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| 00:06.32 | PhantomsDad | is having no luck getting the openembedded image from https://github.com/ebutera/meta-allwinner/downloads to boot. |
| 00:10.04 | lundman | NOW we7re talking |
| 00:10.15 | lundman | finally a binary |
| 00:11.21 | lundman | not much in form of instructions |
| 00:12.26 | mikey_w | Can you just dd the uncompressed image to an sd card? |
| 00:13.05 | PhantomsDad | don't think so |
| 00:13.13 | mikey_w | bummer |
| 00:13.15 | lundman | if we knew the partition table, maybe |
| 00:13.36 | lundman | in this case, we should make 2 partitions, and untar things, and write the two boots |
| 00:13.46 | mikey_w | A good image would include the partition table etc. |
| 00:13.48 | lundman | I'll try one partition, since I can boot ext4 |
| 00:13.56 | lundman | its no image, its tarballs |
| 00:14.14 | PhantomsDad | I downloaded the tar file. Untar produces an spl.bin, u-boot.bin, uImage, and another tar containing the rootfs. |
| 00:14.28 | mikey_w | ok |
| 00:14.57 | PhantomsDad | Also a modules tar file I'm not sure what to do with. |
| 00:15.08 | PhantomsDad | But it isn't getting that far anyhow. |
| 00:15.19 | mikey_w | ??? |
| 00:17.05 | PhantomsDad | I figured I'd overwrite the files on an existing SD card I have that works (built following my instructions at http://rhombus-tech.net/allwinner_a10/hacking_the_mele_a1000/Building_Debian_From_Source_Code_for_Mele/) |
| 00:17.14 | lundman | ok unpacked, lets try it |
| 00:17.27 | PhantomsDad | but it doesn't boot at all. Nothing, nada, silence. |
| 00:19.20 | lundman | I should have picked a faster sd card |
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| 00:25.38 | PhantomsDad | When I replace the spl.bin and uboot.bin with ones I have I know work, that gets a little farther, getting as far as "Starting kernel ...", but then "DRAM: 512" and nothing more. |
| 00:26.01 | lundman | wait 4 more seconds |
| 00:26.57 | mikey_w | always slow, torturous process with A10 stuff, never a clear path. |
| 00:27.53 | lundman | hmm my ext4 isnt perfect |
| 00:28.00 | mikey_w | My other ARM toys just work. |
| 00:28.28 | lundman | I'll put the kernel on zfs pool |
| 00:29.25 | PhantomsDad | bought a Pogoplug black (ARM kirkwood) he's going to hack. |
| 00:29.40 | lundman | i have a cubox |
| 00:29.59 | PhantomsDad | cubox. never heard of it |
| 00:32.21 | PhantomsDad | lundman, what kind of gpu does it have, and is it open sourced? |
| 00:32.42 | lundman | http://www.solid-run.com/products/cubox |
| 00:33.21 | lundman | http://www.solid-run.com/mw/index.php/CuBox_hardware_specification |
| 00:33.29 | lundman | at the moment though, Mele looks better, as a mediaplayer |
| 00:36.18 | lundman | no that kernel stops at DRAM |
| 00:37.03 | libv | well, i know pvr is a dead end, videocore on bcm even more so, adreno is being handled, the feasibility of freeing vivante sounds like it is a few hours of investigation well worthwhile :) |
| 00:37.33 | lundman | using my kernel boots, then panics :) |
| 00:37.53 | PhantomsDad | lundman, do they give you source code for the cubox gpu, or is it binary blobs? |
| 00:38.11 | lundman | so far binary blobs |
| 00:38.15 | libv | mele is closest to having a) a free gpu driver b) a workable display and 2d stack c) a clear path to freeing the media decoding decoding stuff |
| 00:38.32 | lundman | cubox has running xbmc using the dove stuff |
| 00:38.32 | libv | workable as in: free, but does need some cleaning |
| 00:38.41 | lundman | but is questionable around 1080p |
