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Started 10 years ago by pankso
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pankso

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Hi all ARM fellows!

I pushed online a new website dedicated to SliTaz on the ARM arch. The goal is to have all information and official documentation centralized. The site provide also CGI SHell services such as nice README
output and packages list.

SliTaz ARM: http://arm.slitaz.org

Suggestion and contribution are realy welcome! If you miss an info and think about a CGI function, let me know I will see what I can do :-)

On the Raspberry Pi side I have pushed to Hg a new tool to build custom SliTaz RPi distro and install them, it is quiet well tested since I have my own Pi now. I also coded a small tool to run on the Pi, it is called TazBerry and use dialog (more user friendly than cmdline).

Posted 10 years ago #
necrophcodr

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Will there be future support for other ARM types, such as the the Zynq ARM A9? That would allow SliTaz to be used on systems such as the Parallella-16/64.

Regardless though I'm planning on doing something like that in the future if it is not officially supported (at most about a year from now, assuming that the Parallella-16 boards will be available by then), but it would be amazing to have official support for various ARM types. I'm not aware of the differences between these ARM processors, as to if the binary files have to be recompiled or not, and what other issues one may have, but it seems to be a major stride in the SliTaz world to at least have it work on ARM for now, and x86_64 coming in the future too!

Posted 10 years ago #
emgi

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The cross compiling and so is not really my cup of tea I'm afraid but its good to see that the project to port slitaz to the RPI is now really taking off. It would be a good thing to have a slitaz image in list of raspberry downloads anytime soon, both for the Pi and to increase the number of Slitaz users.

I happen to have a 'real' Pi and I've been running various emulations on Qemu. Will certainly try this out as soon as I get it running.

/emgi

Posted 10 years ago #
alanyih

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Please update last-linux.txt to 3.10.33+
http://mirror.slitaz.org/arm/rpi/last-linux.txt

# sat-rpi get-linux

Fetching latest Kernel string... [ Done ]
Kernel version: 3.10.32+
Fetching latest Linux package... [ Done ]

Extracting: linux-3.10.32+
================================================================================
Copying original package... [ Done ]
Extracting linux-3.10.32+... [ Done ]
Extracting the pseudo fs... [ Done ]
================================================================================
linux-3.10.32+ is extracted to: linux-3.10.32+

Posted 10 years ago #
pankso

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Hi,

@necrophcodr: yes we getting ready for arm v7 an other types may be add quiet easely. Since I dont know everything about arm, one should do a request then I will see if I can add the type support.

@alanyih; I update mirror and I will upload some ready to use rootfs to copy on sdcard.

Also, I added a lot of packages into ARM and we have a working Xorg window system!!! I compiled fox toolkit to have some gui apps but GTK (gobject introspection) still dont compile. And I compiled some usufull servers such as mpd to create Raspberry Pi, Cue Board, etc audio, web, and CO server solution.

On the install side, I coded all needed script to install slitaz in one command. To remote control a SliTaz ARM machine I coded a small and fast CGI toolkit. And finally I also coded some ncurses gui to configure a Slitaz text mode system 8tools will benefit to i486 and arm arch)

I will update http://arm.slitaz.org as soon as I get an official SliTaz Raspberry Pi release.

- Christophe

Posted 10 years ago #
alanyih

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Please check rpi-desktop/packages.list
http://hg.slitaz.org/slitaz-arm/file/85becc4b89a7/flavors/rpi-desktop/packages.list

I. duplicate
58 xorg-libXinerama
62 xorg-libXinerama
74 xorg-libXinerama

66 xorg-libXaw
67 xorg-libXaw

II. missing pkg
http://cook.slitaz.org/cross/arm/packages/packages.list

76 xorg-libXrandr
77 xorg-libXdamage

Posted 10 years ago #
tvicol

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Could you please compile wayland and weston for this arch ?

Wayland was already tested on raspberry-pi showing great improvement.

Posted 10 years ago #
necrophcodr

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@tvicol

Did you know that you can actually build wayland and weston for your rPI yourself, using either sat or cooker with arm arch? Give it a shot, and let us know if you are successful!

Posted 10 years ago #
pankso

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Hi folks,

Yes I'm working on Wayland and hope to have it working soon since we would be one of the first distro to have it by default. I guess Wayland is the future and performance seems to be very nice on the RPi!

Actually I already started to push Wayland packages receipt to the i486 arch, when I'm fine I will cross compile them: http://hg.slitaz.org/wok/rev/8457249d0f20

- Christophe

Posted 10 years ago #
tvicol

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Thank you Christophe !
I'm also confident that Wayland is the future and if Slitaz will have it by default will gain a huge number of RPi users. Alter all, the best distro should use the best display compositor. :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UkUal_hHx8

Posted 10 years ago #
devl547

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>I guess Wayland is the future and performance seems to be very nice on the RPi!

The problem is the lack of 2D acceleration in rPI video drivers.
Wayland uses 3d engine (via gles) to accelerate rendering (like compiz or Xorg with libglamor). Nothing more.

In fact, on my not that underpowered desktop PCs, wayland was even slower than Xorg.

Posted 10 years ago #
kultex

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therre are open 3D drivers

http://www.raspberrypi.org/quake-iii-bounty-we-have-a-winner/

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