LiveBuild failure creating nano image

2012-01-20 Thread Matt Waddel
Hi, I have encountered a failure running live-build that I could use some help debugging. Using the instructions in the LiveBuild wiki page: https://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/DevPlatform/CrossCompile/LiveBuild the procedure fails during the adduser step. The failure is: I: create linaro user Ca

Re: LiveBuild failure creating nano image

2012-01-22 Thread Matt Waddel
just ran to > successful completion: > > perl5.12.4-4 > qemu-user-static 1.0-2011.12-0ubuntu1~ppa11.10.1 > > Thanks, > Tom > > On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Matt Waddel wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have encountered a failure

Re: Replicating Linaro Images to more memory cards

2012-02-17 Thread Matt Waddel
On 02/17/2012 08:42 PM, Sudhangathan B S wrote: > Thanks Nicolas, that sounds very promising, probably something silly is > missing, for it is not working, > > Yes Nicolas, in the console message during boot i could find the line > root=UUID=xxx like: > [0.00] Built 1 zonelists in Zone ord

Re: Linaro embedded Linux distro?

2012-02-20 Thread Matt Waddel
Hi Zach, On 02/20/2012 09:42 AM, Zach Pfeffer wrote: > During ELC a few people asked me if Linaro had something bigger than > nano and smaller than Ubuntu that they could use to build stuff. Of > course I said Android, but a lot of people actually want a regular > Linux platform where they can eas

Re: Linaro embedded Linux distro?

2012-03-06 Thread Matt Waddel
Hi Kevyn, On 03/06/2012 02:32 PM, Kevyn-Alexandre Paré wrote: > Hi, > > With some delay... > >> It is worth mentioning that you need a Debian/Ubuntu host >> (distribution supporting live-build). >> Anyway, if there's an audience for customizing Linaro Ubuntu images, >> we can provide tutorials

ARM port of google-talkplugin

2012-03-25 Thread Matt Waddel
Hi, Does anybody know if google-talkplugin has been ported to ARM? This package is required to run Google Hangouts and there are proprietary libraries in the plugin that appear to be compiled for x86 only. I found some old references that these libraries might eventually be ported to ARM and was j

Re: Question PLZ

2012-06-29 Thread Matt Waddel
Hi Ahmed, On 06/29/2012 09:52 AM, Ahmed Elshafey wrote: > Hello > We are a graduation project and we work on i.mx53 quick start board, We > need to run android on it and we don't know how to begin > > any help, please ? The latest release for Android on QuickStart can be found at: http://releas

Re: demystifying IRC

2011-06-15 Thread Matt Waddel
On 06/15/2011 03:49 PM, Joey Stanford wrote: >> Can you add a section on bots. I know some people are interested in >> the meeting bot. > > I'll punt that to Fathi. He's become the Bot Master :-) > > Fathi, can you add something to the bottom? Or create a new sub page under This page has lots of

GettingInvolved wiki

2011-09-26 Thread Matt Waddel
Hi, I've updated the GettingInvolved wiki with some information for contacting the various groups within Linaro. (Some of these clarifications came from Loïc's response to a query sent to contac...@linaro.org - thanks Loïc.) This is a good reference for deciding where to post questions or for dire

Re: i.Mx53 QSB

2012-09-24 Thread Matt Waddel
Hi Ajay, I don't believe the Linaro release for i.MX53 ever included the hardware acceleration support required to play an HDMI video. If the LTIB release included those kernel drivers, then that would be a better place to start for this project. HTH, Matt On 09/24/2012 12:42 AM, Ajay Kaushik wr

Notes from Landing Teams call 2010/09/15

2010-09-15 Thread Matt Waddel
Hi Notes from today's Landing Teams call. Also at: https://wiki.linaro.org/LandingTeams/Meetings/2010-09-15 --Matt === Attendees === * Matt Waddel * Torez Smith === Agenda === * Action items from last meeting. * Achievements / progress reports * OMAP3 * Versatile Ex

Re: linux-linaro pull request

2010-09-17 Thread Matt Waddel
Hi Kiko, On 09/17/2010 12:28 AM, Christian Robottom Reis wrote: > On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 06:28:03PM -0600, John Rigby wrote: >> LINARO: [Config] Turn on CONFIG_HIGHMEM for vexpress > > Hello there, > > Question: in general, why would we use CONFIG_HIGHMEM instead of > changing the ker

Vexpress LTP questions

2010-09-22 Thread Matt Waddel
Hi, There are many failures in the LTP tests related to message queues. This is because the CONFIG_POSIX_MQUEUE option is disabled in the kernel. When I enable this option all the ltp mqueue tests pass. Does anyone know why we would want this option to be disabled? It doesn't seem to add much to

Notes from Landing Teams call 2010/09/29

2010-09-29 Thread Matt Waddel
Notes from today's Landing Team call: https://wiki.linaro.org/LandingTeams/Meetings/2010-09-29 --Matt === Attendees === * Loïc Minier * Matt Waddel * Torez Smith * Scott Bambrough === Agenda === * Action items from last meeting. * Achievements / progress reports * OMAP3 * Vers

LandingTeam WG - 2010-10-06 meeting minutes

2010-10-06 Thread Matt Waddel
Hello, Here are the minutes from today's LandingTeam meeting: https://wiki.linaro.org/LandingTeams/Meetings/2010-10-06 --Matt === Attendees === * Torez Smith * Matt Waddel * Scott Bambrough * Loïc Minier * Anmar Oueja === Agenda === * Action items from last meeting. * Achieve

Re: Cortex A9 vexpress MMC I/O problems.

