IRC log for #neo900 on 20141010

00:00.30DocScrutinizer05who would really want to use fakeroot on target? (yes, I *know* there are valid usecases for even _that_, but it's rather exotic)
00:00.48jonwilI mean the bits of fakeroot that live in the SDK target folder
00:00.54jonwilrather than in the scratchbox bits
00:00.58DocScrutinizer05ooh
00:01.20DocScrutinizer05targets on SB not in sync? that's nasty#
00:03.30DocScrutinizer05oooooo... Kay!  >> I've made my final donation of 58 euros which makes my cummulative donation total 101.02 euros. As you described, this should qualify me for the purchase of one device.<<
00:05.23OksanaOkay.
00:05.24DocScrutinizer05feels too lazy to check if he offered that to the guy who sent that donation. Let's rather invest the effort into fixing our accounting to make one donation out of that half a dozen. Next one doing this will receive a PP refund
00:06.20Oksana:) Is he going to pay the remaining price of the device in similar chunks, when it comes to paying for the devices?
00:06.42DocScrutinizer05he won't be able to do so
00:07.14DocScrutinizer05I start to reject all PP payments that don't match the expected amount, from now on
00:08.52DocScrutinizer05I also will refuse to calculate partial interest for partial payments on partial periods of time
00:21.21jonwilgoing to use exactly the versions of scratchbox-* that my old gentoo dev box was running, that should in theory work
00:21.35jonwilat least I hope so
00:21.49jonwilanyhow I am sure I will get this working again
00:23.48DocScrutinizer05good :-)
00:24.02jonwilfor future reference, note that installing the Harmattan SDK following the instructions for doing so seems to break the Fremantle SDK
00:24.33DocScrutinizer05glares at the 380W programmable PSU and considers charging 25 batteries in parallel with it
00:25.05DocScrutinizer05they're all at 0Volt, so should be safe for that regard at least ;-)
00:26.22DocScrutinizer05ramp up CC from 2 to 10A during 30 min, set CV to 4.1Volt
00:28.45DocScrutinizer05would love to already have the tricorder mugen-TOH for Neo900 (and Neo900 of course), with built-in FLIR, So checking temperature of those 25 batts would be a joy
00:32.49DocScrutinizer05Idly wondering if you could improve the virtual resolution of a e.g. 8x8 FLIR sensor, by checking changes in sensed value for each sensor square while moving the sensor view by 1/8 in X direction and then in Y direction. Of course needs accurate feedback of the movement, which is easy to accomplish by adding in the picture from normal video cam
00:35.10DocScrutinizer05to elaborate: consider you got a tiny hot spot sitting in center of square 2,2. Moving the tricorder will not change readout of square 2,2 nor 3,2 or 1,2 (or 2,1 or 2,3) until that hot tiny spot crosses the border to one of the adjacent fields
00:36.34ShadowJKDocScrutinizer05, http://www.flir.com/flirone/
00:37.51ShadowJKThe actual thermal resolution is pretty shitty (but very inexpensive), but thanks to combining visual and thermal you get a picture that looks kinda awesome
00:38.06DocScrutinizer05GRRR damn!
00:38.36DocScrutinizer05why is E.V.E.R.Y idea I got already out there?
00:38.46DocScrutinizer05:-)
00:38.56DocScrutinizer05ShadowJK: thanks a lot! :-)
00:39.00ShadowJKTo be fair, there were a dozen kickstarters doing this exact same thing, before flir brought out the first "comercial"
00:39.03DocScrutinizer05didn't know
00:39.26ShadowJK("this thing" being cellphone-attached thermal cameras)
00:44.56DocScrutinizer05yeah, 260GBP too
00:45.16DocScrutinizer05I think the 8x8 FLIR sensor is ~50bucks
00:45.35ShadowJKCommonly available 8x1 sensors are around 80 bucks, iirc
00:46.36DocScrutinizer05sure, my tricorder TOH will not be a give-away, but it will be around same price league like the FLIR One and be much smarter
00:46.50ShadowJKThere's an Xprize for tricorder ;-)
00:47.04DocScrutinizer05Xprize?
00:47.51DocScrutinizer05if only I had bookmarked that 8x8 sensor chip
00:48.12ShadowJK"The Qualcomm Tricorder X PRIZE is an inducement prize contest, offering a US$7 million Grand Prize, US$2 million Second Prize, and US$1 million Third Prize to the best among the finalists offering an automatic non-invasive health diagnostics packaged into a single portable device that weighs no more than 5 pounds (2.3 kg), able to diagnose over a dozen medical conditions, including whooping cough, hypertension, mononucleosis, shingles, melanoma, HIV, and ost
00:48.19ShadowJKeoporosis."
00:49.37DocScrutinizer05suuuuure, melanoma, and wtf is mononuklewahtever?
00:50.11ShadowJKkissing transmitted
00:50.13jonwilis anyone here running the Fremantle SDK on a debian/ubuntu/etc system (either VM or otherwise)?