| 00:40.01 | libv | hrm, only hardfb binaries apparently |
| 00:40.17 | libv | fp even |
| 00:40.18 | PhantomsDad | The Mele is very promising, but without working Mali gpu drivers... not very usable. |
| 00:40.43 | libv | PhantomsDad: "some" people are on it, when they are not on actual contract work :) |
| 00:40.58 | PhantomsDad | you go guys! |
| 00:41.35 | libv | PhantomsDad: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTEwODA |
| 00:42.11 | lundman | the mele firmware had potential, but android 2.3 fails to stream 1080p for playback |
| 00:42.25 | lundman | ICS4 handles it fine, but its far from usable |
| 00:43.20 | PhantomsDad | Yea, I guess Lima is our best hope. |
| 00:44.20 | lundman | whats a lima? |
| 00:44.37 | libv | lundman: follow that phoronix link |
| 00:45.31 | PhantomsDad | alright, well off to sleep for me. good night |
| 01:29.06 | libv | lundman: cubox binaries have galcore.ko clearly as a GPLed licensed module, is the code also available? |
| 01:31.45 | lundman | https://github.com/rabeeh/linux-2.6.32.9/tree/master/arch/arm/mach-dove/gc600_driver_dove |
| 01:33.06 | lundman | looks like it |
| 01:33.35 | libv | nice. |
| 01:33.47 | libv | doesn't look as nice and easy and clean as mali though |
| 01:34.29 | lundman | no idea, not seen my mele run linux with x11 yet :) |
| 01:34.49 | libv | i would have to look at an strace of something like hello triangle to find out, or dig through the kernel code, which is less telling |
| 01:35.13 | libv | but i'd put vivante right next to adreno as in: doable. |
| 01:35.26 | lundman | -rwxr-xr-x 1 cubox cubox 1014366 Mar 7 2011 quake3a |
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| 01:35.53 | lundman | which was fun for a few minutes |
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| 04:08.07 | steev | libv: http://opensource.freescale.com/git?p=imx/linux-2.6-imx.git;a=tree;f=drivers/mxc/gpu-viv;h=891f784fc1b28bc0c847ac4e87a2bc24d6deed65;hb=refs/tags/imx-android-r13.1 |
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| 08:46.01 | dotmat | is there a precompiled version of uboot published? I cant get it to compile |
| 08:49.07 | lundman | i have one |
| 08:49.20 | lundman | http://lundman.net/wiki/index.php/MeLe_A2000 |
| 08:52.04 | hno | dotmat, I also have one. http://www.henriknordstrom.net/code/A10/u-boot-mmc-hno-201203.img |
| 08:52.35 | lundman | one at meta-wallwinner too |
| 08:52.43 | dotmat | many thanks, :) |
| 08:55.11 | hno | lundman, do you have your patched u-boot sources published somewhere? |
| 08:55.58 | lundman | on github of course, and as patch on u-boot mailing list |
| 08:56.19 | lundman | I have passed the initial "too many spaces" part, but seems to take forever to be accepted |
| 08:56.37 | hno | a link to your github repository from that page would be nice. |
| 08:56.42 | lundman | https://github.com/lundman/uboot-allwinner/tree/zfs |
| 08:56.52 | lundman | has both zfs and ext4 changes. nothing else |
| 08:57.14 | lundman | added |
| 08:58.17 | hno | Thanks. |
| 08:59.12 | lundman | ok free booze at work, bbl |
| 09:03.47 | dotmat | so to get uboot to work I need to have both sunxi-spl loaded at 8bit of the card and then u-boot loaded at 32 bit? |
| 09:11.03 | hno | dotmat, yes. spl at 8KB and u-boot at 32KB. First partition should start at 1MB (block 2048) |
| 09:11.22 | hno | s/block/sector/ |
| 09:15.22 | dotmat | fab got that, |
| 09:17.51 | dotmat | so spl is loaded at 8kb, uboot at 32kb, and the OS is loaded at 2048? |
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| 09:19.58 | hno | kernel is loaded from first partition. First 1MB of the card (2048 sectors) is reserved for u-boot and should not be partitioned. |
