On Monday, 26 de September de 2011 17:50:31 Balagopalakrishnan, Anand wrote: > I don't see any of the "embedded" platforms for Qt 5.0. There is mention of > Linux, ARM7. Is this ARM7TDMI (which is almost ancient) or ARM-v7a > (Cortex-A8/A9/...)? What's the specific EVM that's planned? > > BeagleBoard and Panda were some of the reference platforms used in Qt4. Are > they no longer supported?
Hi Anand
I think we need to split the "Qt project support" from what consulting
companies support, and we need to understand the difference between reference
platforms and supported platforms. For example, I'd remove the reference to
Ubuntu from the platform list, seeing as the support has nothing to do with
Ubuntu -- as long as it's Linux with the proper configuration, it should be
supported.
So I'd consolidate the list as:
Linux x86 32-bit, X11 & Wayland
Linux x86-64, X11 & Wayland
Linux ARMv7, X11 & Wayland
(maybe dropping X11 support for ARM)
The reference platforms are those that are mandated by the project and new
features must work (or at least gracefully fail) on all of them. I believe the
ARMv7 support with Wayland is the one targeted at embedded systems. In the
specific case of ARM, I think we need a good coverage of Cortex-A9s, to detect
multiprocessor issues, if any.
Supported platforms are, however, provided depending on the interest and
availability of people working on those platforms. That is valid for
architectures[1] as well as operating systems[2] or middleware stack[3]. Some
of those more interesting platforms will get commercial backing and/or lots of
interested people, so support should be almost a given for them too.
That said, access to hardware would be appreciated. Maybe TI could help out
with Panda Boards or even older devices for people interested in supporting
them.
[1] e.g. ARMv6, MIPS, PowerPC, UltraSparc, IA-64, SH-4, but also x86-64 ILP32
[2] e.g. AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, QNX, iOS
[3] that's where Android comes in
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