Hello,
This is a question about the debian installation mechanism.
Linaro is all about Open Source, but must be able to manage closed
source binaries from member companies. Typically h/w packs.
Some legal depts. requires a conscious action as proof of acceptance
of the license. This produces various technical problems in
automation, e.g. update management or creation of images because the
software scripts that updates or create images are not conscious :)
The Snowball s/w design team decided to use the debian mechanism for
license acceptance of h/w-pack binaries, so there are pop-ups when you
run Linaro-Media-Create.
Here's the problem:
When Validation creates new images all the time, the conscious action
"click through" must be replaced by the conscious action "I am the
maintainer of this Validation farm, I hereby accept the license once
and for all and from now on l-m-c will not pop up the licenses in any
of *these* packages that are automatically installed in my lab".
How can this be done *technically*?
Doesn't automated installation of Ubuntu systems containing non-free
packages encounter the same problem?
BR,
Tony
Key Points for wider discussion
===============================
* libjpeg-turbo 1.1.90 integrated into Android
* 11.09 BPs finalized and in execution phaze
Team Highlights
===============================
* Good Progress on Panda Bluetooth enablement
* Good Progress on Panda WLAN enablement
* Progress on the Multimedia Test app
* Progres on ADB for all boards
* Progress on stabilizing Powertop on Android
* Progress on Gerrit -> LAVA integration
Miscellaneous
===============================
* Imminent activities in management and administration:
* 11.08 review page (Post Mortem) to be completed.
https://wiki.linaro.org/Cycles/1108/Release/Review#Developer_Platform
* 11.09 Release page to be completed.
https://wiki.linaro.org/Cycles/1109/Release/Blueprints
* Abhishek Paliwal (Bangalore) has started. Will work with Android Validation.
* fgiff will be on vacation 2011-09-26 to 2011-10-07.
Hi there
A few questions--
a) Is the omission of the "Developers and Community Builds" links from
http://www.linaro.org/downloads/ intentional? This is a concern,
because these links contain the _only_ deliverables for certain
platform and filesystem combinations. The wiki release page itself is
not easily findable without going to the wiki.
b) The release page on the wiki contains important information like
the list of known issues. Shouldn't this page be linked from
http://www.linaro.org/downloads/ or some other prominent location? I
don't see how to get to it at present. A visitor won't know that they
have to go to the wiki for this information.
c) The known issues list on the wiki release page doesn't seem include
all the issues reported during testing. Will these get propagated, or
is it the responsibility of testers to add the relevant information to
the known issues list themselves?
d) For vexpress specifically, there is no link from the release pages
or downloads to the specific installation instructions applicable to
this board. Even I find these difficult to find without bookmarking.
Because that information is very board-specific, I don't think it
needs to be included on
https://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/DevPlatform/Ubuntu/ImageInstallation
-- but can we at least have a link on there pointing to the
appropriate page?
Cheers
---Dave
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 3:04 AM, Fathi Boudra <fathi.boudra(a)linaro.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The Linaro Team is pleased to announce the release of Linaro 11.08.
>
> 11.08 is the Linaro’s third release delivered on the new monthly cadence.
> Once again, this release includes components delivered by all Working Groups,
> Landing Teams and Platform Teams, bringing the best of Linaro Technology
> integrated on top of Android and Ubuntu based images.
>
> In total this makes an impressive thirty components and two platform builds
> from all Linaro engineering teams in one shot. And again, most of this comes
> nicely integrated into Android and Ubuntu platform builds. This release made
> it again hard to select a handful of highlights from a list of roughly
> 80 deliverables that went into this release.
>
> However, if we had to choose we would like to emphasize the update of
> linux-linaro to the 3.0.3 stable kernel including the merge of 3.1-rc1 core ARM
> updates, Linaro GCC 4.6 2011.08 release based on latest upstream version, and
> Linaro Cross Toolchain 2011.07 builds. In addition, the Android Team delivers
> the enablement of all of our primary boards, compiled with the Linaro 11.08
> toolchain release based on GCC 4.6 and running Android 2.3.5.
