About the ARM desktop version of Ubuntu Kylin

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

Hi,

On Mon, 9 Mar 2020 at 22:28, handsome_feng <jianfengli at ubuntukylin.com> wrote:
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> Hi, Release team:
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> I'm a member of Ubuntu Kylin, and I would like to ask if it is possible to release an ARM version of Ubuntu Kylin desktop image? The main reason behind is that, in the current Chinese market, more and more manufacturers are launching ARM-based desktops and laptops, such as Huawei and Phytium. Our team believe that if the ARM version can be released, it will further promote Ubuntu and Ubuntu Kylin in China. We hope to get your support and push this plan forward together.
>
> Look forward to your reply!
>

Can you please provide links to the hardware specs of those laptops?

Do they use UEFI boot? Android Boot? UBoot? Flashkernel?

Do they use secureboot? And did you test that Ubuntu secureboot signed
shim works on them?

Does Ubuntu Kernel have relevant DTBs built-in?

I personally have Yoga C630 and could assist to bring up the Ubuntu
Kylin on ARM64, but you will need to come up with acceptance criteria
to release the ARM64 image and commit to the QA testing of the ARM64
builds.

I made a merge proposal to ubuntu-cdimage to start attempting Ubuntu
Desktop builds for ARM64, but so far Martin Wimpress did not comment
on it yet https://code.launchpad.net/~xnox/ubuntu-cdimage/aarch64-laptops-upstream/+merge/379256
I am not sure if Ubuntu Desktop is interested in doing at least daily
builds of focal (without releasing it).

Regards,

Dimitri.


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> Regards,
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> handsome_feng
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Regards,

Dimitri.