RE: Windowing under Fedora_ARM (was Serial console under Fedora_ARM)
by Kedar Sovani
Hi Vijay,
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vijay Raju [mailto:vijay@embeddedmachines.com]
> Sent: 14 August 2009 09:31
> To: Kedar Sovani
> Cc: Prabhanjan Sarnaik
> Subject: RE: Windowing under Fedora_ARM (Serial console under
> Fedora_ARM)
>
> Hi Kedar,
>
> Over the last couple of weeks I have been working on beefing up
> our kernel
> to get a whole variety of devices up and running. One of my
> primary
> intentions while adopting fedora was to simplify the testing
> and adoption of
> these devices in various ongoing project. So far things have
> been working
> out great. We have had a good measure of success with devices
> on the USB
> host. We were quickly able to integrate a WLAN dongle, HID
> devices and mass
> storage.
Cool, this is great! :-)
>
> The next challenge is a UI. I already have a framebuffer device
> and a
> touchscreen controller driver written and compiled into the
> kernel. I have
> never worked on any kind of UI systems or window managers and I
> am pretty
> much starting from scratch. Considering that, could you suggest
> a set of
> packages that I could use to build up a quick demo showcasing
> the LCD and
> the touchscreen.
We have managed to get the Gnome stack functional on the ARM board. Here is a blog post that talks about that.
http://fedora-arm.blogspot.com/2009/07/fedora-arm-goes-graphical.html
You have to install the X and the Gnome package groups from the repositories. I suppose there are a couple of packages missing from the group, you might have to skip them manually (These are already built, just that they haven't hit the externally published repositories yet.) A detailed listed of steps is available here:
http://fedora-arm.blogspot.com/2009/07/steps-for-getting-x-gnome-working....
Once that is done you should be able to get the X going. There were a few other problems seen when we installed a system this large a size. These are documented in here:
http://fedora-arm.blogspot.com/2009/07/dhclient-firstboot-and-hald-woes.html
I haven't given a shot to the touch-screen interfaces though. If you are looking for any set(s) of packages for the purpose, that aren't still in there, do let me know.
>
> Warm Regards,
> Vijay Raju
>
Best,
Kedar.
14 years, 8 months
FW: FW: [fedora-arm] [PATCH] scsi-target-utils: Fix sync_file_range symbol for arm.
by Vinit Dhatrak
FYI ...
________________________________________
From: FUJITA Tomonori [fujita.tomonori(a)lab.ntt.co.jp]
Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 12:36 PM
To: Vinit Dhatrak
Cc: fujita.tomonori(a)lab.ntt.co.jp; stgt(a)vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: FW: [fedora-arm] [PATCH] scsi-target-utils: Fix sync_file_range symbol for arm.
On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:01:19 -0700
Vinit Dhatrak <vinitd(a)marvell.com> wrote:
> Sounds ok to me. Please include it upstream so that various package
> builders will have this fix.
Done. I've also released 0.9.8 including this patch.
Thanks,
14 years, 8 months
