Thanks all for response. Like I read here http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/04/meizu-mx4-ubuntu-convergence-support I just want to know if there is a hope: does anyone from our community trying to get it working? I'm not tech guy, but if there is anything that I can do (getting logs, testings?) , I can help.
2016-06-01 21:04 GMT+02:00 Daniel Wood <[email protected]>: > Hi Simon, > > Thanks for your detailed response. I like many other would very much like to > see Aethercast on the MX4 and I am wondering if there is any scope to crowd > fund a port to BSP 5? > > Is that a conversation that could lead somewhere? > > Thanks, > > Dan > > > > On 1 June 2016 at 19:06, Simon Fels <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 01.06.2016 18:50, Krzysztof Tataradziński wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > I just want to sum up what we know about wireless display support. For >> > now, >> > theoretically we've two options to get it working on Meizu MX4: >> > (1) Change Android BSP from 4.x to 5.x. >> > (2) Backport MediaCodecSource class (and maybe some other bits) to >> > actual >> > Android BSP 4.x. >> > >> > Am I right? >> >> That is correct. I did that already for the Nexus 4 and pushed patches >> >> https://code-review.phablet.ubuntu.com/444 >> https://code-review.phablet.ubuntu.com/445 >> https://code-review.phablet.ubuntu.com/446 >> >> That enables the basic bits for the media encoding side. On the Nexus 4 >> the more hard thing is the getting WiFi Direct support working as the >> WiFi driver we have in the kernel seems to be quite busy. >> >> However to highlight the important thing: The Android side source of the >> MX4 is not available to the public and will not. Only people inside >> Canonical have access to it. We don't have any plans to enable >> aethercast on the MX4 and krillin by default. I've shared those patches >> basically for community ports based on Android 4.x. >> >> Also don't expect you're done with just importing those three patches >> into your tree. Depending on how the encoder is structured and >> performing there are more changes necessary involving debugging and >> insight into the whole thing. >> >> > Regarding (1) - Meizu released 5.x OS recently. I'm not a tech guy, but >> > is it >> > not 'only' to grab what we need from that release and put it instead of >> > actual one? >> > Where is a problem with changing BSP to 5.x? >> >> Changing to a newer BSP requires a two to three month effort for >> multiple people involved. Not an easy thing and isn't really worth for >> Ubuntu Touch as we don't gain any new features and will only risk >> regressions etc. The BSP we have stabilized very much over time so there >> is absolutely no reason to change to a newer version of Android for the >> MX4. >> >> regards, >> Simon >> >> >> -- >> 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
