| 00:03 | dbsx | rabeeh: re armhf. When running a benchmark I noted that the vfpv3 vfpv3d16 provided improved speed on some integer ops. do we get the benefit of this in the drivers |
| 00:03 | dbsx | ? |
| 00:26 | janne | dbsx: what kind of benchmark and what did you compare. hardfp is not really expected to be noticeable faster on armv7-a |
| 00:32 | dbsx | janne: I have been shuffling micro sd cards trying to find it. too many boxes and too many sd cards. my memory says that 16bit mul was seriously better |
| 05:46 | dbsx | janne: the answer is lmbench |
| 15:43 | dung | jnettlet, from the link you've posted I get to your work on video. Please describe how you decode through gstreamer. I decode SD videos with ffmpeg, w/o hardware acceleration ~50% CPU. Did you play HD? Which GStreamer decoder? |
| 15:45 | jnettlet | dung, I have enhanced a custom gstreamer plugin that was originally written by Marvell. It uses the vmeta engine to decode video, and then a custom videosink to use xvideo to put it on the screen with minimal copies. We can play 720p video at about 30% cpu |
| 15:50 | dung | On an OLPC? Isn't it PC, no hardfp at all? |
| 15:52 | dung | Where can I view the plugin? |
| 15:57 | jnettlet | dung, the OLPC XO 1.75 used a Marvell Armada 610, very similar to the 510 in the Cubox |
| 15:59 | jnettlet | dung, there is no public repo yet. You can expand the src.rpm from here. http://dev.laptop.org/~jnettlet/vmeta/ |
| 15:59 | jnettlet | that is actually an older release. The repo should go up by the end of this month. Just finishing approvals for everything |
| 16:02 | dung | Nice, just got the specs. Thank you. |
| 16:02 | jnettlet | dung, those are hardfp binaries that should work on most distros from the past year. |
| 16:03 | jnettlet | oh you will also need my dovefb xorg driver that will get published this weekend. |
| 16:03 | jnettlet | that is the old driver with enhancements not my new KMS driver |
| 16:08 | dung | so it will be an option for Cubox to replace the propriatary marvell with propriatary olpc? |
| 16:09 | jnettlet | This is proprietary Marvell as well, just updated and optimized by me to work better as a desktop X driver |
| 16:11 | jnettlet | dung, there are pieces that are Marvell and will stay that way. The pieces that wrap around it by OLPC will be OSS. |
| 16:12 | jnettlet | I am working on getting source for the directfb driver to be released by Vivante as OSS. The had originally promised it to use over a year ago, but things have fallen by the way side. |
| 20:34 | niietzshe | hello everyone, anyone around? |
| 20:46 | Flooo | hi niietzshe! whats up? |
| 20:46 | niietzshe | hello, thanks for responding |
| 20:46 | niietzshe | I've just got a cubox through today |
| 20:47 | niietzshe | initially there is no lights and no signs of life |
| 20:47 | niietzshe | I'm just cooking dinner, then afterwards I'm going to try the serial port |
| 20:47 | niietzshe | any suggestions on what I should be looking for to see if there is a hardware or software problem? |
| 20:54 | niietzshe | I'm hoping that it's not bricked because I've had to pay import tax and don't want to have to pay it again for a return... |
| 21:31 | niietzshe | sorry got logged out |
| 21:31 | niietzshe | any advice on what to do with an apparently dead cubox |
| 21:31 | niietzshe | no lights or activity |
| 21:33 | niietzshe | actually it might be an issue with the plug as the green light comes on and then fades |
| 21:33 | niietzshe | is this normal> |
| 21:33 | niietzshe | i'm in uk 240v) |
| 21:43 | niietzshe | ok I get nothing by serial port on osx |
| 21:44 | niietzshe | Cannot exec '/dev/tty.usbserial': No such file or directory |
| 21:44 | niietzshe | just seems completely dead to me |
| 21:55 | niietzshe | ok plug seems to be dead according to my multimeter |
| 21:58 | niietzshe | tried with another plug thats working |
| 21:58 | niietzshe | still no go |
| 21:58 | niietzshe | stuck here guys/girls |
| 22:33 | niietzshe | if anyone is around I could really do with some healp |
| 22:33 | niietzshe | I've resorted to taking the battery out as I believe I've read about this causing issues before |
| 22:46 | niietzshe | ok replaced the battery, still nothing |
| 23:13 | niietzshe | putting it on the forum... |
| 23:23 | niietzshe | seeya |