Updated Pulse Audio + alsa-lib for 11.12

2011-12-18 Thread Tom Gall
Hi Ricardo, With working HDMI output on the original panda board, and Wei's new release of patches to alsa-lib and pulseaudio, I've updated both alsa-lib and pulseaudio for 11.12 in ppa:linaro-maintainers/overlay. Sound on the panda over HDMI from my testing works out of the box. It's not perfect

Re: [ACTIVITY] Multimedia WG weekly status report - wk01.2012 (20120102-20120106)

2012-01-09 Thread Tom Gall
Hi Kiko, On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Christian Robottom Reis wrote: >> - Wiki page for libjpeg-turbo integration in skia and skia_test usage >> for jpeg performance test was created > > Ah -- a URL would be nice? Besides Benjamin's link there is also : https://wiki.linaro.org/TomGall/SkiaBen

Re: [ACTIVITY] Multimedia WG weekly status report - wk01.2012 (20120102-20120106)

2012-01-10 Thread Tom Gall
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Christian Robottom Reis wrote: > On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 11:00:29AM +0200, Ilias Biris wrote: >> On 09/01/12 17:40, Christian Robottom Reis wrote: >> >> for Realvideo that's going upstream into libav. >> > Is there a mailing list post or commit? >> >> For realvideo

Re: [ACTIVITY] Multimedia WG weekly status report - wk01.2012 (20120102-20120106)

2012-01-10 Thread Tom Gall
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 8:56 AM, Christian Robottom Reis wrote: > On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 08:54:56AM -0600, Tom Gall wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Christian Robottom Reis >> wrote: >> > On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 11:00:29AM +0200, Ilias Biris wrote: >> &

Monthly Release Thoughts

2012-01-10 Thread Tom Gall
Hi All, I had some thoughts and a suggestion this morning about the monthly release cycle that I'd like to share. Perhaps I'll get booed off the stage, perhaps not. I'm sure it can be improved on. There is a great deal of stress around what blueprints fit into what monthly release boundary. For d

Re: PulseAudio / ARM NEON

2012-01-12 Thread Tom Gall
Kudo Peter! Thanks much for copying the linaro-dev list. We're certainly interested in this. I've included Wei on the CC: who works on pulseaudio and other parts of the audio stack for the Multimedia Work Group. On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Peter Meerwald wrote: > Hello, > > I've just poste

Re: LiveBuild failure creating nano image

2012-01-22 Thread Tom Gall
Hi Matt, Say what version of ubuntu are you building this on? Would it be possible to get a complete log? I just installed the 3.0~a40.1-1linaro13~maverick5 version of live-build out of my ppa which is referenced in the wiki page onto a "clean" oneiric machine. The cross build completed successf

Announcing Linarotv-xmbc image

2012-01-25 Thread Tom Gall
For the 12.01 cycle the Linaro Platforms team is pleased to announce the availability of the new linarotv-xbmc based image. This combines the xbmc media server project with linaro's leb to result in a "works out of the box" arm based media server image. It can be found at http://snapshots.linaro.o

Re: What our customers want from Android

2012-02-01 Thread Tom Gall
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 7:32 PM, Ricardo Salveti wrote: > On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 6:00 AM, Bharathi Subramanian > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I feel, Linaro should maintain only 2 versions - stable and unstable >> external source. instead of maintain staging, tracking, landing, >> mainline etc .. I underst

Re: LiveBuild failure creating nano image

2012-02-03 Thread Tom Gall
Awesome! Thanks much for getting this fixed Peter. Perhaps at LC you might like to see another qemu issue that keeps us from being able to cross build the Linaro Ubuntu LEB. On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 21 January 2012 12:04, Peter Maydell wrote: >> $0 here is the p

Re: LiveBuild failure creating nano image

2012-02-03 Thread Tom Gall
gs go. Being able to cross assemble the LEB on intel would be a significant milestone! Regards Tom On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Fathi Boudra wrote: > Hi Tom, > > On 3 February 2012 17:43, Tom Gall wrote: >> Awesome! >> >> Thanks much for getting this fixed Peter. Perhap

Multimedia Work Group at Linaro Connect

2012-02-06 Thread Tom Gall
http://connect.linaro.org/events/event/lcq1-12/#schedule The Linaro Multimedia Team for 1Q Linaro Connect has 3 main goals. 1) We'll be identifying further candidates for NEON focused optimization.2) We'll be syncing up with the landing teams to discuss the state of audio on the various boards, th

