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Inkscape0.91pre (and archLinuxARM test)

After a fist test of Inkscape 0.91pre, due to the number of changes, and improvement of reactivity, to resolved bugs, better multithread (with OpenMP), etc… I wanted to try it on my Cubieboard2, where it was usable for basic function, but a little slow for some advanced fucntions (like calligraphic tool).

I then compiled it on ArchlinuxARM to test it on my Cubieboard2, I put the paquet in mon micro-reprository ArchlinuxARM, because I still didn’t understand the process to submit it in yaourthouse of AUR (Arch User Repository) or inArchlinuxARM repository.

So then… that’s really fast. This uses both 2 Cortex-A7 CPU (need to be tested on quadcore far faster Cortex-A17 architectures like Rockchip RK3288 like Rikomagic MK802II LE (for Linux Edition), see demo) :). That’s now fully usable, blurs are still slow to draw, but display is relatively asyncrone.

For information, my video is recorded on a x86_64 with application remote display, using X11/tcp (via 100 Mb switch ), this explain some slowness and time shift in display.

Two ArchlinuxARM applications

* Entangle is a realtime DSLR camera remote control, based on gphoto2 I already wrote about 3 years ago.
* Bochs, an x86 emulator, that allows to use x86 system on a window, on ARM :D.

I only recompiled package from the ArchLinux (x86) PKGBUILD files, using makepkg -a and installing missing dependencies with pacman.

You can find my ArchlinuARM compiled packages here, I will try to understand the process to integrate them in ArchlinuxARM AUR.

I put them in my Cubieboard directory, but there should work fine for any ARMv7h plateform where ArchLinuxARM runs :

/cubieboard/ArchlinuxARM/

To install a package from filesystem : pacman -U name_of_the_package.pkg.tar.xz