00:50.15DocScrutinizer05ridiculous
00:50.31jonwili.e. something apt-get based
00:50.34DocScrutinizer05sorry, not me
00:50.40jonwilok
00:50.59DocScrutinizer05prolly better ask in #maemo-ssu
00:51.00ShadowJKThe first X Prize was "first privately funded organization to launch a spacecraft with 3 passengers to a altitude of 100km, twice within 2 weeks"
00:51.03ShadowJKor something like that
00:51.36DocScrutinizer05that sounds like a walkin the park compared to THAT
00:51.50DocScrutinizer05literally
00:52.13DocScrutinizer05meh, 2.3kg isn't our league anyway
00:52.52DocScrutinizer05detecting HIV, non-invasive. SUUUURE
00:52.54ShadowJKThere's also the Google Lunar Lander X-Prize challenge
00:52.57ShadowJKyou can guess what that involved ;p
00:53.01ShadowJKinvolves*
00:53.16ShadowJK"On March 20 2014, an A.I. XPRIZE was announced. The aim is to use artificial intelligence to deliver a TED talk so captivating, that the audience gives a standing ovation"
00:53.49DocScrutinizer05puzzling
00:54.49DocScrutinizer05anyway my Neo900 tricorder won't be the medical variant Mr McCoy is using. It's more the standard scientific one
00:54.56ShadowJKThe spacecraft to 100km was won by scaled composites, who were immediately bought up by richard branson and renamed Virgin Galactic, they're currently selling tickets for spaceflights on the next, bigger version ;p
00:55.53DocScrutinizer05yeah, only 500k bucks for a 15 minutes ride
00:56.03DocScrutinizer05or whatever
00:56.36DocScrutinizer05I'd rather consider that a scam
00:57.20DocScrutinizer05a ride in the vomit bomber is way cheaper and gives you about same nausea ;-)
00:58.09DocScrutinizer05https://www.planet-wissen.de/sendungen/2012/06/videos/04_video_parabelflug.jsp
01:06.32DocScrutinizer05ooh, only 250k bucks
01:06.48DocScrutinizer05http://www.virgingalactic.com/booking/
01:07.17jonwilThey used the zero-g aircraft to film parts of the film Apollo 13
01:22.12jonwilhmmm, even http://wiki.maemo.org/Documentation/Maemo_5_Final_SDK_Installation#Installing_Maemo_5_SDK_using_Text-based_Installer points you at the Hathor (aka
01:22.15jonwilaka SB2
01:22.17jonwilrelease
01:23.56DocScrutinizer05mhm
01:24.15DocScrutinizer05is there a problem with hathor?
01:24.24jonwilyes the fakeroot thing
01:24.31DocScrutinizer05aah
01:24.32jonwilfakeroot not working inside FREMANTLE_ARMEL target
01:24.43jonwilsince all that points to hathor there is probably a way to fix fakeroot
01:25.41DocScrutinizer05well, aiui ARMEL target would already run inside a fakeroot. Dunno why you'd need a fakeroot inside a fakeroot
01:26.11jonwilno it doesn't, one usually needs to do dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot to make it work
01:26.17DocScrutinizer05but i might be completely wrong, Touched that SB stuff last time maybe 3 years ago
01:26.20jonwilor thats what I have had to do in the past
01:31.36DocScrutinizer05(FLIR) played with a stand alone FLIR cam 2 days ago, and what worried me a bit been the adjustment "reflectivity: 90%|75%|50%|25%|10%" and the redings for temperature of that LED-fake-FL on the ceiling changed from 39°C to 70°C while adjusting that setting
01:32.09DocScrutinizer05readings*
01:33.52ShadowJKWell
01:34.00ShadowJKIt's a fundamental physics thing
01:34.25ShadowJKDifferent kind of material will radiate IR with different intensity
01:34.49ShadowJKA polished stainless steel plate will appear to be a mirror in both visible light, and in thermal IR
01:38.50ShadowJK(which implies you can't measure the temperature of that plate with a thermal camera, or any other IR thermometer)
01:54.48DocScrutinizer05yup. got that
01:55.26DocScrutinizer05wondering if we could augment the FLIR principle with a IR laser scaner detecting reflectivity of all visible objects
01:56.10DocScrutinizer05or maybe simply a (near-)IR camera and an IR-LED flashlight
01:56.49DocScrutinizer05would need distance to object as additional parameter to the equation though
01:57.48DocScrutinizer05since my tricorder has a laser distance meter anyway, that might work dual use to same time detect refelctivity of the object in center focus
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01:59.29DocScrutinizer05of course that still fails for true mirror-alike reflective surfaces
02:01.35DocScrutinizer05but should work for the usual "white" versus "dark" surface differences
02:03.06DocScrutinizer05re medical tricorder, we should get that videocam skin color based pulse detector :-)
02:03.16ShadowJKI saw a flir standalone camera with laser targeting and focus
02:04.16DocScrutinizer05which seems to indicate that my idea can't be that bad. It's already existing ;-)
02:04.42ShadowJKAccording to the salesman the purpose was focus
02:04.52ShadowJKSo that you could look through fences and such
02:05.03DocScrutinizer05aaah, well
02:09.26jonwillets hope someone can tell me what I gotta do  to get my fremantle sdk working again...
02:10.04jonwilmade a forum post about it and so far the only response is someone basically saying "I dont know how to fix your problem but good luck" or whatever (if you dont have a useful answer, dont post at all...)
02:23.27DocScrutinizer05((IR imagers)) maybe interesting: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EdarCx09CRY/Uwe2POPNlBI/AAAAAAAAIfo/zZRKE33G0CU/s1600/IR+Imagers,+Schneider+2013.jpg found it while searching for that panasonic 8x8
02:34.09DocScrutinizer05dual touch alternative to CRTOUCH12: http://www.rohm.com/web/global/products/-/product/BU21029GUL
02:35.54DocScrutinizer05and http://www.rohm.com/web/global/products/-/product/BU21021GUL
02:38.46DocScrutinizer05http://www.rohm.com/web/global/products/-/product/BU21024FV-M
02:39.09DocScrutinizer05firmware flashable/download from APE CPU
02:40.12DocScrutinizer05http://www.rohm.com/web/global/products/-/product/BU21023GUL same
02:57.43Oksanajonwil: See your thread again, I did some duckduckgoing based on the text of error provided by endorsemeans...
02:58.51jonwilI saw that and the .lua file doesn't exist on my system
02:58.54jonwilso that isn't the right fix
02:59.11jonwilthe other one might work
03:01.03jonwilor not, mis-read what it said
03:13.00OksanaDoes the Scratchbox come with a Readme? Where are the paths fed to it, where does it look for `libfakeroot-sysv.so' that it cannot be found?
