IRC log for #arm-netbook on 20130113

00:00.27technalso it seems that ump handling is not much different on newer blobs
00:00.59technhttps://github.com/linux-sunxi/xf86-video-mali/commits/r3p2-01rel0
00:01.39penguin42specing: Hmm, nope, img_unpack doesn't like it, neither does afptool
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00:18.03penguin42wonders if the rk-tools have been tried cross fromx 86-64
00:19.04drachensunseems like under /dev nanda-nandi use to appear but are gone now for me
00:19.11drachensunis that true for everyone else too?
00:22.01technssvb: this perf tool is just what I was looking for :D
00:22.22drachensunhmmm it only happens on my new devices, never mind
00:23.29techndrachensun: it propably depends on your livesuit image
00:23.49drachensunI tried the same images on an older model and newer model
00:23.58drachensunits something with the board is different
00:24.13drachensunthe older model works and the newer doesn't, with the same SD image I mean
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01:12.18ithamartechn: is hno ever here on irc?
01:12.55technithamar: he's propably keeping some time off now
01:13.18technusually he was quite active
01:13.24ithamartechn: ok, just wondering, as I would love to have a bit of a brainstorm with him on FEL
01:13.39ithamarthink I might be getting close to having something working
01:14.06ithamarhis Allwinner-info stuff gave me some explanation on stuff I had not figured out yet
01:14.13ithamarpicture is starting to become complete now
01:14.22technthere was other guy why is quite into u-boot
01:14.40technwas it slapin or specing
01:15.04technchecking logs.. :)
01:15.17ithamarwish I was working from home again
01:15.28ithamarcurrently on-site and man, it sucks all my hacking time away
01:16.02technyes.. slapin was working mtd code for u-boot
01:16.31ithamarah cool, I'll check if he has done any FEL related stuff
01:16.39ithamarjust *really* want an opensource flashing tool ;)
01:17.32techn:)
01:21.51ithamarseems livesuit sends a struct containing dram config and such from sys_config1.fex and image layout from sys_config.fex to the device at the start
01:22.54ithamarbut it seems to be using different commands for my POV A10 tab then for hno's device
01:23.42ithamaralmost got the full struct figured out
01:31.38penguin42doesn't get this - the kernel-0.3.img that AndrewDB provided starts with the strings ANDROID! but I don't see where that comes from, the rkcrc doesn't seem to prepend it
01:33.04ithamarpenguin42: rkcrc is for rockchip.... what are you trying to do?
01:33.35ithamarpenguin42: "ANDROID!" is part of the header of an Android boot/recovery image (which contains a kernel)
01:33.48penguin42ithamar: I'm trying to build a kernel and install it; I've got a kernel built; I've run it through rkcrc so I think I've now got a .img - but I don't quite understand how that goes together into a full image that I can write to the recovery partition
01:34.09penguin42is thinking there are multiple different .img's
01:34.39ithamarpenguin42: but you are trying to do that for a Rockchip based device?
01:34.43penguin42yes
01:35.41penguin42ithamar: I've just not quite seen how the flash image goes together yet
01:36.30ithamarpenguin42: Rockchip has used different formats as well, so it might be an idea to check what is on the device to start with
01:36.45ithamarpenguin42: busybox hd on the device might help figure that out
01:37.27penguin42ithamar: I've got an image that someone else built (AndrewDB) and it starts with Android! and that's what was dd'd onto the recovery and works
01:37.32ithamar(hexdump bits of the partition on the device to check what is there)
01:37.44ithamarah ok!
01:37.47ithamarthat's helpful
01:38.01ithamarso it wants a true "Android" image on there
01:38.28penguin42yeh, so that's what I'm aiming for; I've got a git checkout that apparently is his kernel tree that I've got to build, I've got an rk-tools directory, so just haven't figured out how to put them all together yet
01:38.34ithamarso you need to run mkbootimg on the kernel image (and possibly a initramfs) to create something you can flash
01:38.42penguin42where does mkbootimg come from?
