IRC log for #arm-netbook on 20121205

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00:25.31L84Supperhttp://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/12/04/1748232/toward-an-fsf-endorsable-embedded-processor
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00:26.34L84Suppernow he's trolling Slashdot
00:27.11Mehhhlolol,ol
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00:28.19atari2600ahey
00:28.34atari2600aI drop in by chance a few days ago & 2 seconds later you guys appear on slashdot
00:28.40atari2600agood for you guys
00:29.40atari2600aanyways, what I'm much more interested in which makes so little sense
00:30.03atari2600awhen's there gonna be a netbook EOMA-68 netbook dock w/ removable RAM
00:30.09atari2600aor is the RAM embedded on the card itself
00:30.16L84Supperatari2600a:  what actually goes on here and what that article is about is different
00:30.37L84Supperthere is no EOMA68 card, it's still vapor
00:30.58atari2600aD: the side-note on the article says it's in production
00:31.10atari2600a*pre-production
00:31.16MehhhIs this what powered the Phantom Console?
00:31.21Mehhh*rim-shot*
00:31.36L84Supperthere so much BS, I don't know where to start
00:31.43atari2600ahey man that's not cool
00:31.46atari2600amy brother died that way
00:33.44atari2600aanyways I guess until the netbook comes back, I'll stick w/ a Nexus 7 or 10 or something
00:34.09penguin42the 10 looks neat
00:34.43atari2600aas long as it can run GNU/Linux
00:34.48atari2600a& have a keyboard
00:35.11atari2600a(brand-name tablets are more likely to get cases w/ bluetooth/USB-OTG keyboards
00:35.42atari2600aOMG how come SO FEW Have attempted a tablet with an SSD & DIMMs?
00:36.03penguin42atari2600a: Because the tablet market is driven by being light
00:36.38penguin42atari2600a: It's only kind of the pro/industrial things that need that flexibility
00:36.49atari2600apenguin42, mPCIE formfactor cards & a single DIMM slot?
00:39.38penguin42atari2600a: I'm not sure what's possible to be honest; do any of them use mPCIe for wireless
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00:46.55atari2600ano but it'd be a plus
00:47.15atari2600aI can think of at least one laptop that I can't use on modern routers because it predates WPA
00:48.11atari2600aall I know is there's probably people still making mPCIE SSD's like there's still some people making PCMCIA-formfactor bullshit
00:51.05penguin42atari2600a: Nod
00:51.10Mehhhatari, you can't use an adapter?
00:51.31atari2600aI got the laptop for free
00:52.05atari2600aI wouldn't want to make 5 trips to frys to keep returning the smallest cheapest adapters I can find until I find one that works
00:52.12atari2600ait's a nice laptop though
00:52.32atari2600aon old P4 non-HT IBM ThinkPad w/ <1GB DDR RAM
00:52.39atari2600abut the real kicker
00:52.42atari2600aIT HAS A FLOPPY DRIVE
00:53.07penguin42<klunk> whirrrr stepstepstepstepstepstepwhiirrrr</klunk>
00:54.03penguin42atari2600a: This conversation is going through a P90 desktop that's my NAT box; wouldn't actually want to do anything useful on it though
00:54.18L84Suppersome vendors have used the PCIe on the Tegra for wifi
00:54.49penguin42L84Supper: Yeh I do wonder if that could be broken out to a PCIe backplane and bridge
00:55.04L84SupperI wish they did add PCIe to some tablets, there would be all sorts of industrial uses
00:55.34penguin42L84Supper: My assumption is that Apple will add it with the thunderbolt connectors, and I'd bet some of the industrial ones have it
00:55.36L84Supperpenguin42: it depends on the PCIe on the SOC, some are only x1 some are x4
00:55.48penguin42there are SOCs with x4 ?
00:55.49penguin42oooh
00:56.00atari2600awhile nothing would make me happier than see the wifi bottleneck on phones & tablets go away, I think a mPCIE slot would be better fitted for storage
00:56.01L84Supperif you spot an industrail one, please let me know
00:57.26L84Suppersome of the marvell had x4 PCIe, but the bus would get saturated pretty easily
00:57.29penguin42I know Lenovo are doing a laptop that'll fold around to a tablet style - like the tablets of 5 years ago
00:57.46L84Suppera GPU would starve there pretty quickly
00:59.39L84Supperhttp://www.marvell.com/embedded-processors/armada-xp/
00:59.51penguin42yeh they're nice looking chips
01:00.31L84Supperkirkwood and discovery had some as well
01:01.01L84Supperbut no docs and no desire by marvell to sell parts
01:01.09L84Supperopen docs anyway
01:01.17penguin42yeh I saw a usb/network bridge on sale the other day that was based around a marvell and had a mPCIE for wireless - I was tempted
01:01.56MehhhYou can run linux on it?