03:17.24jonwilfound a possible solution, looking into it now
03:23.16jonwilyep, that fixed it
03:23.55jonwilScratchbox has an "install fakeroot" option in its configs, running that seems to have made things work again
03:25.08OksanaOooh... Installing Harmattan-Box removed fakeroot from Fremantle-Box?..
03:25.12jonwilseems that installing the package fakeroot-net inside the SDK overwrites whatever "install fakeroot" does and breaks things
03:25.29jonwilinstalling harmattan scratchbox updated some scratchbox packages that made fakeroot not work
03:25.41jonwilrepairing it copied the new fakeroot stuff from the new scratchbox
03:25.44jonwiland made it work again
03:26.55jonwilnow I have the build of MCE I wanted in the first place and can do the analysis on it that I wanted to do :)
04:15.24OksanaQuiet...
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04:49.59DocScrutinizer05well..
04:51.25Oksana?:)
04:51.27DocScrutinizer05I checked BU21021GUL and BU21029GUL and tried to find a source. But Tohm says there's none, inquiry at manuf is required. MOQ3000
04:52.20DocScrutinizer0521 is smarter than CRTOUCH, 29 is a tad more basic than CRTOUCH
04:53.15DocScrutinizer05then 29 is only 2*2mm, while crtouch is 5*5 iirc
04:53.57DocScrutinizer05but if anything, I favor the 21
04:58.42Oksana21 is also 2*2 mm?
04:59.12DocScrutinizer05dunno, haven't checked
04:59.31DocScrutinizer05prolly a tad larger since it's 5*5 BGA, not 4*4
04:59.37DocScrutinizer05iirc
04:59.47DocScrutinizer05err wait
04:59.50DocScrutinizer05nope
05:02.32DocScrutinizer05err yup, both have same case
05:04.37OksanaWell, inquire at manufacturer ?
05:07.14DocScrutinizer05MOQ3000
05:08.30DocScrutinizer05roundabout 2000 too many
05:09.03DocScrutinizer05could still make sense when chip is 1/3 the price of CRTOUCH
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06:24.29DocScrutinizer05ShadowJK: http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/AMG8831/255-3509-1-ND/3461616
06:28.39DocScrutinizer05<http://eewiki.net/display/projects/Panasonic GridEYE Breakout Board and GUI>
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08:18.36jonwilfreemangordon: ping
08:39.27Palidid you hear about systemd-office? no? next poettering project: https://plus.google.com/+LennartPoetteringTheOneAndOnly/posts/VUzeRLf5g5m
08:39.46Palinow I do not know if it is joke or not
09:05.24DocScrutinizer05I don't dare reading it, but when you don't know if it's a joke, then it's for sure none. Everything looked like a joke so far
09:07.49enycbut but but but  what about  uselessd ?!!?
09:15.37Paliuselessd is useless
09:18.09DocScrutinizer05sarcasm, eh? I doubt Poettering knows what's sarcasm. So maybe the "this really happened!" also was his idea of sarcasm?
09:18.57jonwilok, so I have discovered 3 things. First is that Nokia DID use scratchbox-toolchain-cs2007q3-glibc2.5-arm7 to produce many binaries for PR1.3 (discovered this by examining all the debug packages in the SDK repos to see if thy had any indication about the used compiler). Second is that any hope of getting the same set of packages/binaries/etc Nokia used is not going to happen, there are to...
09:18.58jonwil...many versions of the different packages for that to be possible. And third is that because of compiler optimization and other stuff, its never going to be possible to get binaries that are byte-for-byte identical with the Nokia-produced binaries.
09:19.46jonwilEven where we have source, binaries AND -dbg packages, reproducing those binaries from that source and getting identical output just isn't possible.
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09:21.14DocScrutinizer05well, we seen differing binaries created from unaltered identical source compiled by same compiler on same machine. Prolly used RNG optimization
09:21.42DocScrutinizer05(that's been with calypso firmware, on windows)
09:22.44DocScrutinizer05two consecutive compiler runs on same machine even created binaries of same name but differing length IIRC
09:26.14jonwilits less variable with GCC ARM ELF in that passing the same input to the same matched build environment will basically always produce the same output.
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09:36.41Paligcc is deterministic
09:37.27Palisomebody said that if you have same source files, same gcc and same libraries you could get same output binary (maybe minus some header)
09:40.32DocScrutinizer05that M$ compiler/linker wasn't deterministic. Or it been depending on a lot of environment variables that themselves were not - like addr level where it got RAM mallocs
09:41.12DocScrutinizer05content of such RAM when malloc'd, etc
09:42.20DocScrutinizer05te binaries had funny random remnants of arbitrary other stuff in them. Parts of mail text and whatnot
09:42.28enyc=)
09:42.30DocScrutinizer05(all disclaimer: IIRC)
09:42.50enycis dos1 managing ok now, I heard dos1 was studying/busy or somesuch?
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09:56.48jonwilEven things like the paths where the source, libraries, headers and other things are located can impact the output in some cases
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10:38.00enycjonwil: been there done all that  with mail systems ;p  fun with mbox files overriding and ..... all fun
10:38.09enycI remember Solaris system ;p
10:38.33enyc/opt/gnu/bin/bash  /opt/gnome-1.4/bin/ ....   LD_LIBRARY_PATH=  GNOME  blah blah blah  what fun ;p
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12:35.39jonwilfreemangordon: ping
12:40.54freemangordon_hmm?
12:41.14freemangordon_ping and then disconnect?
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13:36.58NokiabotLol systemd guys are funny :p
13:38.49NokiabotI asked is systemd an app  and how can i install it in my windows 8.1 laptop :p
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13:53.00WikiwideWhat did systemd guys say?
13:54.30WikiwideGood night...
13:56.27NokiabotWikiwide:one said try the app store one said ask microsoft support ph line lol
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16:42.01dos1enyc: yup, I'm definitely more up-to-date now. and soon some new content should arrive as well ;)
16:52.41freemangordonPali: how's uni going? do you still have exams to take?
