| 00:23 | jnettlet | hste, figures. I just downloaded the previous latest release before I walked out of the house. |
| 00:33 | dbsx | jnettlet: can you recommend a uboot binary? my i4pro needs to be powered on dozens of times before I get a kernel loaded (a random number of attempts). Using SR 2013.10-rc4-g22f867a-dirty |
| 00:46 | jnettlet | dbsx, that is the one that shipped with it, or did you download it from rabeeh's tarball? Right now each chip revision needs its own u-boot so you can't mix and match. |
| 00:46 | jnettlet | I am just getting ready to crash for tonight but would be willing to build you a debug u-boot tomorrow and we can do some testing. |
| 00:47 | jnettle | 00:47 * jnettlet afk |
| 01:13 | _rmk_ | ok, assuming I don't find anything further in need of fixing... tomorrow I should be able to get back to cubox/hb hacking |
| 01:27 | dbsx | jnettlet: thanks. I used the i4pro from rabeehs images at getting started |
| 01:28 | dbsx | http://download.solid-run.com/pub/solidrun/cubox-i/GeexBox-xbmc/geexbox-devel-20131212-r16611.cuboxi/geexbox-devel-20131212-r16611.cuboxi-patched-cubox-i4pro.img.zip |
| 12:15 | hste | rabeeh: ping |
| 12:25 | jnettlet | hste, so it turns out the IMX port of XBMC was broken for use with X11. I fixed that this morning and am rebuilding now. |
| 12:25 | jnettlet | although now I want to test the SDL2 patch that is floating around for it. |
| 12:26 | hste | jnettlet: gone some hours on making xbmc in ubuntu for you :) |
| 12:27 | jnettlet | hste, is that with framebuffer support or X? |
| 12:28 | jnettlet | dbsx, I am around the computer for 2-3 hours if you want to beat on u-boot a bit |
| 12:29 | hste | I dont remember the sdl2 patch |
| 12:37 | Matoking | Are there any people here who have received their Cuboxes yet? |
| 12:39 | jnettlet | Matoking, do you need to ask a specific question that only a Cubox owner could answer? |
| 12:40 | Matoking | Yeah, I'd like to know what distros and applications people have gotten working |
| 12:40 | Matoking | And uBoot, which I presume works with Cubox-i just fine? |
| 12:40 | _rmk_ | you'll find documentation on the wiki |
| 12:40 | jnettlet | I think the wiki and forums are the best place to get that information. |
| 12:41 | jnettle | 12:41 * jnettlet has never heard of a product that ships without the ability to boot. |
| 12:41 | jnettlet | _rmk_, glad to see you are back connected to the internets today. Speedtest running any better for you? |
| 12:42 | Matoking | Oh, there are instructions for compiling it |
| 12:42 | jnettlet | for those that prefer that method, sure. |
| 12:43 | hste | jnettlet_ a person like u? :) |
| 12:43 | jnettle | 12:43 * jnettlet has been known to compile a u-boot or two |
| 12:43 | Matoking | I've compiled plenty of applications myself |
| 12:43 | Matoking | Linux is actually really easy in that regard |
| 12:44 | jnettlet | Matoking, no offense, we are all just a little giddy about the holidays |
| 12:44 | jnettlet | Decking our halls with lots of ARM boards |
| 12:44 | _rmk_ | jnettlet: no, it's utter crap |
| 12:45 | jnettlet | _rmk_, what DSL hardware did they stick you with? |
| 12:46 | Matoking | @jnettlet Are you an employee of Solid Run or am I misinterpreting you somehow? :P |
| 12:46 | _rmk_ | no idea, it's their own VDSL modem |
| 12:46 | hste | _rmk_: what isp do u have? |
| 12:46 | _rmk_ | enta.net (we're a partner, so the fttc installation was free) |
| 12:47 | _rmk_ | maktoking: there's only one person (afaik) here who's a solidrun employee and that's Rabeeh |
| 12:47 | jnettlet | they really push that. Top reasons to partner with enta.net |
| 12:47 | _rmk_ | the rest of us are volunteers |
| 12:47 | Matoking | Ok |
| 12:48 | jnettle | 12:48 * jnettlet prefers enthusiasts |
| 12:48 | Coolgeek | early adopters maybe ? |
| 12:48 | Matoking | Probably |
| 12:49 | jnettlet | masochists |
| 12:49 | hste | Matoking: do u got a box? |
| 12:49 | Matoking | If I had known i2Ultra would have taken longer to ship I would've gone with i4Pro instead |
| 12:49 | Matoking | @Matoking No, I don't have one yet |
| 12:49 | jnettlet | Matoking, you can probably change your order. email the customer support address on the website. |
| 12:50 | Matoking | @jnettlet I guess that would be worth a try :) |
| 12:50 | jnettlet | Matoking, Solidrun is very accomodating, I am sure you can work something reasonable out. |
| 13:14 | Matoking | @jnettlet Sent them an email message |
| 13:14 | jnettlet | Matoking, good luck |
| 13:14 | Matoking | Yeah, I was thinking of upgrading my order anyway |
| 13:15 | Matoking | I recently upgraded my VPS from 1 GB of RAM to 2 GB and seeing the change in performance was enlightening to say the least :P |
