IRC log for #elinux on 20070626

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09:09.57Pseudonimohi, anyone knows how to count the sectors in a loop with busybox-1.1.3
09:10.12Pseudonimo? blockdev isn't available
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14:36.06wmatweeee, user list is growing, current count 56
14:36.31chouimathi wmat
14:37.05wmatchouimat: bonjour
14:37.37tzangerheh
14:37.49tzangerbad drivers will kill even the best system
14:38.07tzangerI'm doing a small contract for a guy for a BF537
14:38.17tzangerit's pretty straightforward, and the CPU is pretty much idle
14:38.38tzangerbut shitty ethernet and bad TDM drivers grind this thing to a screeching halt
14:39.19chouimattzanger: I'm fixing the code of a nice "commercial project" ... thanks that 95% of it will be closed source ...
14:39.22tzangerof course the lamentation is "it's too much data for this thing" when in reality if they can replace teh PHY with something higher performance and work on the driver for the TDM side, I bet this DSP can just fly
14:40.33tzangerchouimat: fun...  when I quote I give two prices... one where I retain copyright and grant a nonexclusive, nonexpiring and transferable license to the guy I do the work for, and one where I wipe the project off my disk afterward
14:40.39tzangerthey almost ALL choose the cheaper one
14:40.58chouimattzanger: believe you don't want to own this code ...
14:41.00wmatheh
14:41.24tzangerchouimat: hahaha
14:41.59chouimattzanger: I spent a week fixing the structs and the classes to be memory aligned ...
14:42.38wmattzanger: are they open source drivers?
14:42.46wmatis the contract paying you to fix those?
14:43.04chouimattzanger: those morons did all the development on x86 (windows) and now they want the stuff to run on linux arm ...
14:43.51wmatsounds typical
14:44.22chouimatwmat: I knew it would be a pita but I need the money ... but I didn't expect the code to be this ugly
14:44.50wmatheh
14:45.02wmatyou need beer/code goggles
14:46.13chouimatwmat: I have 2 days left ... until friday. I will simply reduce the memory leaks, cache misses to the maximum. and If I have time I will try to improve the performance ...
14:47.21tzangerchouimat: you aren't using valgrind to measure cache misses are you?  (I didn't think it was possible)
14:47.52chouimattzanger: there is a tool in it, don't know if it's really accurate but it give you a lot of pointers
14:48.04tzangerinteresting
14:48.40chouimathttp://www.valgrind.org/info/tools.html
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15:08.18wmatI really have to get that mediawiki->IRC notifier setup as there's been a lot of elinuxwiki updates in the last month
15:10.42chouimatwmat: time to take a break from this uglyness ... lets look at the job websites ;)
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15:12.47wmatchouimat: there should be tonnes of cool stuff in Ottawa.  You are in Ottawa right?
15:13.13chouimatwmat: yup ... just applied to a linux SW developer one :)
15:13.40wmatRockwell Collins hires in Ottawa
15:15.05wmatchouimat: also, Procom usually has some decent embedded contracts in Ottawa, procom.ca
15:15.14Sandbenderanyone here know anything about the lseek function in char drivers?
15:15.33chouimatwmat: I think I'm 300000 times in their database ;)
15:15.55wmatah
15:16.02wmatSandbender: what's your question?
15:16.51Sandbenderwhat is teh offset based on, is it based on the current location in the file or is it from the start of the file?
15:17.28SandbenderI assumed the start but I've been messign around with a driver I'm trying to write and I'm not sure now
15:17.45wmatit depends
15:17.53Sandbenderaha
15:17.54Sandbender:)
15:18.15Sandbenderis there a good site that goes into detail about it?
15:18.24wmathttp://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/functions/lseek.html
15:18.35Sandbendercool thatnks
15:18.46wmatnp
15:19.32Sandbenderhehe, well that's pretty simple
15:21.19Sandbenderwmat: have you ever written a framebuffer driver?
15:23.46wmatSandbender: nope
15:24.32wmatI'm working hard to avoid it ;)
15:26.40Sandbenderhehe, that's a good call
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17:20.29wmatwho is Gmeader?
17:20.31wmatis he here?
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