Grigory, I feel your pain.
There are some disconnects between what is being developed and what is being expected. A good place to start reading up on this is a thread I started back in March "Supported Hardware", see here: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00297.html (some who have followed this list will remember me bring that thread up not so long a go). Futher investigation reveals that the IVI team has a very specific and limited view of what constitutes an IVI system, which is aimed more at commerical entities than the casual potential user. This statement isn't meant as a knock on anyone, it's more of an observation. Most of that hardware isn't readyly available for hobbiest, which is a small set as it is, limiting thier involvement. The problem is that mixed signals were sent out about this at the begining of the Meego project. So the statement from Bug 17351 (directly related to this thread, read it), "Since we are discussing hardware that this was never intended for, I am marking Resolved invalid." does kinda of get under my skin (1st and only thing I will say on that comment). I think the idea of seperating the IVI from the UX is/would help clarify this for anyone looking to jump in (where the none UX would be the *official* item releases). As the direction this effort has gotten clearer, Joel has been doing a better job of communicating all of this. Nasa BTW: The integration of the new drivers isn't the first instance of this disconnect -- the touchscreen issue (bug 12777 I believe) is a result of the same thinking. As is the inclusions of a specific rotary dial... ----- Original Message ----- > Alison > > I have to say that 1.2 release has already dropped all of us who use > ExoPC and other non new EMGD compatible things. > As I can see 1.1 had sw " rasterizer" as default and thus > - anyone was able to install it on various HW > - and add preferable driver later > > I have no idea why this way was broken in 1.2 release, but it drops > out a lot of people. They tried "new" release and it just doesn't work > for them - so they simple walk away to do something for Android or > iOS. > I remember list member NASA has provided some "workaround" and it was > quite popular topic ). But not all of us can/want to spend time to try > dancing around to "fix" drivers issue. > > I would like to extend your proposal to keep it general and end user > will decide which HW specific driver to install. And yes - proper > naming will be definitely helpful here. > > Grigory. > > -- > Grigory Abuladze > Application Solutions (Electronics and Vision) Limited. > Tel: +44 (0) 1273 409147 > > -----Original Message----- > From: Alison Chaiken [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 16 August 2011 16:55 > To: Clark, Joel > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [MeeGo-ivi] do you know when MeeGo 1.2.0.2 will be > availablefor ivi > > Joel, what I'm really thinking about is the many Lenovo Ideapads and > ExoPCs that Intel has generously given to developers: thank you! I > would hope that as the repos are refreshed, that AppUp participants > whose expertise is in QML rather than Linux graphics are not going to > get their machines borked if up they "zypper update" from trunk. > > I suggest that someone (Bob Spencer, Amar Kona . . . ) make it > clear what the best update path for developers using this older > hardware is. Otherwise when 1.3 drops, a lot of folks using older > HW may be unhappy. It's already a bit confusing about which graphics > RPMs to use with which Atom processors. Perhaps the EMGD RPMs could > have "sandybridge" or whatever in the package name. > > -- > Alison Chaiken > (650) 279-5600 (cell) > http://www.exerciseforthereader.org/ > INplanatory documentation: that which sucks comprehension right out of > the reader's mind and destroys it. > _______________________________________________ > MeeGo-ivi mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-ivi > _______________________________________________ > MeeGo-ivi mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-ivi _______________________________________________ MeeGo-ivi mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-ivi