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| 10:17.51 | dotmat | is there a published linux OS with a GUI ported to the A10 anywhere? I can see lots of debian command via ethernet and lots of ICS4.0 but im looking for a bulk standard linux with GUI |
| 10:24.17 | mnemoc | dotmat: after installing the core debian/ubuntu you can use apt-get to install your preferred desktop environment |
| 10:24.50 | dotmat | is there a published ubuntu arm core? |
| 10:24.56 | mnemoc | yes |
| 10:25.34 | dotmat | on the ubuntu site or somewhere online? |
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| 10:25.59 | mnemoc | dotmat: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-core/releases/12.04/release/ |
| 10:26.08 | mnemoc | armel and armhf options |
| 10:26.37 | dotmat | fab, i take it i need to compile it before putting on the SD card? |
| 10:26.43 | rz2k | dotmat: if you have tablet on a10 - http://www.flashmyandroid.com/forum/showthread.php?672-GUIDE-Building-Ubuntu-images-for-the-Novo-7-Elf |
| 10:27.03 | mnemoc | dotmat: it's precompiled, but you need to add your own kernel and bootloader |
| 10:28.04 | dotmat | I have one of these: http://www.mini-android-pc.com/ |
| 10:28.36 | mnemoc | dotmat: it's still *very* recommended to have a serial console because it's unlikely you'll get it working out of the box |
| 10:29.19 | mnemoc | does the mk802 have uart? |
| 10:29.35 | dotmat | not that I can see, ive not opened the plastic up at the mo |
| 10:29.52 | dotmat | just in the process of putting uboot onto an SD card |
| 10:30.48 | mnemoc | without a serial port you are better waiting until someone comes with a ready to run image |
| 10:37.37 | dotmat | true, just nice to have a play |
| 10:39.35 | dotmat | whats the difference between armel and armhf? |
| 10:40.11 | mnemoc | dotmat: armel is armv5 and soft float, armhf is armv7 and hard float |
| 10:40.30 | hno | mnemoc, it's expected the mk802 have UART on the pads on the edge just next to the CPU. |
| 10:40.38 | mnemoc | dotmat: for cortexa8 or newer armhf will give you better performance |
| 10:40.39 | hno | but it's not verified yet. |
| 10:40.51 | mnemoc | dotmat: ---^ got a job to do ;-) |
| 10:41.26 | hno | dotmat, armhf is better performance, but some things like MALI & video decoding library is only available in armel. And you can't mix. |
| 10:41.49 | dotmat | lol |
| 10:42.13 | dotmat | getting the feeling ive bitten off more than i can chew here lol |
| 10:46.11 | mnemoc | dotmat: want your mk802 as a lame user or to learn to hack it? if the latter, get the uart working first :) |
| 10:48.37 | dotmat | i plan to take it apart once ive figured out how to boot from the SD card, so learning uboot, fdisk etc is the number 1 step |
| 10:48.38 | dotmat | \ |
| 10:49.42 | mnemoc | dotmat: problem is that on success or failure you won't see any feedback without the serial console |
| 10:49.47 | hno | mnemoc, do serial console work in current kernel? Getting some odd results with both 8250 and the sunxi driver claiming the port and nothing at all unless early prink is built (but not enabled) |
| 10:50.14 | dotmat | so the chances of me getting to a terminal are very slim? |
| 10:50.48 | hno | dotmat, if not using a already tested and verified image for A10 yes. |
| 10:50.53 | mnemoc | hno: I have some uncommited changes, 1m |
| 10:51.21 | dotmat | Are there any tesgted and verified images around? |
| 10:51.35 | dotmat | tested |
| 10:51.36 | dotmat | * |