Continued Snowball Audio Session

2012-02-06 Thread Tom Gall
If you were at the Snowball Audio session today (or wanted to be but were not able to make it) by popular demand a "part 2" session has been scheduled for Tuesday February 7th at 11:00 am in the Blue room. See you there! -- Regards, Tom "Where's the kaboom!? There was supposed to be an earth-s

nano-summits over google+ hangouts

2012-02-13 Thread Tom Gall
Hi All, From what I've heard and saw it seemed like the google+ hangouts in the rooms worked fairly well. (For the very small sample size of the people I've talked to) I'm wondering/tempted to try out as an experiment on going single topic Multimedia sessions from time to time between Linaro Conn

Re: Linaro embedded Linux distro?

2012-02-20 Thread Tom Gall
We have the developer image. That's exactly it's purpose. http://snapshots.linaro.org/oneiric/linaro-o-developer/ On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 10:42 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 bui

Re: Announcing Linarotv-xmbc image

2012-03-10 Thread Tom Gall
On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 9:43 PM, Hui Zhang wrote: > Hi Christian, >    thank you for the information! >   Yes, I eventually decided not to use XBMC on hardware without 3D, and use > qtmediahub instead. > >    And, I have run XBMC on pandaboard and found out that XBMC requires a lot > of CPU(often

Announce: live-build a45

2012-03-14 Thread Tom Gall
Located in ppa:linaro-maintainers/tools can be found the newest version of live-build, a45 with the following linaro features applied: 1) armhf support (both native and cross) 2) linaro meta bld information as was discussed at 4Q11 Linaro Connect 3) cross support using multistrap Live build a45

Re: Announce: live-build a45

2012-03-15 Thread Tom Gall
Hi Jani, On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 8:20 AM, Jani Monoses wrote: > On 03/14/2012 09:15 PM, Tom Gall wrote: >> >> Located in ppa:linaro-maintainers/tools can be found the newest >> version of live-build,  a45 with the following linaro features >> applied: >> >

12.03 Multimedia WG Component Release

2012-03-23 Thread Tom Gall
All, It's my pleasure to call out the following components that have been released as part the Linaro Multimedia WG's efforts for 12.03 1) Updated pulseaudio / alsa-lib including: - Audio jack detection - new UCM configs for imx6, origen, and snowball - ppa:linaro-maintainers/overlay 2

Re: won't someone please think of the users!?

2012-04-06 Thread Tom Gall
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 4:05 AM, Wookey wrote: > +++ Clark, Rob [2012-04-05 21:10 -0500]: >> just some random thoughts on our release model, etc..  I've been >> meaning to write up for a while but haven't had time >> >> There has been some feedback, for example on #pandaboard, that the >> monthly r

ANN: live-build_3.0~a45-1-1linaro3

2012-04-11 Thread Tom Gall
Announcing the release of live-build_3.0~a45-1-1linaro3 to ppa:linaro-maintainers/tools Included in this release are two minor but important fixes 1) for cross builds make sure to qualify the use of the linaro-overlay ppa correctly so armel isn't hardcoded 2) for precise, defend against the

Re: won't someone please think of the users!?

2012-04-12 Thread Tom Gall
6, 2012 at 6:05 AM, Wookey wrote: >>>> > The fundamental question really is 'are we a distro or not'? > > Tom Gall said; "We are." > Joey Stanford said; "Linaro is not a Linux distribution." > Jeremiah said; "I'm confused." >

Re: Linaro embedded Linux distro?

2012-04-12 Thread Tom Gall
You are very welcome. If you need anything else just let me know. Regards, Tom On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Kevyn-Alexandre Paré wrote: > Thx Tom, > > your last release fix my problem during the  sh ./conf_create.sh! > > KA > > > On 2012-04-10, at 11:56 AM, Kevyn-Alexandre Paré wrote: > >> H

Re: No group tracks at Connect

2012-04-18 Thread Tom Gall
I like the idea of topic focused sessions, not sure I'm sold on a complete switch. I've got an initial list of top sessions at https://wiki.linaro.org/TomGall/DraftPlan/2012-2QLC above and beyond that sessions I've already proposed. On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Stephen Doel wrote: > Hi Zach

Re: No group tracks at Connect

2012-04-18 Thread Tom Gall
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Zach Pfeffer wrote: > On 18 April 2012 12:05, Tom Gall wrote: >> I like the idea of topic focused sessions, not sure I'm sold on a >> complete switch. >> >> I've got an initial list of top sessions at >> https://wiki.l