01:02.06penguin42oh yeh
01:02.41penguin42damn, can't rmeember the name
01:02.52MehhhIf you could boot from a sep drive, the intel turbocache drives are super cheap on ebay
01:03.00MehhhIO would be insanely nice
01:03.20penguin42ah yeh, it was an iomedga iconnect
01:03.29penguin42http://www.kroonen.eu/wiki/Debian%20iConnect
01:03.43atari2600apenguin42, lenovo's been doing that for over 5 years & I have the hardware to prove it
01:04.24MehhhI had a centrino single that does that stuff by IBM
01:04.31Mehhh=/= len
01:08.23penguin42L84Supper: There are some embeddedy ArmadaXP cards around and some systems for them - they're not cheap
01:09.38penguin42http://www.mitac.com/Business/GFX_servers.html  is one I'd not seen before
01:15.20L84Supperpenguin42: I actually have an NDA with Marvell and have tried to work with them
01:16.16penguin42L84Supper: I know a few guys at codethink who use the http://www.cogcomp.com/csb_csb1726.htm modules
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01:17.13L84Suppernothing with Marvell teds to work out, Google seems to be willing to spend the time to fix their hardware
01:17.58L84Supperi.mx6 has PCIe and SATA
01:18.23MehhhAll I want is an A15 quadcore, narrow stick
01:18.25penguin42nod
01:18.32Mehhhnarrow, not square
01:19.43L84Supperall the latest ARM soc's are either unavailable, broken or missing open docs, some are even missing closed docs  :)
01:21.41MehhhI'm just hoping the Allwinner A15 is an A15 ;)
01:21.54MehhhThey could call it the Xzibit core
01:22.17penguin42Mehhh: Based on standard naming of other SoCs the only thing you can be sure of is that whatever it's named it will in no way indicate what core it's got
01:22.31Mehhhyeh
01:22.37penguin42Mehhh: especially if it looks like it should
01:22.45TurlMehhh: exynos 5 odroid :P
01:23.01MehhhScumbag Allwinner; releases Allwinner A10, with a C A8
01:23.21MehhhTurl, square :<
01:23.31Mehhhneed a narrow stick
01:23.40Mehhhusing Mk802 atm, not narrow enough but it'll do
01:23.53Turlit's gonna be too hot for a narrow stick
01:24.03MehhhNaw, i made a nice heatsink for it
01:24.06L84SupperI bet it's done intentionally to get buyers to assume it's better than it is, like the 1.5GHz spec and dual cores
01:24.14TurlI mean the A15
01:24.29Turlconsider A15 was invented to be used on servers, not mobile
01:24.51penguin42Turl: Arguable considering it's now in latest phones and tablets
01:24.56L84Suppernarrow stick with large heatsink or a heatpipe
01:25.07MehhhI'm using it in a lapdock so
01:25.17Mehhhanything 10w> is awesome
01:25.54MehhhSitting here soldering just to fit it correctly
01:28.32Turl10W+? :P
01:28.52Turls/invented/intended/
01:29.23L84Suppermaybe he lives in a cold climate and the heat is welcome  :)
01:29.50penguin42plumbing a few large boxes into our central heating system wouldn't be bad at the moment
01:30.01Turlget some i7 on there
01:30.06Turlor a pair of xeons :)
01:30.31penguin42has his i7 over there -- but it needs a few to keep the place warm
01:31.27L84Supperadd a few HD6990 gpu cards  :)
01:35.22Turlpenguin42: sandy or ivy?
01:36.00MehhhIf you need a cheap reflow station, I hear the old AMD FX's are on sale
01:36.14penguin42Turl: It's 3 years old, so a bit earlier - Lynnfield possibly (i7-860)
01:36.15xenoxaosi'm still sporting a 920
01:36.17Mehhhset it and forget it
01:37.45TurlMehhh: lol
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01:40.04MehhhGrrr, mem leak
01:40.18Turlvalgrind <3
01:41.43TurlMehhh: valgrind --tool=memcheck --leak-check=full <your program>
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04:02.35libvright, a few guys at codethink using marvell...
04:02.38libv*sighs*
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04:23.43Jef91So is there any hardware difference between this ->http://pengpod.com/products/pengstick and the mk802?
04:27.26libvJef91: nope
04:27.35Jef91Didn't think so.
04:28.02Jef91Still haven't been successful in booting an Ubuntu (or any) image on my mk802 device from the SD card.
04:28.12Jef91Will have to play with it more this weekend.
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06:12.56orly_owlhttp://lkcl.net/articles/fsf_endorseable_processor.html
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06:14.43libvwhat happened to the previous goals?
06:15.11orly_owlin 2006?
06:15.17orly_owldunno
06:15.25orly_owlarticle says it wouldnt sell well
06:16.59libvwell, the eoma allwinner stuff or the creation of a tablet to ship with plasma
06:17.17libvoh great, a whole bit about gpu and graphics.
06:17.35libvwell, good luck with this, but i will not hold my breath
06:17.52orly_owlneither will i
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07:04.00Mehhhmehhhh, soldering hurts my fingers
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07:43.21libvMehhh: hold the bit that isn't heated
07:47.05Kasberthi. I have a Mini Xplus device and I am trying to read the NAND using BROM code (that should work, because it boots from there ?).
07:47.16KasbertThe device has a slightly different rom compared to Allwinner-Info/BROM.
07:47.35KasbertI use a fel-boot prepared sdcard to enter fel mode. Calling 0xffff50c0 (load_from_mmc) works as expected, but nand load 0xffff5410 just hangs. Any idea why ?
07:48.18KasbertCould it be the fel/usb code messing with clocks or something ?
