Create Preliminary Android ST Ericsson Snowball Release

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Create an Preliminary Android ST Ericsson Snowball Release

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Status:
Complete
Approver:
Zach Pfeffer
Priority:
High
Drafter:
Zach Pfeffer
Direction:
Needs approval
Assignee:
Frans Gifford
Definition:
Approved
Series goal:
Accepted for 2011q2
Implementation:
Implemented
Milestone target:
milestone icon 11.07
Started by
Zach Pfeffer
Completed by
Zach Pfeffer

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[asac, Jul 26, 2011]: headline was added to release announcement; setting to beta to indicate that this is no way back from delivering this!

[pfefferz, Jul 24, 2011]: No. mpoirier, would you update?
[asac, Jul 24, 2011]: is this BP and its workitems up-to-date?
[pfefferz, before Jul 11] I'm going to turn this into a STE bringup BP.
[pfefferz, before Jul 11] See https://android-build.linaro.org/builds/~linaro-android/leb-snowball/ for snowball builds
[pfefferz, before Jul 11] https://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/Android/Builds/Wip/STEInitialBringUp?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=snowball.cap.txt fist bring
[pfefferz, before Jul 11] They're here: https://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/Android/Builds/Wip/STEInitialBringUp?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=snowball.cap.txt
[asac, Jul 11, 2011]: please use date stamps for comments; otherwise comments read like work items ;)
[asac, Jul 11, 2011]: ONGOING == INPROGRESS (changed); TBD == does not exist (is parsed as TODO) => changing to TODO explicitely
[asac, Jul 11, 2011]: please apply somesummary/description love ;) ... and thanks for the work landing this!

Headline:
ST Ericsson Snowball Android Release created

Acceptance:
A 11.07 ST Ericsson Release that boots to any Android/kernel/gcc combination

See:
https://android-build.linaro.org/builds/~linaro-android/leb-snowball-11.07-release/#build=4
for the working build. GCC 4.6/Android 2.3.4/3.0 kernel

(?)

Work Items

Work items:
[scottb] Create a plan: DONE
[pfefferz] Establish Android ST Ericsson PoC: DONE
[anmar] Create a licensing plan: DONE
[lag] Create board enablement plan: DONE
[fgiff] Plan for bringup and support: DONE
[mathieu.poirier-deactivatedaccount] Create initial build with 2.3.3 AOSP and STE kernel: DONE
[mathieu.poirier-deactivatedaccount] Create an initial LEB-snowball.xml: DONE
[pfefferz] Start leb-snowball builds: DONE
[mathieu.poirier-deactivatedaccount] Write up build usage doc: DONE
Modify linaro-android-media-create to support snowball: DONE
[mathieu.poirier-deactivatedaccount] Fix initial userspace to boot linaro-android on snwoball: DONE
[mathieu.poirier-deactivatedaccount] Booting linaro-android on snwoball: DONE
[mathieu.poirier-deactivatedaccount] Get android-glk-2.6.38 to mount an uInitrd: INPROGRESS
[mathieu.poirier-deactivatedaccount] Fix init.rc to reflect lamc partition scheme: INPROGRESS
[mathieu.poirier-deactivatedaccount] Fix display parameters, either in userspace or kernel driver: TODO
[mathieu.poirier-deactivatedaccount] Fix boot process, either uboot env variables or lamc boot.txt: TODO

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