Please correct my understanding of these models: 1. Old-style
2013/11/18 François Leblanc <fleblan...@gmail.com> > Ah yes. > > The problem is that if the 2 ways are too differents you can make lot of > effort porting to old model and realize that isn't working in new model and > to have a real port you need to be have same as official port.. > > surfaceflinger is a good example you can make working with it and realize > that it is not available ... > > Regards > > > > 2013/11/18 Florian Will <florian.w...@gmail.com> > >> (writing from my phone) >> >> I'm not sure if this is still true, but a few weeks ago porters were >> recommended to just use the old "cdimage-style" flipped model. It means to >> just have the extractes rootfs files in /data/ubuntu and the Android >> system.img copied in there, which happens automatically when flashing the >> rootfs in ubuntu_deploy.sh. The system partition just contains android >> stuff with the usual ubuntu patches. >> >> The new "system-img-style" (it's called something like that but not >> exactly that iirc) requires a special server to allow OTA updates. That >> server also converts the files available at cdimage.ubuntu.com to >> something different. It was supposed to be ready for testing with ports >> soonish, but so far I haven't heard any news about it. That server also >> changes the way swap works afaik. >> >> I think the "supporting ports" thing is something that some of the >> canonical employees consider important, so depending on who is responsible >> for some feature, you may get a fast response on IRC. (otoh, some >> employees would love to drop deprecated stuff like surfaceflinger, which is >> still absolutely required for some ports but slows ubuntu development >> speed. I.e. some of them dont care about ports at all, so.. Good luck. ) >> >> Cheers >> Florian >> >> Am 18.11.2013 09:56 schrieb "François Leblanc" <fleblan...@gmail.com>: >> >> > >> > >> > I agree this is not clear for me too. >> > >> > I notice some differences betwen using ubuntu dir and system.img in the >> structure of files and even if it is more simple to use dir ubuntu it is >> quite difficult to understand how system.img must be. >> > >> > According to touch script in build kernel they are some files that must >> be present but I don't find any documentation about this, system.img for >> example to be put in /var/lib/lxc/android/system.img, swap file is named >> SWAP.swp in touch script and SWAP.img in >> trusty-touch-preinstalled-armhf.zip ... >> > >> > Regards, >> > François. >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > 2013/11/18 Dmitry Smirnov <divis1...@gmail.com> >> >> >> >> Sorry for bothering you again, but I did not understand what is meant >> to be new and old flipped models. >> >> 'touch' script is using /data/ubuntu as an old model (where /data is >> the 'userdata' partition). >> >> At the same time ubuntu_deploy.sh (included into cdimage.ubuntu.comzips) >> >> unpacks tar.gz into /data/ubuntu. >> >> So, there is some mismatch, right? >> >> >> >> How this cdimage zip is supposed to be deployed for new flipped model? >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> 2013/11/6 Oliver Grawert <o...@ubuntu.com> >> >>> >> >>> hi, >> >>> Am Mittwoch, den 06.11.2013, 12:49 +0200 schrieb Jani Monoses: >> >>> > unflipped will not work anymore, all the super evil hacks it used >> are >> >>> > gone from the rootfs since over 6 months, please only use >> (and >> >>> > recommend) the flipped method. >> >>> > >> >>> > >> >>> > >> >>> > From the recent thread on this list saying the cdimage-legacy option >> >>> > of phablet-flash is to be kept around I figured that unflipped >> images >> >>> > are still around >> >>> >> >>> the cdimage-legacy install variant is still available in >> phablet-flash, >> >>> it installs the mobile world congress demo from feb. which has pretty >> >>> pictures instead of apps. >> >>> >> >>> we stopped building such images long ago ;) >> >>> >> >>> ciao >> >>> oli >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> -- >> >>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone >> >>> Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net >> >>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone >> >>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >>> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone >> >> Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net >> >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone >> >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone >> > Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net >> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone >> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > >> >> >
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