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16:54.03Palifreemangordon: basically final exams will be in jan/feb
16:54.14freemangordonsounds good
16:54.58freemangordonI hope we'll have you back by feb. If you're still interested in fremantle ofc :P
16:55.20freemangordonPali: BTW doc was offering you a dev device, in case you've missed it
16:55.36freemangordonn900 that is
16:55.50Paliyes, I know
16:56.10freemangordonok
17:09.22enycdos1: oooh good
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17:44.53enycdos1: if content gets sorted out, I can suggest people towards who might put resources into
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18:21.06enycdos1: ould be hepful to b realistic and open about current sitation andissues andrealistic expectations
18:38.22DocScrutinizer05wonders what issues enyc expects to hear of
18:40.14DocScrutinizer05also I wonder if it's really common best practice and wise to put any "issues" on the web frontpage
18:40.39freemangordonif you want to ruin the project :)
18:40.44freemangordonworks every time
18:40.52DocScrutinizer05thought as much, yes
18:42.12enycissue,s i should say  blockers, current problems/tasks, things where help/input / suggestions would be welcome,  etc...  i don't mean anything unexpected
18:42.28freemangordonenyc: we need SW developers
18:42.38freemangordonfor fptf
18:42.43freemangordon~fptf
18:42.43infobotfptf is, like, the Fremantle Porting Task Force, see http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=91308
18:43.11enycfreemangordon: can you add this (anything else) to useful list / wiki page, link to latest article ?
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18:44.06freemangordonenyc: I am not in control of neo900.org, but I guess dos1 won't decline to put "SW devs needed"
18:44.41freemangordondos1: ^^^
18:44.46DocScrutinizer05no, we won't do that. at best we point to fptf thread. Neo900 isn't involved in sw development
18:44.57freemangordonhmm, correct
18:45.37freemangordonDocScrutinizer05: isn't there already such link (to fptf thread)
18:45.43freemangordonchecks
18:45.49enycdifferent scopes make sense, but try to link to / list all of this at presne,t so somebody 'outside' or 'interested' can actually see all of this in summary
18:46.07freemangordonyes, there is
18:47.00freemangordonenyc: I (and I guess DocScrutinizer05) see your point, but doc is right, it is about HW development
18:47.43enycnodsnods, but to be useful, or relevant, , or to show what they will/won't be able to use for, etc.  its' all relevant to keep reference to, at least
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18:47.54freemangordonthere are refs
18:48.14enycso... one page about hardware, devel, building, ...  and another about the software situation ...
18:48.24freemangordonenyc: open neo900.org and search for "Maemo"
18:48.49enycthinking about it ...  are the hardare choices being influenced by "how can we make this uspport maemo in some form" ??
18:48.52DocScrutinizer05the heck, I don't even *know* about "the software situation"
18:49.16freemangordonenyc: it is all about it ;)
18:49.36freemangordoni.e. (sorry to say it, but...) RTFM
18:50.20freemangordonenyc: the whole HW design of neo900 is made such that porting fremantle on it to be easier
18:50.40freemangordonor at least I've been told so :)
18:51.04freemangordon~seen jonwil
18:51.09infobotjonwil <~jonwil@27-33-80-219.tpgi.com.au> was last seen on IRC in channel #neo900, 6h 15m 30s ago, saying: 'freemangordon: ping'.
18:51.09enycfreemangordon: aaaah that reference is useful....  now I see... yes, that makes sense, I see about audio hw compatibility etc.
18:51.09DocScrutinizer05correct. But that doesn't mean Neo900 UG is any involved into sw development
18:51.27enycI heard all this in ARM's office ;p  fun between them and Linaro/Debian
18:51.36enycimportant they talk to each other but also work independently ....
18:51.42enyceach feeding to the other =).
18:51.46freemangordonDocScrutinizer05: sure
18:52.04freemangordonDocScrutinizer05: but you will be :P
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18:52.30enycits' all important in terms of making usable product that customers will be interested in =)
18:52.41enycso emplying Linaro people even if they don't sell anything ;p
18:52.56freemangordonenyc: exactly why "we" want fremantle
18:53.42freemangordonmost of the "customers" are currently using n900 as their only device
18:53.46freemangordonmyself included
18:55.23freemangordonDocScrutinizer05: BTW libnokia-common PA "module" fremantle port seems to be doing just fine, I tested it on my dev n900 and I see no distortion or any signs of failure. Just to know
18:55.49DocScrutinizer05cool
18:56.14freemangordonis going to watch Bulgaria vs Croatia, night guys
18:56.53DocScrutinizer05wonders if coffee is alright when waking7getting up at 21:00 in the evening
18:57.49DocScrutinizer05~xyawn
18:57.49infobotextra, extra, read all about it, xyawn is nice coffee
19:06.57enycOooooooooooh I see te october mention,  was still seeing the Part III (Coming Soon)... thing!  sorry!
19:19.33DocScrutinizer05dos1: we should remove that embarrassing "coming soon" part-III announcement
19:20.24DocScrutinizer05it's doing massive damage to Neo900 image
19:49.00enycDocScrutinizer05: yes it gives false impression its one of many ''stalled almost forever'' open source projects
19:50.11DocScrutinizer05Neo900 is no open source project
19:50.43DocScrutinizer05it's not at all about any source
19:51.23enycdo we say what it is?  it says ''open smartphone'' and ''open platform'' so easy to confuse
19:53.25DocScrutinizer05sorry, I cannot take care about all the possible misconceptions that somebody might run into when reading the text we write. The words used usually mean what is conceived as commonly agreed up semantic meaning of them, maybe according to Miriam Webster
19:55.38DocScrutinizer05>>We bring the hardware, you choose your OS.<<
19:57.12enycyep don't worry..  feedback 2 ways helps to make things more apparent =)...   What would you describe/class this project as?   you say ''not at alll about any source'' ??   is the resultant free schematics/etc. _exactly_ a 'source'?