01:38.49ithamarAndroid source tree
01:38.58penguin42ah
01:39.15ithamarneeds a whole bunch of params that *have* to be correct too
01:39.30penguin42http://www.armtvtech.com/armtvtechforum/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=1132  looks like that's the recipie
01:40.48ithamaryup that looks correct indeed
01:45.41penguin42every damn platform is completely different - ode for device trees
01:50.39ithamarwell, a lot of it is simply due to the chip manufacturers
01:50.51ithamarcoming up with their own hacks
01:50.54penguin42yes, and they need spanking hard until they start doing the basics the same way
01:51.13ithamari agree there
01:51.24ithamarlots of spanking ;)
01:51.31penguin42maybe with some nails in
01:53.47ithamar:O
01:54.20penguin42hmm my image file is 50% larger than the one andrewdb built; it's either an issue of the kernel not being compressed, or I've got a nasty feeling I've got a 2nd copy of the ramdisk in there
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01:59.37ithamartechn: would it be ok if I move my FEL docs to the wiki?
02:00.18ithamarthink it would make more sense then in a git repo...
02:01.16xenoxaospenguin42: check to make sure debugging info isnt in the kernel...
02:02.25penguin42xenoxaos: Possible; but I think my problem is the duped ramdisk; I set the path to the initramfs in the kernel to the ramdisk I extracted, but then the mkbootimg also takes a path to the ramdisk
02:04.08ithamarpenguin42: I don't think you should specify the INITRAMFS in the kernel
02:04.30ithamarpenguin42: android passes it as a memory blob externally
02:06.05penguin42ithamar: Yeh
02:07.35penguin42hmm, rebooted to recovery and it's not come back
02:08.03penguin42and it's not coming back after a power cycle, but is showing up on usb under a different id - I suspect stuck in boot loader?
02:09.04ithamaryup, in its "usb boot" recovery mode I guess
02:09.19ithamarthat the rockchip flashing tool uses
02:09.38ithamar(there's a linux rkflash tool that can be used for recovery too)
02:09.40penguin42not quite sure why; if it rebooted to Android then it let me bring adb up and the only thing I did at that point was an adb reboot recovery I'm not sure why it wouldn't let me get back to android
02:11.03ithamarare you using an MK808 device?
02:11.16penguin42mk809
02:11.43ithamarusually this type of behaviour is because the page size of the .img file is incorrect
02:11.58ithamarthat's my experience on several platforms (older rockchip, telechips, etc)
02:12.31ithamarusually pagesize matches the nand chip page size of the device
02:13.12penguin42and how do you find that out?
02:14.50ithamarwell, if you have a working .img file, check offset 0x24, that contains the 32bit word containing the page size
02:15.39ithamarif that's any help
02:15.51penguin42000020 00 80 08 60 00 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
02:15.55penguin42so that's 16384 ?
02:16.13penguin42which is I think what I used
02:17.02ithamaryeah that looks correct
02:17.06ithamarhmmmm
02:17.14ithamarso it is complaining about something else
02:17.35ithamarthe post you linked to also said something about having to use a "special" mkbootimg....
02:17.46penguin42I used the one from that post
02:17.46ithamarseems to include a SHA hash or so
02:17.51ithamarokidoki
02:18.07ithamarthen I'm at a loss too :(
02:18.25penguin42but I dd'd it into the recovery part - so why it screwd up the main one is hmm
02:18.49ithamarno, it is still set to boot into recovery
02:19.16ithamarthe bootloader is just so stupid to not try the main when recovery fails
02:19.23penguin42oh right, erm that's dumb
02:19.41ithamaryup, but also common on many platforms :(
02:20.02penguin42so there's some simple and easy convenient way to flip the bootloader back - right?
02:20.37ithamarflash a working recovery? :/
02:20.59ithamaror clear the misc partition somehow
02:21.29ithamarat least on older rockchips that's where it was stored (commands to instruct the bootloader to boot into recovery)
02:21.59ithamar"real" platforms use registers that survive reboot
02:22.20ithamarin that case a real power off/on would reset it
02:23.16penguin42hmm well I have rkflashtool
02:23.51ithamarthat should do it if you know the offsets of the partitions
02:25.08penguin42that would seem a good thing to know wouldn't it - hmm well I've got the cmdline and that's apparently got what look like offsets?   mtdparts=rk29xxnand:0x00002000@0x00002000(misc),0x00004000@0x00004000(kernel),0x00008000@0x00008000(boot),0x00008000@0x00010000(recovery),0x000C0000@0x00018000(backup),0x00040000@0x000D8000(cache),0x00100000@0x00118000(userdata),0x00002000@0x00218000(kpanic),0x00100000@0x0021A000(system),-@0x0033A000(user) bootver=2012-0
02:26.12ithamaryup, seems to be size@offset
02:26.50ithamarhmmm wonder why there is a seperate "kernel" partition....
