2015-10-20 10:55:31 @kido hey :) 2015-10-20 10:55:44 Stskeeps moo 2015-10-20 10:58:31 @kido once again I'll talk about you Stskeeps ;) I already did a short presentation about libhybris in a local embedded linux meetup some months ago, and in the next month I'll give a talk about the asteroid's core architecture, I'll spend some time explaining what you did on libhybris 2015-10-20 10:58:37 Stskeeps hehe 2015-10-20 11:00:32 Stskeeps just curiously, why the choice of a normal linux system on top? 2015-10-20 11:01:42 @kido what do you mean by normal linux system? 2015-10-20 11:02:18 Stskeeps well, libhybris, yocto, etc 2015-10-20 11:03:05 Stskeeps i have naturally looked into sailfishos on smartwatches in my past, but concluded it may be better to stuff qt based stuff on top of a bare android hw adaptation 2015-10-20 11:04:42 @kido well that's right, but I also wanted to be close to the already existing projects (namely the mer based OS) in order not to reinvent the wheel and minimize the new things to do 2015-10-20 11:04:47 Stskeeps nod 2015-10-20 11:05:34 @kido plus, the android source tree is a mess to work with, especialy with android wear which is half closed 2015-10-20 11:05:49 Stskeeps what device was it you were playing with? 2015-10-20 11:05:54 @kido LG G Watch 2015-10-20 11:05:56 Stskeeps ah 2015-10-20 11:06:02 Stskeeps i have a sony smartwatch 3 here 2015-10-20 11:06:09 @kido oh nice 2015-10-20 11:06:27 @kido for jolla R&D? 2015-10-20 11:06:46 Stskeeps well, i'm in a position where i research a lot, but doesn't mean we're making a smartwatch :) 2015-10-20 11:06:50 @kido I also decided to use a "normal linux" so that it can be adapted to non-android wear smartwatches too 2015-10-20 11:06:51 Stskeeps but good to know how the guts of things work 2015-10-20 11:06:54 Stskeeps ah 2015-10-20 11:06:58 Stskeeps those really exist though? 2015-10-20 11:07:01 Stskeeps well 2015-10-20 11:07:01 @kido sure I understand 2015-10-20 11:07:04 Stskeeps non-android wear yes 2015-10-20 11:07:06 Stskeeps non-android? 2015-10-20 11:07:25 Stskeeps well, ok, samsung's tizen ones 2015-10-20 11:09:22 @kido I mostly think about tizen indeed (the apple watch and pebble seem to be out of game) but I believe it's still early to say that android wear will be as important as android so... who knows, maybe a kickstarter project or something with a linux on it might be adapted to asteroid 2015-10-20 11:09:36 Stskeeps nod 2015-10-20 11:09:54 Stskeeps http://www.cnx-software.com/2015/10/15/rockchip-rk6321-dual-core-cortex-a5-soc-targets-wearables-with-wifi-bluetooth-3g-and-gps/ - 50 USD android 3g connected smartwatches 2015-10-20 11:10:36 @kido at least it let us a little bit more freedom, and as Asteroid is mostly about hackability... that's not negligible 2015-10-20 11:11:18 @kido woah never heard of that target, that looks interesting 2015-10-20 11:11:49 locusf heh 2015-10-20 11:12:09 locusf as always, its about the actual implementation of the hardware and the drivers 2015-10-20 11:12:22 locusf sure its not qualcomm and I don't know about Rockchip that much 2015-10-20 11:13:13 locusf but still, its the "blank stare" argument, by Stskeeps, when asking any hardware mf about if this supports eg. EGL Wayland compositor out of the box 2015-10-20 11:13:18 Stskeeps nod 2015-10-20 11:15:03 Stskeeps locusf: the worst one was 'sure we support x11 and egl/gles and composition' 2015-10-20 11:15:11 Stskeeps => drivers totally broken in that regard 2015-10-20 11:15:56 locusf hahha 2015-10-20 11:16:25 locusf kido: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed8duAnlwHc referred from this video 2015-10-20 11:16:40 locusf explaining entire libhybris would take a lecture module 2015-10-20 11:17:07 @kido indeed, I've already seen that one :) 2015-10-20 11:17:19 locusf but Stskeeps did a decent job on explaining it in a FOSDEM presentation 2015-10-20 11:17:25 locusf okay :) 2015-10-20 11:17:57 locusf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMgnqIlz6B8&index=3&list=LLR8yPMJfoeqUbIrWqUrb1LA 2015-10-20 11:18:00 locusf gah 2015-10-20 11:18:12 locusf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMgnqIlz6B8 <- this how tizen community does it 2015-10-20 11:19:17 locusf I based my minnowboard adaptation on what Philippe (RzR) did with his 2015-10-20 11:19:23 locusf for Nemo 2015-10-20 11:19:45 @kido mhh I've never watched how tizen does that but it might be interesting, I'll give it a look 2015-10-20 11:20:53 locusf yeah Leon and Philippe are good guys 2015-10-20 11:22:10 locusf (and of course the rest of you guys as well for being here and interested :) ) 2015-10-20 13:29:48 dr_gogeta86 locusf, the problem is the same ca$h 2015-10-20 13:37:55 locusf dr_gogeta86: yeah 2015-10-20 13:38:10 locusf + effort 2015-10-20 13:38:34 locusf its not entirely trivial to do graphics 2015-10-20 13:41:15 dr_gogeta86 i've run out of time ... this is worst