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This page keeps track of the current release status of the Mobile Team.

Summary

• uboot postponed; after review we decided to keep redboot for imx until bugs are fixed upstream
• marvel dove + thumb2 hangs: ongoing work
• lightweight browser: chromium-browser and firefox 3.6 in the archive
• first lsb lib-test run; raw results available on wiki page
• thumb2 review finished and outstanding porting bugs filed.

Image Status

• general: image productionbroken by mono (514215) and crashes by gvfs (512959)

• imx51: in good shape.

• dove: not in good shape (thumb2 board hangs - 504880 and 505772)

Specs

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/+specs?searchtext=mobile-lucid

Progress:

• Entire cycle: http://people.canonical.com/~pitti/workitems/canonical-mobile.html

• Alpha-3: http://people.canonical.com/~pitti/workitems/canonical-mobile-lucid-alpha-3.html

RC Bugs

Fixed this week:

• 490792: xulrunner-1.9.1: ARM/Thumb interworking support missing from nanojit

• 511197: busybox: "must be built with -marm for lucid on armel"

• 456659: linux-fsl-imx51: suspend/resume failure on imx51

Triaged problems:

• 514215: mono: "mono ftbfs with thumb2 on armel"

Removed from RC list this week:

• 506761: uboot-imx "lucid uboot hangs on fatload uImage on fsl TO2 TO2.5 and TO3"

• 507887: uboot-imx "NIC not properly initialized in uboot code"

Bugs which need better understanding/debugging:

• 499881: linux-fsl-imx51 "usb storage with ext4 does not work in lucid"

• 504880: linux-mvl-dove "[dove] possibility of thumb2 instructions invalidly being handled"

• 505772: linux-mvl-dove "system freezes sometimes after X is up for a while"

• 512959: gvfs/nautilus "nautilus assert failure: *** stack smashing detected ***"

Thumb 2 Review

• https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/Thumb2PackageReviewList#High/Medium Prority Packages

Blueprint/Activity alpha-3

Essential

• mobile-lucid-arm-gcc-v7-thumb2: some work items left for debian import freeze time
• mobile-lucid-une-2d-launcher: all MIRs approved; seed change in progress

• mobile-lucid-imx51-debian-cd-to-uboot: postponed --> redboot for imx51

High

• mobile-lucid-arm-alternate-images: implemented
• mobile-lucid-arm-lightweightbrowser: left benchmark + decision
• mobile-lucid-arm-lib-tests: first test run done; next: bug fixing + analysis
• mobile-lucid-bringup-testing: implemented
• mobile-lucid-arm-suspend-resume-testplan: slow progress
• mobile-lucid-arm-device-tree-support: postponed - blocked on upstream
• mobile-lucid-arm-une: started
• mobile-lucid-arm-per-soc-powermanagement: progress.

Planned intrusive changes for Alpha-3

• switch armel images from desktop to UNE seeds
• rebuild not yet build main packages at DIF time
• mitigate dove armv7/thumb2 issues