Great news! Posted it to reddit<https://lists.launchpad.net/elementary-dev-community/msg01889.html> .
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 6:14 PM, Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff < ser...@elementaryos.org> wrote: > Hey guys, > > The armhf enablement of Daily PPA is nearly complete now. The only > remaining items are failed builds of some Switchboard plugs which > should resolve themselves in an hour or two. In all other respects > armhf situation is 1:1 equal to the i386 and amd64 ones. And guess > what it means? Exactly - it's time to test this stuff! > > If you happen to be running Ubuntu's armhf port, please take a backup > of your system (just in case), add ppa:elementary-os/daily to your > software sources and install the "pantheon" package (or cherrypick > whatever dependencies of it you prefer). Then check out how apps work > (and if they work at all) and report your findings to this mailing > list! > > I don't anticipate any major issues in applications because all Vala > code is translated to C+GLib code and thus is portable by definition. > Also, we're not yet in a position to consider any crashes appearing on > ARM architecture-specific :) I don't code in Vala myself so developers > may correct me on this point further in this thread. > Still, SoCs may have different performance bottlenecks than desktops > do, so please report anything that works unusually slowly. > > The situation with Pantheon Shell is more interesting. In theory, Gala > should run on OpenGL ES 2.0 (and OpenGL 1.3 too, which took me by > surprise). However, I'm not aware of anybody actually trying that. So > if you happen to have hardware 3D acceleration on your ARM device, > please test Gala and report your findings. Don't forget to include the > output of "es2_info" command! > > Also, it would be nice to be able to retrace Apport crashes submitted > from armhf, so that developers can investigate and fix them. This > requires an armhf-capable machine to run the retracer on. If you have > any resources to spare on an armhf-capable server you run, or know how > to set up ARMv7 emulation on amd64, please contact me. > > Kudos to Rico for making the armhf enablement happen! > > -- > Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff > OS architect @ elementary > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community > Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > -- Cody Garver
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