| 00:09 | taz_ | rabeeh: your home is near your office ;) |
| 00:48 | sam_nazarko | rabeeh: are you around? |
| 00:50 | taz_ | see you good night |
| 02:20 | tenedos | can anyone help me with uboot. i am prob doing something that wont work but i have a arch linux build built for the imx6 and it has a file 6x_bootscript in the root of the filesystem but i have no idea how to get uboot to run it to try to boot the OS |
| 09:48 | DHowett | (I forget: does the cubox pro do usb-otg?) |
| 09:49 | DHowett | (I imagine probably not, but it couldn't hurt to ask) |
| 09:52 | DHowett | aha; of the armada 510, Each USB 2.0 interface contains a single dual-role controller that can act as a host or a peripheral controller (aka USB controller). |
| 12:15 | rabeeh | sam_nazarko: ping |
| 12:19 | tazou | hello rabeeh :) |
| 12:33 | rabeeh | tazou: hi |
| 13:25 | tazou | hi how are you ? rested ? :) |
| 13:46 | jnettlet__ | rabeeh, my naming suggestion for the contest is in. |
| 13:47 | jnettlet__ | took some thinking over, but the nice autumn weather inspired me. |
| 13:47 | rabeeh | it's not published yet |
| 13:47 | rabeeh | what is it? |
| 13:54 | jnettlet__ | The SolidRun Roadster, with appropriate badges for the various boards. S1, D1, Q2 etc. The name invokes a feeling that matches the hardware, free spirited, fun, fast, it is even open-air and the top comes off :-) As an automobile the roadster is historically a platform that has been tuned up and tricked out to make hotrods and this is what the SR Roadster computing platform is all about. |
| 14:03 | bencoh | SR roadster ? hmm |
| 14:03 | bencoh | sounds fun :) |
| 14:08 | jnettlet | bencoh, doesn't it? |
| 14:09 | bencoh | :) |
| 14:11 | jnettlet | Come and take one for a spin. We can get you into an entry level model for a very reasonable price :-) |
| 14:14 | Bluerise | Heh, sounds nice |
| 14:29 | tazou | rabeeh, I try to compile a new kernel yesterday (i don't know if it's required) but it fail to boot : http://www.solid-run.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1566#p8365 can you look it please when you have time ? :) thanks |
| 14:31 | rabeeh | jnettlet: i like it :) |
| 14:35 | rabeeh | tazou: just replied to you on the forums |
| 14:35 | rabeeh | the cubox installer is actually a single uImage that has both the kernel and initramfs. |
| 14:36 | tazou | ho rabeeh thank you :) |
| 14:37 | rabeeh | np |
| 14:37 | tazou | rabeeh, must I compile this https://github.com/rabeeh/cubox-installer with my corss toolchain ? |
| 14:37 | rabeeh | no |
| 14:37 | rabeeh | buildroot already has it's own cross compilers |
| 14:38 | rabeeh | http://www.solid-run.com/mw/index.php?title=CuBox_Installer_Developer_Page |
| 14:38 | rabeeh | there should be a output/images/uImage file |
| 14:38 | tazou | ok thanks I read it... |
| 14:38 | rabeeh | just place it on top of the one that you have on the USB stick |
| 14:41 | tazou | ok, i'm git clone the project on my laptop, to do "make cubox_installer_defconfig" |
| 14:41 | tazou | download in progress... |
| 14:44 | tazou | dependancies installed |
| 14:44 | tazou | make in progress |
| 15:13 | tazou | rabeeh, compilation in progress... Question : that i'm compiling , is already patched for the mtd "bug" ? |
| 15:41 | tazou | rabeeh, the compilation failed :( do you know why please ? here is the end logs http://pastebin.com/tjz14g9M |
| 16:15 | mhoney | What is the naming contest for? Is it a name for the board or the whole product with case and all? Is it going to be the same base name for the whole product line or is it for a particular version like the i4 pro? |
| 16:19 | Bluerise | mhoney: For the board, C1 |
| 16:22 | mhoney | ok thx |
| 16:40 | _rmk_ | jnettlet: have you managed to sort out the video timings with uboot yet? |
| 16:40 | _rmk_ | jnettlet: or are we just going to declare uboot hdmi video output not worth the effort? |
| 16:46 | _rmk | 16:46 * _rmk_ just got a bit of broken audio out of the tv... with less than 400 lines of code :) |
| 16:46 | _rmk_ | compare that to 1437 lines in the FSL BSP ASoC driver |
| 17:06 | jnettlet | _rmk_, I plan on sorting it out, but it is not a high priority on my list. |
| 17:11 | MikeSeth | I am going to get my cube this month, am I? |
| 17:59 | tazou | go to home, see you |
| 18:54 | jnettlet | _rmk_, are you doing a straight alsa driver and skipping out on ASoC? |
| 18:57 | _rmk_ | jnettlet: indeed; why use asoc when there's nothing there that needs asoc. |
| 18:57 | jnettlet | _rmk_, is the audio shuffled around with the cpu or using a dmaengine? |
| 18:58 | _rmk_ | its got another random non-standard buffer format - you have to fill the buffer with something like iec958 frames but not quite |
| 18:58 | jnettlet | great |
| 18:58 | _rmk_ | freescale decided to do the conversion in the kernel... in... interrupt... context. |
| 18:58 | jnettle | 18:58 * jnettlet is glad you are working that out |
| 18:59 | jnettlet | ewww |
| 18:59 | _rmk_ | another problem is that the hardware is incapable of properly returning where in the dma buffer it is. |
| 19:00 | _rmk_ | it tends to tell you that it's 512 bytes from the end address, or the previous "known" location (iow, 512 bytes from the end of a previous buffer) |