19:57.16enycnodsnods
19:59.44DocScrutinizer05the schematics, while promised to get disclosed and published under a `free` licence, is not the aim of the project. The aim is to build and provide a hardware, much like a motherboard for your PC
20:00.14DocScrutinizer05this is a strictly commercial enterprise
20:04.02DocScrutinizer05we call it "open" since it comes with complete comrehensive docs (like schematics, datasheets for all chips available, etc), so you can actually use the hw platform in any way you like. You get all the needed info for doing so. We however do NOT ship this hw platform with any particular OS. It's up to end user to install whatever s/he likes as their OS. Neo900 UG will only provide a Board Support Package based on a debian probably. Such
20:04.03DocScrutinizer05BSP will provide some proof-of-concept drivers for unique hardware you find on the board, so you can test that hardware. It's NOT a OS for daily use like maemo or android is
20:10.39enycnodsnods
20:10.39DocScrutinizer05"source" is commonly used for software, for the sourcecode text. This is no open source project, it's a open hardware project
20:10.59enycwhat is the equivaent of 'source' with open hardware?
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20:20.39DocScrutinizer05probably the project files
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20:21.09DocScrutinizer05though even those don't help when you have closed undocumented chips in your design
20:21.59DocScrutinizer05you cannot compare apples with racing cars
20:22.09Wikiwidewaves
20:22.47DocScrutinizer05building hardware is a completely different process than coding (building) a software
20:23.33enycDocScrutinizer05: nodsnods
20:23.51DocScrutinizer05and EE all over the world at least twice a week facepalm because of sw devels approching them and try to teach them how to build hw based on same procedures and principles like software
20:24.19enycDocScrutinizer05: can ew copy this shot summary you've put down here, into our basic  scope document / isformation given, rather than just ni IRC?
20:24.33DocScrutinizer05"when you got a hammer then everything looks like a nail to you"
20:24.35enycDocScrutinizer05: theres a lot more 'risk' in hardware?  harder to get right, more interdependencies ?
20:25.39DocScrutinizer05of course, that's obvious. Just think about patches resp updates. No such concept applies to hardware
20:27.04enycDocScrutinizer05: I had generally wondered about the 'risks' with the closed chips  espceally anything in the main SoC
20:27.47DocScrutinizer05the main SoC got publicly available comprehensive Technical Reference Manual
20:28.57DocScrutinizer05that's why we chosen OMAP and not other crap like snapdragon or whatever, which frequently has poor or sparse or no docs at all available for the general public
20:29.34enycThe likes of ARM do all sorts to try and avoid loss of license fees etc ....  but I don't know where any incentives are to add  backdoors of any form in the  silicon =)
20:30.24DocScrutinizer05another misconception about hardware. You hardly can implement such 2backdoor"
20:32.24DocScrutinizer05and ARM is only selling "specifications" or "plans" to manufacturers like TI, who then build a real hardware from those, and they basically know every single transistor and every single gate in their hardware, so how could ARM try to sneak in a "backdorr" and TI wouldn't notice it?
20:33.26enycI think it depend,s the core can be licensed in lower level silicon form ??  is it easy to reverse enginere ? etc etc... puzzle =)  will TI look?  are TI similarly trustworthy =)
20:34.11enyccan the system be ired so as to leak critical paths in RF-world a lot more than without such deliberate interventions?    interesting to consider, anyway
20:34.34DocScrutinizer05will Ford build a backdoor into your car without telling you? Would you fail to notice if there was a backdoor?
20:34.44kerioDocScrutinizer05: is there even space to add backdoors?
20:34.56kerioalso, i sure hope my car has at least two back doors plus a trunk
20:35.17enyci've heard all sorts of fun wrt  CAN bus  car management systems p
20:35.33kerioi thought the greatest challenge for a chip maker was actually making everything fit as tight as possible
20:35.38DocScrutinizer05I said backdoor in car, not in car's software
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20:36.29keriowithout a backdoor how are the people in the back going to enter the car?
20:37.12enyckerio: and related 'timing closure' all around that layout....
20:37.34DocScrutinizer05it's really depressing to discuss hw related topics with software (centric) guys
20:38.02enycDocScrutinizer05: nodsneds... i do (try) to understand about both but suspect I have lots more to learn =)
20:40.25DocScrutinizer05basically every single question is like "what if <software-concept-4711> flaws the hardware?" and you again explain that <sw-concept-*> is not applicable to discuss any hardware related issues
20:41.33enycDocScrutinizer05: how did you learn the 'hw-concept-*' set? do you only get this from lots of experience and asking lots of questions?
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20:42.00DocScrutinizer05basically yes
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20:50.05enycDocScrutinizer05: a friend described to bme problems with Changing from QC to QA process in businesses in days gone by ....  somep eople just always seemed to think ''the other way'' regardless
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20:57.06WikiwideWhat's happening with N900s and their batteries?
20:58.06WikiwideHas any other post arrived (like, dome sheets) ?
20:58.07DocScrutinizer05when ACME foods is selling "thanksgiving turkey" then you can bet on ACME not applying any guidelines or rules or principles related to cooking a turkey when the raise those turkeys, nor any such rules and principles that are related to thanksgiving. ACME raises animals, kills them, packs them into some bag, freezes them and ships them to the groceries. Nothing in all this process is discussable using a context pertinent to cooking or
20:58.09DocScrutinizer05religion
20:59.50enycDocScrutinizer05: =)  as in -- what are the 'actual' incentives 'in practice' ?