07:50.13Mehhhrofl
07:50.29MehhhMy tip is too big
07:56.01orly_owlmk802 III is the latest revision?
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09:28.16oliv3rI do applaud lkcl's effort and persistance. If this SoC materializes in the next year or so and can do full 1080p HD, it may well be the next XBMC (or whatever mediaplayer du jour) preferred SoC. tablets, mini-desktops etc are all workable aswell
09:28.21oliv3rRMS should be happy :)
09:30.13orly_owlhe might even get a laptop that doesnt suck
09:30.29oliv3rHell, I would even get a laptop like that
09:30.33MehhhIt won't. 10 million dollars...
09:30.33orly_owlsame
09:30.38Mehhhno way no how
09:30.40orly_owlid buy 2
09:30.49oliv3r2 laptops, 3 'set top boxes'
09:30.51Mehhhnot unless he uses money from another project that also uses that CPU
09:30.55oliv3ra few mini-pc's
09:31.06oliv3rkick start it :D
09:31.13oliv3rlets see how long it'll take to get 10m :(
09:31.25oliv3rif I had 10 mil, i'd invest ;p
09:31.27Mehhhask the last company to try
09:31.36Mehhhthat failed
09:31.50oliv3rMehhh: which company? tried what?
09:31.56Mehhhopen soc
09:32.03Mehhhcan't remember the name
09:32.12Mehhhbut it was the same idea, and has the same fate
09:32.34oliv3rwhen was that though?
09:32.44Mehhh1-2 years ago?
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09:33.01Mehhhthis same cycle usually happens every 1-2
09:33.36oliv3rThe ideaaa still is good, but nobody is willing to take the risk
09:33.43MehhhThe first "open" cpu will be when you can 3d print it
09:33.45oliv3r10 mil (for a big company) isn't that big a deal
09:34.01oliv3ractually, lkcl should start talks with google, for them 10 mil is chump change
09:34.20MehhhYou realize they could buy a fab for 10m
09:34.31Mehhhcompletely ruining the point
09:35.08oliv3rThey'd obviously do this with the point of creating an open SoC
09:35.56MehhhGoogle: Can it run binary ads? No? No.
09:36.20jinzoI personally think that within next 5 years something like that will be possible. Because a lot off companies are trying to success in the Smartphone/mobile/whatever market and some of them will burn out
09:36.21oliv3rit can run android with its binary adds just fine :p
09:36.56jinzoand then their assests will be cheaper/they will be more willing to open source their design
09:37.26jinzoat least I hope so. Even if it's not the latest tech - a cheap SoC could go a long way
09:37.26MehhhGoogle won't do it because Samsung
09:37.47MehhhLook at what happened to Huawei
09:37.49jinzoand Motorola and whatnot, that's quite sure
09:38.02jinzowhat? Last time I checked they were doing great.
09:38.04oliv3rstill, for google   this will be chump change and would fit fine into their 'google phone/tablet/set top box' portfolio
09:38.08Mehhhjinzo...
09:38.12oliv3rnow they rely on 3rd party socs'
09:38.15Mehhhthey were almost banned
09:38.17Mehhhcompletely
09:38.25Mehhhin fact politicans are still trying
09:38.51Mehhholivr, yes, but google makes money on ads and software
09:38.53jinzoMehhh, USA? they will soon be irrelevant in my honest opinion (regarding technology market.)
09:39.02MehhhRight
09:39.09oliv3rMehhh: yes, and how do they get it to the people? cheap phones and tablets (and settop boxes)
09:39.21MehhhLet me know when Apple doesn't make kids in India and China so mad they sell kidneys to get an ipad
09:39.22oliv3rhaving a reference open SoC, would not be a bad idea
09:39.30oliv3rand they have motorolla mobility to make those reference designs
09:39.41oliv3rso to see if its viable, 10mil is nothing to them
09:39.42MehhhAmerica has the same thing a British accent does in the USA
09:39.44jinzooliv3r, Google won't be making hardware directly for the forseeable future imo. As they relay on relatively good relations with too many hardware companies
09:39.57MehhhImage of someting long past
09:40.05MehhhApple is proof that image works
09:40.08oliv3rreference design, not making their own platform
09:40.19jinzoMehhh, yes - but we're not talking image here per se.
09:40.24Mehhhyes, yes we are
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09:40.31MehhhEurope has it for fashion
09:40.34jinzowe're talking about companies releasing products only if they can release it in the USA
09:40.38oliv3ralso, htc for example, doesn't care whether they use google open soource SoC or samsungs soc or qualcom's soc. They wanna sell you a phone
09:40.41MehhhThat was never true
09:40.42Mehhhever
09:40.50Mehhhin fact, ten years ago the best phones were in Japan
09:40.53MehhhKorea
09:41.07MehhhWe're just now catching up
09:41.10Mehhhwith availability
09:41.19jinzoand that the USA market is the biggest most important market for them - for example: look at the new Nexus lunch
09:41.23oliv3rMehhh: where are you from?