Re: No group tracks at Connect

2012-04-20 Thread Tom Gall
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Zach Pfeffer wrote: > On 20 April 2012 14:20, Deepak Saxena wrote: >> On 19 April 2012 12:58, Zach Pfeffer wrote: >>> On 19 April 2012 14:47, Deepak Saxena wrote: On 19 April 2012 12:15, Zach Pfeffer wrote: > On 19 April 2012 13:21, Deepak Saxena wrot

Re: [RFC PATCH v1] AudiVal (Audio Validation Suite for Linux)

2012-05-15 Thread Tom Gall
HI Paul, On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Paul Larson wrote: > Cool, does this replace the existing e2daudiotest I guess? Please consider it as complementary. > Also, has it > already been shown to work on all of the listed board? Yes but that's not to say there aren't issues here and there fo

howto turn power management etc off?

2012-06-26 Thread Tom Gall
Hi All, I've been mucking around a bit with linaro server kinds of things. I remember from the last connect Michael Hope had a bit of a checklist before he would collect data. I'd like to make sure I'm getting all I can out of the board. One of the elements of the list was turning off power manag

alloc failed, but?

2012-06-27 Thread Tom Gall
Hi All, I'm stressing a system with apachebench. As one scales up work on a system obviously there's always a point where the wheels fall off, the engine explodes or something else exciting happens. But as Han Solo would say ... "hold together baby", I'd like to eek out as much as I can. (If y

Re: Problem building Precise Ubuntu Desktop

2012-07-02 Thread Tom Gall
Hi! On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 11:52 AM, David Cullen wrote: > Hello, linaro-dev, > > I am trying to follow the instructions at > >     https://wiki.linaro.org/Source/ImageBuilding Hmm those instructions look a bit out of date and I suspect that's why you're having issues. I sure hope your build sys

Re: Problem building Precise Ubuntu Desktop

2012-07-02 Thread Tom Gall
his helps. > > On 7/2/2012 1:30 PM, Tom Gall wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 11:52 AM, David Cullen >> wrote: >>> Hello, linaro-dev, >>> >>> I am trying to follow the instructions at >>> >>>     https://wiki.linaro.org/Source/Image

Re: Problem building Precise Ubuntu Desktop

2012-07-03 Thread Tom Gall
Hi David, I looked at your log. I agree with Andy, this is probably not a rebuild the kernel kind of situation. Does the log really cut off at 1239 lines or is there more? Thanks! Tom On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 9:51 AM, David Cullen wrote: > Hello, Andy, > > On 7/3/2012 2:14 AM, Andy Green wrote:

[NOTES] Dev Platforms Status Meeting Notes and Actions 6/16

2011-06-16 Thread Tom Gall
Enclosed you'll find a link to the agenda, notes and actions from the Linaro Developer Platforms Weekly Status meeting held on June 16th in #linaro-meeting on irc.freenode.net at 14:00 UTC. https://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/DevPlatform/Meetings/2011-06-16 New and Carried Over Actions: * rsalveti

[NOTES] Dev Platforms Status Meeting Notes and Actions 6/23

2011-06-28 Thread Tom Gall
Enclosed you'll find a link to the agenda, notes and actions from the Linaro Developer Platforms Weekly Status meeting held on June 23rd in #linaro-meeting on irc.freenode.net at 14:00 UTC. https://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/DevPlatform/Meetings/2011-06-23 New Actions: * everybody to go over joey

Re: trouble with should-be-bootable SD cards and kernel versions

2011-06-29 Thread Tom Gall
If you want to avoid l-m-c which is the image creation route we support, once you've created the first master and have it booting and setup the way you want, and presuming all your SD cards are exactly the same, I suspect you'd fine more success to dd from master to create an image file and then dd

CFP: Please test July 6th daily Images

2011-07-06 Thread Tom Gall
All, We need your help. Over the weekend we "upgraded" our building of natty based images from using live-helper 2 to live-build 3. (same tool just slightly newer name and more shiny) It is possible that given evolutionary changes to the build tool that there maybe new and interesting bugs introdu

libjpeg-turbo-1.1.1 + linaro Performance

2011-07-08 Thread Tom Gall
Hi All, I've taken some time to freshen up the libjpeg-turbo hosted at lp:libjpeg-turbo to be refreshed with the upstream 1.1.1 plus Mandeeps previous work. I thought as part of this effort I'd do some performance comparisons between this new cut of code and the much older non arm optimized libjpe

better libjpeg-turbo 1.1.1 perf numbers

2011-07-11 Thread Tom Gall
Hi All, I put some timestamp code into the compress and decompress testcases that I had posted about last friday for libjpeg-turbo. I have new and much better performance numbers as a result. In addition, I've put together a simple wiki page to capture various libjpeg-turbo kinds of things. https

