[Pkg-x2go-devel] [X2go-user] X2go client on debian ARM?

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 10:13:58AM +0100, Mike Gabriel wrote:
>On Mo 21 Mär 2011 08:51:29 CET  wrote:
>
>>Hey there. I have recently invested in some HP T5325 thin clients, 
>>wishing to make them work with a linux terminal server. Since they 
>>canot PXE boot, and HP wont tell me what chipset they use, LTSP is out 
>>of the question. That laves me with either XDMCP, wich dosnt support 
>>local USB pens, or X2go, wich isnt packaged for arm.

Your comment that HP won't reveal info on chipset puzzles me: Seems to 
me such info is easy to find using internet search engines - and that a 
good source of such info turns out to be... a PDF file at hp.com:

http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/13500_div/13500_div.PDF

Page 5 of that PDF says:

  Chipset: XGI VOLARI-Z11-A2CB-HF with 64MB dedicated memory


>>How much work would go into porting the client software to debian ARM? 
>>Since more and more thin clients are getting ARM processors, porting 
>>x2goclient to ARM might not be the worst idea in the universe

I suspect the tough part won't be porting to ARM, but lack of support 
for closed-source graphics drivers.


>Jonas Smedegaard (as ITP holder and member of the pkg-x2go dev), me, 
>Reinhard and possibly others will be working towards official packages 
>for Debian within the next months (@Jonas: yes we are getting closer to 
>an official upstream Git...). I suppose, that there will also be 
>packages for Debian ARM then. Jonas?

Packaging officially for Debian implicitly includes (attempt at) 
compiling for all Debian architectures, including ARM.

Debian packaging obviously won't magically work on platforms that it 
wasn't coded for - and quite likely won't do so accidentally either.


Porting upstream code to ARM is an upstream task.

Porting upstream ARM-supported code to Debian ARM should not cause much 
trouble and not take much time.

Getting graphics to work decently may be another matter...


 - Jonas

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