The porting guid will soon be on the site, for real :) There is someone working on it, they talked about it on the Q&A this week
greetz justCarakas On 12 Feb 2015, at 13:55, John Nelson <[email protected]> wrote: > A brief history lesson. > > 1. When I posted the port to the Tab 2 7.0, it wasn't some fringe piece of > equipment no one had heard of, it was the best-selling 7" tablet in the > world. In June of 2013, the port stopped working with the latest Touch > builds, which suggested that the problem was with a change Canonical had made > to the Touch builds. A request for help posted to this list to get to the > bottom of the issue was ignored. > > 2. Following normal protocol, I posted a bug report about the problem, > including full logs. The bug report has been ingnored since July of 2013. > > 3. Despite statements made from time to time in this list that a new porting > guide would be posted, that never happened. Instead, the old porting guide > was listed as "deprecated", and a "Coming soon" page was posted instead. > > 4. Other people, from time-to-time, post requests for help in porting on this > list, all of which are ignored. > > Simply put, I think you are wrong when you talk about Canonical employees > helping the community; rather, the community is expected to help Canonical. > You may say something like, "Hey, but we help people when they are trying to > get their apps working on Touch!", but I notice that only happens when it's > an app that has broad appeal, and it should be obvious that the more apps > that are available, the more likely that Ubuntu Touch will be successful. > > It is noteworthy that there seems to be no interest on Canonical's part to > port some of the shiny new scopes developed for the Bq device to the Nexus > devices that are supposedly fully supported. Again, the community is expected > to help Canonical, not the other way around (unless such help is ultimately > in Canonical's financial best interests). > > > On Feb 12, 2015 7:24 AM, "Chris Wayne" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > That's really not fair to say, there are really only a few people that have > > the domain knowledge of bringing up a new device, and they are quite often > > helping the community in addition to their (more than) full-time work at > > Canonical > > > > On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 7:19 AM, John Nelson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> From my experience with porting Ubuntu Touch to the Samsung Tab 2 7.0, > >> unsupported devices (everything except the official devices) are > >> COMPLETELY unsupported. In other words, you're on your own, and any > >> requests for help to this list will be ignored. Because, you know, > >> community. That being said, good luck in your efforts. > >> > >> On Feb 11, 2015 3:24 PM, "Vladislav Evgeniev" <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> > >>> Dear All, > >>> > >>> I'm trying to port Ubuntu Touch for Motorola Photon Q. > >>> > >>> I followed the deprecated porting guide and built and uploaded an image > >>> to the phone. > >>> The phone bootloops with my image (recovery mode works). > >>> I checked the last_kmsg file, which contains the following: > >>> > >>> [ 4.291011,1] initrd: boot mode: ubuntu > >>> [ 4.339081,1] initrd: mounting system.img (user mode) > >>> [ 4.375888,1] EXT3-fs (loop1): error: couldn't mount because of > >>> unsupported optional features (40) > >>> [ 4.417305,1] EXT2-fs (loop1): error: couldn't mount because of > >>> unsupported optional features (40) > >>> [ 4.450480,1] EXT4-fs (loop1): mounted filesystem with ordered data > >>> mode. Opts: (null) > >>> [ 4.466503,1] initrd: device is moto_msm8960 > >>> [ 4.608850,0] resout_irq_handler PMIC Initiated shutdown > >>> [ 4.608972,0] PMIC Initiated shutdown cpu_power_off cpu=0 > >>> [ 4.608972,1] PMIC Initiated shutdown cpu_power_off cpu=1 > >>> [ 4.609125,0] Powering off the SoC > >>> [ 4.609217,0] Calling scm to disable arbiter > >>> [ 4.609339,0] SCM returned even when asked to busy loop rc=-4 > >>> [ 4.609400,0] waiting on pmic to shut msm down > >>> > >>> Can someone please tell me what might be wrong with the image? And in > >>> general, is there a troubleshooting guide somewhere? > >>> > >>> Thanks in advance! > >>> > >>> Regards, > >>> > >>> Vladislav > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > >>> Post to : [email protected] > >>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > >>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >>> > >> > >> -- > >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > >> Post to : [email protected] > >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >> > > > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
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