>>>> [ 27.608551] wl1271: firmware booted (Rev 6.3.0.0.77) >>>>> [ 27.629058] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready >>>>> [ 29.750000] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready >>>>> [ 29.803771] wl1271: Association completed. >>>>> [ 29.951232] init: sys_prop: permission denied uid:1003 >>>>> name:service.bootanim.exit >>>>> [ 30.969970] cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain >>>>> >>>>> The access point can be shown successfully in the list, and I can >>>>> click and enter password as well, but then above output shows, with >>>>> "Disabled" under the access point name on my screen. >>>>> >>>>> Based on our test result spreadsheet, it should at least work on 13.10 >>>>> release image. I'm going to try it soon. >>>>> >>>>> Thanks. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Best Regards >>>>> Botao Sun >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> >

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