Hi Simon, Thanks for your detailed response. I like many other would very much like to see Aethercast on the MX4 and I am wondering if there is any scope to crowd fund a port to BSP 5?
Is that a conversation that could lead somewhere? Thanks, Dan On 1 June 2016 at 19:06, Simon Fels <simon.f...@canonical.com> wrote: > On 01.06.2016 18:50, Krzysztof Tataradziński wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I just want to sum up what we know about wireless display support. For > now, > > theoretically we've two options to get it working on Meizu MX4: > > (1) Change Android BSP from 4.x to 5.x. > > (2) Backport MediaCodecSource class (and maybe some other bits) to actual > > Android BSP 4.x. > > > > Am I right? > > That is correct. I did that already for the Nexus 4 and pushed patches > > https://code-review.phablet.ubuntu.com/444 > https://code-review.phablet.ubuntu.com/445 > https://code-review.phablet.ubuntu.com/446 > > That enables the basic bits for the media encoding side. On the Nexus 4 > the more hard thing is the getting WiFi Direct support working as the > WiFi driver we have in the kernel seems to be quite busy. > > However to highlight the important thing: The Android side source of the > MX4 is not available to the public and will not. Only people inside > Canonical have access to it. We don't have any plans to enable > aethercast on the MX4 and krillin by default. I've shared those patches > basically for community ports based on Android 4.x. > > Also don't expect you're done with just importing those three patches > into your tree. Depending on how the encoder is structured and > performing there are more changes necessary involving debugging and > insight into the whole thing. > > > Regarding (1) - Meizu released 5.x OS recently. I'm not a tech guy, but > is it > > not 'only' to grab what we need from that release and put it instead of > actual one? > > Where is a problem with changing BSP to 5.x? > > Changing to a newer BSP requires a two to three month effort for > multiple people involved. Not an easy thing and isn't really worth for > Ubuntu Touch as we don't gain any new features and will only risk > regressions etc. The BSP we have stabilized very much over time so there > is absolutely no reason to change to a newer version of Android for the > MX4. > > regards, > Simon > > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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