| 10:51.50 | mnemoc | hno: iirc the source driver has a NULL callback... haven't been able to look at it this week |
| 10:52.00 | hno | dotmat, not yet. |
| 10:52.08 | hno | mnemoc, "source driver"? |
| 10:52.41 | mnemoc | sound* |
| 10:53.09 | mnemoc | uhm, most is already pushed |
| 10:55.03 | mnemoc | wip/linux-3.3-sunxi/forward-3.0-v2 + http://dpaste.com/756617/ |
| 10:55.44 | mnemoc | hno: I have earlyprint enabled... haven't tried without it. |
| 10:56.44 | mnemoc | hno: disabled the static "debug uart" in devices.c because it crashes badly, assuming sunxi-8250 works... |
| 10:57.24 | mnemoc | but sunxi-8250 still needs love, implementing the busy bus irq handler of 8250_dw |
| 10:57.42 | mnemoc | but at least it doesn't crash currently |
| 10:58.03 | hno | I don't seem to get the console working well at all. Only output which I suspect is coming via the early uart. |
| 10:58.32 | mnemoc | let me connect my mele, 5m |
| 11:17.10 | jimyx17 | Hno: yesterday i found something weird with the wip/update branch |
| 11:17.59 | jimyx17 | I got serial output from the spl just adding another puts after the last one in borad.c |
| 11:18.22 | mnemoc | hno: http://pastie.org/pastes/4049753/text <--- fresh output |
| 11:18.39 | hno | mnemoc, which kernel branch? |
| 11:19.12 | mnemoc | wip/linux-3.3-sunxi/forward-3.0-v2 |
| 11:19.35 | mnemoc | hno: or your troubles are with allwinner-v3.0-android-v2? |
| 11:19.40 | hno | yes |
| 11:19.43 | mnemoc | :o |
| 11:20.27 | hno | but I don't exactly have a stable reference so not sure what's wrong. |
| 11:20.43 | CIA-126 | rhombus-tech: Giuseppe master * r0e6bcc388ab7 /allwinner_a10/orders/zeccag.mdwn: |
| 11:21.15 | hno | both kernel & rootfs are untested. |
| 11:22.19 | mnemoc | hno: want my 3.0 uImage + modules? |
| 11:22.46 | mnemoc | I'll make a full build of allwinner-v3.0-android-v2 now to test |
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| 11:27.09 | hno | mnemoc, uimage + .config of something that works would be nice. |
| 11:27.21 | hno | modules are optional. |
| 11:29.57 | mnemoc | hno: https://filetea.me/t1sd173f + https://filetea.me/t1sd173f is what runs currenly on my mele |
| 11:30.07 | mnemoc | uImage + /proc/config.gz |
| 11:32.46 | mnemoc | err, config.gz = https://filetea.me/t1sb8223 |
| 11:35.56 | hno | thanks |
| 11:40.07 | CIA-126 | rhombus-tech: Giuseppe master * r10f9269e9dbb /allwinner_a10/orders/GiuseppeP.mdwn: |
| 11:48.20 | mnemoc | wonders if http://lightake.com/detail.do/sku.BDM7025_7__HD_800x480_Android_4.0_S1_cortex_A8_1GHz_512M_DDR2_GPS_Navigation_w__WiFi_FM_Black-54772 is an allwiner A1X |
| 11:49.25 | Turl | mnemoc: lol "Pioneer" :) |
| 11:49.28 | mnemoc | nope, metidatek mt3351 on the box |
| 11:50.02 | mnemoc | Turl: looks nice, isn't it? ;-) |
| 11:50.13 | Turl | mnemoc: :P |
| 11:50.29 | Turl | cortex A8 is so two years ago though :( |
| 11:51.01 | mnemoc | yes, but haven't seen any A9 with GPS yet |
| 11:51.24 | Turl | pretty sure all tegra tabs have gps mnemoc :P |
| 11:51.48 | hno | mnemoc, what kernel command line do you use? It still hangs.. |
| 11:52.17 | mnemoc | [ 0.000000] Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,115200 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootwait init=/sbin/init loglevel=8 earlyprintk mac_addr=00:CE:39:B6:63:F8 |
| 11:52.47 | Turl | mnemoc: why are you passing mac addr as cmdline parameter? |
| 11:52.53 | hno | facepalms.. console=ttyS0 |
| 11:53.14 | mnemoc | Turl: because I'm too lazy to customize my script.bin |
| 11:53.30 | Turl | mnemoc: ha |
| 11:53.45 | Turl | I hate script.bin's |
