Re: OpenCL for Panda

2013-02-12 Thread Jesse Barker
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Re: running an armel image on 12.04

2012-05-22 Thread Jesse Barker
Scott, The Ubuntu-desktop evaluation builds for 12.04 are based upon Ubuntu Precise, which is officially armhf, so there is no armel support. If you need armel, I think you'll have to use something older, but it would be better to rebuild your binary if that's possible. cheers, Jesse On Tue, Ma

Re: New Gator version ready for Linaro kernels / Mali

2012-05-17 Thread Jesse Barker
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Andy Green wrote: > On 17/05/12 21:26, Somebody in the thread at some point said: >> >> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Scott Bambrough >>  wrote: >>> >>> On 12-05-17 03:37 AM, Jon Medhurst (Tixy) wrote: On Thu, 2012-05-17 at 07:42 +0800, Andy Gree

Re: New Gator version ready for Linaro kernels / Mali

2012-05-17 Thread Jesse Barker
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Scott Bambrough wrote: > On 12-05-17 03:37 AM, Jon Medhurst (Tixy) wrote: >> >> On Thu, 2012-05-17 at 07:42 +0800, Andy Green wrote: >>> >>> Just curious... how many LTs have Mali stuff?  If it's more than one, we >>> should perhaps be talking about moving it to li

Re: Standardized kernel interface for 2D blitters

2012-05-16 Thread Jesse Barker
BTW, I don't think it was explicitly in the phoronix article, but the actual source for omapdrm is at drivers/staging/omapdrm. cheers, Jesse On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 8:03 PM, Jesse Barker wrote: > OK, so with respect to that article, we've been working with our > members to pro

Re: Standardized kernel interface for 2D blitters

2012-05-15 Thread Jesse Barker
's kind of common that SoCs have separate IPs for > handling 2D and 3D acceleration, not like PC world. And client code > could live on both kernel and user lands, hence a need for arbitration > and so on. > > I was just asking, out of curiosity. > > -Ilyes > &g

Re: Standardized kernel interface for 2D blitters

2012-05-15 Thread Jesse Barker
Can you point out the article you're referring to that mentioned the Linaro project? There's nothing I'm aware of that would define what you are asking (apart from the Xserver's EXA framework which certainly isn't new or in the kernel). Even the interfaces exported by DRM require user space code

Re: No group tracks at Connect

2012-04-25 Thread Jesse Barker
Funny, I took champion to be the equivalent of the sponsor of a requirement (i.e. to champion the topic at the TSC level). I guess we'd better be more explicit in our nomenclature. cheers, jesse On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 11:16 PM, David Rusling wrote: > See my earlier email.   They can be differe

Graphics working group components for 2012.03 (cont.)

2012-03-22 Thread Jesse Barker
Hi all, Somehow, I completely forgot about the release for the unity-gles project. All OpenGL|ES enablement for the Ubuntu Unity plugin (the Unity3D "shell") and the nux library has been merged into the respective trunks on launchpad for those projects (lp:unity, lp:nux), so Linaro will not be re

Graphics working group components for 2012.03

2012-03-22 Thread Jesse Barker
Hi all, The graphics working group is pleased to announce the 2012.03 release for the following components: - glmark2 * Offscreen rendering support using framebuffer objects. * New command line switch to allow selection of end-of-frame method, - glcompbench * New 'blur' test. * Updated g

Re: is there fence like abstraction for hwmem+cma

2012-02-27 Thread Jesse Barker
Hi there, It turns out that a fence object will be one of the next things added to the dma-buf framework. You can check here for an in-progress status page: https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/Middleware/Graphics/UMM/Status And, the best thing for you to do is join the linaro-mm-sig list for

Re: nano-summits over google+ hangouts

2012-02-14 Thread Jesse Barker
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 4:35 AM, Stephen Doel wrote: > Hi Tom et al, > > We worked out the problem with remote people dialling in to Linaro Connect. > Basically a nasty feature/bug in Google Hangouts. The detail is: >  * If you set up a Hangout from a Linaro G+ account, by default it will look > s

Re: Proposal : New Linaro Desktop Wallpaper

2011-12-01 Thread Jesse Barker
Works for me. Nice job, Tom! cheers, Jesse On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Tom Gall wrote: > Hi All, > > one of the blueprints we have for 11.12 is to modify the LEB/ALIP > images so they include more linaro branding. A linaro wallpaper, maybe > a linaro image as the system is booting, that kin

Re: [ACTIVITY] Weekly status Graphics WG - wk39.2011 (20110926-20110930)

2011-10-06 Thread Jesse Barker
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Christian Robottom Reis wrote: > On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 09:19:18AM -0700, Jesse Barker wrote: >> Those are only the session blueprints for the scheduler. > > Of course, I had forgotten about this silliness. Hopefully this is being > less expensiv

Re: [ACTIVITY] Weekly status Graphics WG - wk39.2011 (20110926-20110930)