[NOTES] Dev Platforms Status Meeting Notes and Actions 7/07/2011

2011-07-13 Thread Tom Gall
Enclosed you'll find a link to the agenda, notes and actions from the Linaro Developer Platforms Weekly Status meeting held on July 07th in #linaro-meeting on irc.freenode.net at 14:00 UTC. http://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/DevPlatform/Meetings/2011-07-07 New Actions: * hrw to document how to upd

Linaro 11.07 weekly testing 2011-07-14

2011-07-14 Thread Tom Gall
Hi, As Fathi is out on vacation, I thought I'd send out the call for our weekly test activity. Even if you're only about to test one image/hwpack combination, your participation is greatly appreciated and essential. This is a message sent out once per week to call on those in the Linaro community

pre 11.07 RC Testing Needed

2011-07-18 Thread Tom Gall
Hi, This is a message is a call for testing as the 11.07 RC is fast approach. There needs to be a special focus on the new elements that have been integrated in the builds since the last call for testing. Please try out the latest Linaro Evaluation Builds (LEBs) images for both Android and Linux.

Correction pre 11.07 RC Testing Needed

2011-07-18 Thread Tom Gall
The link to the Android Panda LEB should be : https://android-build.linaro.org/builds/~linaro-android/leb-panda/#build=132 -- Forwarded message -- From: Tom Gall Date: Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 3:05 PM Subject: pre 11.07 RC Testing Needed To: Linaro Dev Hi, This is a message is

[NOTES] Dev Platforms Status Meeting Notes and Actions 7/14/2011

2011-07-21 Thread Tom Gall
Enclosed you'll find a link to the agenda, notes and actions from the Linaro Developer Platforms Weekly Status meeting held on July 14th in #linaro-meeting on irc.freenode.net at 14:00 UTC. http://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/DevPlatform/Meetings/2011-07-14 Carried over Actions: rsalveti to ping asa

Re: OOM with linux-linaro-3.0 on a beagleboard

2011-07-28 Thread Tom Gall
I've booted and run the nano rootfs + the 3.0 on my beagle board. Which rootfs were you using? A linaro one or something custom? I would expect the LEB rootfs to OOM especially if you have no swap space setup. Regards, Tom On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 5:29 AM, Daniel Lezcano wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP

Announcing initial live-build cross build support

2011-07-28 Thread Tom Gall
Hi All, As part of the 11.07 cycle I've completed an initial implementation to live-build3 for cross build support. This means you can be on an intel box and assemble your own arm rootfs images. Generally speaking this results in a faster build than running on native arm hardware. This code shoul

Re: Changing default root file system to btrfs

2011-08-04 Thread Tom Gall
Hi James On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 6:46 AM, James Tunnicliffe wrote: > Hi, > > Our current default root file system, ext3, is proving to be a > bottleneck for SD card performance. Not only does it take a long time > to format the partitions, but it also takes a long time to write to. > This slows do

linaro libjpeg-turbo roadmap

2011-08-10 Thread Tom Gall
Hi All, I thought I would clarify what is in store for the next few linaro cycles from a libjpeg-turbo perspective. 11.08 1.1.2 libjpeg-turbo (featuring cleaned up patches) upstreaming and support of what could be a late august upstream 1.2 release 11.09 1.2 upstream based linaro release (presum

Re: linaro libjpeg-turbo roadmap

2011-08-10 Thread Tom Gall
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 9:05 AM, Alexander Sack wrote: > On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Tom Gall wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I thought I would clarify what is in store for the next few linaro >> cycles from a libjpeg-turbo perspective. >> >> 11.08 >&

Re: linaro libjpeg-turbo roadmap

2011-08-10 Thread Tom Gall
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Christian Robottom Reis wrote: > On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 09:18:04AM -0500, Tom Gall wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 9:05 AM, Alexander Sack wrote: >> > Does this involve adding easy/automatic benchmarks so we can track a) >> > im

