On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Christian Robottom Reis kiko@linaro.org wrote:
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 01:07:07AM +0300, Ilias Biris wrote:
How can we get consistent vendor support to get 3d acceleration working for the Linaro officially supported platforms? If we are targeting last version Ubuntu-based evaluation builds and some of the code we work on (and goes upstream) is going through a transition (like unity/nux have moved on to oneiric now) then we may be unable to provide meaningful releases for the components in question. The real issue we have in GWG is 3d acceleration driver support for the next version of ubuntu - we don't have any at the moment (AFAIK) for oneiric
AIUI this is something which all vendors struggle with, but at least for the OMAP4 we should be in reasonably good shape as TI are committed to providing the necessary binaries for Oneiric. I raised this with Ricardo and he was confident it would be okay, so I'm surprised to still see this in the report.
The point is that we _really_ need to have all of our member hardware fully enabled. For all of our evaluation builds. This is a huge pain point for the graphics working group. That's why it is in the report.
Not everyone involved with Unity/Nux/Compiz has a working pandaboard. Not everyone working on other projects has a working pandaboard. For some projects (e.g., cairo-gles), OMAP4 doesn't support all of the functionality involved, so even a working pandaboard is of limited use.
I also don't quite understand why the updated Unity/Nux packages wouldn't Just Work if installed on Natty -- is the issue that they require updated X11 and Mesa?
I believe that some of the plugin-related interfaces are different and mixing and matching isn't possible (Travis?).
cheers, Jesse
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