Thanks for your responses. The porting guide has been down for almost 3 months now. Of course applications are important, but I think that porting the OS to more devices is essential for its adoption.
Recently I read the Tizen porting guide. Unfortunately the comparison is not in favor of Ubuntu Touch. Regards, Vladislav 2015-02-12 8:14 GMT-05:00 John Nelson <[email protected]>: > That would be neat, but we've been told that for a long time. > > On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 8:07 AM, Jelmer Prins <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> The porting guid will soon be on the site, for real :) >> There is someone working on it, they talked about it on the Q&A this week >> >> greetz >> justCarakas >> >> On 12 Feb 2015, at 13:55, John Nelson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> A brief history lesson. >> >> 1. When I posted the port to the Tab 2 7.0, it wasn't some fringe piece >> of equipment no one had heard of, it was the best-selling 7" tablet in the >> world. In June of 2013, the port stopped working with the latest Touch >> builds, which suggested that the problem was with a change Canonical had >> made to the Touch builds. A request for help posted to this list to get to >> the bottom of the issue was ignored. >> >> 2. Following normal protocol, I posted a bug report about the problem, >> including full logs. The bug report has been ingnored since July of 2013. >> >> 3. Despite statements made from time to time in this list that a new >> porting guide would be posted, that never happened. Instead, the old >> porting guide was listed as "deprecated", and a "Coming soon" page was >> posted instead. >> >> 4. Other people, from time-to-time, post requests for help in porting on >> this list, all of which are ignored. >> >> Simply put, I think you are wrong when you talk about Canonical employees >> helping the community; rather, the community is expected to help Canonical. >> You may say something like, "Hey, but we help people when they are trying >> to get their apps working on Touch!", but I notice that only happens when >> it's an app that has broad appeal, and it should be obvious that the more >> apps that are available, the more likely that Ubuntu Touch will be >> successful. >> >> It is noteworthy that there seems to be no interest on Canonical's part >> to port some of the shiny new scopes developed for the Bq device to the >> Nexus devices that are supposedly fully supported. Again, the community is >> expected to help Canonical, not the other way around (unless such help is >> ultimately in Canonical's financial best interests). >> >> >> On Feb 12, 2015 7:24 AM, "Chris Wayne" <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > That's really not fair to say, there are really only a few people that >> have the domain knowledge of bringing up a new device, and they are quite >> often helping the community in addition to their (more than) full-time work >> at Canonical >> > >> > On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 7:19 AM, John Nelson <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> From my experience with porting Ubuntu Touch to the Samsung Tab 2 7.0, >> unsupported devices (everything except the official devices) are COMPLETELY >> unsupported. In other words, you're on your own, and any requests for help >> to this list will be ignored. Because, you know, community. That being >> said, good luck in your efforts. >> >> >> >> On Feb 11, 2015 3:24 PM, "Vladislav Evgeniev" <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> >> >>> Dear All, >> >>> >> >>> I'm trying to port Ubuntu Touch for Motorola Photon Q. >> >>> >> >>> I followed the deprecated porting guide and built and uploaded an >> image to the phone. >> >>> The phone bootloops with my image (recovery mode works). >> >>> I checked the last_kmsg file, which contains the following: >> >>> >> >>> [ 4.291011,1] initrd: boot mode: ubuntu >> >>> [ 4.339081,1] initrd: mounting system.img (user mode) >> >>> [ 4.375888,1] EXT3-fs (loop1): error: couldn't mount because of >> unsupported optional features (40) >> >>> [ 4.417305,1] EXT2-fs (loop1): error: couldn't mount because of >> unsupported optional features (40) >> >>> [ 4.450480,1] EXT4-fs (loop1): mounted filesystem with ordered >> data mode. Opts: (null) >> >>> [ 4.466503,1] initrd: device is moto_msm8960 >> >>> [ 4.608850,0] resout_irq_handler PMIC Initiated shutdown >> >>> [ 4.608972,0] PMIC Initiated shutdown cpu_power_off cpu=0 >> >>> [ 4.608972,1] PMIC Initiated shutdown cpu_power_off cpu=1 >> >>> [ 4.609125,0] Powering off the SoC >> >>> [ 4.609217,0] Calling scm to disable arbiter >> >>> [ 4.609339,0] SCM returned even when asked to busy loop rc=-4 >> >>> [ 4.609400,0] waiting on pmic to shut msm down >> >>> >> >>> Can someone please tell me what might be wrong with the image? And in >> general, is there a troubleshooting guide somewhere? >> >>> >> >>> Thanks in advance! >> >>> >> >>> Regards, >> >>> >> >>> Vladislav >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> -- >> >>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone >> >>> Post to : [email protected] >> >>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone >> >>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone >> >> Post to : [email protected] >> >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone >> >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> >> > >> -- >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> >> > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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