09:41.34MehhhUSA of course
09:41.38oliv3rbecause 10 years ago, it was 'nokia' that was leading the phone industrie, right here in europe
09:41.46MehhhI used to pay people to get me phones from japan
09:41.49Mehhhstationed there
09:41.52MehhhNokia, rofl
09:41.53oliv3rah yes, USA has always been catching up on the phone market :
09:41.56oliv3r:p
09:41.56Mehhhagain, nokia was image
09:42.04MehhhJapan had tech Nokia copied
09:42.07jinzostuff like that will, with all the patent battles, all the nonsense around Huawei and alike soon perish
09:42.08MehhhSharp, Panasonic
09:42.10Mehhhetc
09:42.25jinzoand they'll stock EU/Russia first
09:42.46MehhhThe point is that the USA is only getting better devices, not the other way around
09:42.49jinzolook at how good Huawei is doing, at what price range are they lunching new hardware
09:42.52Mehhhit used to have the worst
09:43.00MehhhNow, Africa is getting better 4g than europe
09:43.04Mehhhsad
09:43.37jinzobecause we know HSDPA+ (that's 3G) uses less battery and offers good speeds?
09:43.49MehhhNot anymore
09:44.05Mehhhbattery drain mAh per MB
09:44.20Mehhhis officially less on LTE now (for current gen devices)
09:44.31MehhhTry again
09:44.38jinzoyou'll notice that EU has quite a good infrastructure (generally) from mobile networks to internet networks
09:44.45MehhhI never said they didn't
09:44.48jinzoah? Didn't notice that in any of the current reviews I read
09:45.05MehhhThat's the only reason Apple finally put it in their device
09:45.14jinzothe lack of LTE in new nexus was widely assumed because of battery drain
09:45.19MehhhIt has LTE
09:45.27jinzonot activated/whetever
09:45.30Mehhh...and they figured out how to enable it
09:45.34Mehhhit was done to save $$
09:45.44Mehhhbecause they have to pay to use that tech
09:46.00jinzoyes - sure. I'm preatty sure they have to pay it when they make the actuall silicon :D
09:46.03oliv3rNokia's 'image' is what even remotely lets them survive now, and that image is fading quickly. But back in the early 2000's, nokia was king of the phones; back then, USA had pathetic phones. It was the iPhone that brought the USA up to par with the rest of the world
09:46.11MehhhYes, but the license cost is more than the chip costs
09:46.25MehhhNokia wasn't, unless you were white in 2000
09:46.29oliv3ranyway, all that is history now. Google having funded (not owning) a SoC would still be a good thing :)
09:46.35oliv3rso lkcl try to talk ot google :)
09:46.35jinzoMehhh, and you think the licensees would be "ok, just use software to disable it, and we're cool?"
09:46.39MehhhI was getting that hot high res from Japan
09:46.47Mehhhfrom Navy guys
09:46.53MehhhYes
09:46.57Mehhhthat is exactly the case
09:47.11Mehhhjust like the A13 vs A10
09:47.30oliv3rI wouldn't be supprised that the A13 is simply broken/binned silicon
09:47.34jinzoyou seem to know a lot about that tech, and you're not under a NDA
09:47.48MehhhSo? I have epic RSS feeds
09:48.00Mehhhyou can import them in excel / GD now
09:48.01jinzooliv3r, that's a bit different than just using high level software to disable it.
09:48.03Mehhhso i'm always on my game
09:48.20oliv3rjinzo: but then you can simply re-enable it ;)
09:49.04MehhhFor instance, Windows Starter edition had many files in the WIM image from other versions
09:49.14Mehhhevery company does this after it becomes cheaper to include and disable
09:49.19MehhhApple with Siri
09:49.52MehhhATI / Nvidia and OEM gpus
09:50.04MehhhIntel with the Xeon E3's
09:50.14Mehhhi'm just being a realist.
09:55.12Mehhhdoes anyone here know if the USB A can be sub'd for a Micro USB female with the 4->5 trick on the MK802?
09:56.21jinzoMehhh, oliv3r the difference is with high level disable (like Googles LTE) or low level disable (like AMD's 3 core processors, RPI's videocore IV)
09:56.52MehhhThe Xeon is a rebadged I7
09:56.53Mehhhthe E3
09:57.10Mehhhthe real world voltages run the exact same
09:57.19jinzothe low level disable is not that easy to overcome, (with AMD you had to re connect some vias), and tell me when a new video codec for Videocore IV will be released
09:57.51jinzoor the bios flashes of some AMD/ATI video cards
09:58.03jinzofar from easy, even for techies.
09:58.35oliv3rimo, video core should be something like a little FPGA in the SoC so you can update the video codecs :)
09:58.43GumbootWhat's disabled in VideoCore?
09:59.04MehhhHere is the perfect example: Intel had 3-4 CPUs where you could "unlock" cache and mhz
09:59.05oliv3rI used to flash my video bios on my radeon 9700 :D
09:59.07Mehhhfor 50$
09:59.33Mehhhthe Nexus 4 can be "unlocked" to LTE, or you can buy the Optimus G
09:59.33oliv3ra lot of single/dual/tripple cores could be unlocked to quad or hexa cores.
09:59.40jinzoMehhh, I agree - it's a fact everyone does this - but when they do it they do it on a level that is not fixable from high level code (as with nexuses LTE)
09:59.44jinzooliv3r, yes - but not easly
10:00.05oliv3rjinzo: bios option!
