Hello

please find below the summary of the status report from Graphics WG for
wk02.2012. The full report can be found in
https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/Middleware/Graphics/WeeklyReport

The last meeting minutes are in
https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/Middleware/Graphics/Notes/2012-01-11

== Achievements ==
- dma-buf : Merged into mainline! - into Linus' tree for 3.3: see here:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=commit;h=a125a3945c950caef001f22055bf201a36568533

- submitted abstract of proposal to talk at ELC - by Sumit Semwal
together with Rob Clark from Multimedia - on 'dma-buf: an introduction'

- glmark2 live-fps implemented and merged upstream

- Unity3D: Resolved build issues with compiz/nux/unity gles2 stack,
built stack for desktop OpenGL in Precise, tracked down compiz display
issues. Nux 2.0 was released with GL|ES support

- Display GPU perf Events through LAVA: Created Linaro Android Origen
image with Mali profiling libs and kernel driver and executed sample job
file on lava-server with the image created and worked successfully. Also
updated Mali kernel driver with profiling options
(git://git.linaro.org/people/chunsangjeong/mali-dev.git)


== Issues ==
- Unity/nux/compiz: Marc and Alexandros are now looking at the work
involved in managing the pieces needed to be merged upstream. The merge
process is underway with Canonical DX and Graphics team is helping to
smooth out any possible issues. However, while the unity and nux
branches are relatively effort free to merge (everything is ifdef'ed
specifically for arm), compiz upstream refuses to let the patches into
the stable branch the desktop team builds from. To get them in anyway
the solution proposed by desktop side is to carry a distro patch in the
package until desktop switches to the other upstream branch - this
carries the obvious risk of the patch getting out of sync and needing
constant fixing and updating.

- Dashboard bugs: #881789 - timeout in image deployment and #904796 -
provide staging/development lava server instances are a risk for our
work with the dashboard

- Need to screen out what kinds of profiling data would be shown through
LAVA without .py files from ARM since ARM MPD has indicated it's not
allowed to open parsers(.py files from ARM) to public, which are used
for making profiling data visible by using Python

- Origen doesn't have h/w(Mali) accelerated Ubuntu and it takes a lot of
time to set up proper LAVA test environment

== Risks ==
Even though there are actions now taken to deal with Unity/Nux/Compiz,
it is possible that those packages are have issues which may require
more time for the release. Marc (IRC: marcoil) and Alexandros (IRC:
alf_) are working on this now


== Next steps ==
- Work is progressing for the release. The group will also work on
#907151: glmark2 SIGSEGV on ICS for Origen.

- Please note that from DX side it has been communicated that Unity 5.2
will be released on week 04 (Estimate) with the GLES branch

- Planning is also continuing for Connect

Best regards,

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