| 09:57 | rabeeh | Coburn: what do you mean locking the bootloader? |
| 09:57 | rabeeh | you mean the 'bootcmd' thing? |
| 10:03 | jnettlet | rabeeh, I think he means not being able to change the version of uboot |
| 10:03 | rabeeh | upstream and mainline? |
| 10:04 | jnettlet | If I understand correctly uboot lives on the sdhc card and the Cubox-i reads that on boot |
| 10:05 | rabeeh | yes. |
| 10:05 | rabeeh | unlike CuBox, CuBox-i is stateless when it comes to internal memory storage |
| 10:06 | rabeeh | CuBox has SPI flash where it boots from; but CuBox-i boots directly from a SD card (with the help of an internal bootrom inside the i.MX6 SoC) |
| 10:06 | jnettlet | that is how I understood it. I think Coburn was worried that it was stateless but you couldn't change the uboot setup. |
| 10:07 | jnettlet | okay then I understood things correctly. |
| 10:07 | jnettlet | rabeeh, I am drumming up some business for you. The community group that has taken over the School Server for OLPC deployments is very interested in the Cubox-i |
| 10:08 | jnettlet | I think a few orders have already been put in. |
| 10:09 | jnettlet | They are working with groups like Internet in a Box and searching for a hardware platform. |
| 10:10 | rabeeh | jnettlet: is this still a project for the OLPC? |
| 10:10 | rabeeh | if they are capable of handling systems in it's early stages we can send them samples soon |
| 10:11 | jnettlet | rabeeh, This is a community driven group that actually implements the hardware out in the field |
| 10:11 | rabeeh | (free samples) |
| 10:12 | jnettlet | rabeeh, they can and would be very interested in having something they can show off for the October 14th San Francisco summit |
| 10:12 | rabeeh | jnettlet: if that's the case then i think we can make it |
| 10:12 | rabeeh | OLPC was always a 'holy' project for lots of communities around the world; we would love to support it. |
| 10:13 | rabeeh | please get the people behind it to contact us and we will provide them the best 'limited' support we can |
| 10:13 | jnettlet | rabeeh, They will be very excited. I can help them with the software support if necessary. I already have it working on the original Cubox so shouldn't need much work. |
| 10:14 | jnettlet | I will do that. They were very excited about your hardware as they want to support large 2.5" esata drives, which is hard to come by as we all know. |
| 10:16 | jnettlet | They may also want someone from SolidRun to join in on one of their Hangout Q/A's they do around the topic. http://www.youtube.com/user/unleashkids/videos |
| 10:24 | rabeeh | jnettlet: we will think of something; as i previously said our hands are full trying to get the systems out of the door in few months. |
| 10:24 | rabeeh | the feedback i got from the mkt guy is that we were flooded by requests and orders and we need to be super focused |
| 10:25 | jnettlet | rabeeh, absolutely. no pressure :-) The two groups just seemed like a perfect fit to me. |
| 10:25 | jnettlet | wow! that is fantastic news. |
| 10:25 | rabeeh | i'm just setting expectations in order not to blow it |
| 10:26 | rabeeh | as an update for devs; the build of the carrier board is done for the devs samples; now we are building the microSOM |
| 10:26 | rabeeh | Tuesday we will blow some fuses to make it boot from the micro-SD, initial testing and then send them out |
| 10:30 | jnettlet | Do you guys have Android and Linux images, or will Linux images be up to the community? |
| 10:30 | rabeeh | by Linux you mean kernel or kernel+rootfs? |
| 10:30 | rabeeh | initially we will provide whatever fsl has (easiest) |
| 10:31 | rabeeh | already tons of devs already approached us (ubuntu / fedora and lots other); we will provide early samples with instructions on how to build u-boot + kernel |
| 10:32 | rabeeh | the first kernel will be 3.0.35 based (fsl) and then freescale are doing lots of work on getting things upstreamed\ |
| 10:33 | rabeeh | they have this intermediate 3.5.7 version; but we will see (i.e. no plans yet) |
| 10:53 | dbsx | rabeeh: Coburn means the bootcmd thing. A constrained uboot upsets him |
| 10:53 | rabeeh | ok. |
| 10:56 | jnettlet | rabeeh, I would weigh the Fedora group very lightly with their support. They won't maintain anything out of tree so until Freescale gets stuff ported to 3.11 it will never be accepted in their ARM distro. |
| 10:57 | jnettlet | OLPC has had the same battle with them on ARM and they still don't officially support the two newest XO's |
| 10:58 | jnettlet | and don't even get me started on Ubuntu and their Mir project. |
| 11:00 | jnettlet | Freescale is part of Linaro though, let me see what their kernel supports. |
| 11:02 | jnettlet | Hmmm linaro support IMX6 dual and quad in their 3.10 kernel tree |
| 11:17 | rabeeh | jnettlet: there is some dev from pengutronix contacted us (and fsl confirmed) that he is doing the upstream port of the i.MX6 series |
| 11:18 | rabeeh | Robert Schwebel |
| 11:18 | jnettlet | hmmm German company |
| 11:19 | jnettlet | http://www.pengutronix.de/software/linux-i.MX/index_de.html |
| 11:19 | jnettlet | Sorry. English. http://www.pengutronix.de/software/linux-i.MX/index_en.html |
| 11:20 | jnettle | 11:20 * jnettlet downloading their git tree. |
| 14:05 | dbsx | On cubox with >3.10, uname -pi, both options report unknown. Is this fixable with a DTS entry? |
| 14:07 | dbsx | e.g cpu@0 |
| 14:07 | cbxbiker61 | my x86_64 machines print the same thing |
| 14:08 | cbxbiker61 | do you have something that actually needs uname -pi to print valid info |
| 14:08 | cbxbiker61 | config scripts pretty much use uname -m |
| 14:09 | dbsx | I have a cmake project that uses -p. |
| 14:10 | cbxbiker61 | i'd suggest getting the sources to coreutils to see what it's looking form |
| 14:10 | cbxbiker61 | form/for/ |
| 14:10 | dbsx | yeah thanks. Did this disappear with dts? Or was there something there once? |
| 14:11 | cbxbiker61 | i don't think dts has anything to do with it |
| 14:11 | dbsx | aha |
| 14:12 | cbxbiker61 | yep, 3.5.7.x same thing |
| 14:14 | cbxbiker61 | looking at man for uname, it looks to me as if uname -m is the desired option |
| 14:14 | dbsx | yep. |
| 14:16 | dbsx | thanks |
| 20:31 | flixh | anybody got a relatively recent kernel with device-mapper and nfs-server activated? best headless? |
| 20:31 | flixh | I'm lacking the time to compile myself |
| 20:36 | flixh | for the original cubox |
| 20:37 | Coolgeek | I have a 3.5.7 kernel and only a NFS client on i |
| 20:37 | Coolgeek | it |