10:00.06jinzoflashing a video bios is not easy too, adding MPEG2 to Videocore IV is not easy too (if you don't pay for it ofcourse)
10:00.13Mehhhjinzo, this is LG we're talking about ;)
10:00.19jinzooliv3r, on the graphic card? didn't see that one comming
10:00.32oliv3rjinzo: na CPU's!
10:00.56oliv3rflashing video bios was easy as running a commandline tool and flashing the rom
10:01.00jinzothe last time I checked it was quite a adventure - but I'm not into graphic cards
10:01.20oliv3rin my case, we simply took the 9700Pro bios and flashed it onto a 9700
10:01.20jinzooh - and who made it? I guessed we're talking about the process to create that
10:01.23oliv3rbut this was old skool
10:01.27Mehhhanyone here solder on their MK802?
10:03.39slapinMehhh: /me soldered a lot on mk802 clones
10:04.04MehhhDo you know if the OTG trick works on the USB A ports?
10:04.22slapinMehhh: what OTG trick?
10:04.22jinzoGumboot, regarding VideoCore IV - you can buy additional software codecs (for decode only afaik) from them now.
10:04.37Mehhhsolder 1st / 2nd pin on the mini-usb to enable otg
10:06.03MehhhI'm trying to figure out the easiest and (size wise) thinnest way to get a micro-usb on the device
10:06.17GumbootI don't think they sell any software video codecs.
10:06.43GumbootVP8 and Theora would be the only ones I know of which are done in software, and to the best of my knowledge they've never bothered to make those available.
10:07.19jinzoGumboot, I meant additional software for the VideoCore IV, that get's uploaded I presume
10:07.27jinzoand enables it - not sure how it actually works
10:08.02jinzoah a license I see.
10:08.15Mehhhoh snap
10:08.16jinzoso looks like a license key only enables it
10:08.37GumbootYeah.  It's a cost-down.
10:08.51GumbootDo you need to buy MPEG4, as well?
10:09.28jinzoafaik no. You even get the encoding of MPEG4. But it's been quite some time I followed RPi stuff.
10:09.50GumbootDoes it detect and cripple DivX files?
10:10.17jinzothey did so many mistakes when they lunched, some even out of pure ignorance if you ask me
10:10.33GumbootEncoding is easier because any video you encode in MPEG4 is implicitly not DivX unless you're using their encoder.  Decode requires detection, though.
10:10.45GumbootIt's too early for lunch, here.
10:11.13jinzoand since then I'm not really a fan. I respect what they're doing but - there's a lot of alternatives out there.
10:14.49MehhhHas anyone ever made a cable that goes in the back portion of a MiniUSB port
10:18.06Mehhhso no-one has tried OTG via main USB?
10:18.30Mehhhi mean, using a 5pin USB->MicroUSB has the same effect, correct?
10:18.42Mehhheven if the USB port itself has 4
10:21.24MehhhLike so: http://im.tech2.in.com/gallery/2012/jun/difference_circuit_271738111300_640x360.jpg
10:25.00oliv3rI suppose the hardware has to actually support usb otg though
10:25.10oliv3ryour run of the mill PC probably won't
10:26.11Mehhhit does
10:26.15Mehhhthe MK802
10:26.27Mehhhbut technically as long as the software does, it will work, correct?
10:27.14oliv3rlibv: what is this 'lima announcement that's immenent' on phoronix?
10:27.26oliv3rMehhh: I would assume so yes
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11:55.47libvoliv3r: me finally pushing out a mass of code?
12:06.12orly_owldoes a2000 have a 1gb version?
12:06.42libvorly_owl: check tom cubie's aliexpress shop
12:06.53orly_owlah yes
12:07.10libvhttp://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/Mele-A1000-TV-box-debug-board-pack/511685_566678042.html
12:07.27libvlink name is off though
12:10.53orly_owlok
12:14.55orly_owldoes he sell on ebay?
12:15.43libvnope
12:15.56hnoorly_owl, only aliexpress. Why do you want ebay?
12:16.12orly_owldont have an aliexpress account
12:17.05hnoit's one minute to set one up.
12:17.15orly_owltoo long!
12:17.37slapinorly_owl, hno: aliexpress doesn't support paypal
12:17.52slapinthat's proper reason
12:17.58slapinti prefer ebay
12:18.04orly_owlyeah i remember they ended that parternship
12:18.06slapins/ti/to/
12:29.51oliv3rlibv: working on lima again? THought you where doing the display stuff only for now. i'm excited!
12:30.23oliv3rspeaking of pay pal, hipboi didn't reply to my e-mail :S
12:32.43libvoliv3r: when did you last see any disp code from me?
12:33.23libva month ago or so :)
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12:39.56oliv3ryeah! you lazy bum haven't posted much latly :p
12:39.56oliv3rjk
12:45.42libv:)
12:46.15libvyou'll be so unhappy once you see that 4500triangle companion cube rotating away at 40+fps :)
12:46.47xenoxaosoooooh
12:47.05xenoxaoslima's only for the 2/400 right?
12:47.24libvxenoxaos: how long has the exynos 5 been out?
12:47.44oliv3rlibv: show me the money! (I patently awate the phoronix news post)
12:47.49xenoxaosi got my chromebook ~1-2 weeks after it came out...
12:47.57xenoxaoslittle over a month i think
12:48.10libvhow long did i spend REing the mali200/400 before i showed the first triangle on fosdem?
