Full status report in:
https://wiki.linaro.org/OfficeofCTO/WeeklyReport
Last weekly meeting minutes:
https://wiki.linaro.org/OfficeofCTO/2011-10-18
== Highlights ==
- For 11.10
+ UMM:
DMA-mapping framework was updated - mainly focusing on the IOMMU
mapper for ARM DMA-mapping implementation. DMA-mapping patches were been
rebased onto Linux v3.1-rc9-next kernel.
For buffer sharing object - working on v4l2 as a dmabuf user, added
support for dmabuf to v4l2 camera driver on pandaboard.
+ ARMHF: as part of the 11.10 work ARMHF benchmarks were carried out
in parallel to the effort of porting Debian packages to hardfloat. The
benchmark results are in
https://wiki.linaro.org/OfficeofCTO/HardFloat/Benchmarks.
Also a patched ld.so which detects whether objects in binaries use
the hard-float ABI, is prepared and benchmarked (effect of the testing
is negligible). The discussion on the cross-distro list:
http://lists.linaro.org/pipermail/cross-distro/2011-October/000094.html
+ Boot Architecture / UEFI: Working with ACPI and UEFI primarily for
ARM Servers: this is a new direction, introduced in
http://lists.linaro.org/pipermail/boot-architecture/2011-October/000128.html
As a matter of fact a couple of blueprints for 11.11 related to Boot
Architecture and UEFI work under OCTO, were obsoleted, since there will
be new blueprints to cover the work coming out from ELCE and LC.
Questions, comments are welcome.
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From: Abhishek Paliwal <abhishek.paliwal(a)linaro.org>
Date: 25 October 2011 11:59
Subject: Android QA session at Connect Q4.11
To: linaro-android <linaro-android(a)linaro.org>
Cc: Paul Larson <paul.larson(a)linaro.org>, Fathi Boudra <
fathi.boudra(a)linaro.org>
Hi Everyone,
There will be a Android-QA session conducted at Connect.
Agenda will be to introduce the ongoing QA activities followed by a
brainstorm session to get more ideas from everyone.
I hope it'll be interesting for everyone in Linaro-Android group as well as
others - you'll come to know how the builds are getting tested, which tests
are executed now and then provide feedback/suggestions for improvement
in future.
Subscription Link:
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/linaro-android/+spec/linaro-platforms-lc4.…
Please forward this mail to others who may be interested. See you all at
Connect.
Regards,
Abhishek
Detailed status in
https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/Middleware/Multimedia/WeeklyReport
Last meeting minutes (logs also at the bottom of the wiki page):
https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/Middleware/Multimedia/Notes/2011-10-18
Highlights:
- 11.10 released components yield was lower than originally planned.
Components which did not complete in 11.10:
+ LJT : the effort for the work proved to be greater than the available
time - will complete in 11.11,
+ UCM (needs more discussion as there are pulseaudio implications - see
discussion thread started in
http://lists.linaro.org/pipermail/linaro-dev/2011-October/008160.html).
- Delivered 11.10 components: testcontent, and libpng 1.5.
- Plan for 11.11 has started will complete at LC.
- Connect sessions planned:
+ The official sessions can be found as part of the Graphics and
Multimedia sessions in
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/sprints/lcq4.11?searchtext=gfxmm
Briefly, at Connect, for each area of our interest, we will discuss:
+ LJT: blueprints have already been planned for the work in 11.11.
Also investigating how to enable benchmarking tests for LJT to be done
on LAVA. There is also a LC scheduled session related to libjpeg-turbo
vs libjpeg8.
+ UMM: Enablement work - libdri2 and xserver core, and also xorg/ddx
drivers for the device dependent parts - will be discussed as part of
the memory management hacking sessions.
+ Codec optimisation - libav related (realvideo, vp8, h264) - LC session
+ UCM for pulseaudio discussion is ongoing on the list (thread :
http://lists.linaro.org/pipermail/linaro-dev/2011-October/008160.html).
Planning for 11.11 and beyond to complete during UCM for Android and UCM
for Pulseaudio Connect sessions
+ End to end testing for audio is now part of the general Platform
session for validation (to be created)
+ Apart from these at connect there are also sessions related to
o fitting Camera headers to a pandaboard - get ready for some
soldering action
o 2 sessions on NEON: NEON forum 1 and NEON forum 2
- A wiki is also set to contain the discussions off schedule:
https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/Middleware/Graphics/Events/LCQ4.11-Or…
The wiki is still in draft state and will be finalized this week.
Please join our sessions at Connect, also the hacking afternoon sessions.
Comments, questions are welcome.
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Hello,
There will be a how to integrate proprietary binary overlays onto LEBs at
the Connect,
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/linaro-android/+spec/linaro-platforms-lc4.…
The plan is to have a discussion about the following cases:
1. The blocking factors on including binaries in our android build:
- Binaries available on a login protected vendor or third party site.
- Binaries provided for download behind a click through form.