| 19:00 | _rmk_ | I have startup and playback working, its just what happens at the end now. |
| 19:01 | _rmk_ | alsa's silence fill produces noise. |
| 19:08 | taz_ | hi |
| 19:10 | taz_ | rabeeh: I answer on the forum : http://www.solid-run.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1566&sid=17ae3c58b5f627db5f76b7d4c66e2d0a&start=10#p8367 it's a compilation error |
| 19:10 | taz_ | maybe you have a uImage already compiled on some website, available to be downloaded ? |
| 20:13 | _rmk_ | jnettlet: damn it, looks like pulseaudio goes in at the hw:0,0 level in alsa, and even though it negotiates iec958 format (the only one the driver supports) it gives it S16LE or similar samples |
| 20:18 | jnettlet | _rmk_, that sounds like a server configuration setting |
| 20:20 | jnettlet | yep |
| 20:20 | jnettlet | ; default-sample-format = s16le |
| 20:20 | jnettlet | ; default-sample-rate = 44100 |
| 20:21 | jnettlet | but if the driver doesn't support that then it shouldn't advertise it as an available format. Obviously you know that, just trying to talk my way through why PA would try to use that. |
| 20:23 | dv_ | can the pulseaudio resampler be disabled? |
| 20:24 | dv_ | in case it also picks an unsupported sample rate and just resamples to whatever the hardware supports |
| 20:25 | jnettlet | that is really all PA should be doing. If it detects a hardware supported sample rate it is supposed to just push that through. |
| 20:28 | dv_ | the resampler does make sense for sw mixing input |
| 20:28 | dv_ | but not for output |
| 20:32 | jnettlet | which is one of the only meritorious things that PA accomplishes. |
| 20:40 | _rmk_ | you know what film should be watched (on the cubox) tonight? especially if you're in the uk? |
| 20:41 | jnettle | 20:41 * jnettlet awaits with bated breath |
| 20:41 | jnettle | 20:41 * jnettlet wonders if there is anyone in the UK other than _rmk_ on this channel. |
| 20:42 | _rmk_ | sam_nazarko is actually within 20 miles of me. |
| 20:43 | shesselba | V |
| 20:43 | _rmk_ | close enough :) |
| 20:43 | jnettlet | those lurkers are always to close for comfort |
| 20:50 | jnettlet | so _rmk_ you going to tell us what film we are supposed to be watching? |
| 20:50 | shesselba | V |
| 20:51 | shesselba | guy fawkes day, V refers to it |
| 20:51 | jnettlet | The TV movie/series/or V for Vendetta |
| 20:51 | shesselba | the latter |
| 20:51 | jnettlet | great movie love it. |
| 20:52 | jnettlet | regardless what most people say I think the Wachowski brothers did that graphic novel a solid. |
| 20:53 | jnettlet | I am always a bit amazed at the emotion that Hugo Weaving can relay through that mask. |
| 20:53 | _rmk_ | jnettlet: absolutely |
| 20:57 | jnettlet | okay they have it on Netflix. I am off to finish making dinner and watch it. |
| 20:57 | _rmk_ | heh :) |
| 20:57 | jnettle | 20:57 * jnettlet is very susceptible to peer pressure |
| 21:02 | taz_ | hi, someone have knowledge about building uImage from source ? |
| 21:36 | taz_ | rabeeh: are you here this evening ? |
| 22:24 | jas-hacks_ | rabeeh: Any plans for C1 to have imx6q som? |
| 22:29 | dv_ | jas-hacks_: btw I pushed several significant bugfixes to gstreamer-imx |
| 22:30 | jas-hacks_ | dv_: oh cool, I will test them out, great work your doing on gstreamer ! |
| 22:36 | jas-hacks_ | dv_: what board are you testing on? |
| 22:48 | dv_ | jas-hacks_: carrier one |
| 22:48 | dv_ | before I had that, I tested on a sabre SD duallite whenever I could |
| 22:49 | jas-hacks_ | dv_: playback is fine on C1? |
| 22:50 | dv_ | I will soon introduce a new parameter to adjust the number of allocated frames. unfortunately this parameter is necessary to choose between more frames (= higher DMA memory usage) and less frames (= potential for choppy playback due to necessary memcpy calls) |
| 22:50 | dv_ | its a limitation in the VPU wrapper and apparently also in the VPU itself |
| 22:50 | dv_ | jas-hacks_: yes |
| 22:51 | jas-hacks_ | dv_: I was testing on custom imx6q board |
| 22:51 | dv_ | encoding too |
| 22:51 | dv_ | well the problems you saw could have been caused by the bugs I fixed |
| 22:51 | jas-hacks_ | dv_: only decoding |
| 22:51 | dv_ | no I mean, encoding also works well on the C1 |
| 22:51 | jas-hacks_ | ah, good |
| 22:51 | dv_ | rabeeh: btw I think the transcoding bottleneck is the DMA transfer |
| 22:52 | dv_ | high vs baseline profile of the source material makes very little difference, leading me to believe that its not computation that is the limiting factor here |
| 22:53 | dv_ | perhaps the uncached/writecombine allocations with the CMA will help |
| 22:54 | jas-hacks_ | I thought some of the limitation was because of the DDR bus rate |
| 22:54 | dv_ | yeah thats probably what limits dma |
| 22:55 | dv_ | I have a few ideas for potential speed improvements though . will follow up on these in the next few days. |
| 22:56 | jas-hacks_ | dv_: Is sound working? |
| 22:56 | dv_ | I did not test sound yet on the C1. but I do see an alsa device. |
| 23:50 | _rmk | 23:50 * _rmk_ wonders if jnettlet enjoyed the film :) |