12:48.32xenoxaos:P
12:48.34libvxenoxaos: there is about an 11 month gap there
12:48.58libvso t6xx is fundamentally different from mali200/400
12:49.21xenoxaosdidnt know the details of the core
12:49.28libvwe might find some similarities, but we are still too busy working on the mali200/400
12:49.46libvwe are not feature complete enough to be able to start writing an actual driver.
12:50.21xenoxaosjust demo calls written specificially to do a specific task?
12:50.38xenoxaosspecificially specific....i need sleep
12:51.07libvwhat is there is a library which has an interface which is surprisingly close to a gl workflow
12:51.22libvand a handful of tests, each improving functionality
12:51.36xenoxaosif i knew what the fuck i was doing, i'd help
12:52.28libv4000+ tri mesh, with a texture, spinning away at 40fps is not too bad for an REed driver, given the time i have been able to spend on lima in the last year (which has changed now, but more on that on the phoronix forums)
12:52.38libverr s/forums/post/
12:54.35libvon the shader side, the vertex shader is quite insane, which makes it very efficient, but there for instance seems little possibility to write an assembler for it
12:54.46libvthe only thing that makes sense is going straight for a compiler
12:55.01libvthere is an assembler for the fragment shader though
12:55.50libvthis should be better with the unified shaders of the t6xx
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12:56.28libvbut first we do the mali200/400, this gpu will be sold for the next 3-4 years anyway
12:57.04xenoxaoswants just a decent 2d accelerated x11 driver that works across the board....
12:57.11xenoxaosa man can dream right?
12:57.24libvxenoxaos: has nothing to do with the mali
12:57.29xenoxaosi know
12:57.44libvxenoxaos: and the task of creating that for the a10 is pretty straightforward
12:58.29oliv3risn't most/all 2d stuff open sourced by arm themselves? it's just the 3d bit that's closed, right?
13:01.30libvoliv3r: this is allwinner specific silicon
13:02.33libvoliv3r: arm makes the kernel driver available to abide by the gpl, and some glue code, like gralloc, ump and some ump using x11 driver
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13:28.23Turldoes anyone know what pins does UART use over the uSD interface?
13:29.02RaYmAndid you check the wiki? I think it's documented there
13:31.10mnemochttp://linux-sunxi.org/MicroSD_Breakout is pretty detailed
13:32.08Turl:)
13:32.18Turldo you need to do any vodoo to get bootloader to output to it?
13:32.58mnemoccounts as different board
13:35.03mnemocsun4i_sd on the lichee-dev branch to get a nanda's u-boot.bin with uSD breakout output
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13:35.13hnoTurl, you need at minimum a script.bin with debug uart set to the SD port. Preferably a full immage install with thise settings so you get boot0/boot1 output as well.
13:35.42hnoand a nand u-boot version with uart directed to sd.
13:38.15Turlok, I'll give it a try later
13:39.04Turlwhen the wiki says "uart connection: rx" does it mean "it's rx and should be connected to the adapter tx" or "it's tx, connect to adapter's rx"?
13:39.38libvhow many known supported devices do we have anyway? beyond mele (2x), mk802 (2x), olinuxino and cubieboard?
13:40.05libvthere's the a7hd which is known good
13:40.12libvany other tablets?
13:40.21Turllibv: I have a zatab
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13:41.37libvTurl: in sunxi-boards and uboot-sunxi?
13:42.41libvsunxi-boards tells a pretty dire story
13:44.29TurlI uploaded the script.bin on sunxi-board
13:44.59MehhhHackaberry
13:45.02Mehhhlibv
13:45.12Turllibv: but I couldn't stop uboot to dump the mem settings from boot0/1 to make a proper mmc board definition
13:45.26Mehhhand the Mini-X
13:45.45RaYmAnI have a couple of 'Jazz' A13 tablets I need to add in as well
13:47.21libvTurl: there's a userspace tool for it now
13:47.45libvainol devices seem to be strangely lacking
13:47.47Turllibv: and I got an uSD breakout now :)
13:57.41Turlmnemoc: how do you build sun4i_sd?
13:58.01Turlmnemoc: "make sun4i_sd" seems to be broken
14:03.25TurlI had to move sun4i.h to a10-evb.h for it to build
14:08.23Turlmnemoc: woot it works :)
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14:14.50mnemocTurl: that's probably a bug in boards.cfg
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14:15.08mnemoccompare it with plain sun4i
14:17.08Turlthe only diff I see is that the sd one has an extra field, a10-evb:SD_UART
14:23.00mnemocchange for sun4i:SD_UART
14:24.26Turlmnemoc: how do you disable mmc?
14:24.43Turlmnemoc: I get uart output until mmc driver kicks in :<
14:25.35Turlnvm, I think I found it
14:25.45TurlI was looking for mmc_used but apparetly it's sdc_used
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14:27.51mnemocTurl: sure, you also need to change script.bin acordingly
14:29.19Turlyep, seems to work now that I disabled it
14:29.29Turlmnemoc: I cannot seem to be able to stop uboot though
14:29.40Turlit's like waiting time is 0
14:30.08mnemocthe u-boot env is raw in a nand partition iirc
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14:36.17Turlmnemoc: how can I test if I wired the tx part right?