21:01.38DocScrutinizer05Wikiwide: nothing to report
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21:02.03enycwonders ho many of the spare N900's have mini-USBs falling off the board ;p
21:02.11enycerr micro-usbs =)
21:02.31DocScrutinizer05battery #7 about to get charged in N900, considering to charge 25 of them in parallel with my shiny new lab PSU and a script on my PC controlling that PSU
21:02.34enychas N900's with rather hacked upside-down micro-usbs with red wire and 2* tiny D+ D- wires going to pads =)
21:12.59jonwilfreemangordon: ping
21:24.20PaliDocScrutinizer05: see PM
21:28.21DocScrutinizer05ummm, which PM?
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21:49.17DocScrutinizer05Pali: can't find any PM. Or what are you referring to?
21:50.30Paliresent
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22:06.24DocScrutinizer05see https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Neo900_receives_55_development_devices_from_Mozilla and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=701784#c53
22:08.48DocScrutinizer05>>...we'll happilly give them to developers who want to work on something even remotely related to Neo900. Just let us (Neo900) know...<<
22:09.16DocScrutinizer05emphasis on *Neo900* and on *let us know*
22:19.38DocScrutinizer05http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=1442600
22:20.48freemangordonjonwil: pong
22:20.56DocScrutinizer05freemangordon: ^^^
22:21.22freemangordonyep, read it
22:21.28freemangordonthanks
22:21.39DocScrutinizer05freemangordon: also see latest µblog entry at neo900.org
22:21.44freemangordonok
22:22.40freemangordonI hope that to help a bit
22:22.55freemangordonenyc: are you ex-Nokian?
22:24.14jonwilGot my til file built with the relavent bits for the Harmattan x86 pulseaudio blobs
22:24.54freemangordongreat :). got my libnokia-common installed on my -devel device, verything seems ok so far :)
22:25.05freemangordoneverything even
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22:25.36freemangordonI guess I will have the spare time needed tomorrow to push it on gitorious
22:25.46jonwilgreat
22:25.49freemangordonsixwheeledbeast: hI
22:25.52jonwilthen I can pull it down and start hacking on it :)
22:26.02sixwheeledbeastfreemangordon: lo
22:26.05freemangordonsixwheeledbeast: yet another mce in cssu-devel
22:26.09freemangordon:)
22:26.14sixwheeledbeast:nod:
22:26.30freemangordonjonwil: I will do my best to have it on gitorious by tomorrow afternoon
22:26.33sixwheeledbeastnot tried it yet working on flopswap at the moment
22:26.37freemangordon(local time)
22:26.39jonwilgreat :)
22:26.55freemangordonsixwheeledbeast: no hurry
22:27.47freemangordonjonwil: in the meanwhile - could you check my latest commits?
22:27.57freemangordonon cssu gitorious that is
22:28.11jonwilabout to
22:28.17freemangordonjust to make sure I didn;t screw it up
22:28.33freemangordonmce, spashscreen and modechange headers
22:28.35jonwilLooks good to me
22:28.41freemangordonok, thanks
22:30.28freemangordondos1: any chance to change that "we are here" chart on neo900.org to something more recent?
22:41.53jonwilbtw fremangordon, dont expect me to be able to do any RE on any of the ARM pulseaudio stuff (i.e. all the armcc stuff missing from the x86 binaries) :)
22:42.07jonwilI can (and will) be REing the x86 binaries
22:42.22freemangordonoh, I know
22:42.24freemangordon:)
22:42.44freemangordonwhatever you do will help me a lot
22:43.07freemangordonas this RE effort is huge, but I guess you already know it
22:43.11jonwilyeah
22:44.24freemangordonweird, after I've installed the latest mce, my battery life seems dobled
22:44.42DocScrutinizer05freemangordon: I wonder if you expect openGL driver from fremantle to work under new kernel
22:44.55freemangordonexpect? I know it works
22:45.02DocScrutinizer05great!
22:45.33jonwilhmmm, might take each of the harmattan blobs and figure out which of the fremantle blobs contains the same bits as a useful exercise
22:45.40freemangordonall the "boot into upstream kernel" posts I did on fptf thread were with SGX driver fully functional
22:45.41DocScrutinizer05I always thought it been the major reason why fremantle couldn't get any newer kernels
22:45.57freemangordonnaah, we have XSG driver forward-ported
22:46.10freemangordon*SGX
22:46.35DocScrutinizer05wasn't the 3D part a closed blob?
22:46.46freemangordonit is
22:46.54freemangordonbut the driver is FOSS
22:47.02jonwilyeah kernel parts are foss
22:47.05DocScrutinizer05and you forward-prted it anyway nevertheless now?
22:47.05jonwiluserspace is blob
22:47.06freemangordon3D part is in the userspace
22:47.33freemangordonand once you have the kernel driver working, userspace is happy too
22:47.50DocScrutinizer05yes, I always knew that, nevertheless I've been told "it can't get ported since we cannot recompile the blob for newer kernel ABI" or words to the effect
22:47.51jonwilSeems to be a trend in mobile GPUs where they put all the secret sauce in userspace blobs and then the kernel driver just exists to shuttle data from the userspace blob to the hardware
22:48.07freemangordonDocScrutinizer05: the kernel driver is a kind of a proxy
22:48.20freemangordonjonwil: :nod:
22:48.22DocScrutinizer05:nod: thought as much
22:48.48jonwilbtw freemangordon, do we need to worry about armcc for this RE effort (e.g. the functions inside what the debug information calls armcc_gcc_adaptation.c)?
