Linaro-android November 2012

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by Zach Pfeffer

Hey Nico, I put linaro-android on this mail. How can we help? -- Zach Pfeffer Android Platform Team Lead, Linaro Platform Teams Linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Linaro http://twitter.com/#!/linaroorg - http://www.linaro.org/linaro-blog

12 years, 9 months

4.2 misfeature: hidden developer mode

by Bernhard Rosenkränzer

Hi, if anyone has tried to do anything useful with stock (non-Linaro) 4.2, you'll probably have noticed the "Developer options" item in Settings is gone, and adb is disabled by default, with no obvious way to turn it on. There's a way to get it back though (but it seems to be hidden to anyone who doesn't read the source): Open Settings > About phone (or About tablet), then tap the Build number entry 7 times. After that, "Developer options" will be back and you can turn on adb. ttyl bero

12 years, 10 months

problems downloading ICS

by Eames, Brandon K

Hi All, I'm attempting to download, boot and run a Linaro Android image targeting the Arm FastModels simulator, with a Cortex-A15 target (preferably the single core). We have been using the RTSE_VE example that is shipped with the FastModels distribution for our target platform, based on the Cortex-A15x1 core. I've had some trouble downloading the Android source from Linaro. Following the instructions listed on https://android-build.linaro.org, I have tried a couple of distributions (not exactly clear which one I should pick). I have tried the vexpress-ics-gcc47-armlt-tracking-open, and I have also tried the vexpress-rtsm-ics-gcc47-armlt-tracking-open. If you could clarify which I should be looking at, that would be great (the Linaro wiki entry on "Android on Fastmodels" seems to indicate the vexpress-rtsm version, however, the main page on http://android-build.linaro.org seems to indicate that vexpress-ics-gcc47-armlt-tracking-open will work for RTSM. However, I see a similar error in the download regardless of which version I attempt to download. Following the suggestion on the specific build page, I have downloaded the linaro_android_build_cmds.sh script, and have used it to download the repositories. I had some major headaches with the sync step hanging, but following some advice on the internet, I added the -j1 parameter to the repo sync command, to force the download to occur single threaded, and that seemed to help. The error encountered occurs during the sync step, when the repository for libyuv is cloned. I get an error reported that the calculated hash is not a valid SHA1 hash. I'll post the error below. The sync execution continues after this error for some time, but eventually fails. My host machine is a Ubuntu Linux 11.10 virtual machine. Thanks for any suggestions you may have, Brandon Eames Exception in thread Thread-98:07), 660.00 KiB | 325 KiB/s Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 552, in __bootstrap_inner self.run() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 505, in run self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs) File "/home/santeriauser/LinaroAndroid/android/.repo/repo/subcmds/sync.py", line 228, in _FetchHelper clone_bundle=not opt.no_clone_bundle) File "/home/santeriauser/LinaroAndroid/android/.repo/repo/project.py", line 974, in Sync_NetworkHalf self._InitMRef() File "/home/santeriauser/LinaroAndroid/android/.repo/repo/project.py", line 1747, in _InitMRef self._InitAnyMRef(R_M + self.manifest.branch) File "/home/santeriauser/LinaroAndroid/android/.repo/repo/project.py", line 1759, in _InitAnyMRef self.bare_git.UpdateRef(ref, dst, message = msg, detach = True) File "/home/santeriauser/LinaroAndroid/android/.repo/repo/project.py", line 1933, in UpdateRef self.update_ref(*cmdv) File "/home/santeriauser/LinaroAndroid/android/.repo/repo/project.py", line 2005, in runner p.stderr)) GitError: platform/external/libyuv update-ref: fatal: 351958316957352685f15674ee5bd71726dc993e^0: not a valid SHA1

12 years, 10 months

Anyone else seeing this when repo syncing on hackbox

by Zach Pfeffer

error: Exited sync due to gc errors a la: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/repo-discuss/tnIWemm8M6k repo --trace sync -j1 -n seems to help... Paul, is this a manifestation of the usual git issue? -- Zach Pfeffer Android Platform Team Lead, Linaro Platform Teams Linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Linaro http://twitter.com/#!/linaroorg - http://www.linaro.org/linaro-blog

