September 2011

[opensuse-project] openSUSE Conference 2011 survey
by Andreas Jaeger 23 Sep '11

23 Sep '11

If you participated in the openSUSE and Labs conference 2011, please read on: We have created a short survey about the conference and would like you to use it to give us feedback: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/HD3QDDH If you're a speaker, please upload your slides as part of your abstract. Use the following URL: http://conference.opensuse.org/indico//myconference.py?confId=2 If you have attended a BOF or workshop, you can also add your notes to the wiki. To have them show up at http://… [View More]

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[opensuse-project] Re: [opensuse-arm] Re: [opensuse-factory] Growing some openSUSE ARMs
by Joop Boonen 22 Sep '11

22 Sep '11

On Thu, September 22, 2011 4:42 pm, Markus Slopianka wrote: > On Donnerstag 22 September 2011 16:05:44 Andrew Wafaa wrote: > >> the architecture that powers most of your little devices (and some bigger ones too). Almost all smartphones, tablets and many other consumer devices are powered by ARM from one of the numerous licensees. > > The openSUSE member who were allowed to vote decided that openSUSE does not want to run on > those âlittle devicesâ. http://en.opensuse.… [View More]

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[opensuse-project] Re: [opensuse-arm] Re: Growing some openSUSE ARMs
by Joop Boonen 22 Sep '11

22 Sep '11

On Thu, September 22, 2011 5:41 pm, Guillaume Gardet wrote: > > > Le 22/09/2011 16:56, Greg KH a écrit : >> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 03:05:44PM +0100, Andrew Wafaa wrote: >>> We are going to be targeting ARMv7 nothing older I'm afraid this means CORTEX-A8 and above (looking at A9 primarily and then the new A15 when it's available), it gets too messy otherwise and it is already messy enough.If you have knowledge and experience, please help out. If you don't take part you … [View More]have no justification to complain - you've got to be >>> in it to win it ;-) >> I know we talked about this at the openSUSE conference, and I'm glad that you are starting to kick this off, it's great. >> >> But, what specific machine are you targeting this to run on to start with? We need some kind of specific platform to aim for besides a semi-vague processor level, in order to get a valid kernel and >> tool-chain up and running. The kernel specifically is going to be a bit difficult as each individual platform needs tweaks in order to have it work properly due to the lack of discoverable busses (device-tree work notwithstanding). >> >> In other words, what box do I need to go buy in order to help make this possible? :) > > I think we need more than 1 board to check the port. I think Beagleboard, Beagleboard xM or a Pandaboard could be a nice board to develop openSUSE on ARM (in addition to qemu). > > Firstly, we have to decide what kind of ARM processor we want to support. I think we should target ARMv7 and above Application processor family (Cortex A8, A9 and above) to have enough "power" to run openSUSE. I think we will have poor performances with ARMv5 for openSUSE. > Then, we have to decide which optimization (in GCC) we want to enable. I would say : > - ARM EABI with ARMv7-a instructions > - VFP (vector floating point) > - thumb/thumb2 instructions if possible (some packages do not compile with thumb or thumb2 enabled) > - NEON (not all processor have it, maybe enable it as an option for video libraries for examples to have good performances) I think that if you look at the time that it'll take to have a stable distro, I think it would be best to focus on the Cortex A9 (hardfp etc) with or without NEON. Why start with a distro that is already based on "old" hardware. Nearly all tablets are using a Cortex A9 (mostly in the form of a Tegra 2). That has one small downside. This one doesn't have a NEON FPU at least not one that meets the full specs. What are the plans for a openSuSE ARM distro. Where should it run on? I think as a distro it would be useful to have it running on a tablet like the Asus Transformer and upcoming ARM Cortex A15 servers. > > Interesting pages: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ARM_microprocessor_cores > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture > > I have experiences in embedded Linux and I have a beagleboard xM, so I can help if you want. But I have no experiences in RPM packaging. I would like to take part. I have Pandaboard (OMAP4430) and Toshiba AC100 (Tegra2). > > AFAIK, someone worked on ARM port some time ago in google summer of code. It could be nice to know what have been done. > > Cheers, > > Guillaume Joop. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org [View Less]