02:27.54ithamaranyway, I'm off to bed, it is 3:30AM here
02:28.02penguin42yeh, 2:30 here - I must go soon as well
02:28.14penguin42Thanks!
02:28.21ithamarah in the UK penguin42 ?
02:28.52ithamar(I am in NL)
02:29.04penguin42yeh
02:29.53ithamarwell, have a good night, and good luck with the hacking!
02:29.56penguin42thanks!
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03:09.46penguin42hmm rkflashtool doesn't seem to want to be much help - just dumping out repeating junk; time to go to bed I think
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04:30.16Reepicheep12I'm getting 50%-100% cpu usage while playing audio using mplayer on the Mele a1000 with the kernel I compiled from sunxi-bsp. This happens with both sunxi-3.0 and sunxi-3.4. It happens on both USB DAC output and composite output. No resampling is going on as far as I can tell. Any ideas?
04:30.30Reepicheep12mnemoc: I'm wondering if any of those flags I disabled (which I thought were video related) could have affected audio output (or decoding). My kernel config is here: http://sprunge.us/jcFS
04:32.04rz2kReepicheep12: http://linux-sunxi.org/Cpufreq
04:33.01rz2kset your cpu for 1ghz and you will have 10-30% for mp3s
04:36.49Reepicheep125% now, incredible thank you.
05:05.13Turl100% isn't always a bad thing
05:09.38Reepicheep12Yeah fair enough although there was awful stuttering (which I knew was avoidable as other distros on this device performed fine). Fixed now though thanks to the brains trust.
05:10.45Turlyeah, that's because the defaults are a bit agressive
05:21.33orly_owlanyone here running a freedombox?
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08:36.19provel_Anyone knows if CEC is working?
08:36.31provel_on mele a1000 and such ...
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08:43.59provel_nobody tried CEC?
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08:55.35andomaprovel_: no drivers exist in kernel for CEC on allwiner devices
09:12.51provel_andoma: ok thank you.... and no documentation to write one?
09:34.34hnoithamar, I am around but not actively at the computer at the moment.
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09:45.15ithamarhno: I'm going to start documenting the FEL commands/LiveSuit flashing on the wiki this week
09:45.51ithamarhno: Just noticed from your traces your device uses protocol version 1, while mine is protocol 2 (as returned from the version command)
09:49.46ithamarhno: the general flow seems to be the same, but protocol 1 seems to only use the SRAM for flashing, whilst 2 uses the DRAM too
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10:22.00ithamarhno: will check if I have protocol version 1 device here as well
10:55.30gzamboniDoes anyone know the audio mixer values for the mixer control "ADC Input Mux" ? its not a enum so i cant know witch value is for the linein / fmin / micin
10:55.37gzamboniAs i understood the "Mic Input Mux" is for setting the ADC from 9 to 12 bits
10:55.59gzambonias the A10 has only one 24bit ADC i supose the "ADC Input Mux" is the muxer for selecting the input port
10:56.17gzamboniand the micin port has a hardware preamplifier
11:11.50buZzhansg: hey
11:12.30buZzhansg: i have a 1366x768 hdmi screen on my cubieboard, but your EDID patches dont select 1360x768 with them enabled, but setting the mode by hand does work
11:14.09hramrachhello
11:14.24hramrachanyone knows a sane way to use the leds?
11:15.04hramrachI wrote a script that reads a file in /sys, compares with previous, if different lights led
11:15.14hramrachwhich lights led when disk is accessed
11:15.42hramrachthe led trigger seems only available for real IDE disks in kernel it seems
11:15.54hramrachand iptables
11:16.14hramrachso if you had IDS you could light a led when under attack or something
11:16.29hramrachbut not what I am looking for at this moment
11:16.53buZzdid you try the new driver?
11:17.06hramrachit provides a trigger slot
11:17.15buZzyeah
11:17.18hramrachbut what you plug in that slot to make something useful?
11:17.28buZza trigger ;)
11:17.34buZzgoogle linux led triggers
11:17.52hramrachdid not find any in the kernel that I could use
11:18.02hramrachare they provided as oot modules?
