Hey, I know everybody is waiting for a working X86 emulator, so just an update at what was done and what we're currently working on.
Done: * Android package is now generating images for the generic_x86 target * Images for generic_x86 are now published by live-build, cdimage and system-image * Initial i386 android toolchain published in the archive, but not yet functional (image fails to boot if built with it) In Progress: * Packaging split and rebuild to create a Qt stack which is compatible with OpenGLES on i386 - As we found out that libqt5gui5 is not ABI compatible when built with a different gl (e.g. gles) backend, we decided to update the original symbols and rebuild everyone to have a dependency chain that is either compatible with either versions, or specifically to the GL/GLES ones. - An updated version of qtbase and qtdeclarative (together with the ones built with the gles backend by default) are already available in a private PPA (so we can have builds on real machines). Work is in progress to rebuild the reverse dependency chain, at least enough to create a working X86 image. * Investigating the issue with our i386 android toolchain To be done: * Working image based on a PPA that proves that we're able to have a Qt stack which is compatible with OpenGLES (only replacing the packages that are affected by the GL backend configure option). * Update our ubuntu-emulator flashing tool to be able to create and run x86 images. As we're hitting final freeze this thursday (and the Qt packages are not only common to the Touch image), we should only be good to land this once 'u' is open for development. If everything goes as planned, it should be available from our archive by the end of this month. Thanks, -- Ricardo Salveti de Araujo -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
