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[opensuse-arm] rootfs
by Bernhard Schuster 27 Oct '11

27 Oct '11

Can anybody point me to a (alpha,beta) rootfs, howto create such or what to fix in order to move forward towards it? I already read all openSuSE and ARM related pages but I did not stumble upon anything. I am especially interested in armv7hl for a BB-xM. Regards Bernhard Schuster -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-arm+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-arm+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-arm] [ml-admin] Merging the architecture lists to opensuse-arch
by Henne Vogelsang 27 Oct '11

27 Oct '11

Hey, we are currently trying to reduce the amount of communication channels we provide. Because of this I would like to merge the 4 architecture lists into one list called opensuse-arch. If nobody objects until the 15th of November 12:00 UTC I will merge the lists. You don't have to do anything except rewriting your filter if you use one. Thanks in advance for your consideration. Henne -- Mailing List Admin http://lists.opensuse.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-arm+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-arm+owner(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse-arm] [ml-admin] Merging the architecture lists to opensuse-arch
by Joop Boonen 26 Oct '11

26 Oct '11

On Wed, October 26, 2011 3:25 pm, Andreas Färber wrote: > Hi, > > Am 26.10.2011 15:04, schrieb Henne Vogelsang: >> On 26.10.2011 14:58, Adrian Schröter wrote: >>> Am Mittwoch, 26. Oktober 2011, 14:29:57 schrieb Henne Vogelsang: >>>> >>>> we are currently trying to reduce the amount of communication channels we provide. Because of this I would like to merge the 4 architecture lists into one list called opensuse-arch. >>>> >>>> If nobody objects until the 15th of November 12:00 UTC I will merge the >>>> lists. You don't have to do anything except rewriting your filter if you >>>> use one. >>> >>> I would definitive unsubscribe from such a list if the majority of mails is >>> not interessting for me. >> >> The ppc, amd64 and ia64 lists didn't have any traffic in 2010 and 2011. I would like to have some point for people to go for non x86 >> architecture specific stuff. > > There was some recent activity to revive ppc openSUSE, so if arm stays ppc should probably stay as well. > amd64 is mainstream now, so that's different I guess. > I agree. I think it's best to have separate mailing lists for different architectures. I think traffic wise it also safes bandwidth. Only people that are interested in a specific mailing list will get this mail and not traffic they don't want. The ppc mailing list will be very interesting again when the AmigaOne X1000 and Netbook will be released. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AmigaOne_X1000 http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?p=781936 If this ends up in an active mailing list where also ARM resides it's difficult to filter, I'm subscribed to both. > Andreas > > -- > SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer; HRB 16746 AG Nürnberg -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-arm+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org > To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-arm+owner(a)opensuse.org > Regards, Joop. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-arm+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-arm+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-arm] Re: [opensuse-ppc] [ml-admin] Merging the architecture lists to opensuse-arch
by Joop Boonen 26 Oct '11

26 Oct '11

On Wed, October 26, 2011 2:29 pm, Henne Vogelsang wrote: > Hey, > > we are currently trying to reduce the amount of communication channels we provide. Because of this I would like to merge the 4 architecture lists into one list called opensuse-arch. > > If nobody objects until the 15th of November 12:00 UTC I will merge the lists. You don't have to do anything except rewriting your filter if you use one. > Wouldn't it be best to leave the arm mailing list as is until the arm port has been completed? > Thanks in advance for your consideration. > > Henne > > -- > Mailing List Admin > http://lists.opensuse.org > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ppc+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org > To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-ppc+owner(a)opensuse.org > > Regards, Joop. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-arm+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-arm+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-arm] request/sugestion to work together to get hardfp/OSS ARM GPU drivers and/or to get documentation
by Joop Boonen 23 Oct '11

23 Oct '11

Hi all, Most of the (ARM) distros are currently working on or in the transition to hardfp, but until now most GPU's in de ARM Cortex SOCs don't have any hardfp drivers yet. To be able to have a ARM hardfp compiled X Window desktop system/notebook with 3D support we need hardfp compiled drivers. I was thinking it might be more efficient is all Linux distro's work together to get these drivers as it's equally important for all distro that wants to move to a hardfp distro. What do you all think, who wants to work together to get full hardfp support for as most as possible ARM SOC GPUs? It would be great if we can in the end even have OSS drivers. Regards, Joop. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-arm+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-arm+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-arm] request/sugestion to work together to get hardfp/OSS ARM GPU drivers and/or to get documentation
by Joop Boonen 22 Oct '11