Re: [frederik.lot...@arm.com: [UBUNTU] linaro-media-create failing]

2011-08-16 Thread Tom Gall
Matt, I'd love to validate that on my panda but my board is about 650 miles from my current location. It was ok with the 11.07 release which a number of folks including myself had validated. Regards Tom On Aug 16, 2011, at 2:55 PM, Matt Waddel wrote: > Hi Tom, > > On 08/16/2011 01:14 PM, T

Linaro 11.08 + libjpeg-turbo for linux + android

2011-08-19 Thread Tom Gall
All, The current 1.1.90 code with mandeep's reworked change that was accepted yesterday passes all make test and correctly displays the android reference image that was showing quality problems with the older 1.1.1 androidized proof of concept. Given this situation for Linaro's 11.08 release we a

libjpeg-turbo 1.1.90 for linaro 11.08

2011-08-21 Thread Tom Gall
In support of the Linaro 11.08 release, the libjpeg-turbo package has been updated substantially from 1.1.1 to 1.1.90 which closely tracks the upcoming 1.2 community release. On ARM make test passes and image quality appears to be good. (of note to the Android WG bugs #823960 and #826642 are not

Multistrap and required packages

2011-08-22 Thread Tom Gall
Hi Wookey (and others that might be interested) With Mutlistrap and qemu we've gotten live-build to be able to cross build most of our images. The next step however in nano is to pull out a number of the packages and in some cases replace them with busybox components to get an even smaller rootfs.

Re: Multistrap and required packages

2011-08-22 Thread Tom Gall
A little update and clarification. omitrequired is the option to not consider the Priority: required packages. However once added additional packages are getting pulled into the build. From the snippet below, we can see recommended and suggested aren't getting picked up which is good, but there's

GUIMark 3

2011-08-23 Thread Tom Gall
Just passing this along as it looked interesting. http://www.craftymind.com/guimark3/ Caveat emptor. -- Regards, Tom "We want great men who, when fortune frowns will not be discouraged." - Colonel Henry Knox Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs w) tom.gall att linaro.org w) tom_gall

Re: Android Tools

2011-08-25 Thread Tom Gall
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Christian Robottom Reis wrote: > On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 04:15:37PM -0300, Ricardo Salveti wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Zach Pfeffer >> wrote: >> > One thing to keep in mind is that developers will get these tools from >> > Google during their SDK i

11.07 oprofile on panda busted?

2011-08-25 Thread Tom Gall
Hi all, Say has anyone else run oprofile on recent builds on panda? By recent I mean say anything since 11.07? Reason for asking is I'm seeing basically a very very small number of samples being recorded... as in there's no way this is right. Log: root@linaro-desktop:/home/linaro/ltj-1.1.90-d#

Re: 11.07 oprofile on panda busted?

2011-08-26 Thread Tom Gall
Thanks. I'll give that a try. Still, oprofile ought to work out of the box without fiddling. Regards, Tom On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 5:04 AM, Dechesne, Nicolas wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 11:48 PM, Tom Gall wrote: >> >> Say has anyone else run oprofile

Re: 11.07 oprofile on panda busted?

2011-08-29 Thread Tom Gall
rformance monitoring) Not being wise to latest greatest in oprofile kernel mods, perhaps there's already a solution here... if so I'd love to hear it. On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Christian Robottom Reis wrote: > On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 11:10:11AM -0500, Tom Gall wrote: >>

Re: 11.07 oprofile on panda busted?

2011-08-30 Thread Tom Gall
, 2011 at 7:29 PM, Clark, Rob wrote: > Could you try also adding 'nohz=0' to bootargs to disable tickless > scheduler?  Depending on what is the default in current linaro kernel, > this might help.. > > BR, > -R > > On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Tom Gall wro

Re: 11.07 oprofile on panda busted?

2011-08-30 Thread Tom Gall
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Turgis, Frederic wrote: > Hi, > > As indicated by Siamashka, we are expected to operate at scheduler tick rate, > i.e. 128Hz (drivers/oprofile/timer_int.c). From your test, we have 84 ticks, > i.e. 656ms of test. > Is that correct ? I checked that also in our An

Re: Suggestion for ARM related summits at Linaro Connect Q4.11 (co-hosted with UDS-P)

2011-08-30 Thread Tom Gall
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Ricardo Salveti wrote: > Hey all, > > As we're having the Linaro Connect Q4.11 together with UDS-P, would > like to know if there is any special topic it'd be useful to cover as > a summit there. > > Any ARM related topics that might be related with cross-distro >

CFP : Have a Beagle or Beagle XM with a USB wifi?