14:37.30mnemocon userspace...
14:40.53Turlwhat about it mnemoc?
14:44.05mnemocsetup a ttySn on script.bin and then listen to it on userspace
14:44.28TurlI'm using "cat" to listen to it and I don't get anything
14:45.09Turlecho text > /dev/ttyS0 works
14:46.49mnemocbe sure no one else has /dev/ttyS0 taken
14:47.28mnemocor it might be eating your input
14:49.39Turlnope, no luck
14:49.45Turlmaybe I misconfigured it on script.bin?
14:50.04TurlI got port:PF04<2><1><default><default>
14:50.06Turlas rx
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15:12.01jquipman I'm getting a bit fried in the head with getting u-boot.bin happening for my device... why does my tablet boot erratically? it makes me wait for about a minute.. it switches on only about 3 out of 10 times  i power on the device...
15:12.39jquiplibv ?
15:16.51jquipdram params not there in script.bin
15:17.40mnemocyou can extract them from the running system (android) using https://github.com/maxnet/a10-meminfo
15:18.13jquipi can use adb shell?
15:25.01mnemocyes
15:25.16mnemoci think
15:26.19mnemocit's a very simple tool to dump some registers
15:26.23jquipnopes i think
15:26.30jquipi just did a adb push
15:26.46jquiptried ./a10-meminfo-static
15:26.56jquipPermission denied
15:27.00mnemocsu :)
15:27.11jquipi am su :)
15:27.18jquipi mean  :(
15:27.20mnemocchmod +x?
15:28.05mnemocnoexec mount point?
15:28.08jquipyes did thaattt.. Bad mode
15:28.16jquip'Bad mode'
15:28.27jquipno apparently
15:28.59mnemocchmod 755 ./a10-meminfo-static  ?
15:29.03oliv3ri've put mine in /data/cache chmod a+x and ran it
15:29.04mnemocor 0755
15:29.05oliv3rworked fine
15:29.23mnemocandroid userspace has very retard tools
15:29.24jquipstrange ls -l gives
15:29.26jquipd---rwxr-x system   sdcard_rw          2009-12-31 19:04 Ringtones
15:29.28jquip----rwxr-x system   sdcard_rw   377360 2012-12-04 05:43 a10-meminfo-static
15:29.45jquipthat means no rwx perms for user???
15:29.46mnemocowner not permissions, nice
15:30.17jquipahem chown don't do no tricks
15:30.18mnemocmove it out of /scard.... to /cache or /data as oliv3r suggested
15:30.26jquipah yes... could be'
15:30.37mnemocand chmod 0755 to be retard-tool-safe
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15:34.09jquipmuhahaha : weird and notable-> file must be set to 777 on host machine before pushing on device via adb
15:34.21jquipworks now sirs :)
15:35.04jquipi downloaded it directly from github and I guess +x was by default not there on a downloaded file..
15:35.21jquipSo okay I have dram! :D
15:36.10jquipshould i paste ?
15:36.57jquipchanging them in script.bin -> fex and generating it afresh
15:37.15mnemocwhat device?
15:37.30mnemocsunxi-boards is eager to get more dram-verified script.fex files
15:38.42jquipits an a10_mid i think
15:39.31jquipunnamed
15:39.52jquipbut it looks like one of the a10_mid
15:40.23jquipi'll put it up somewhere?
15:42.00mnemocmy favorite paste service is http://sprunge.us/
15:42.41jquipwow that's neat!  via cmdline :D
15:43.30mnemocalso syntax highlighting is set on query time, instead of upload time
15:43.47jquipdram_size was not mentioned by meminfo... leaving blank..
15:44.01mnemocfill it yourself
15:45.00Turltoolbox is overly simplistic
15:45.33Turl(toolbox is the binary providing userspace tools, busybox-style)
15:45.52jquiphttp://sprunge.us/WNNV  :D
15:46.06jquipbrb in 15 mins...  fooooood
15:47.59mnemocjquip: see sprunge beauty http://sprunge.us/WNNV?ini
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15:48.40Turlmnemoc: they should add ?dl to make it downloadable
15:49.50mnemocit's plain text by default....
15:50.16mnemochttps://github.com/rupa/sprunge ... and open source
15:54.13Turlhttp://www.new-dragon.cn/product.asp?id=74 hrm, interesting :)
15:55.17MehhhOf course Allwinner would never name the A15 with an A15
15:55.29MehhhScumbag allwinner
15:55.42Turland http://www.new-dragon.cn/product.asp?id=73
15:56.05Turlยท9.7 IPS Screen (2048x1536) with capacitive touch panel
15:56.16Turlchinese pushing forward to high end? o.O
15:57.09Mehhhpossibly A40 stick? http://i.imgur.com/fAtVY.jpg
16:04.02jquiphoo baby that ini thingy makes it look sweet..
16:04.16jquipmnemoc
16:04.43jquipso now messrs?
16:10.17mnemocjquip: oh, your .fex comes with GPS info
16:10.41mnemocunused, but the pin muxing is there
16:10.50jquipwha??? theres no GPS on the device..
16:11.22jquipso this tab can have GPS..
16:12.05mnemocif it has a RF chip
16:13.26jquiphrm...
16:14.00jquipnothing mentioned on the packet...