12 years, 10 months

Android 4.2

by Bernhard Rosenkränzer

Hi, I've had a look at the 4.2 tree last night, and started rebasing our stuff. A couple of notable changes, some of which may require some extra work: - Some Ethernet support was added. In the rebased version, I've dropped the frameworks/base part of the ECM bits (because something similar is already there). We may have to modify the ECM settings bits to work with the new Ethernet stuff or bring back ECM if it turns out to be more powerful - fake vsync is now supported out of the box, our patch for that is no longer needed. The property has a different name though - if anything uses sf.force_sw_vsync, it needs to be updated to use debug.sf.no_hw_vsync - Bluez was dropped in favor of a new Bluetooth stack. I doubt this affects any of our builds a lot. - the "prebuilts" tree now includes "platform/prebuilts/clang/linux-x86/3.2", looks like someone is considering to move away from gcc. It'll be interesting to benchmark this against Linaro gcc (if llvm 2.9 is any indication, its optimization will come nowhere near ours - but of course they haven't been sitting around idle) I've pushed a linaro_android_4.2 tree, but it's not ready yet (in particular, only the galaxynexus manifest has been updated, trying to get one build up first). ttyl bero

12 years, 10 months

Test result summary for 12.11RC2 Android JB.

by Soumya Basak

*Hi,* *12.11RC2 Test Summary. Here is test result summary for Linaro Android platform on following boards:* *1.TI Panda Board 4430.* *2.TI Panda Board 4460.* *3.ST-Ericsson Snowball.* *4.Samsung Origen.* *5. ARM Versatile Express A9.* *Synopsis:* As tested for 12.11RC2 Android and ubuntu build images for Panda4430, Panda4460, Snowball, and Origen board and Versatile Express A9 summary report as follows. - Panda 4430 and 4460 Android JB build image is tested with kernel version 3.4.0-gc9c93b6. Apart from no major Difference and new bugs is observed compare to the last few weeks tested images. - ST Ericsson Snowball is work fine for Android jb build images with kernel version 3.4.0+ . only the toolchain version and android version is is changed from r3 12.10 . The features SD Card not detected from Gallery, video playback fails. Apart from that No major difference compare to Past few weeks. - Origen Android jb builds with kernel version 3.6.1 , no new bugs found as like past few test images ethernet, wifi, BT, Suspend resume is not working. All the other features remain the same status. - For Android JB on Versatile Express A9 the major difference is observed kernel version is changed to 3.7.0-rc4-00438-g5da654f. Toolchain version is changed to 4.7-2012.10 from 12.11RC1. And android version is same as 4.1.2. 1. *Panda 4430/4460 Android Jelly Bean** **(Panda 4430 Column R/ Panda 4460 Column R)* https://docs.google.com/a/linaro.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkxwyUNxNaAadGVWd… Features: for panda 4430 sd-mmc – m, wifi , suspend-resume – wm, glmark2 – dwm, youtube – wm, hwvideo – wm, audio – wm, hwaudio – m, angrybirds – wm, bluetooth – wm, usb-camera – wm, is not working. All the other features remain the same status. For panda 4460 : suspend-resume, wifi fail to connect, 0xbench, glmark, hwgfx is not complete successfully, video playback failed, download-install apk is never get finished. All the other features remain the same status. *Note: kernel version is changed to 3.4.0-gc9c93b6 from 12.11RC1 release. Toolchain version is (gcc version 4.7.3 20121001 (prerelease) (Linaro GCC 4.7-2012.10) ), Android version is 4.1.2.* 2. *Snowball Android Jelly Bean** **(column O)* https://docs.google.com/a/linaro.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkxwyUNxNaAadEF1N… Features: the content of SD-card is not detected from Gallery, df will not show /mnt/sdcard. Playback of Video fails. Youtube is not working, speach recorder, BT, suspend resume is not working. All the other features remain the same status. *Note: kernel version is same 3.4.0+ , toolchain version is gcc version 4.7.3 20121001 (prerelease) (Linaro GCC 4.7-2012.10) ), and Android version : 4.1.2* 3. *Origen Android Jelly Bean** **(column J)* https://docs.google.com/a/linaro.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkxwyUNxNaAadDRDV… Features: wifi, BT, usb-camera, secondary-vid-out, youtube, wifi, vid-play-back, email, speach-recorder, download-install-apk, is not working. All the other features remain the same status. *Note: the kernel version is 3.6.1-01433-ga264b06, toolchain version is 4.7-2012.10 and android version is 4.1.2* *4. ARM Versatile Express A9 Jelly Bean (column O)* * https://docs.google.com/a/linaro.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkxwyUNxNaAadExQd… * Features: Google Email starts to work again, All the other features remain the same status. Device Tree, Audio, Video Playback and Download via Browser are still unavailable. Also, sync failed on Google Calendar & People apps. *Note: kernel version is changed to 3.7.0-rc4-00438-g5da654f. Toolchain version is changed to 4.7-2012.10 from 12.11RC1. And android version is same as 4.1.2.* * * *Thanks & Regards* *Soumya Basak.*