2011-08-31 Thread Tom Gall
As the subject says. Looking for someone with either a beagle or beagle xm board and has a USB Wifi. We'd like to knock off a bug. Your help would be greatly appreciated. Please reply to me directly. Thanks! -- Regards, Tom "We want great men who, when fortune frowns will not be discouraged." -

Re: CFP : Have a Beagle or Beagle XM with a USB wifi?

2011-08-31 Thread Tom Gall
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Robert Nelson wrote: > On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Tom Gall wrote: >> As the subject says. Looking for someone with either a beagle or >> beagle xm board and has a USB Wifi. We'd like to knock off a bug. Your >> help would be g

Re: CFP : Have a Beagle or Beagle XM with a USB wifi?

2011-08-31 Thread Tom Gall
B WiFi > if I have to. But I agree that drivers can be an obstacle. What I > don't have is a lot of spare time :-) > > But keep me in the loop. > > /Tony > > On 31 August 2011 17:52, Tom Gall wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Robert Nelson >> w

libjpeg-turbo for Android available

2011-09-02 Thread Tom Gall
The initial port of Android's extensions to the current libjpeg-turbo codebase is complete. With Chao Yang's help we've validated using both the Linaro Android LEB panda as well as CyanogenMod 7 on the Nook. (I'd validate on my Nexus One too but I'm short of microSD cards) It runs, image encode a

Re: libjpeg-turbo for Android available

2011-09-02 Thread Tom Gall
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Christian Robottom Reis wrote: > On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 10:34:47AM -0500, Tom Gall wrote: >> The initial port of Android's extensions to the current libjpeg-turbo >> codebase is complete. > > Tom, you've done a spectacular job ca

auxv + neon

2011-09-02 Thread Tom Gall
Is a method via the aux vectors to know at runtime if neon is or is not present? Thanks! -- Regards, Tom "We want great men who, when fortune frowns will not be discouraged." - Colonel Henry Knox Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs w) tom.gall att linaro.org w) tom_gall att vnet.ibm.

Re: auxv + neon

2011-09-03 Thread Tom Gall
Perfect! Thanks Jim! On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 8:10 AM, Jim Huang wrote: > 2011/9/3 Tom Gall : >> Is a method via the aux vectors to know at runtime if neon is or is >> not present? > > hi Tom, > > Did you mean this? >    https://bugs.meego.com/show_bug.cgi?

DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH is not a supported

2011-09-07 Thread Tom Gall
While updating my natty install on my beagle board xm, I ran into the following Preparing to replace libjpeg-turbo62 1.1.90-1inaro6 (using .../libjpeg-turbo62_1.1.90-1inaro6_armel.deb) ... DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH is not a supported variable name at /usr/bin/dpkg-architecture line 214. dpkg: error proce

Re: Bootchart results

2011-09-12 Thread Tom Gall
The machine, configuration would be also good to have as part of the context. Media (class if applicable) in use. The times noted for developer and nano seem quite long. Regards, Tom On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Paul Larson wrote: > This time with the attachment :) > > On Mon, Sep 12, 2011

Re: [REMINDER] Linaro 11.09 release dates and deliveries

2011-09-14 Thread Tom Gall
Greets, On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 7:21 AM, Christian Robottom Reis wrote: > On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 09:50:22AM +0300, Fathi Boudra wrote: >> The following components are planned to be delivered this month: > [...] >>  * Multimedia WG: libjpeg-turbo (for Android) > > Why only for Android (the packag

Re: ALIP filesystem

2011-09-14 Thread Tom Gall
Yes you should be able do something like that. You'll need to care of installation of modules (if any) that your kernel might need as well as any other kernel oriented setup you would need. On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Frederik Lotter wrote: > Dear Linaro, > > I am looking at using the ALIP

Re: HDMI on Overo with Linaro ALIP

2011-09-16 Thread Tom Gall
Which hwpack are you using? On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 10:26 PM, AJ ONeal wrote: > I've got a tobi board with HDMI, I just put in the ALIP image and plugged it > into my TV for the first time, but I get nothing (but I'm also plugged in > via serial and see that it boots completely). > So I try > X -

Announcing linaro-media-create and live-build integration

2011-09-27 Thread Tom Gall
the media of your choice. The extension lives in a bzr branch at lp:~tom-gall/live-build/integrate-linaro-media-create This code should be considered beta quality. There are bugs. The code is however useful. It will be especially useful when combined with the cross build support for live-buil