| 11:53.51 | Turl | it's too easy to corrupt nanda ~.~ |
| 11:53.59 | Turl | and then your device doesn't boot at all >.< |
| 11:54.25 | hno | no wonder it got upset when configuring the console.. |
| 11:54.35 | mnemoc | my uSD is pretty solid.... it hasn't get corrupted ever yet |
| 11:54.41 | mnemoc | hno: :) |
| 11:54.56 | Turl | mnemoc: nanda isn't on uSD |
| 11:55.21 | mnemoc | I know, that's why I don't touch the nand :p |
| 11:55.32 | Turl | mnemoc: it's not storage corruption though, but something on the filesystem that the bootloader doesn't like |
| 11:55.56 | mnemoc | Turl: at least on mine the nanda filesyste is bogus |
| 11:56.05 | Turl | mnemoc: the one time I tried uSD boot, all I got was a dead tab until I popped up SD out of the tab :P |
| 11:56.10 | mnemoc | Turl: it's formated as 64MB while it's only 16MB |
| 11:56.27 | Turl | hm |
| 11:56.31 | Turl | need to check that then |
| 11:56.38 | mnemoc | Turl: reformatting correctly might be a good idea |
| 11:56.48 | hno | Looks better. |
| 11:57.28 | Turl | mnemoc: btw, I discovered that livesuite's 'upgrade' instead of forced format, fixes nanda |
| 11:57.35 | hno | not really working yet, but better. |
| 11:57.47 | Turl | and doesn't wipe your android data, although it'll reinstall the OS |
| 11:58.31 | Turl | having to boot the win vm is still a hassle though :P |
| 12:03.17 | hno | seems to hang on bootwait now, but root is set correctly.. |
| 12:03.35 | mnemoc | wishes the upgrade protocol gets REed soon |
| 12:04.52 | hno | upgrade protocol? |
| 12:04.56 | hno | FEL? |
| 12:05.41 | mnemoc | yes |
| 12:08.57 | lundman | wee |
| 12:14.15 | Turl | mnemoc: http://lightake.com/detail.do/sku.Xiaomi_Youth_Edition_4.0_inch_Capacitive_MIUI_V4_Android_4.0.3_GPS_WiFi_Quadband_3G_Smart_Phone_Black_Pre_order_-54352 lol |
| 12:26.14 | mnemoc | Turl: what's lol-ish there? |
| 12:31.27 | Turl | mnemoc: the flashy colors |
| 12:31.35 | Turl | mnemoc: and the fact that they wrote "Yourth" once :P |
| 12:32.53 | CIA-126 | rhombus-tech: lkcl master * rf70e73bb4739 /allwinner_a10/orders/ (.mdwn GiuseppeP.mdwn iserdaroz.mdwn zeccag.mdwn): order processing cleanup |
| 12:32.59 | mnemoc | :) |
| 12:35.12 | Turl | mnemoc: besides miui is greatly known for its awesome consideration of upstreams and community contributors</irony> |
| 12:38.25 | mnemoc | :) |
| 12:42.23 | Turl | mnemoc: besides they don't even do it correctly, they use binary releases, disassemble them, patch random files and assemble then again :P |
| 12:44.28 | hno | Turl, that's pretty common.. |
| 12:46.56 | Turl | hno: it's pretty common when they lack the source used to make the binary build |
| 12:47.14 | Turl | hno: miui can get the source easily though |
| 12:47.38 | Turl | so it's kind of stupid to do it still then |
| 12:48.18 | hno | Turl, if you are a windows user then patching feels more comfortable that building |
| 12:49.23 | hno | <6>Waiting for root device mmcblk0p1... |
| 12:49.41 | hno | [mmc]: mmc 0 detect change, present 1 |
| 12:49.56 | hno | [mmc]: mmc 0 detect change, present 1 |
| 12:50.01 | hno | and waiting...... |
| 12:50.14 | hno | <6> mmcblk0: p1 |
| 12:50.29 | hno | and waiting.... |
| 12:55.07 | hno | INIT: version 2.88 booting |
| 13:03.56 | mnemoc | hno: uhm |
| 13:04.20 | mnemoc | it usually only takes 1s |
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| 15:09.11 | Turl | woot arduino arrived :D |
| 15:11.53 | mnemoc | arduinos are soo 2010.. |
| 15:12.51 | specing | *2005 |
| 15:13.13 | specing | has about a dozen AVR chips lying here |
| 15:13.38 | mnemoc | :) |
