[Aakash-hackers] Bootstrapping for Aakash

[Srikant]

Hello Vasudev and others,

1. We were unable to install LIMA previously. Yes, it would be good to have
a Debian package.
    Also, we need to do following (no particular order, based on recall):
    a) Enable camera
    b) Suspend to RAM
    c) sleep (screen off, not display off with backlight on)
    d) Wifi discovery issue (unable to connect same network)
    e) Battery monitor(works only in 13.10)
    f) Touchscreen driver for gsl1680 and one more (@Sachin, do you
remember ?)
    g) Touchscreen issues, enable long press right click in gt811 and ft5x
    h) Boot logo in Uboot, it takes around ~3s to get kernel logo
    i)  Freeing 128MB reserved memory for MALI
    j) One image for all variants of Aakash (same specs, different
touchscreens, 5 so far)


2. Yes, we will make bootstrap rootfs. We should discuss about what DE we
should provide
    this time. Previously, it was badly customized LXDE. Should we continue
with that? or, shall we
    invest time and resources on a better touch optimized DE, say fork of
LXDE or E18. There is
    plasma-active for tablets, but its KDE, quite heavy for 512MB RAM.
Basically, we should
    have at least good virtual keyboard which should popup automatically,
touch optimized
    window manager, and of course RAM efficient. If you suggest, let's
create a separate topic for
    this ?

    Also, would you recommend to us to go with Debian-Jessie or Wheezy.
Manoj found a good
    comparison [1].

So far we don't have any special repository to enable.

[1]
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_1404_jessie&num=1

Srikant



On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 8:32 PM, Vasudev Kamath <kamathvasudev at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> Hi Srikant and others,
>
> So I'm just wondering what are the requirements at the momemnt you
> people are looking to get Debian on Aakash running.
>
> 1. We came to know from Srikant that LIMA drivers need to be ported to
>   A13 alwinner SOC but from one of our Debian collegue (Paul Wise) LIMA
>   already supports Alwinner A13 SOC. So do you want it to be packaged for
>   Debian?
>
> 2. Also we need to go ahead and bootstrap the rootfs for Aakash so if
>    you have any specific customization in mind do let us know. We have
>    Jonas who is specialist in Debian Pure blends and he can give us
>    hints on how to go ahead.
>
> Looking forward for your reply.
>
> PS: If you have any source code which you want to share we can enable
> the source repositories for this project and it can be pushed to Git
> repositories provided by Debian. Let me know if you need this and I will
> enable it.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Vasudev Kamath
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