Re: Making it easier for Linaro users to help themselves

2011-09-27 Thread Tom Gall
I think this would be worthwhile session. Coming from Gentoo, one thing we always put time into was our documentation. It was/is generally goal based and smoke tested. As an example, it's a worthwhile exercise to bring someone into the picture who is completely unfamiliar with your area. Give them

[ANNOUNCE] android-tools-(adb,fastboot}

2011-09-29 Thread Tom Gall
The development platforms team would like to announce the availability of the android-tools-adb and android-tools-fastboot packages. This allows one to have access to these tools without having to go through all the steps involved with the AndroidSDK and can be useful especially in situations where

debuild & no secret keys

2011-09-30 Thread Tom Gall
Hi All, I'm setting up a new machine and I'm guessing I must have missed a step or a file. When I debuild -S -sa it's complaining about my secret key not being found. gpg: skipped "Tom Gall ": secret key not available gpg: /tmp/debsign.Or3BKbui/live-build_3.0~a21-1lina

Re: debuild & no secret keys

2011-10-01 Thread Tom Gall
Hi Riku, On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 6:19 AM, Riku Voipio wrote: > On 1 October 2011 00:20, Tom Gall wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I'm setting up a new machine and I'm guessing I must have missed a >> step or a file. >> >> When I debuild -S -sa it&

Re: debuild & no secret keys

2011-10-03 Thread Tom Gall
12 -0500, Tom Gall wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I'm setting up a new machine and I'm guessing I must have missed a >> step or a file. >> >> When I debuild -S -sa it's complaining about my secret key not being found. >> >> gpg: skipped "

oneiric, hwpacks + linaro-media-create

2011-10-04 Thread Tom Gall
Hi, Not getting any answers in #linaro. Which version of linaro-media-create is required for oneiric based hwpacks and images? Should the PPA version suffice or does one need to use the latest greatest from bzr? Thanks! -- Regards, Tom "We want great men who, when fortune frowns will not be d

Updated Libjpeg-turbo benchmarks

2011-10-06 Thread Tom Gall
All, For those that care about such things, located in the linaro wiki : https://wiki.linaro.org/TomGall/LibJpegTurbo is benchmarking information and numbers from various arm boards and OSes. Much thanks must be given to Chao Yang for collecting the android numbers. The page is an evolving beast b

Re: [ACTIVITY] Multimedia WG - Weekly Status for wk39.2011 (20110926-20110930)

2011-10-06 Thread Tom Gall
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Christian Robottom Reis wrote: > On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 08:44:01AM +0300, Fathi Boudra wrote: >> On 6 October 2011 00:43, Mans Rullgard wrote: >> > On 5 October 2011 18:35, Christian Robottom Reis wrote: >> >> On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 08:09:03PM +0300, Fathi Boudr

Re: Oneiric image directory on snapshots.linaro.org

2011-10-07 Thread Tom Gall
On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 9:29 AM, James Westby wrote: > On Thu, 6 Oct 2011 16:29:47 -0500, Paul Larson wrote: >> I know this has come up before, but I'd like to raise it again: Is there any >> reason for the lack of consistency between directory layouts for: >> http://snapshots.linaro.org/oneiric/

Re: Oneiric image directory on snapshots.linaro.org

2011-10-07 Thread Tom Gall
On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Christian Robottom Reis wrote: > On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 01:37:29PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: >> On 7 October 2011 13:16, Fathi Boudra wrote: >> > On 7 October 2011 15:06, Peter Maydell wrote: >> >> On 7 October 2011 11:23, Alexander Sack wrote: >> >>> Also, it

Re: iPhone 4S Preliminary Benchmarks - Very impressive

2011-10-11 Thread Tom Gall
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 9:31 AM, Eric Miao wrote: > http://www.anandtech.com/show/4951/iphone-4s-preliminary-benchmarks-800mhz-a > > Apple's hardware doesn't look like to have very high spec, however, the > results are a bit impressive, does that necessarily mean there is a big > gap in software o

11.10 image changes

2011-10-11 Thread Tom Gall
All, Our oneiric based images and hwpacks are shaping up in advance of the 11.10 based release. Already you can download from http://snapshots.linaro.org/oneiric. Some important things you'll want to be aware of. We'll be upgrading the version of live-build that we use to generate our images ver