22:48.54jonwilI am guessing we dont since we wont be using armcc
22:49.11freemangordonthough I think we'll have problems with neo900 on that part. as SGX core is(will be) newer
22:49.14freemangordonjonwil: no
22:49.27freemangordonI give my hopes on gcc
22:49.29DocScrutinizer05I guess I should have queried that statement about "maemo can't get newer kernel" a tad harder, back when
22:50.04DocScrutinizer05(newer SGX) aiui it shall be 100% backward compatible
22:50.08jonwilfor GPU drivers our best option might be to use the TI Graphics SDK (whichever version of that matches the hardware we have)
22:50.18freemangordonDocScrutinizer05: hmm? http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=1427621&postcount=115
22:50.24jonwilThat way we are getting the drivers TI recommends for the exact CPU and GPU we have
22:50.52freemangordonjonwil: no, we'll use meego/nemo/harm drivers
22:51.02jonwilhmmm ok, that makes more sense
22:51.21freemangordonnot to say TI doesn't have softfp drivers for a while :)
22:51.26jonwilyeah since we have basically the same part as N9 we can use whatever the N9 is using
22:51.33freemangordon:nod:
22:51.37freemangordonr125
22:51.41DocScrutinizer05freemangordon: sorry, that post is pretty hard to parse/understand
22:51.43freemangordon(vs r121 in n900)
22:52.06freemangordonDocScrutinizer05: what exactly is not parsable in "posted by using microb, under:"
22:52.25DocScrutinizer05that doesn't tell me any useful info at all
22:52.36freemangordonLinux Nokia-N900 3.15.0-rc7-next-20140530+
22:52.52xes..sometimes this thread seems the frankenstein lab ;)
22:53.03xes*channel
22:53.29freemangordonhow do you imagine microb running on n900 with 3.15 without SGX HW acceleration?
22:53.41DocScrutinizer05I don't even start to ponder that
22:53.59freemangordonstock/CSSU hildon-desktop won't start without it
22:54.44freemangordonanyway, 3.15-rcN was the latest I booted with (almost) stock fremantle and SGX HW accel running
22:54.59freemangordondidn;t try newest, will do when it comes to it
22:55.28freemangordonby "stock fremantle" I mean CSSU-thumb :)
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22:55.54sixwheeledbeastobviously
22:56.03DocScrutinizer05point is: this post maybe has lots of implicit info I could deduce by exactly analyzing it, but very little clear statements like "I accomplished to do: kernel 6.99 with ACME driver foobar 666 and display manager brickbox"
22:56.35freemangordonyou sure you read the whole post?
22:56.37freemangordon"The upstream linux-next has only SGX, component_version and bootreason drivers added on top. "
22:57.14DocScrutinizer05nfc if maemo or modest would run on a system that only has 2D-GFX drivers, or maybe you started modest via VNC, or in terminal in cmdline mode, or whatever
22:58.43DocScrutinizer05I know you think it has all info, I'm doing same thing all the time. But posting clear easy to understand info is an art. I'm not good at it, but that post also isn't very clear
22:59.08freemangordonoh, come on. however - this is Fremantle CSSU-thumb, with a couple of tweaks, booted on n900, with linux 3.15-rc7. SGX HW accel works, as is DSP and the modem
22:59.19xesfreemangordon: have you ever tried bfs/bfq patches on top
22:59.31xesof recent kernels?
22:59.37freemangordonrecent?
22:59.48DocScrutinizer05freemangordon: how about writing exactly this to the post?
22:59.52freemangordonmy ubuntu 14.04 is on 3.13
23:00.01DocScrutinizer05;-)
23:00.14misvis there a guidline to contribute to neo900 sw wise? :)
23:00.44DocScrutinizer05s/linux 3.15-rc7./linux 3.15-rc7 kernel./
23:01.16freemangordonDocScrutinizer05: linux == kernel ;)
23:01.31freemangordonmisv: not exactly, what do you want to know?
23:01.47DocScrutinizer05yes, you do it again. Expecting your readers have all that background you're implying
23:01.59misvfreemangordon: what needs to be done and what prereqs there are
23:02.14misvi reckon most will be done in C?
23:02.21freemangordonsure
23:02.28DocScrutinizer05that's what makes a post hard to read and understand, even by people who actually have that info
23:02.40xesfreemangordon: i'm using 3.16.3 with bfs bfq and uksm with an old atom z520 and the system is performing really well with those patches. I can imagine that also an arm cpu would obtain good results
23:02.41DocScrutinizer05err background
23:03.29freemangordonmisv: if you are interested in fremantle on Neo900, then I am the man to ask questions to. Otherwise (Debian, SHR, etc) I can't help
23:04.11freemangordonmisv: Re fremantle - there is an effort to have as much as possible closed blobs REed/replaced with FOSS pieces
23:04.16misvfreemangordon: i am, though i dunno if i got the right know-how to be of any use :-)
23:04.55freemangordonmisv: also, so far there is no maintainer of the freemantle-repo-to-be
23:05.12freemangordonwhere HW adaptation packages will be put
23:05.31freemangordonmisv: any experience with IDA?
23:06.01misvcant say i have no :/
23:06.13freemangordonsure, if that is the case :)
23:06.27freemangordonmisv: do you have n900?
23:06.33misvfreemangordon: yes i have
23:06.48DocScrutinizer05bad post: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=1427621   Good post: [font=14PT] maemo booted on kernel linux 3.15-rc7, just works[/font] the components used are: *) kernel linux 3.15-rc7. *) Femantle CSSU-thumb (version 14maemo28) - with some tweaks  *) GFX driver: HARM HW accel nokia-foobar_7.14 *) ....
23:06.49freemangordonok, then you can help with testing/QA
23:07.13freemangordonand whe it comes to - with coding, ofc
23:07.44misvfreemangordon: sure, though interactive disassembler seem intresting, will defo read up on that
23:07.50freemangordonmisv: another BIG "project" is upstream kernal
23:08.16freemangordonwe deffinitely need someone who feels comfortable with alsa/pulseaudio
23:09.14freemangordonmisv: so it is up to you to decide, there is lots of stuf to be done
23:09.17freemangordon*stuff
23:09.52misvyeah id love to start out with the basics (test/QA) to learn some of the basics so i can contribute
23:10.13freemangordonalso, don;t assume there is a real "project manager" here, we're all volunteers, so, whatever you do will help. usually :)
23:10.22freemangordonmisv: your n900 is on CSSU?