12 years, 10 months

Beagleboard-xM kernel update

by Li Wu

Hi All, My beagleboard xM is running old kernel 2.6.37. I am looking for a way to update the kernel to a newer version, hopefuly 3.x. Anyone knows where to find reference/instructions? Thanks and Regards, Willy

12 years, 10 months

2012-11-14 Android Platform Team Meeting Agenda Posted

by Vishal Bhoj

Please take a look at: https://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/Android/Meetings/2012-11-14 Feel free to add to the agenda and join us in #linaro-meeting on irc.freenode.net at 13:00 UTC on 2012/11/14. Regards, Vishal

12 years, 10 months

Does any Linaro Jelly Bean build have working audio?

by Jon Medhurst (Tixy)

I have been given an Audio HAL library for vexpress and want to get it into our JB builds and was hoping to find an existing board with working audio to get some clues from it. I'm a bit worried that since the move to JB logcat shows lots of lines like: E/WVMExtractor( 1925): Failed to open libwvm.so which seems to be related to attempts to play sound, so I'm guessing that we might be missing something important. -- Tixy

12 years, 10 months

Test result summary for 12.11RC1 Android JB.

by Soumya Basak

*Hi,* *12.11RC1 Test Summary. Here is test result summary for Linaro Android platform on following boards:* *1.TI Panda Board 4430.* *2.TI Panda Board 4460.* *3.ST-Ericsson Snowball.* *4.Samsung Origen. * *5. ARM Versatile Express A9.* *Synopsis:* As tested for 12.11RC1 Android and ubuntu build images for Panda4430, Panda4460, Snowball, and Origen board summary report as follows. - Panda 4430 and 4460 Android ubuntu build image is tested. No major Difference is observed compare to the last few weeks tested images. The Audio jack-out bug is fixed for panda 4430 and panda 4460 images. - ST Ericsson Snowball is work fine for Android build images. SD Card not detected from Gallery, video playback fails. Apart from that No major difference compare to Past few weeks. - Origen Android builds ethernet, wifi, BT, Suspend resume is not working. - For Origen Ubuntu build Audio-HDMI , wifi, totem, BT secondary-Vid-out, pwrmgmt is not working. - For Android JB on Versatile Express A9 Google Email starts to work again, and installation instructions on the build page looks well. 1. *Panda 4430/4460 Android **Jelly Bean** (Panda 4430 Column Q/ Panda 4460 Column Q)* https://docs.google.com/a/linaro.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkxwyUNxNaAadGVWd… Features: sd-mmc – m, suspend-resume – wm, glmark2 – dwm, youtube – wm, hwvideo – wm, audio – wm, hwaudio – m, angrybirds – wm, bluetooth – wm, usb-camera – wm, is not working. 2. *Snowball Android **Jelly Bean** (column N)* https://docs.google.com/a/linaro.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkxwyUNxNaAadEF1N… Features: the content of SD-card is not detected from Gallery, df will not show /mnt/sdcard. Playback of Video fails. Youtube is not working, speach recorder, BT, suspend resume is not working. 3. *Origen Android **Jelly Bean** (column I )* https://docs.google.com/a/linaro.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkxwyUNxNaAadDRDV… Features: wifi, BT, usb-camera, secondary-vid-out, youtube, wifi, vid-play-back, email, speach-recorder, download-install-apk, is not working. 4. *ARM Versatile Express A9 Jelly Bean (column N)* https://docs.google.com/a/linaro.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkxwyUNxNaAadExQd… Features: Google Email starts to work again, and installation instructions on the build page looks well. All the other features remain the same status. Device Tree, Audio, Video Playback and Download via Browser are still unavailable. Also, sync failed on Google Calendar & People apps. Thanks and regards Soumya Basak.

12 years, 10 months

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Linaro-android November 2012