Re: 11.10 image changes

2011-10-11 Thread Tom Gall
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Alexander Sack wrote: > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 7:08 PM, Tom Gall wrote: >> >> The change in format of the tarball also means that the rootfs >> tarballs will appear to be larger. Don't panic. Once installed with >> linaro-media-

Re: 11.10 image changes

2011-10-11 Thread Tom Gall
Hi Anmar, On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 7:54 PM, anmar.ou...@linaro.org wrote: > On 11 October 2011 13:08, Tom Gall wrote: >> All, >> >> Our oneiric based images and hwpacks are shaping up in advance of the >> 11.10 based release. Already you can download from >> ht

libjpeg8c vs libjpeg-turbo with libjpeg8 compat on

2011-10-26 Thread Tom Gall
In prep for Linaro Connect & the Ubuntu Developers Summit next week I've put together some performance measurements comparing libjpeg8c and libjpeg-turbo compiled with it's libjpeg8 compatibility setting. Quality settings of 95 and 75 are used. Image sizes used are 640x480 and 3136x2352. Hardware

Re: libjpeg8c vs libjpeg-turbo with libjpeg8 compat on

2011-10-27 Thread Tom Gall
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Christian Robottom Reis wrote: > On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 03:54:52PM -0500, Tom Gall wrote: >> Hardware used includes the imx53 QuickStart board by freescale and an >> intel core 2 duo in my Lenovo T400. >> >> The results can be found

important oneiric daily snapshot change

2011-11-15 Thread Tom Gall
Hi All, As a result of bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/linaro-ubuntu/+bug/890185, it was decided to enable a default password on images going forward. The released snapshots now use the password "linaro" for the linaro account. Auto login behavior for the serial cons as well as the graphical cons

Re: Explanation of the different Ubuntu images?

2011-11-28 Thread Tom Gall
At one time we had links to the explanations as part of every release. Looking at https://wiki.linaro.org/Cycles/YYMM/Release pages it looks as if that information was removed. It does seem like a good idea to include the explanations just so interested people can see more detain about the availab

Libjpeg-turbo rebuild status

2011-11-28 Thread Tom Gall
Hi Matthias, Over the Thanksgiving holiday the compile-o-rama complete for all the packages from the main and universe archives that had deps on libjpeg-dev. The results of the build can be found in my libjpeg-turbo ppa: https://launchpad.net/~tom-gall/+archive/libjpeg-turbo/+packages In summary

Proposal : New Linaro Desktop Wallpaper

2011-12-01 Thread Tom Gall
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 kind of thing. Towards that end (and given that time is short if this is to make 11.12) I'd like to propo

Static Library startup

2011-12-04 Thread Tom Gall
I probably know the answer to this already but ... For shared libs one can define and use something like: void __attribute__ ((constructor)) my_init(void); void __attribute__ ((destructor)) my_fini(void); Which of course allows your lib to run code just after the library is loaded and just befor

ANNOUNCE: updated live-build with cross support

2011-12-04 Thread Tom Gall
Hi All, In ppa: tom-gall/packages I've published an updated version live-build (version a40-1linaro10) for maverick, natty, oneiric, and precise. This version of live-build includes the ability to cross build root file systems with multistrap. As it turns out to cross build our precise l

Re: Proposal : New Linaro Desktop Wallpaper

2011-12-05 Thread Tom Gall
7, Dave Martin wrote: >> >> On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 09:35:19AM -0600, Andy Doan wrote: >> > On 12/02/2011 04:55 AM, Alexander Sack wrote: >> > > On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Riku Voipio > > > <mailto:riku.voi...@linaro.org>> wrote: >> > > >&g

Re: Master images are a mess

2011-12-07 Thread Tom Gall
On this thought On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Ricardo Salveti wrote: > On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Zygmunt Krynicki > wrote: >> W dniu 07.12.2011 18:44, Paul Larson pisze: >>> >>> On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Zygmunt Krynicki >>> mailto:zygmunt.kryni...@linaro.org>> wrote: >>> >>>

git oddness

2011-12-14 Thread Tom Gall
r origin/1.1.0-linaro origin/1.1.1-linaro origin/1.1.1-linaro-android origin/1.2-beta-linaro-andoid origin/HEAD -> origin/master origin/master git log does correctly show the commit on the local branch: commit 95ed21e84965f859da0792558742f9cbf9d4ac7a Author: Tom Gall Date: Wed

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