2010-10-11 Thread Matt Waddel
Hi Jamie, On 10/11/2010 03:03 PM, Jamie Bennett wrote: > On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 01:13:40PM +0100, Harry Liebel wrote: >> I've had mixed results. When the box completes the boot the basic systems >> seem to work ok (I can get an IP and poke the filesystem). It still takes >> several minutes to g

Kernel Consolidation WG minutes

2010-11-08 Thread Matt Waddel
Here is the link to today's Kernel Consolidation Working Group weekly call: https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/KernelConsolidation/Meetings/2010-11-08 Please feel free to make any corrections or additions if I missed anything. Cheers, Matt ___ lina

Re: Linaro-Alpha-1:Unable to Create Boot Images

2010-12-07 Thread Matt Waddel
Hi Praveen, I can recreate the same failure you are seeing. Something is broken in the linaro-media-create that is being installed with: sudo apt-get install linaro-image-tools ... The first thing I see is the hwpack isn't installing correctly and so probably the rootfs isn't installing either.

Re: Booting linux-linaro-2.6.37 on Beagle Board

2011-01-31 Thread Matt Waddel
Hi Avik, Would you be willing to try the instructions I created for this at: https://wiki.linaro.org/Mentoring/KernelDeploy Especially the section labeled: #Deploying the kernel to the SD card These instructions worked on my Overo board. --Matt On 01/31/2011 03:57 AM, Avik Sil wrote: > Hi, >

Re: problem with linaro-media-create

2011-02-07 Thread Matt Waddel
Hi Aneesh On 02/07/2011 07:25 AM, Aneesh V wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to prepare an MMC card to boot up Panda with Linaro daily > build image. > > I downloaded linaro-image-tools from: > https://launchpad.net/linaro-image-tools > > I installed all dependencies mentioned in the README and trie

Mentor Team Weekly Meeting - 2011/02/09

2011-02-09 Thread Matt Waddel
The minutes from our weekly meeting can be found here: https://wiki.linaro.org/Mentoring/Status/2011-02-09 Highlights are: == Key Points for wider discussion == * Status of https://wiki.linaro.org/Mentoring * Suggestions and requested for HowTo and FAQ sections in wiki == Team Highlights

Minutes for Mentor team meeting - 2011-2-15

2011-02-15 Thread Matt Waddel
The wiki formatted minutes are at: https://wiki.linaro.org/Mentoring/Status/2011-02-15 Please direct suggestions or comments to Matt or Andy. Cheers, Matt == Team Highlights == * Wiki Additions * https://wiki.linaro.org/Mentoring/Additions-l-m-c * Email setup * https://wiki.linaro.org/I

Re: Correction - Minutes for Mentor team meeting - 2011-2-15

2011-02-15 Thread Matt Waddel
On 02/15/2011 05:11 PM, Matt Waddel wrote: > * Wiki Additions > * https://wiki.linaro.org/Mentoring/Additions-l-m-c This should be: * https://wiki.linaro.org/Mentoring/HowTo/AddingNewHardwareSupport > ___ > linaro-dev mailing list

Notes from the Engineering Resources team meeting - 3-4-11

2011-03-05 Thread Matt Waddel
Hi everybody, Link to the Engineering Resources team's weekly meeting minutes: https://wiki.linaro.org/Mentoring/Status/WeeklyMeeting/2011-03-03 https://wiki.linaro.org/Mentoring/Status/WeeklyMeeting/2011-03-04 Summary of action items: * Move FAQ and HowTo to a higher level - Andy * Investig

[NOTES] 2011-03-11 Engineering Resources weekly meeting

2011-03-11 Thread Matt Waddel
Hi, The minutes from the Engineering Resources team meeting can be found here: https://wiki.linaro.org/Mentoring/Status/WeeklyMeeting/2011-03-11 Summary below. --Matt === Action Items from This Meeting === * AddNewHardware/HardwarePack pages need to explain kernel packages as Steve noted b

Re: beagleXM, hwpacks : a newbie question

2011-03-17 Thread Matt Waddel
Hi Daniel, On 03/17/2011 10:30 AM, Daniel Lezcano wrote: > Hi all, > > I am trying to get the network to work with qemu-system-arm -M beaglexm > but without success. > > I followed the instructions at > https://wiki.linaro.org/Releases/MilestoneBuilds and booted a virtual > machine for a beagle

