[Aakash-hackers] Aakash-hackers Digest, Vol 2, Issue 1
isachin
iclcoolster at gmail.com
Sun Feb 2 17:31:19 UTC 2014
Ya, other one is *sitronix*
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> 1. Bootstrapping for Aakash (Vasudev Kamath)
> 2. Re: Bootstrapping for Aakash (Srikant)
> 3. Re: Bootstrapping for Aakash (Pirate Praveen)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 20:32:47 +0530
> From: Vasudev Kamath <kamathvasudev at gmail.com>
> To: Aakash Hackers <aakash-hackers at lists.alioth.debian.org>
> Subject: [Aakash-hackers] Bootstrapping for Aakash
> Message-ID: <87eh3m3mg8.fsf at vasudev.homelinux.net>
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> 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
> http://copyninja.info
> Connect on ~friendica: copyninja@{frndk.de | vasudev.homelinux.net}
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2014 05:12:00 +0530
> From: Srikant <u.srikant.patnaik at gmail.com>
> To: Aakash Hackers <aakash-hackers at lists.alioth.debian.org>
> Subject: Re: [Aakash-hackers] Bootstrapping for Aakash
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> 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
> > http://copyninja.info
> > Connect on ~friendica: copyninja@{frndk.de | vasudev.homelinux.net}
> > IRC nick: copyninja | vasudev {irc.oftc.net | irc.freenode.net}
> > GPG Key: C517 C25D E408 759D 98A4 C96B 6C8F 74AE 8770 0B7E
> >
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> > Aakash-hackers at lists.alioth.debian.org
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> Message: 3
> Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2014 13:21:03 +0530
> From: Pirate Praveen <praveen at autistici.org>
> To: Aakash Hackers <aakash-hackers at lists.alioth.debian.org>
> Subject: Re: [Aakash-hackers] Bootstrapping for Aakash
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> On Sunday 02 February 2014 05:12 AM, Srikant wrote:
> > 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)
> >
>
> I think we should enable task tracking and track each issue separately.
> Some issues could be filed as bugs directly against respective packages.
>
> > 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
> > <mailto: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
> > http://copyninja.info
> > Connect on ~friendica: copyninja@{frndk.de <http://frndk.de> |
> > vasudev.homelinux.net <http://vasudev.homelinux.net>}
> > IRC nick: copyninja | vasudev {irc.oftc.net <http://irc.oftc.net> |
> > irc.freenode.net <http://irc.freenode.net>}
> > GPG Key: C517 C25D E408 759D 98A4 C96B 6C8F 74AE 8770 0B7E
> >
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