I attached a branch without gl before the arm-curious people build a stake for me ;). Not intended for merging, just for testing.
2013/8/27 Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff <ser...@elementaryos.org> > Hey guys, > > Just a heads-up regarding ARM support in Luna: our stable PPA got armhf > enablement recently and everything (except Pantheon Greeter, see > https://bugs.launchpad.net/pantheon-greeter/+bug/1214833) should run fine > on ARM, at least in theory. You'd need decent GPU drivers though, because > Gala requires hardware acceleration, and software rendering on ARM is in a > pitiful state. > > However, our OS-specific patches repository did not get ARM enablement, > and it's unlikely to get it anytime soon because we patched some really > heavyweight things like Qt, which take way more time to build than > Canonical's armhf enablement conditions require. This means we can't make > OS images for ARM, but you can still install the apps on an existing Ubuntu > installation. You'll miss out on the leaner and faster core, which is a > pity (and doubly so on a resource-constrained system), but at least there's > a chance of finding an OS image that works for your ARM hardware in case of > Ubuntu and almost no chance for any other distro. > > Enthusiasts can still build ARM images by themselves if they have the > hardware to run the build process or if they know their way around QEMU > chroots (along the lines of https://wiki.debian.org/ArmHardFloatChrootand > https://wiki.debian.org/QemuUserEmulation but for Ubuntu). They'd have to > use something like apt-build to update to later versions of our patched > packages, but such updates will probably be rare and all in all it should > work. > > -- > Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff > OS architect @ elementary > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community > Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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