Hello everybody, I want to inform you all about the current state of the cubox-i and hummingboard devices on opensuse, and some outstanding issues that may apply to other devices as well.
Right now, opensuse 13.1 is running on all the above mentioned devices as either JeOS, or graphical images, with only a few problems left. There is Mozilla Firefox, it currently does not build on arm natively but I produced qemu builds that work reasonably well. But there is a serious problem: clicking on the download status widget next to the addressbar durign a download, makes firefox crash. Then it will crash on every restart until the profile is deleted(there may be another way to stop it). I am interested if this issue exists on other arm devices too. Then, there is WebGL. Firefox is able to use EGL and GLES for webgl, supposedly. The firefox arm builds are currently configured to use egl by default. In my tests, the get.webgl.org sample works fine but everything else I tried crashes horribly. Again, I'd be interested if this occurs on other arm devices using accelerated graphics too. Chromium. While it did nto build on arm for quite a while, I switched it do a so-called component build, and now the final linking step now works fine on the opensuse arm buildbots. Binaries are produced in network:chromium as I am writing this. Here, too, there should be WebGL available. I am not aware of any compile-time switches that tell chromium to use/enable gl or gles backend for it, but there is a runtime-switch "--use-gl=egl" which seems to do the job. Sadly, it does not work for me. about:gpu shows some acceleration for a few seconds, then everything turns to software rendering with an error that the gpu process died. I know that webgl works on a debian build with the same hardware. So again, I am wondering if other people can get webgl working with chromium on their hardware. Factory: While opensuse factory has been without a kernel-default binary far too long now, I ran a test using 3.16 and found that it works with the cubox-i without any modifications. kind regards Josua Mayer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] To contact the owner, e-mail: [email protected]