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[opensuse-project] [RFC] What about welcome.opensuse.org?
by Kim Leyendecker 22 Sep '11

22 Sep '11

Hello Geeckos! There were a discussion[1] about kicking SUSEGreeter a few months ago. And yes, it was quite quiet about it until today. My idea: creating a site called welcome.opensuse.org, instead of using SuSEgreeter. SUSEGreeter was very nice in a time where not everyone had an internet connection. In the most countries of the world, an internet connection is standard now. So, I think SUSEgreeter should be retired. There so many new technologies on the internet, so, why not using a … [View More]

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[opensuse-project] Re: [opensuse-arm] Re: Growing some openSUSE ARMs
by Joop Boonen 22 Sep '11

22 Sep '11

On Thu, September 22, 2011 5:22 pm, Alexander Graf wrote: > > Am 22.09.2011 um 17:13 schrieb Pavol Rusnak <prusnak(a)opensuse.org>: > >> On 09/22/2011 04:56 PM, Greg KH wrote: >>> In other words, what box do I need to go buy in order to help make this possible? :) >> >> I think BeagleBoard (Cortex-A8) or PandaBoard (Cortex-A9) would be a good start. >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeagleBoard >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/… [View More]

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[opensuse-project] Propuesta de intercambio de links
by Jesus Martin 22 Sep '11

22 Sep '11

Estimado WebMaster, Al encontrar su sitio http://el.opensuse.org y ver que está dentro de nuestras normas de uso, me interesó agregarlo a nuestro directorio de páginas en español. Nuestro directorio http://www.guia-paginas.com es gratis y le dará popularidad y trafico a su sitio ya que lo visitan 20 mil personas al mes. Si está de acuerdo, responda a este email con la palabra "SI" y lo agregaremos. Saludos cordiales Jesus Martin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)… [View More]

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[opensuse-project] Seeking volunteers for the openSUSE Election Committee
by Bryen M. Yunashko 21 Sep '11

21 Sep '11

With the end of 2011 quickly approaching, the period for elections will soon be upon us. One of the key elements of the openSUSE elections is the Election Committee. Without this committee the elections simply wouldn't function. Your help is needed. Volunteer and assist the Election Committee. At the end of the year, we will have elections for three board seats. Bryen Yunashko's seat is being vacated due to term limits and Pavol Rusnak and Rupert Horstkotter' are completing their first term, … [View More]

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[opensuse-project] Meeting Minutes: [opensuse-kde] openSUSE KDE Team Meeting - Wednesday September 21, 1400 UTC
by Raymond Wooninck 21 Sep '11

21 Sep '11

Meeting started by wstephenson at 14:07:13 UTC. The full logs are available at http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-kde/2011/opensuse- kde.2011-09-21-14.07.log.html . Meeting summary --------------- * status report (wstephenson, 14:10:42) * ACTION: wstephenson investigate quickformat disk util (wstephenson, 14:16:23) * ACTION: tittiatcoke update KUA/KDF snapshot (wstephenson, 14:22:47) * ACTION: wstephenson update bluedevil to 1.2.1 (wstephenson, 14:23:34) * … [View More]

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[opensuse-project] [reminder] openSUSE Project Meeting tomorrow at 18:00 UTC
by openSUSE Meeting Reminder 20 Sep '11

20 Sep '11

Hello all, The biweekly project meeting will be held tomorrow at 18:00 UTC in #opensuse-project on freenode. Everybody is invited to join and participate! Find out what time the meeting will be in your timezone: http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=21&month=9&year=2011&h… Agenda of the meeting: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Project_meeting#Agenda_for_the_next_meeting If you cannot participate and want a specific question to be answered during the meeting, … [View More]

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[opensuse-project] openSUSE Magazine
by differentreality 20 Sep '11

20 Sep '11

Hi all! One of the ideas that popped up during the marketing hackfest here today was that of making an openSUSE magazine with focus on the conference proceedings and the cool stuff that happened since the last conference. The magazine would contain articles on the main highlights of the past year (Year is the time period between two conferences), interviews with key people, reviews and articles about the current conference etc. We would like to get a feedback on the idea and a few key topics … [View More]

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