- Binaries available for download freely, but requiring user to accept
a click-through license upon install.
2. Open discussion on defining a Linaro Android Overlay package format to
support overlay files which could support
- A license text file alongside.
- Means for User acceptance or acknowledgement of included license
text.
3. Tools to support installation of these packages by humans and Lava.
4. LAVA to support managing LEBs with overlays.
I would like to invite the android team and members of landing team who are
aware of the licensing terms for proprietary binaries, members from
validation team to help us come up with a plan on how we can integrate these
proprietary components.
Thanks,
Vishal
Hi all,
At the next Connect we will have a session about packaging metadata
with Linaro Ubuntu images.
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/linaro-ubuntu/+spec/linaro-platforms-p-ima…
Having image metadata can give information to linaro-media-create
about the size of partitions to create, which packages from the
hwpacks to install and perhaps even tell whether certain combinations
of hwpacks and images will work.
Please subscribe to the blueprint if you are the least interested in
this topic and make sure to mark Participation essential so you don't
miss it. :) Everyone is welcome to participate!
Any ideas you might have already are appreciated to get the discussion
going. Just add some notes to the whiteboard or email me and I'll
collate them.
Thanks,
Mattias
Hello All,
The Linaro Infrastructure team is pleased to announce the Continuous
Integration (CI) efforts 2011.10.
The Infrastructure Team is tasked to develop and maintain a jenkins based,
versatile service run in the cloud that will drive the build part of the
continuous integration loop for engineering components.
Here are the highlights of this release:
1. A first iteration to support kernel maintainers to submit one time jobs
for testing pull
requests or their personal branches has been finished. Infrastructure
team opens this service
to a limited amount of pilot users to gather initial feedback.
Please get in touch with me if you have similar needs.
2. Thanks to the validation team and special thanks to Michael Hudson,
we now have One stop place for kernel CI tracking on LAVA dashboard is
available
where engineers can continuously monitor their kernel for build and
runtime failures.
The same is available @
http://validation.linaro.org/lava-server/kernel-ci-views/index.
3. ci.linaro.org service has been upgraded to now use jenkins 1.419 and EC2
plugin version 1.13.
ci.linaro.org now aligns with jenkins version and EC2 plugin version
with the one used
for other infrastructure services (e.g. android-build). The future
updates on the same
will now on be coordinate across all such similar linaro infrastructure
services.
4. Extended the kernel CI effort by supporting the daily build for
Packaged Linux-linaro 3.0 and Linux-linaro 3.1 kernels for
imx51, panda, vexpress. Packaged Linux-linaro 3.0 is tested on
panda, beagle boards, while Linux-linaro 3.1 kernels is tested on panda
board in the LAVA lab.
5. The release fixes Bug 860556 "CI kernel fails to reboot successfully".
Known issues:
CI kernels causing many "Illegal Instruction"s.
Initial investigations done for this bug hints that this error might be
occurring
when we have a non-thumb2 kernel interacting with a thumb2 user space.
Here is the link for further details on the bug and the steps to reproduce
the same.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/linaro-ci/+bug/859473
Any help to fix this would be appreciated.
If you are interested in trying out this service or if you have a kernel
tree/defconfig that you would like to be continuously built on Linaro CI and
tested in Linaro's LAVA lab, please get in touch with me and the
infrastructure team, to discuss your steps to get started.
Detailed information on ci.linaro.org is available at
+ https://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/Infrastructure/LinaroCI
Details and background on the CI build service and how to request a new job
at
+ https://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/Infrastructure/LinaroCI
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Hello,
There will be Android Build System related session at the Connect,
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/linaro-android/+spec/linaro-platforms-lc4.…
The plan is to have discussion on the following topics:
1. Performance of the Android Build during last half year
2. What was done and what was not from the previous big planning
session (LDS11.05)
3. How still not done items scale up to current evolution of Android
Build and Android team requirements.
4. Currently open fronts of work.
5. Future plans regarding Android Build - both on backend and frontend
(UI) side.
I'd like to invite for participation the Android team members, who work
with the system daily, PMs for both Infrastructure and Android teams,
and well as release manager(s), as one of the function of Android Build
is to disseminate interim release of Linaro Android, and we need to
coordinate how to do that better. Of course, wider audience interested
in the topic if welcome to join too!
Thanks,
Paul
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Hi,
We're going to have a session on Automated Android Testing at Connect.
Since the android team all make changes that go through the test
system, I'd like to invite them all to attend.
I'd also like to invite someone from validation with whom we can
discuss potential LAVA changes and also someone from infrastructure as
the automated testing interacts with LAVA through android-build.l.o,
so any improvements are bound to affect them in some way.
Of course, the good folks on linaro-dev are all welcome too :-)
Please sign up if you think the session could be interesting for you
(and/or forward to others you think should attend).
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/linaro-android/+spec/linaro-platforms-lc4.…
Thanks,
Frans
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