11:18.36buZzthere are some in the kernel
11:18.36hramrachif so that's _very_ impractical
11:18.43buZzbut you could write your own
11:18.52buZzlinux LED support is not A10 specific
11:19.03buZzeither use it, or just do your own stuff through gpio
11:19.11buZzno use reinventing the wheel imho
11:19.16hramrachbut the triggers seem driver specific
11:19.21buZzthey arent
11:19.52hramrachso where is that documented how you use the disk trigger with MMC?
11:20.02hramrachkinda did not find anything on that
11:20.09hramrachor even with sata disk
11:20.36buZzdid you google 'linux led triggers'
11:20.42buZzbecause all this stuff is not A10 specifiv
11:20.45buZzspecific*
11:20.52hramrachindeed, it is not
11:21.00hramrachwill try another google dance
11:21.04buZzs/A10/platform/
11:21.11hramrachwas looking in hte kernel docs only so far iirc
11:26.21hramrachI see led trigger for CPU activity
11:26.25hramrachand that's it
11:26.41gzambonisomeone ported the linux led driver for A10
11:26.42hramrachlooks like the LED subsystem is under development still
11:26.53hramrachyou need not port it
11:26.53gzambonii saw this week on the sunxi ML
11:27.00hramrachit's not platform specific
11:27.14hramrachbut the framework has no useful triggers
11:27.22hramrachin 3.4 at least
11:28.48hramrachI guess I just update the script for the new driver when I rebuild the kernel
11:29.18hramrachmaybe we get more triggers in 3.8
11:29.35hramrachand if not then it's time to reinvent more wheels
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11:38.05hansgbuzz, the problem is that 1366 does not divide by 8, and the EDID info from your board likely does not also advertise 1360x768, or at least not as the second mode in its EDID DTD list (assuming 1366x768 is the first)
11:38.23hansgdmesg output should confirm this
11:38.49buZzhansg: ooo, i thought you added a hack to let 1366 jump to 1360 mode
11:38.55buZzbut i guess i was mistaken :D
11:38.59hansgbuzz, no
11:39.13buZzok ty :D
11:40.07hansgThe proper fix would be to figure out how to tell the lcd + hdmi code that there is a framebuffer with a pitch of 1368 pixels, but a width of 1366, iow that there is 2 bytes of pixels / row padding
11:40.45hansgAt least I think that that will make X happy. You can remove the is this a multiple of 8 check from the EDID code if you only use fbcon, but it breaks X.
11:40.48hansgPatches welcome :)
11:43.33buZz:P
11:43.50buZzwell its funny, the 1360 mode gets stretched to 1366 on my screen :P
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13:15.15penguin42hmph, the data that rkflashtool is dumping in no way corresponds to what wireshark sees - although neither of them makes any sense - rkflashtool sees just counting numbers, wireshark sees all FF's
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14:13.06ithamardoes anyone know if https://github.com/allwinnerwk is an official Allwinner repo ?
14:26.44mnemocithamar: yes, it is
14:27.40ithamarmnemoc: ah cool, thanks for confirming ;)
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14:54.13provel_anyone knows if allwinner A10 uses same cec chip as others? (tda9950)
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15:09.01L84Supperprovel_: http://doc.chipfind.ru/pdf/philips/tda9550.pdf ?
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15:45.41penguin42it's a pity rkflashtool is doing nothing sane for me (except the reboot option works) - does anyone know if anyone has written down any of the protocol they've worked out?