2011-10-05 Thread Jesse Barker
Those are only the session blueprints for the scheduler. Once we've captured all the info we need (broken each up into individual feature blueprints that would satisfy the requirements), those will go away (be marked "implemented"). I don't see how we get around it (well, I suppose we could keep

Re: wiki feedback on new front page

2011-09-28 Thread Jesse Barker
+1 on what Fathi said. I wonder if we can't provide a more direct link to the whole topic of "Getting Involved". While some people want to enable their hardware or their own development, but I couldn't find a trail of fewer than 3 links to something like "Send mail to linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org

Re: Bootchart results

2011-09-12 Thread Jesse Barker
Is this "time to boot to a prompt"? cheers, Jesse On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Paul Larson wrote: > This time with the attachment :) > > On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Paul Larson wrote: >> >> I started working on a results view in LAVA for the bootchart results >> since they are now part

Re: [ACTIVITY] Graphics WG status report - wk33.2011 (20110815-20110819)

2011-08-23 Thread Jesse Barker
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Christian Robottom Reis 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-bas

Call for desktop/graphics/mobile tracks for Linux Plumbers' Conf 2011

2011-07-01 Thread Jesse Barker
on at http://www.linuxplumbersconf.org/2011/ocw/events/LPC2011MC/proposals/new against the appropriate track. If you've already submitted a talk to one of these tracks, you will likely be hearing from us over the next week. We're passed earlybird registration, but you can still sign up and attend.

Re: RFC: Community Mumble

2011-06-22 Thread Jesse Barker
Joey, I think this is great! We have a combination need for this: 1) Upstream project interaction where phone-type interaction is desirable. 2) The working group meeting where representatives from member companies who are not Linaro assignees want to participate (for replacing the old conference

Re: 11.06 milestone, when is it?

2011-06-08 Thread Jesse Barker
https://launchpad.net/linaro/+milestones says 11.06 is June 30, which is what graphics has been using as out target (actually, what we're using for the whole cycle of targets as we thought the goal for this cycle was a more coherent sense of release targets for all of Linaro). cheers, Jesse On W

Memory Management Mini-Summit Report

2011-06-01 Thread Jesse Barker
ics-memory-management-summit-2 https://blueprints.launchpad.net/linaro-graphics-wg/+spec/linaro-graphics-memory-management-summit-3 The occupants of the fishbowl (the front/center of the room in closest proximity to the microphones) were primarily: Arnd Bergmann Laurent Pinchart Hans Verkuil Mauro C

Re: [lsb-discuss] Does anyone care about LSB on arm?

2011-06-01 Thread Jesse Barker
At the risk of overstating the obvious, there are also ABI guarantees at stake here, which in my mind are architecture agnostic. OpenGL applications need to know which bits (API functions) of which core versions can be expected to be resolved during load time and which must be queried through GetP

Re: [RFC] Moinmoin ratings plugin

2011-06-01 Thread Jesse Barker
This makes a lot of sense with respect to the discussion we had at the graphics working group meeting this morning around component releases; more to the point, exactly how each component gets tested, packaged (and/or tar'd) and pushed out to some publicly visible repository. The idea of letting so

Re: 1105 delivery of pm, multimedia, graphics

2011-05-22 Thread Jesse Barker
Hi Barry, Most of the components that the graphics WG has released to now (glcompbench, glmark2) are available on their Launchpad project pages and in binary form if debian packaging is useful to you (some in universe and some from the graphics WG PPA. We will be consolidating this in the near fu

Re: Linaro development cycle thoughts

2011-05-17 Thread Jesse Barker
To add to Alexandros' thoughts, we typically have our public plan reviews a couple of weeks after LDS, which means that for the most part, all engineering blueprints for the coming cycle must be done by then (before then for the benefit of those compiling the slides, etc. for the plan reviews ;-).

Embedded memory management interest group list

2011-04-18 Thread Jesse Barker
Hi all, One of the big issues we've been faced with at Linaro is around GPU and multimedia device integration, in particular the memory management requirements for supporting them on ARM. This next cycle, we'll be focusing on driving consensus around a unified memory management solution for embed

Embedded memory management interest group list

2011-04-18 Thread Jesse Barker
Hi all, One of the big issues we've been faced with at Linaro is around GPU and multimedia device integration, in particular the memory management requirements for supporting them on ARM. This next cycle, we'll be focusing on driving consensus around a unified memory management solution for embed

Re: git merge question

2011-04-08 Thread Jesse Barker
All these git related puns are killing me :-) On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 8:46 AM, Will Deacon wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Tixy wrote: > > > On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 10:16 +0100, Dave Martin wrote: > > >> one reason why my understanding of the actual problem here was a bit > > >> patchy.

Re: Yet another memory provider: can linaro organize a meeting?

