| 00:32 | Coburn | dbsx: Good call |
| 00:32 | Coburn | CuBox Software Development Platform |
| 00:34 | Coburn | [23:50:39] rabeeh: it might be a good idea if uboot was tested and perfect, which it is not. Not being able mod uboot means that I am stuck with situation where I cannot modify uboot to demonstrate a ported application to a corporate client. Time does not permit a rebuild. Which means I have cancelled the demonstration. As it stands the uboot setup is a total disaster. Losing a corporate client is a bigger disaster. |
| 00:34 | Coburn | Agreed. |
| 00:35 | Coburn | My thoughts is a "dev" flag - maybe "i_understand_uboot". set that to 1 and it unlocks bootcmd |
| 00:35 | Coburn | Otherwise, you are shooting yourself in the foot |
| 00:36 | Coburn | What if the mmc part of the CuBox gives up the ghost and you need access to that bootcmd |
| 00:36 | Cobur | 00:36 * Coburn checks his bootloader. |
| 00:37 | Coburn | U-Boot 2009.08 (Sep 20 2012 - 02:30:22) Marvell version: 5.4.4 NQ SR1 <- Am I safe from that bootcmd lock, dbsx? |
| 00:44 | Coburn | [00:16:24] change from uboot to barebox <- howto? |
| 00:55 | dbsx | coburn: dont know. I am using oct3 uboot. And it has a sheevaplug uboot usb bug. usb is not so good. It fails on two out of 3 drives I have tried and fails on all drives (that I have) thru a hub |
| 00:56 | dbsx | coburn: What if the mmc part of the CuBox gives up the ghost and you need access to that bootcmd |
| 00:56 | dbsx | exactly |
| 01:00 | Coburn | lemme try something |
| 01:00 | Coburn | setenv bootcmd 'run fake_this' |
| 01:01 | dung | the boot.scr has to be a file, while it later loads links |
| 01:01 | Coburn | Noooooooooooo |
| 01:01 | Coburn | It reset the bootcmd!! |
| 01:02 | Coburn | Looks like I'm in the same boat as you, dbsx. :( |
| 01:03 | Coburn | also, on the usb bug, yes, I can confirm |
| 01:03 | Coburn | did you have issues regarding drive sizes? because my cubox won't see anything above 8gb |
| 01:03 | Coburn | it stalls there (no blinking cursor) |
| 01:04 | Coburn | Scanning for storage devices.... |
| 01:04 | Coburn | 10 mins later, DEVICE NOT READY, SENSE 00 00 00 (which should be OK... i think) |
| 01:04 | dbsx | yep coburn thats the bug |
| 01:04 | Coburn | funny though, I have usb hdd plugged into it |
| 01:04 | dbsx | v1 sheevaplug uboot used to do the same |
| 01:05 | Coburn | which is a 32gb usb ssd |
| 01:05 | Coburn | and it doesn't glitch |
| 01:05 | Coburn | but usb flash does, wtf? |
| 01:05 | Coburn | rabeeh, fix it |
| 01:05 | dbsx | usb hdd depends on the startup time |
| 01:06 | Coburn | well, yeah, but ssds are instant |
| 01:06 | dbsx | If you power up and wait till it hangs and then immediately repower, I bet it will work |
| 01:06 | Coburn | as in reset? |
| 01:06 | dbsx | nope power |
| 01:06 | Coburn | did does sometimes honor a CTRL+C |
| 01:07 | Coburn | power cycle? Or you mean USB power? |
| 01:07 | Coburn | (switch off usb hdd and plug it back in) |
| 01:07 | dbsx | no pull the power plug out of the cubox and put it back in |
| 01:07 | Coburn | ahh.... right |
| 01:08 | Coburn | cold cycle I guess |
| 01:08 | dbsx | yes |
| 01:08 | dbsx | you need to be quick (on my drives anyway) |
| 01:09 | Coburn | sorry, brain is still running the sleep() thread so excuse any "dumb" questions/statements |
| 01:09 | dbsx | no worries, my 32 core cpu is maxed out at 100% |
| 01:10 | Coburn | AMD? |
| 01:10 | dbsx | brain |
| 01:10 | Coburn | Hehe |
| 01:10 | Coburn | In school, i used to be known as a 266Mhz... just slow to the punch |
| 01:10 | Cobur | 01:10 * Coburn shrugs |
| 01:10 | dbsx | I am rebuilding uboot |
| 01:11 | Coburn | Argh, 10:10m and I need to head to my local radio station... streaming issues (they use Windows Media Encoder)... methinks I could get them a CuBox that handles all streaming b/s |
| 01:11 | Coburn | am* |
| 01:12 | Coburn | dbsx: Shoot me a copy of your "unprotected" bootcmd in uboot. maybe even put a message saying "Proper build by dbsx" |
| 01:12 | Coburn | when it's done, of course |
| 01:12 | Coburn | erm, uboot.bin, I mean that |
| 01:12 | Coburn | sorry, I should've really got more sleep last night |
| 01:13 | Coburn | Also, you might like to look at barebox... fully hackable bootloader based on uboot |