15:51.05ithamarpenguin42: read the source ;)
15:51.37ithamarpenguin42: it is pretty straightforward, but afaik it has only been tested on rk28xx and rk29xx
15:52.17penguin42ithamar: There are various people who've said they've had success on the rk3066 but mine is giving back bogus data (or the flash is particularly wiped)
15:52.37penguin42but there again it seems to be sending back the right size data - so it can't be too confused
15:53.01ithamaroffset passed to rkflash(tool) is in blocks, not in bytes iirc
15:53.12penguin42yeh 512byte blocks
15:53.29ithamar(havent touched rockchip for months at least so not 100% sure)
15:53.30penguin42but I'm reading large chunks and dumping it, I either have blocks of all FF's or blocks that just have counting data
15:54.12ithamarhmmmm
15:54.27penguin42exactly
15:54.52penguin42the reboot command works, and the read is returning sane sized data - so not completely dead
15:56.20penguin42there is one comment somewhere about there being two recovery modes, a type 1 which is where you short the pins together and it only works with their windows tool that no one has reversed yet, I wonder if it's somehow got into that - but I haven't done the pin short yet
15:57.36ithamarhmmm would not expect that if i hear the results you're getting
15:58.14penguin42yeh, so I'm thinking it's some disagreement about the protocol, and it looks like the protocol is some form of send a command and you receive a response packet and then a chunk of data
15:58.49ithamaryeah it is pretty straightforward
15:59.42ithamarI think the issue is more with the parameters then the protocol
15:59.58ithamarif your read is returning data it suggests that it _thinks_ the command is valid
16:00.16penguin42yeh, so I'm wondering if it's encoding the address to read wrongly
16:02.06penguin42lots of people saying they're just patching the uid
16:10.27ithamarmight want to look if they list any of the arguments there, maybe they are doing something "special" with the offsets somehow
16:11.03ithamare.g. how to map the mtd offset parameters to the kernel to parameters for rkflashtool
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16:20.23penguin42yeh, that's why I've been trying to dump larger chunks assuming I'll hit something interesting
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17:39.56penguin42hmm, the good news is I can write a block and read it
18:05.37hnoithamar, protocol 1 is used by FEL. Protocol 2 is the protocol handler uploaded over FEL. Both uses the same command structure.
18:05.51hnoprocess is:
18:06.00hno1. Device boots in FEL mode.
18:06.25hno2. Livesuit uploads & executes code for initializing the hardware (DRAM etc).
18:06.49hno3. Livesuit uploads the flashing application and starts it.
18:07.23hno3. Flashing application takes over the control. Resets USB and when it returns it's now runnign protocol 2.
18:07.41hno4. Livesuit communicates with the flashing application using protocol version 2.
18:08.27hnoI only have interest in protocol version 1 as that is what the boot ROM implements.
18:08.37hnoversion 2 is all software uploaded to the device by livesuit.
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18:25.42ithamarhno: thanks! I'll include this on the wiki pages I'm going to create
18:26.36penguin42wonders what to do with this 370MB recovery image - I guess split it and put each one back in the appropriate place?
18:27.25ithamarhno: it does explain why my trace said v2 while the device said v1 using the fel tool ;)
18:28.42ithamarhno: guess I have spent my time looking at the wrong traces :(
18:30.14L84Supper" Instead of creating buildings that made up of discrete parts fulfilling distinct functions, such as protective shell, insulation and connection, Oxman thinks a building's skin should be like human skin whose pores also contract and expand in relation to the environment. Her team is now now considering ways of printing these sort of breathable building skins to integrate barrier and filtering functions into a single material system."
18:30.47L84Supperthe problem is getting building departments to go along with any changes to traditional building methods
18:32.15penguin42looks at L84Supper
18:32.18L84Suppersoory
18:32.24L84Supperwrong channel
18:32.32penguin42now I wonder which one it was for
18:32.48L84Supperbut while I'm here, did people start getti g their cubieboards
18:32.58L84Supper#reprap
18:38.02L84SupperI still have to test the interrupt response time on the a10
18:38.44L84Supperthe TI AM335x has a nice Programmable Real-Time Unit and Industrial Communication Subsystem (PRU-ICSS)
18:38.50L84Supperbut it's overpriced
18:39.21penguin42L84Supper: Nothing that can't be fixed with a FIQ routine?
18:40.20L84Suppermaybe, maybe not, some designs just don't care about it
18:40.38specingOr get a cortex-M micro and interface it
18:42.05L84Supperwith x86 we get <4us latency jitter on irq's with RTAI, <10us with xenomai
18:42.16penguin42or a dual core and keep one for real time
18:42.52penguin42what x86 - that's a big range, and some of the BIOSs can just go off and wipe their arse for a while
18:43.20L84Supperyeah, especially during an SMI event
18:43.45penguin42nod
18:43.46L84Supperbut with SMI killed or using coreboot it in the few microseconds
18:44.11br-ithamar / hno: where is wiki you guys are using?
18:44.36penguin42L84Supper: yeh, and some of them fudge the tsc during the SMI to make it appear like it didn't do anything; so use an external device to time it
18:47.07penguin42hmm so I have a system.img, a misc.img, a kernel.img and boot.img - I wonder which I should put in - I guess follow the offsets from the kernel command line?