| 15:22.02 | Turl | mnemoc: I'm an electronics noob ;) |
| 15:22.15 | Turl | anyway, it can talk uart :P |
| 15:22.47 | specing | :O |
| 15:23.19 | specing | But it probably has just one, so that wont help you much :D |
| 15:24.26 | Turl | specing: I just need one to talk with my A10 :P |
| 15:25.17 | specing | I though you wanted to use it as a bridge... |
| 15:26.17 | specing | Somehow... |
| 15:26.55 | Turl | yeah |
| 15:27.16 | Turl | PC is over USB, it has an independent serial I believe |
| 15:27.37 | specing | What chip is it? |
| 15:28.34 | Turl | atmega328 |
| 15:29.03 | specing | well nope |
| 15:29.11 | specing | No independent serial |
| 15:30.23 | Turl | specing: http://arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoardUno |
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| 15:32.34 | specing | Yeah, I've seen that in person |
| 15:33.11 | specing | No, the only serial port is connected to the ATmega8u2 usb-serial bridge |
| 15:33.57 | Turl | suppose I have my A10 on tx-rx pins |
| 15:34.10 | specing | yes... |
| 15:34.13 | Turl | and my pc just listening over the bridge |
| 15:34.21 | specing | no... |
| 15:34.23 | mnemoc | i believe you can kidnap Gnd from another connector |
| 15:34.52 | specing | Turl: The only way to do that would be with bitbanged UART |
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| 17:37.57 | steev | yay it arrived! |
| 17:38.10 | steev | and it's payday, it's like i've won the lottery |
| 17:39.20 | mnemoc | steev: your new 10" A10 tablet? |
| 17:40.12 | hp_ | steev the $64 tablet? |
| 17:40.24 | steev | no, it's a tad more than 64 |
| 17:40.55 | steev | but it's |
| 17:41.14 | steev | sec i'll find a link |
| 17:41.58 | steev | http://www.androidtabletbay.com/97-inch-a10-15-ghz-cpu-android-42-os-android-tablet-with-dual-camera-capacitive-screen_p628.html |
| 17:45.34 | steev | that one |
| 17:45.44 | steev | I'm actually fairly impressed with it |
| 17:45.49 | steev | very thin, solidly built |
| 17:46.00 | steev | the back isn't super slick |
| 17:46.08 | steev | it's rough so it won't slide out of my hands |
| 17:47.34 | steev | and most importantly, TED installs on it |
| 17:50.27 | steev | and google chrome installs and runs on it |
| 17:53.33 | mnemoc | chrome crashes badly on my onda vi10 |
| 18:00.30 | steev | not on this thing (so far) |
| 18:01.03 | steev | in the settings it calls itself an MID970 |
| 18:02.46 | ZaEarl | typical generic firmware. we've seen that on a lot of tablets. |
| 18:05.13 | steev | yeah |
| 18:06.10 | mnemoc | steev: opened up your fy-l1 already? :) |
| 18:06.12 | steev | it doesn't like the youtube app that's installed (it tells me i need to uninstall it in order to update) |
| 18:06.20 | steev | nah, just got in to work |
| 18:06.50 | mnemoc | boooring |
| 18:07.18 | mnemoc | who needs a toy that *works*?? |
| 18:07.24 | steev | heh |
| 18:08.36 | ZaEarl | I wish I knew who was building those firmwares. |
| 18:09.08 | mnemoc | ZaEarl: I would bet Allwinner makes it |
| 18:09.32 | ZaEarl | I don't think so. |
| 18:10.55 | ZaEarl | Allwinner might start it, but someone is customizing them with devices drivers, etc. Allwinner wouldn't do that. |
| 18:15.34 | hno | Wits Tech (part of allwinner) do help many of their customer to great length. |
| 18:16.53 | steev | ZaEarl: just track down shen and ask him :P |
| 18:18.26 | hno | ZaEarl, does it matter who is building them? It's pretty much the Allwinner SDK without any meaningful modifications. |
| 18:19.14 | steev | one interesting thing about the tablet, no buttons on the front |