| 01:13 | Coburn | might be a solution to a true open cubox |
| 01:13 | Coburn | anyway, I'm off to radio station. be back in like... hourish |
| 01:47 | Coburn | back. Told guys about CuBox, they aren't too thrilled |
| 01:47 | Coburn | "I'll have to speak with the head regarding that" |
| 02:18 | cbxbiker61 | catalyst 13.1 is out, it fixes video problems with steam |
| 02:22 | Coburn | cbxbiker61: wrong channel? |
| 06:13 | dbsx | coburn: I have http://www.spinifex.com.au/cubox/download/uboot/2013-01-18-u-boot-cubox_hynix_cubox_spi.bin and http://www.spinifex.com.au/cubox/download/uboot/2013-01-18-u-boot-cubox_hynix_cubox_uart.bin |
| 06:13 | dbsx | I have tested with >> bubt 2013-01-18-u-boot-cubox_hynix_cubox_spi.bin |
| 06:13 | dbsx | and answered 'n' to the question |
| 06:13 | dbsx | It fixes the readonly junk. Can you test for me? |
| 06:13 | dbsx | after the bubt I did the following: |
| 06:13 | dbsx | setenv bootcmd |
| 06:13 | dbsx | saveenv |
| 06:13 | dbsx | resetenv |
| 06:24 | Coburn | never mind, starting tftpd |
| 06:24 | dbsx | see http://www.solid-run.com/mw/index.php/Flashing_U-Boot#Via_a_micro_SD_card |
| 06:24 | dbsx | http://www.solid-run.com/mw/index.php/Flashing_U-Boot |
| 06:25 | Coburn | Got it |
| 06:25 | Coburn | Overwrite existing params? y/N |
| 06:25 | Coburn | N |
| 06:25 | dbsx | correct |
| 06:25 | Coburn | Erase.... |
| 06:26 | Coburn | Write... |
| 06:26 | Coburn | Protect |
| 06:26 | Coburn | Done |
| 06:26 | dbsx | setenv bootcmd |
| 06:26 | dbsx | saveenv |
| 06:26 | dbsx | reset |
| 06:27 | Coburn | U-Boot 2009.08-dirty (Jan 18 2013 - 15:44:13) Marvell version: 5.4.4 NQ SR1 |
| 06:27 | dbsx | boom boom |
| 06:28 | dbsx | when I get rid of the usb out of trydev it boots a lot quicker |
| 06:29 | Coburn | CuBox>> setenv bootcmd 'run smokeandmirrors' |
| 06:29 | Coburn | CuBox>> save; reset; |
| 06:29 | Coburn | ..... |
| 06:29 | Coburn | ## ERROR: smokeandmirrors not defined! |
| 06:29 | Coburn | CuBox>> |
| 06:30 | Cobur | 06:30 * Coburn sends dbsx a beer via email |
| 06:30 | dbsx | if you set bootcmd to nothing you will get my default bootcmd |
| 06:31 | Coburn | Hopefully rabeeh doesn't implenent a remote brick system |
| 06:31 | Coburn | OH YOU BI*CH |
| 06:31 | Coburn | Uboot was on my USB flash drive |
| 06:32 | Coburn | It autoburnt it back to rabeeh's uBoot |
| 06:32 | Coburn | Gah... |
| 06:33 | dbsx | their is a lot wrong with the current uboot (mainly bugs from the marvell version) |
| 06:33 | Coburn | makes me think marvel is a bug itself |
| 06:33 | Coburn | no offense intended |
| 06:37 | Coburn | yep dbsx |
| 06:38 | Coburn | you're the champion |
| 06:38 | Coburn | I think you just "jailbroke" the Cubox bootloader |
| 06:38 | Coburn | :) |
| 06:41 | dbsx | Now I can have a Linux multiboot menu by setting bootcmd from Linux |
| 06:42 | Coburn | hehehe |
| 06:42 | Coburn | rabeeh's gonna rage |
| 06:42 | Coburn | Why u undo my protections? |
| 06:43 | Coburn | dbsx: will you ship your CuBoxes with that bootloader of yours pre-installed? |
| 06:45 | dbsx | not by default, but we will make it an option |
| 08:40 | purch | ok, now I need some help with WD red 3TB disk with cubox. It is in esata disk station. u-boot 5.4.4 and original stock ubuntu lucid. I lost 3TB partition (GPT). Should I upgrade u-boot 5.4.6 and newer ubuntu to get that disk working? |
| 08:51 | Coburn | is the cubox even able to read the hdd? |
| 08:51 | Coburn | does it detect it? |
| 08:51 | Coburn | I've never had any drive bigger than 1TB |
| 09:52 | rabee | 09:52 * rabeeh notices the jokes running around |
| 10:29 | Bochi | Thirsty_Away: thank you very much for pointing me at geexbox - it works better than anything I tried before and i really really like it. |
| 10:30 | Bochi | its still a bit slower than my old atom based htpc but the noise factor is worth it |
| 11:24 | purch | Coburn: I actually made partition 3TB and ext4 with cubox using parted and gdisk from ubuntu repo |
| 11:31 | NotRelevant | Etnaviv: An Open-Source Driver For Vivante GPUs |
| 11:31 | NotRelevant | http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTI3MjU |
| 11:59 | dbsx | dug: did you figure out how to do PXE boots? |
| 11:59 | dbsx | dung that is |
| 14:12 | moogmoogle | Hi all - anyone around today? |