18:47.39L84Suppersomeone has the beaglebone with  TI AM335x supporting 200khz stepping with stepper motors and xenomai, I'm still wondering if the A10 can do as well
18:48.51penguin42they're both A8's
18:49.14penguin42as long as you keep the video off the bus and aren't RAM heavy I don't see there would be much odds ?
18:49.49L84Supperyes, just not sure how they laid out the fast GPIO and on what bus
18:50.13L84Supperhave to try and see
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18:54.31penguin42hmph, that hasn't unbricked it
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19:13.43L84Supperpenguin42: the only reason to use the a10 is controlling the CNC as well as driving the UI display, so it's a matter of finding out how well the IRQ's consistently perform under video, ram, sata loads
19:14.48L84Supperrunning just the machine controller should be similar to the TI, even some arm9 work well enough
19:16.14L84Supperhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3Ls5ta7eg8
19:17.30L84Supperhttp://code.google.com/p/miniemc2/  mini2440 platform: ARM920T CPU running at 400 MHz, 64Mb of SDRAM
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19:24.33L84Supperi.mx6 might be nice as well for machine control, if they ever ship in volume
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19:25.57jinzoL84Supper, afaik the single and dual core production doesen't have the problems the quad core version has.
19:25.57specingi.mx6 would be nice if you wanted that machine to think for itself (ie have an AI running on it)
19:26.17jinzobut hardly anyone is interested in that it seems
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19:29.28penguin42this is weird; if I write with rkflashtool and read back it seems fine; but then I reboot and it's back to reading garbage
19:33.47L84Supperjinzo: are any boards shipping with the single or dual core i.mx6?  wandboards are way behind schedule
19:34.30jinzoL84Supper, I wouldn't know - just a observation on my side.
19:34.57jinzoand if we draw parralels with the desktop CPU world,...
19:35.13L84Supperhttp://wandboard.org/  just wondering since their website still has reservations vs an order button
19:35.18ithamarpenguin42: almost sounds like you are reading/writing RAM instead of flash
19:35.26penguin42ithamar: Yeh, odd sort of flash!
19:35.47penguin42ithamar: I'm wondering if the tables they use for wear leveling etc are screwed
19:36.25penguin42ithamar: http://www.armtvtech.com/armtvtechforum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1283&p=7651#p7651  describes what I did
19:36.29L84Supperevery ARM solution for machine control and UI on one board always ends up far more expensive than an x86 board
19:36.31ithamarpenguin42: something weird is up for sure
19:36.58penguin42ithamar: I'm tempted trying to do a full erase and try again, but that sounds even more dangerous
19:37.09penguin42ithamar: ANd I don't have a windows box to try shorting the pins
19:39.26ithamarpenguin42: still wonder why these ppl don't supply a linux flasher (even nvidia does that)
19:39.53penguin42ithamar: Costs time to write & test
19:40.15penguin42ithamar: You'd think these days they'd run their tools from other Android boxes!
19:41.08penguin42ithamar: Of course if they just released the specs of their protocol that would also solve the problem
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20:03.52penguin42right, that's enough breaking things for this weekend
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20:14.42Guest85545huaah.. static cycle_t aw_clksrc_read(struct clocksource *cs) is taking 15% of idletime on xbmc
20:15.46Guest85545if you take interrupt hanling away.. it's still 7%
20:17.01jelly-homebad event loop is bad?
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20:47.39bsdfoxno ubuntu repo for syslinux?
20:47.53bsdfoxI only see syslinux-common that doesn't have the syslinux binary
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21:56.51nemikare there any current livesuite images for linaro/ubuntu? all i've seen is for android
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22:34.05jinzohm are A31 devices already shipping?
22:34.37jinzohttp://www.onda-tablet.com/onda-v812-quad-core-tablet-pc-android-allwinner-a31-wifi-hd-2160p-dual-camera-16gb.html
22:34.47jinzolooks like the same people that run ainol-novo.com
22:37.15techn_it that kind tablet is under 200.. how cheap a20 tablet will be :p
22:37.43jinzothere's a 9.7 inch for 230
22:37.52jelly-homenow see, 2160p implies a 3840x2160 resolution, not 1024x768
22:38.25jinzooutput capability probably.
22:39.09jelly-homeprobably similar to 1.5GHz A10
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23:30.09nemiktechn_: did you ever get a working livesuit img with ubuntu/linaro rootfs? i'd like to make one with mk_livesuite_img.sh

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