>
> We encourage everybody to use the 11.08 release. The download links for all
> images and components are available on our release page:
>
> http://wiki.linaro.org/Cycles/1108/Release
>
> See the detailed highlights of this release to get a better overview of what
> was done by the individual teams. The release details are linked from
> the "Details" column for each release artifact on the release information:
>
> http://wiki.linaro.org/Cycles/1108/Release#Release_Information
>
> Using the Android-based images
> ==============================
>
> The Android-based images come in three parts: system, userdata and boot.
> These need to be combined to form a complete Android install. For an
> explanation of how to do this please see:
>
> http://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/Android/ImageInstallation
>
> If you are interested in getting the source and building these images
> yourself please see the following pages:
>
> http://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/Android/GetSource
> http://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/Android/BuildSource
>
> Using the Ubuntu-based images
> =============================
>
> The Ubuntu-based images consist of two parts. The first part is a hardware
> pack, which can be found under the hwpacks directory and contains hardware
> specific packages (such as the kernel and bootloader). The second part is
> the rootfs, which is combined with the hardware pack to create a complete
> image. For more information on how to create an image please see:
>
> http://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/DevPlatform/Ubuntu/ImageInstallation
>
> Getting involved
> ================
>
> More information on Linaro can be found on our websites:
>
> * Homepage: http://www.linaro.org
> * Wiki: http://wiki.linaro.org
>
> Also subscribe to the important Linaro mailing lists and join our IRC
> channels to stay on top of Linaro developments:
>
> * Announcements:
> http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-announce
> * Development:
> http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
> * IRC:
> #linaro on irc.linaro.org or irc.freenode.net
> #linaro-android irc.linaro.org or irc.freenode.net
>
> Known issues with this release
> ==============================
>
> For any errata issues, please see:
>
> http://wiki.linaro.org/Cycles/1108/Release#Known_Issues
>
> Bug reports for this release should be filed in Launchpad against the
> individual packages that are affected. If a suitable package cannot be
> identified, feel free to assign them to:
>
> http://www.launchpad.net/linaro
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Fathi Boudra, on behalf of the Release Team
> Linaro Release Manager | Platform Project Manager
> Linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs
>
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--
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Steve,
I'd like you to meet Jim who did the initial hardfloat work. This
email contains the results that Jim produced.
I believe that the conclusion was that skia and webkit may benefit,
but that such benefits would impose an undue burden on Android's
distribution model which tries to create libs that can run on as many
architectures as possible.
-Zach
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jim Huang <jserv(a)0xlab.org>
Date: 7 August 2011 18:01
Subject: Re: Would you send me your hard float experiment results you
presented in Budapest?
To: Zach Pfeffer <zach.pfeffer(a)linaro.org>
2011/8/7 Zach Pfeffer <zach.pfeffer(a)linaro.org>:
> Jim,
>
> Thanks. Would it be possible to post them by the end of the day?
skia ->
Switch from VFP back to fixed scalar based calculation
Previous configuration enabled ARM VFP for scalar float, but VFP on
ARM11 is not as powerful as VFPv3 or NEON.
Reference benchmark:
Item Fixed based VFP-based
------------ ----------- ---------
Draw Canvas 58.37 fps 58.40 fps
Draw Circle 37.48 fps 22.93 fps
Draw Circle2 17.14 fps 18.31 fps
Draw Rect 17.62 fps 20.69 fps
Draw Arc 24.79 fps 27.45 fps
Draw Image 19.08 fps 18.73 fps
Draw Text 29.22 fps 25.79 fps
>
> Also, have you sync'd up with Mike? He wants to negotiate on your contract.
I sent mail to Mike already. I don't know how to proceed.
Thanks,
-jserv