I had my "Binary Blobs Attack!!!" BoF session accepted at ELC this year:
Most SoC vendors distribute binary blobs with Linux kernel shims.
These binary blobs enable graphics engines, DSPs and other cores on
ARM and other architecture SoCs. These binary blobs tend to be tied to
specific kernel versions which limits unreadability and hackability
and complicates device manufactures, which slows down innovation and
the introduction of new and unique computing devices. This BoF is
aimed at trying to improve this situation with pragmatic steps.
Anyone interested in discussing their experience with binary blob
integration, ideas for making this easier to deal with across
architectures, ways to encourage openness while allowing vendor
differentiation and others interested in a constructive dialog should
attend.
I was wanted to get some feedback from people about their own binary
blob experiences. I think this will be a good place to have a good
productive conversation about this critical issue.
This is ELC so We'll want to cover issues that affect all Linux distros.
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Zach Pfeffer
Android Platform Team Lead, Linaro Platform Teams
Linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs
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Hi,
I've been trying to get accelerated graphics up on imx53 -
unfortunately, causing lots of crashes and little else.
I think the problem is that so far, the only version of the graphics
driver that has been released is for Gingerbread, and it simply
doesn't work with ICS.
However, some of you have much more experience than me with making
sense of binary blobs, so if someone has some spare time, feel free to
look. ;)
I've attached the script I'm using to push the binary driver into
system.tar.bz2.
I've looked at their kernel sources and gralloc tree, and it looks
like we have everything we need there - but of course I could be
wrong.
ttyl
bero
Hi guys.
Please report your status at
https://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/Android/Meetings/2012-01-18 today or early
tomorrow.
The release is coming up, and normally we arrange a 24/3 release duty
schedule around this date. So please check your availability and reply
which times you can sign up for.
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I will call for a Post-Mortem meeting at 1300 UTC on Friday the 27:th,
please send me input, good or bad experiences from January 2012 for this
meeting.
Best regards,
/Tony
Hi All,
I'm observing a issue on my setup where I cannot browse (can't open any
webpage using browser app) over ethernet connection.
But ping to ip addresses(corresponding to same webpage) works fine.
so its like:
open www.google.com on browser -> Fails
#ping 74.125.127.105 -> Works fine
Also I do not see this issue when I'm trying to do browsing over wifi.
webpages open fine over wifi connection.
I'm using a D-link router here, but even removing the router and providing
direct connection to board does not help.
Has anyone else faced same issue? Any clue what may be the issue?
Regards,
Abhishek
Do you have a way we can dump the date and time of every build that we've done?
Then we can take the data Zygmunt produced and merge it with that
data, and come up with our super cool graphs!
2012/1/14 Zygmunt Krynicki <zygmunt.krynicki(a)linaro.org>:
> Data from all the builds with from-device timestamp (from revision 15
> of my script):
>
> http://paste.ubuntu.com/804677/
>
> Note: currently lava has no way to harvest build date or additional
> build meta-data. If you know of a way just ping me.
>
>
> 2012/1/15 Bernhard Rosenkränzer <bernhard.rosenkranzer(a)linaro.org>:
>> On 14 January 2012 16:34, Zygmunt Krynicki <zygmunt.krynicki(a)linaro.org> wrote:
>>> Also, I see one critical piece missing that was requested - the
>>>> datestamp.
>>>
>>> I know, we simply don't have any. The best that I can do is give you
>>> the submission timestamp.
>>
>> That would be good (in the worst case I'd just check the build time of
>> the build that was tested).
>>
>>>> Bero, does this give you enough to go on for now? I requested
>>>> staging-panda as an initial data set since it seems to be the most
>>>> complete. The board type used is probably not important to mention in the
>>>> graph anyway.
>>>
>>> I can generate the data for any (all?) builds.
>>
>> Please do, we want it to show something, and hopefully some overall progress ;)
>>
>> ttyl
>> bero
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Android Platform Team Lead, Linaro Platform Teams
Linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs
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