> > > * Our ARM team says that the current versions still work rather > > > poorly on ARM. > > > > I saw one bug about that, also mentioned in my previous post, which > > is being worked on, but that's about it. What other issues are there? > > This needs input from the ARM team, I CC'ed some of them.
I am seeing the same banshee issue on all supported arm platforms here (BeagleXM, iMX53 Quickstart, Pandaboard, Toshiba AC100). This is with a fresh Oneiric (11.10) install. I have yet to root cause the issue, but I have a workaround available as a patch attached to bug 857299. I have personally spent several weeks trying to debug this further. The fact that others can get it working on android or on some system not supported here doesn't surprise me. I might be able to get it working if I do an upgrade from Natty->Oneiric if I mess around with it long enough. I also keep hearing that people are having problems getting arm platforms to work with. Do we need to provide a list of where to buy supported systems? They are very affordable (I personally have bought 2 omap4 pandaboards, 1 imx53 quickstart, and 1 omap3 beagle this year). I also own a Nook Color, and will be buying a Nook Tablet when they start shipping. And I don't get reimbursed for these (by choice - just to be clear). Last cycle, the issue with banshee on arm was specific to Panda and mono in that the mono that shipped didn't support SMP on Arm: /* SWP on ARM is very similar to XCHG on x86. Doesn't lock the * bus because there are no SMP ARM machines. If/when there are, * this code will likely need to be updated. */ This took several weeks to try and fix. In the end, we disabled multi-threading on arm. The result was that banshee ran, but slower than sap in January (July for you southern hemisphere folk). This cycle, 12.04, we are pushing out our first LTS on arm. And it may very well be based on enabling hard-float which has not been enabled before. Mono is severely broken in Debian with their hard float implementation. I have little doubt we will see similar issues. Whatever the final decision is, I will do my best to test it on all supported platforms. Just know that banshee easily takes 1/3 of all of my time on arm desktop, especially when there is a problem and I have to root cause the issue. Tobin Davis QA Tester Ubuntu Arm team -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