2011-03-27 Thread Jesse Barker
I'll be at ELC, as well as living in SF, so I'll be around before and after as well. cheers, Jesse On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Clark, Rob wrote: > On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 3:14 AM, Kyungmin Park > wrote: > > > > Rough schedules. > > > > 1. Warsaw meetings (3/16~3/18): mostly v4l2 person an

Re: regarding memebership to linaro

2011-03-25 Thread Jesse Barker
Thanks for your interest. If you absolutely cannot wait to get involved, or at least to start checking out the work, I suppose you could clone Alexandros' tree at: http://git.linaro.org/gitweb?p=people/afrantzis/cairo.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/gles2 This work is currently under review by the u

Some GL benchmarks for ARM devices

2011-03-18 Thread Jesse Barker
Hi all, Thought this might be of interest to folks. http://www.glbenchmark.com/result.jsp?benchmark=glpro20&orderby=405&screen-group=true&screen-group-value=1&submi=OK&screen=4&screen=3&screen=2&screen=1&screen=0&os=0&os=1&os=2&os=3&os=4&version=all&certified_only=1&brand=all http://www.glbenchm

Re: Yet another memory provider: can linaro organize a meeting?

2011-03-16 Thread Jesse Barker
DRM looks very "fluffy" and not quite slimmed for an embedded device, > > and you cannot get GEM/TTM without bringing in all of DRM/DRI. KMS on > > the other hand is very attractive as a framebuffer device replacer. It > > is not an easy task to decide on a multime

Re: Yet another memory provider: can linaro organize a meeting?

2011-03-15 Thread Jesse Barker
KMS on > the other hand is very attractive as a framebuffer device replacer. It > is not an easy task to decide on a multimedia user interface for a SoC > vendor. > > Uniting the frameworks within the kernel will likely fail(too big of a > task) but a common system wide me

Re: Yet another memory provider: can linaro organize a meeting?

2011-03-08 Thread Jesse Barker
Hi all, Here's what I've cobbled together tentatively from prior threads involving linaro-dev as well as folks from ARM, Samsung and ST-E: https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/Middleware/Graphics/Projects/UnifiedMemoryManagement The current goals within the graphics working group are to map the

Re: [RFC] Linaro Toolchain for Android and NDK

2011-02-28 Thread Jesse Barker
FWIW, skia certainly isn't android only and, at least for the purposes of getting the validation side of things up and running, could be run on a non-android build (Jammy is likely doing something like this for his work, though not oriented at abrek at the moment). Of course, I could be over-simpl

Re: [PATCH] i.MX23/28 framebuffer driver

2011-02-16 Thread Jesse Barker
Speaking for the Linaro graphics working group, I think it's great. And, I think you're right, that if enough of the KMS support in xf86-video-* is similar enough (I was only aware of intel and nouveau supporting it properly at current), pulling it out into a common layer would make it easier to s

Re: Notes & Actions: Linaro Graphics Working Group - Feb 09, 2011

2011-02-15 Thread Jesse Barker
Rob, It is certainly analogous to the DRM access control interfaces, and I would expect that access to memory objects from the graphics stack would go through those interfaces (i.e. Xorg/EGL calls libdrm, calls DRM kernel ioctl, calls memory manger inside the kernel), but we need to make sure we h

Re: New dial-in number for conference calls

2011-01-26 Thread Jesse Barker
In addition to the India numbers that Alexander mentioned on another part of this thread, we would need Greece and Korea numbers to switch the graphics working group call over. cheers, Jesse On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Loïc Minier wrote: >Hi folks > > (Sorry for the late notice, w

Re: how to get hardware accelerated video and OpenGL ES for OMAP3530 (IGEPv2 board)? (noob alert)

2011-01-20 Thread Jesse Barker
Hi Jorg, The availability of graphics drivers is obviously quite a hot topic at the moment. For your OMAP3 board, you are probably better off sticking with the ubuntu packages (you'll need to add multiverse in order to find the various '*-sgx-omap3' packages) as that will get you up and running f

Re: RFC: Dynamic hwcaps

2010-12-03 Thread Jesse Barker
Dave, For the case of NEON and its use in graphics libraries, we are certainly pushing explicitly for runtime detection. However, this tends to be done by detecting the presence of NEON at initialization time, rather than at each path invocation (to avoid rescanning /proc/self/auxv). Are you say

Re: Flash cards

2010-10-21 Thread Jesse Barker
That's fantastic. Thanks. cheers, Jesse On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:44 AM, Michael Hope wrote: > I'm still terrible with names so I've updated my flash cards for the > summit. See: > http://people.linaro.org/~michaelh/boo/ > > Click on the image to show the persons name and role. Click again

Re: clutk status update 2010/09/14

2010-09-15 Thread Jesse Barker
is assumed that this extension is > supported by default now (It should not be a problem for > opengl es2.0 driver with fbo extension supported, I think). > > Regards, > Jammy > > > > On Wed,

Re: clutk status update 2010/09/14

2010-09-14 Thread Jesse Barker
Jammy, With respect to the CheckGLError assertion in test-clutk-perf, assuming that glGetError is called per OpenGL entry point (i.e. you are not seeing an error triggered by another call), the only way you should be seeing an invalid operation when setting framebuffer binding(s) back to the defau