16:14.11mnemocopen it :)
16:14.21jquip:) I know!
16:14.22mnemocand take nice pictures for the wiki
16:15.03mnemocit would be nice to get a PCB name to use instead of "a10_mid"
16:15.29jquipokay :D    oh yeah ...
16:15.52jquipbut only potato cam with me right now... will post soon..
16:16.11jquipso now what?? no u-boot config changes??
16:16.56mnemocwe need a name...
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16:18.01jquipwe shall call it 'IRA'
16:18.12jquip??
16:19.00jquipi think they are getting these tabs from China and selling it here...
16:19.19Turlof course :P
16:19.42jquipokay...
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16:23.39jquipit looks like this http://www.azhuo.net/en/products_A10MID_Allwinner-A10_Boxchip_7_inch_Android_4.0.3_Pictures.html
16:23.52jquipand its called an A10 MID
16:23.57L84SupperMehhh: whats that dongle all about?
16:24.51L84SupperHDMI + 3 or 4 microUSB?
16:24.55mnemocjquip: that says 512MB while your .fex has size 1024
16:25.16jquipmnemoc: well yeah...i  said it *looks like it!
16:28.22jquipmnemoc: so that's it??
16:30.25mnemocjquip: eh? sorry.... I'm busy with $work$ at the momemnt. you can add the board to u-boot and send patches to the ML or I can do it tonight
16:30.46mnemocbut getting a decent name is very important
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16:48.19L84Supperhttp://androidyo.com/2012/11/21/samsung-to-unveil-8-core-processor/#more-475  here's another part we'll never get open specs to  :)
16:49.05L84Supper4 - a7 cores + 4 -a15 cores
16:49.36mnemocmarketing BS is not a chinese exclusivity
16:50.11L84Supperhow many cores is that  32?  :)
16:50.25phh8...
16:50.33phhit's written in the url -_-'
16:50.55phhand erm, yeah 4+4 = 9
16:50.56phh8*
16:50.57mnemocbut only 4 runs at the time
16:51.03mnemocrun*
16:51.04phhthat's sure ?
16:51.06L84Supper4 x a15 = 60,  + 4 x a7 = 28, so possibly 88 cores
16:51.09phhi think so too though
16:51.17phhL84Supper: makes sense
16:51.40mnemocfrom what i've seen of big/little it's a one set or the other thing
16:52.10phhyeah that's how big.little is advertised indeed
16:53.00mnemocso selling a 4+4 as 8 core is very similar to count the GPU shaders are cores too
16:53.17phhit's even worse actually
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17:24.02techn_WarheadsSE: ping
17:25.34WarheadsSEtechn_: pong
17:25.54techn_[01:57:24] -*- WarheadsSE waves to techn_
17:27.10WarheadsSEYeah, in re: xorg 1.13 compat
17:27.15WarheadsSEof the Mali drivers
17:27.35WarheadsSEI still need to get a new uboot & kernel packages up
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17:45.20rz2ktechn_: http://linux-sunxi.org/Q88 = http://linux-sunxi.org/A13B
17:45.32rz2khttp://linux-sunxi.org/Unbranded_A10_tablets = http://linux-sunxi.org/LY-F1
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17:45.54techn_rz2k: no they are not.. since different rams
17:48.11techn_but same PCB
17:49.05rz2kddr interface is same
17:49.21rz2kjust different manufacturers/different clocks/timings
17:49.53rz2kno worries, though, just wanted to categorize stuff, if you think it should stay aside - no problems.
17:50.11rz2ktechn_: had a chance to test our dri2swapbuffers crap?
17:50.14mnemocvariants don't really deserve separated articles imo
17:50.29mnemocat most a section to note the diffs
17:51.04techn_we need to identify which variant is which currently
17:51.21techn_since those dram params
17:52.49mnemocsure
17:54.01mnemoci didn't say variants should be ignored
17:54.16mnemoconly that they should stay together
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19:18.51rz2ktechn_: I've checked our swapbuffers stuff
19:18.58rz2kwe have dri2inforec ver 4
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19:43.30techn_rz2k: pushed to libump
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19:50.01techn_rz2k: updated wiki
19:54.08steevhrm
19:54.18steevi think it may finally be time to take the LY-F1 apart to work on it
19:58.50rz2ktechn_: thanks
19:59.00mnemocsteev: over a year since you bought it? :)
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20:01.10steevmnemoc: well it's finally retired :P
20:01.17steevit works, for certain definitions
20:01.23steevwifi likes to get all sporadic
20:04.34xenoxaosi think that was the base board that was sold as the gooseberry board as well
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20:07.14WarheadsSEit was
20:07.25WarheadsSEwhich still sits in a container under my desk
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21:47.59techn_rz2k: Swap buffers works
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21:49.56techn_But it works only when es2 stuff is rendering
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21:50.09MehhhL84Supper sorry i was afk
21:52.03WarheadsSEtechn_ rz2k appears to be offline
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22:36.04L84SupperMehhh: no problem, just have to wait and see what that dongle has for features and ports
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23:51.53MehhhL84Supper what dongle?
23:52.04MehhhI'm confused, do you mean the JHDMI conector on the lapdock?
23:57.20L84SupperMehhh:   http://i.imgur.com/fAtVY.jpg

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