[REPORT] 2011-03-17 Engineering Resources team weekly report

2011-03-21 Thread Matt Waddel
Hello Everybody, The Engineering Resources team weekly report for 2011-3-17 can be found at: https://wiki.linaro.org/Resources/Status/WeeklyMeeting/2011-03-17 Highlights below. Best regards, Matt === Action Items from This Meeting === * Improve the Linaro planning structure guides. ie: * e

Engineering Resources news

2011-03-21 Thread Matt Waddel
Last week a new tab was added to the banner of wiki.linaro.org called "HowTo". This links to a page we have been working on that is intended to point people to some of our most common how-to scenarios. In addition it includes a pointer to pages that are tagged with "CategoryHowTo", just click on th

Re: Notice: Releases to Cycles

2011-03-28 Thread Matt Waddel
Hi Dave, On 03/28/2011 07:34 AM, Dave Martin wrote: > On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Joey Stanford > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Kiko requested that we mass rename Releases to Cycles. This makes >> sense since a release is a point in time event and we operate under a >> larger cycle. >> >> This is no

Invitation to Linaro@UDS Introduction

2011-04-07 Thread Matt Waddel
Hi Everybody, There will be a Introduction to Linaro@UDS presentation next week. This presentation is mainly directed at employees who have not attended a summit in the past, but all are welcome to attend. There will be a presentation of the slides linked below followed by a question/answer sessio

Fwd: An Introduction to the Linaro@UDS Event

2011-04-12 Thread Matt Waddel
Hi Everyone, The introduction to Linaro@UDS presentations will start tomorrow: 13 April 2011 4:00 UTC (For Asia, India and Australia timezones) 14 April 2011 15:00 UTC (For US and European timezones) The meeting will be a brief presentation of these slides with a question/answer session after:

Re: CALL FOR TESTING: proposed enhancements for OMAP4

2011-04-21 Thread Matt Waddel
On 04/21/2011 10:20 AM, Andy Green wrote: > On 04/21/2011 05:07 PM, Somebody in the thread at some point said: > > Hi - > >>> I have a Beagle XM, but l-m-c breaks here writing to a real SD card >>> and the >>> alternative method (3G image) takes several hours from the ubuntu vm >>> I am >>> runni

Re: CALL FOR TESTING: proposed enhancements for OMAP4

2011-04-22 Thread Matt Waddel
On 04/22/2011 07:41 AM, Riku Voipio wrote: > On 21 April 2011 19:36, Matt Waddel wrote: >> On 04/21/2011 10:20 AM, Andy Green wrote: >>> linaro-media-create. It's used to bind linaro hardware packs to a >>> rootfs tarball. The alternative method is to have it cre

Engineering Resources - Life-In-Linaro

2011-04-28 Thread Matt Waddel
Hi Everybody, If you're new to Linaro (or if you just want a refresher on how things work in Linaro) please consider adding the Life-In-Linaro session to your schedule: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/linaro/+spec/linaro-other-o-life-in-linaro This will be an introductory session that will answ

Re: Boot sanity testing of release candidate kernel

2011-05-26 Thread Matt Waddel
On 05/24/2011 08:42 PM, Deepak Saxena wrote: > Hi all, > > The Kernel Working Group is getting ready to release the first of our new > monthly development snapshot in a few days and we would like folks > to do some quick sanity boot testing on their boards. Please > grab or update the kernel from

Re: Linaro Kernel v2.6.38 build error

2011-06-13 Thread Matt Waddel
Hi Deepti, On 06/13/2011 12:22 PM, Deepti Kalakeri wrote: > Hello, > > This is my first attempt with the Linaro kernel build and I am having no > success in getting it build. > My aim is to get a kernel debian package build using the upstream changes. > I am following the instructions given at >

Versatile Express Board Start-up

2010-07-31 Thread Matt Waddel
Here is the initial draft of the instructions to bring up a Versatile Express platform. https://wiki.linaro.org/Boards/Vexpress I still need to add sections detailing where to find (and build) the various parts like the bootloader and the kernel. --Matt _

Linaro Kernel Consolidation WG Weekly meeting (2010-8-5)

2010-08-05 Thread Matt Waddel
The complete weekly report for the Linaro Kernel Consolidation team may be found at: https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/KernelConsolidation/Meetings/2010-08-05 Summary of the minutes: Device tree support - ARM specific patches in Grant's test tree - probably will be included in the 2.6.38

Vexpress mtdparts question

2010-08-25 Thread Matt Waddel
I am trying to map the nor flash on the Versatile Express platform to an mtd partition. I have tried a bunch of variations with the kernel command line "mtdparts" directive, without success. Here is the last one I tried: mtdparts=armflash-1.0:1M(uboot),9M(linux),16M(uInitrd) The kernel seems to

Re: Vexpress mtdparts question

2010-08-31 Thread Matt Waddel
Thanks to Scott Bambrough for noticing this problem: On 08/25/2010 10:15 AM, Matt Waddel wrote: > I am trying to map the nor flash on the Versatile Express platform > to an mtd partition. I have tried a bunch of variations with the > kernel command line "mtdparts" directi