| 18:21.23 | ZaEarl | the allwinner sdk isn't going to have all the device drivers. i want those! |
| 18:21.50 | hno | It has all the device drivers for the devices Allwinner lists as supported. |
| 18:23.36 | steev | ZaEarl: you and me both :) |
| 18:24.55 | mnemoc | it already includes tons of funky drivers.... very few are missing |
| 18:25.09 | hno | ZaEarl, which device drivers are you missing? |
| 18:25.32 | ZaEarl | I'm just starting to look, like wifi, I've got 8192cu.ko, but not sure where the source is. |
| 18:25.51 | hno | the allwinner SDK already have more drivers than needed as demonstrated by Turl the other day. |
| 18:26.03 | hno | that driver is in the SDK and also in mainline in better shape. |
| 18:27.58 | ZaEarl | where is the sdk source? |
| 18:28.22 | ZaEarl | I have a prebuilt/lib/modules repo full of .ko's. no idea where they were built from. |
| 18:28.36 | hno | mnemoc collects and tidies up the kernel sources quite a bit. |
| 18:29.54 | ZaEarl | ok, so I think I found it at linux-allwinner / drivers / net / wireless / rtl8192cu |
| 18:29.58 | mnemoc | hno: I was thinking about thatusb/wifi hack mostly connected to the "airplane mode".... been able to power on and off the usb controllers but couldn't find a way to properly integrate this feature in a generic way (not hacked into the particulary blessed wireless driver) |
| 18:31.11 | hno | mnemoc, should really be done via normal device powermanagement via /sys. |
| 18:31.14 | mnemoc | hno: if you can think of an idea to make a generic driver properly deal with this I'm very open to ideas |
| 18:31.23 | mnemoc | hno: i see |
| 18:31.44 | steev | ZaEarl: there are lots of 8192cu drivers out there |
| 18:31.44 | hno | if you are not using an USB controller then suspend it. |
| 18:33.19 | ZaEarl | I'm focusing on GPL compliance, so whatever .ko I ship, I'm tracking down the source. |
| 18:34.14 | mnemoc | hno: and the resume()? after suspending the usb bus is gone |
| 18:34.35 | mnemoc | ZaEarl: what driver are you missing for your slate? |
| 18:35.50 | ZaEarl | mnemoc, not sure, I have a repo with a bunch of prebuilt modules, so I'm figuring out how they were built. |
| 18:36.54 | mnemoc | ZaEarl: foo.ko is normally are created by a obj-$(CONFIG...) += foo.o .... so you need to start by `git grep`ing |
| 18:38.06 | steev | mnemoc: that's not what he means |
| 18:38.23 | steev | what he means is, how does he have these .ko files that are NOT in the sources |
| 18:38.40 | steev | and since they aren't in the sources, where are the sources that create them |
| 18:39.26 | mnemoc | steev: ok, I thought he hadn't *yet* confirmed the lack of sources |
| 18:39.45 | steev | ah, well the ekt2201 or whatever it is, is definitely missing |
| 18:41.55 | mnemoc | https://github.com/ffxx68/RenesasEV2-BSPGB-Kernel/commit/225b5ed0c5fa325b5fc7009b79bb85dd8a4a15a4 |
| 18:42.11 | steev | oooh |
| 18:42.13 | steev | nice find |
| 18:42.26 | mnemoc | :) |
| 18:42.39 | steev | now import it :P |
| 18:42.43 | mnemoc | not missing anymore ;-) |
| 18:42.46 | steev | actually i'd have to check that it works |
| 18:42.50 | mnemoc | ehm uhm |
| 18:42.54 | mnemoc | steev: yes, better |
| 18:43.07 | steev | which won't happen until i can get my ly-f1 to not lock up at boot time |
| 18:43.25 | steev | it complains about the sensor (according to lsmod it's loaded), and then shortly thereafter, locks up |
| 19:08.35 | hno | mnemoc, the controller is still there. |
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| 20:25.48 | hno | mnemoc, you resume the controller and it will power up the bus again and rescan. |
