Why only PC? -----Original Message----- From: Ding, Jian-feng Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2013 10:55 PM To: Clark, Joel Cc: Kok, Auke-jan H; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Tizen General] Tizen platform development tools survey : dropping 32bit linux support
Joel, Whenever we have an official development and support plan for Tizen@PC, tools will support it. And it's also very possible 64bit :) thanks - jf.ding On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 12:59:24AM +0800, Clark, Joel wrote: > It is disappointing that the tools for doing Tizen local builds are not > expected to run on Tizen. I consider it an obvious hard requirement that > should be tested regularly. > > Regards > Joel > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jian-feng Ding > Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2013 2:39 AM > To: Kok, Auke-jan H > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Tizen General] Tizen platform development tools survey : > dropping 32bit linux support > > Hi, Auke > > The major reason of 32bit-linux-platform tools support dropping plan is the > qemu issue: we still have no stable 32bit qemu-static executable for current > Tizen, which is very important for the local build and image creation in > 32bit development systems. > > And the future 64bit support of Tizen itself is only the last straw of it. > Whenever the 64bit Tizen development is the necessary part of developers' > work, they can only use 64bit development environment. > > thanks > - jf.ding > > On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 12:47:54PM -0700, Kok, Auke-jan H wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Tomasz Olszak <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > I'm opposed to this. > > >> > > >> > > >> 64bit support in Tizen is not yet mainstream at all, as a matter > > >> of fact it's barely been implemented in 3.0, and no major release > > >> that developers can use yet has happened. > > >> > > >> Can we maintain 32bit code until most developers have had a major > > >> release on 64bit? It will be a significant amount of time until > > >> that really happens. > > > > > > Hi, > > > I think that question concerns development tools (gbs, qemu and so > > > on) not the architecture of Tizen. > > > > I was referring to this part that Zhang wrote: > > > > >> As Tizen will support 64bit build in the future, which can only > > >> be built by >> using 64bit system, so it's recommended to switch to > > >> 64bit system ASAP. > > > > My argument is that this motivation is somewhat premature - we want > > to use the tools on tizen itself (Zhang is not disputing that, nor > > am I) but the notion that 64bit support in Tizen itself is mature > > and everyone is using it (and gbs/mic on it) is obviously false. > > > > From that follows that 64bit tools on Tizen could not have been > > extensively been tested. So why remove support for 32bit tools that > > are being tested and used right now if nobody is yet using and > > testing on 64bit? Sounds premature to me - the word "ASAP" certainly is. > > > > Auke > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.tizen.org/listinfo/general > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.tizen.org/listinfo/general _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] https://lists.tizen.org/listinfo/general