22 Oct '11

Hi all, Most of the (ARM) distros are currently working on or in the transition to hardfp, but until now most GPU's in de ARM Cortex SOCs don't have any hardfp drivers yet. To be able to have a ARM hardfp compiled X Window desktop system/notebook with 3D support we need hardfp compiled drivers. I was thinking it might be more efficient is all Linux distro's work together to get these drivers as it's equally important for all distro that wants to move to a hardfp distro. What do you all think, who wants to work together to get full hardfp support for as most as possible ARM SOC GPUs? It would be great if we can in the end even have OSS drivers. And to have a good relationship with the GPU designers (for ARM SOCs) and hardware producers. If you know other distro's that are working on an ARM port or people that might want to help, an you please forward the email to them? Regards, Joop. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-arm+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-arm+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-arm] [Fwd: RE: sgx540 linux drivers]
by Joop Boonen 19 Oct '11

19 Oct '11

Hi All, I'm investigating which GPU drivers are most compatible with GPL. Below you can see the answer I got from Imagination Technologies about the SGX540 driver, earlier on. Regards, Joop. Hi Joop, Yes, that is correct in most of the cases. There are parts that need to be customised for the platform like display drivers, memory configurations, etc. Regards Carlos. -----Original Message----- From: Joop Boonen [mailto:joop_boonen@*.*] Sent: 28 June 2011 10:16 To: Carlos Sarria Cc: IMGKL - DevTech Subject: RE: sgx540 linux drivers Hi Carlos, For my understanding. Does this mean that sgx540 drivers aren't generic drivers, that can be used for any ARM SOC that uses this GPU like the Samsung Hummingbird for instance? Regards, Joop. On Mon, June 27, 2011 5:07 pm, Carlos Sarria wrote: > Hi Joop, > > To release drivers for TI's platforms is not our responsibility and > MeeGo project on PandaBoard is completely unofficial. I doubt TI will > support it, although it will depend on the level of adoption of that > OS and whether TI sees any business opportunity on it. > > Best regards > > Carlos. > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Carlos Sarria > Developer Technology Manager > Imagination Technologies Ltd. > Tel: +44 (0)1923 * > mail: *(a)imgtec.com > http://www.imgtec.com/ http://www.powervrinsider.com/ > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Joop Boonen [mailto:joop_boonen@*.*] > Sent: 27 June 2011 11:37 > To: IMGKL - DevTech > Subject: sgx540 linux drivers > > Dear Madam, Sir, > > I'm using MeeGo on my Pandaboard. There aren't any sgx540/OMAP4430 > Linux drivers/source tar-ball available. > Do you know if/when they will be available? > > Thank you for your time. > > Regards, > > Joop. > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-arm+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-arm+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-arm] [Fwd: Re: FW: Mali400 GL ES OSS drivers (502137)]
by Joop Boonen 19 Oct '11

19 Oct '11

Hi All, I'm investigating which GPU drivers are most compatible with GPL. Below you can see the answer I got from ARM about the Mali driver. As you can see the GL ES part isn't and probably won't be open sourced in the near future. Regards, Joop. [From Herve Lebreton - ARM Technical Support] Hello joop, > I'm very happy that you opened up the 2D part of the Mali drivers. The kernel driver was GPLed in order to comply with Android requirements. > I understood that the GL ES drivers for the Mali GPU are not open > source. > I've read they are in the Mali DDK. > I wonder who is allowed to use the DDK and if it's opensource? If not > are > there any plans to opensource the DDK? The DDK in user space is not open source and we have no plans to change this at the moment. Only ARM/Mali licensee have full access to the DDK source code so the normal procedure is that if you have any queries you should contact your SOC designer/ARM licensee (Depending on the request they may push it to ARM). Hope this helps. Regards, Hervé. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-arm+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-arm+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-arm] No more armv7hl anymore in openSUSE:Factory:ARM ?
by Joop Boonen 18 Oct '11

18 Oct '11

All, I don't see the armv7hl build anymore in openSUSE:Factory:ARM. I hope it doesn't mean that we won't build armv7hl anymore? Regards, Joop. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-arm+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-arm+owner(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse-arm] injecting arm packages
by Ulrich Hecht 17 Oct '11

17 Oct '11

On Monday 17 October 2011, Andreas Färber wrote: > I had spotted one source of errors last week: qemu-arm was being built > without libattr.a, so some xattr-related features were disabled, > resulting in lots of unsupported syscall messages. > > A new libattr-devel-static package is now in Factory and we need the > qemu package to depend on it. Don't know on what condition to choose > between libattr-devel and libattr-devel-static build dependency now. > Any help appreciated. AFAIK the QEMU system emulators don't use libattr, so it should be sufficient to have a build dependency on libattr-devel-static. CU Uli -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-arm+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-arm+owner(a)opensuse.org

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