23:11.45misvfreemangordon: dont think so, have to check and see if its clean wiped. bought it recently :)
23:12.08misvfreemangordon: ofc, hard to run it as a strict project
23:12.36freemangordonmisv: the point is - we will base freemantle on top of some CSSU flavour (most probably -thumb), and until the real HW is out, we can use n900 for development/testing/etc
23:12.43freemangordonso, see:
23:12.45freemangordon~cssu
23:12.46infobotfrom memory, cssu is http://wiki.maemo.org/Community_SSU, or (Community Seamless Software Update)
23:12.51freemangordon~cssu-devel
23:12.51infobotcssu-devel is, like, http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=84292, or extremely deprecated for any non-developer
23:13.00misvthnx
23:13.55freemangordonmisv: the latter is focused on testing/QA and any feedback is appreciated
23:14.13misvsure, i will read up on it and fix my n900 tomorrow :)
23:14.19freemangordongood
23:14.22freemangordon:)
23:14.50misvalways wanted to like contribute and help FOSS projects but never really gotten to the point. though this project is different since the end result will be something awsome and useful :p
23:14.51Wizzup_is also somewhat interested in helping out on sw side, but doesn't have that much free time and needs to sleep now first
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23:15.23DocScrutinizer05please don't use the term "freemantle" - it's very hard to distinguish from "fremantle" even for those who know about the difference and meaning. I suggest FPTF-repo or FOSS-fremantle
23:15.24freemangordonmisv: BTW, even if you decide to not test/QA/develop/contribute, it is still highly recommended to install CSSU
23:15.35freemangordonDocScrutinizer05: ok, will do
23:15.46misvfreemangordon: yeah read some on the first page you sent, seem like a good boost
23:15.53Wizzup_libremantle?
23:15.56Wizzup_;)
23:16.10_mAl0_c_What is the current development? :)
23:17.54freemangordon_mAl0_c_: hmm?
23:18.39_mAl0_c_yeah i've see a news on neo900, you are searching some guys to dev
23:19.01freemangordonDocScrutinizer05: see :P
23:19.22DocScrutinizer05freemangordon: seen channel count? :-)
23:19.54DocScrutinizer05_mAl0_c_: best refer to
23:19.57DocScrutinizer05~fptf
23:19.57infobotsomebody said fptf was the Fremantle Porting Task Force, see http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=91308
23:19.59DocScrutinizer05first
23:20.12freemangordon_mAl0_c_: also, could you please read the logs for the last 20 minutes, we're discussing the same thing with another guy :)
23:20.20freemangordonchannel logs that is
23:20.27DocScrutinizer05we got no live chanlogs
23:20.29DocScrutinizer05:-/
23:20.36freemangordonoh :)
23:20.41freemangordon:( even
23:21.28freemangordonI'll pastebin those then
23:21.46_mAl0_c_ok :)
23:24.06freemangordonDocScrutinizer05: or, could you do this for me, form question "is there a guidline to contribute to neo900 sw wise? :)" to "sure, i will read up on it and fix my n900 tomorrow :)", my IRC client copy/paste looks awful :(
23:24.56freemangordonotherwise, here it is http://pastebin.com/YE6CN8ct
23:26.20DocScrutinizer05http://neo900.org/news/july-trilogy-part-ii-the-present#IDComment887520135
23:27.12freemangordonxes: sorry to ignore you. anyway, BFS etc is not upstreamed and we (will) have enough out-of-the-tree patches to babysit
23:28.26DocScrutinizer05http://privatepaste.com/c9e62bfaf6
23:30.24xesfreemangordon: np, i know. Anyway i hope you would try the difference one day or another. Those patches can give new life also to overloaded devices
23:39.48enycmisv: btw: if you bought N900 with working USB...  its VERY worth going through soldering it down firmly, they all break off board taking pads with them wich is then hard to sort out
23:41.45freemangordonenyc: I bought my n900 on Feb 2010. still no problem with the USB port.
23:42.31freemangordonso it looks like a matter of luck
23:42.54freemangordonDocScrutinizer05: thanks
23:42.55enycfreemangordon: and how you use it
23:43.01DocScrutinizer05yw
23:43.15enycfreemangordon: but I'm saying ... its worth strengthening *pro-actively* as this is much easier than 'when it then breaks off'
23:43.23enycfreemangordon: and ho previous user used it ...!
23:43.31freemangordonenyc: charging, mass storage, hostmode fro time to time
23:43.46enycfreemangordon: sure, but i mean.. in terms of mechanical stress
23:44.09freemangordonI filed all chargers, USB cables, etc from the day one
23:44.33enycfreemangordon: filed off the hooks?
23:44.36freemangordonyep
23:44.47enycfreemangordon: i see.. but thats not all of it.. think about he forces up down left right ;p
23:44.50freemangordonconnector teeth
23:45.01enycfreemangordon: i.e. wiggling the connector around
23:45.07freemangordonwell, I am careful :)
23:45.21freemangordontoldya, this device is almost 5 years od
23:45.25freemangordon*old
23:45.28enycfreemangordon: I've had to do the BIG faff  reconnecting wires across board USB-fix
23:45.37freemangordonI can imagine
23:45.42enycfreemangordon: its much easier to strengthen one in your current condition
23:46.01freemangordonassuming you have the needed tolls and skills
23:46.07enyc=)
23:46.17freemangordonotherwise one can easily ruin the board
23:46.26enycfreemangordon: at least you've been told ;p  or actually was misv  i was trying to tell ;p
23:46.37freemangordonyeah, it was misv :)
23:47.13enyctaking apart is a fiddle unplugging the screen etc tohugh not too bad
23:47.28enycaking board and and soldering don USB.. similary not TOO bad
23:47.49enycespecially as its right at edge of board, not too many components about in that space iirc

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