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| 20:27.46 | mnemoc | hno: who in the device model is in charge of .scan()ing ? |
| 20:28.07 | mnemoc | I thought it was the bus_type, but it doesn't have such callback |
| 20:28.36 | hno | it's the controller driver that initiates scanning. |
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| 20:35.17 | mnemoc | hno: ah, ok... that's why I couldn't find a generic one |
| 20:35.45 | hno | actually you probably need to shut down the controller entirely to force suspend. Seems the manual force suspend state was removed for some reason. |
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| 21:03.41 | hno | Hmm... seems there is still hang issues with SPL in the upgraded u-boot. This is annoying. |
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| 21:15.38 | Turl | f yeah, I got arduino talking to itself uart<->software serial :D |
| 21:36.25 | ZaEarl | another dongle-arm. could be an a10 from the specs http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/484889112/the-pocket-tv-makes-any-tv-a-smart-tv |
| 21:38.09 | ZaEarl | guess not, cortex a9 |
| 21:38.51 | hno | ZaEarl, no it can't be an A10. Specs says 1GHz A9. And HDMI1.3. A10 is A8 and HDM1.4. |
| 21:46.16 | ZaEarl | which reminds me, what's the highest hdmi-out you've seen on an a10 device? |
| 21:46.59 | mnemoc | ZaEarl: the 4k thing is a myth, it's supported by the decoder but not by the output |
| 21:47.29 | ZaEarl | right, so what sort of output can the output do? |
| 21:47.39 | mnemoc | 1080p |
| 21:48.03 | ZaEarl | seen the mele do 1080p? |
| 21:48.23 | mnemoc | I'm not sure if I've ever connected a display to the mele |
| 21:48.45 | ZaEarl | anyone else? |
| 21:49.24 | mnemoc | amery@ubuntu-arm-sd:~$ uname -a |
| 21:49.25 | mnemoc | Linux ubuntu-arm-sd 3.3.7+ #30 PREEMPT Fri Jun 8 23:40:19 CEST 2012 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux |
| 21:50.30 | mnemoc | can't test because I had to disable the hdmi because the pcm driver is broken :p |
| 21:52.49 | mnemoc | I remember my daughter watching some videos out of her tablet and they looked very 1080p-ish... but didn't ask the tv to confirm |
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| 21:56.19 | mnemoc | $ ls -al /dev/fb |
| 21:56.20 | mnemoc | fb0 fb1 fb2 fb3 fb4 fb5 fb6 fb7 |
| 21:56.27 | mnemoc | does this happen in 3.0 too? |
| 21:57.47 | ZaEarl | I got no fb devs. |
| 21:58.04 | mnemoc | well... after modprobe lcd |
| 21:59.01 | ZaEarl | lol, I can get a shell on my tablet even though mali is crashing and reloading continually. |
| 22:00.42 | mnemoc | linux power :) |
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| 22:10.55 | hno | mnemoc, you have a tv capable of >1080p? |
| 22:14.09 | mnemoc | it has a fullhd logo... |
| 22:14.41 | mnemoc | but in the best case it's <=1080p |
| 22:14.49 | mnemoc | not > |
| 22:26.11 | ZaEarl | I could sure use an affordable >1080p monitor. |
| 22:26.59 | hno | does not even own a device with HDMI input. |
| 22:28.32 | hno | but the monitor is 1600x1200.. |
| 22:29.15 | hno | and was quite affortable when I bought it many years ago. |
| 22:31.04 | lundman | we have a frame buffer? |
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| 22:33.42 | hno | lundman, yes (lcd module), but not framebuffer console. |
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| 22:36.39 | hno | Ugh... 2160p monitors is defenitely NOT affordable. cheapest I could find around here is about 30K USD. (218K SEK) Eizo RadiForce RX840. |
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