| 13:17 | dbsx | Ok. Here |
| 13:18 | dbsx | Does anyone have console mode uboot working? |
| 13:19 | dbsx | on the i4pro |
| 13:19 | jnettle | 13:19 * jnettlet thinks most do. Although you may be the only one with an i4pro. |
| 13:20 | jnettlet | the hardware works pretty much the same, just different ddr timings. |
| 13:20 | jnettlet | the register changes are all handled generically |
| 13:20 | dbsx | I get a serial console to appear for a little while and then everything stops. 1 out of 3 power ons get me to uboot |
| 13:20 | jnettlet | meaning all the other MX6 boards use the same register changes, so they aren't Cubox-i specific |
| 13:21 | jnettlet | dbsx, okay. Do you want a u-boot build with debug output enabled? |
| 13:22 | dbsx | yes please. It is late my time. So I might not get it done until the morning. |
| 13:22 | dbsx | I will see how I hold up |
| 13:27 | dbsx | I could (maybe) build uboot. Can I use native cubox (not i) to build uboot as armv7 code? |
| 13:27 | jnettlet | dbsx, actually that will need to hold a bit. I just realized I am missing a file from rabeeeh. |
| 13:28 | dbsx | jn, thanks I will get some sleep then |
| 13:28 | jnettlet | rabeeh, when you get a chance I am missing the include/configs/mx6_cubox-i.h machine file from your updates. |
| 13:28 | jnettlet | dbsx, will do. |
| 13:29 | dbsx | So is armv5t or armv7l OK for uboot on the imx6 |
| 13:29 | dbsx | ? |
| 13:31 | dbsx | or do I really need to get a build env? |
| 13:33 | sickness | what's the best and more stable java to use on cubox? i2p keeps exiting after about 24 hours with openjdk 7 :/ |
| 13:33 | sickness | JVM received a signal UNKNOWN (6). |
| 13:37 | jnettlet | sickness, oracle has released an official "java" armhfp set of binaries |
| 13:38 | sickness | so you suggest to try those? you mean java8 for arm? |
| 13:39 | jnettlet | sickness, well that is really your only other option :-) |
| 13:39 | sickness | yeah, I wouldn't like to go back to java 6... but I could try |
| 13:40 | jnettlet | of course being a binary build and a US company I can't guarantee there aren't backdoors built into it for the NSA. |
| 13:41 | jnettlet | just saying because you are running i2p |
| 13:41 | sickness | yeah, in fact that was my main concern, it's not even opensourced :/ |
| 13:44 | jnettlet | sickness, are you dumping a core file. signal 6 is a SIGABRT. if you get a backtrace you can submit a bug. |
| 14:25 | hste | jnettlet: how is it going with xbmc? |
| 14:26 | jnettlet | hste, it built and ran into a bug with X11 and GLES which was why it was disabled by default. I have patched that and am linking now. |
| 14:27 | hste | jnettlet: I guess it will not be far from memory limits on c1 running it in ubuntu and X |
| 14:28 | jnettlet | hste, well we will see. I actually have zswap backported and enabled on my C1. Trying to see how much that helps. |
| 14:45 | dv | so jnettlet, hows your 3.10 kernel doing ? |
| 14:45 | dv | you mentioned something about VPU tests |
| 14:47 | jnettlet | dv, I got the various freescale vpu libraries compiled and sorted yesterday. Been fighting with xbmc under X11 since. |
| 14:47 | dv | jnettlet: imx-vpu, imx-lib, libfslvpuwrap you mean? |
| 14:47 | jnettlet | I thought about just testing with gstreamer, but then got stubborn |
| 14:47 | jnettlet | yep |
| 14:47 | dv | yeah thats a bit messy |
| 14:48 | hste | I got gplay and te yocto app video to work. its using the 0.10 version |
| 14:48 | d | 14:48 * dv can now continue to work on a revamped eglvivsink |
| 14:48 | dv | finally |
| 14:49 | hste | :) |
| 14:49 | jnettlet | xbmc has started under X |
| 14:49 | jnettlet | hurrah |
| 14:52 | jnettlet | not too bad cpu usage looks to be between 25 and 50% running the gui |
| 14:52 | hste | dirtyregions? |
| 14:52 | dv | you think I can include your kernel in the OE recipes already? |
| 14:53 | dv | now that the name is chosen, I think I can send otavio patches |
| 14:54 | jnettlet | dv, I need to sort out audio still. I think so. I have the zswap option enabled, but it is off by default without a kernel option. |
| 14:54 | jnettlet | hste, how do I check dirtyregions? |
| 14:54 | hste | is in Advancedsetting.xml if I remember |
| 14:55 | jnettlet | okay so it does have the cpu clocked all the way up to 1ghz, and is rendering 1080p at between 13 and 20fps |
| 14:56 | hste | jnettlet: what bootcmd options are u using? |
| 14:56 | jnettlet | for xbmc? |
| 14:56 | hste | yes |
| 14:56 | jnettlet | none |
| 14:56 | jnettlet | just fired it up |
| 14:57 | jnettlet | just raw power baby! |
| 14:58 | _rmk_ | jnettlet: have you done any iperf measurements on the cubox and hb ? |
| 14:58 | jnettlet | _rmk_, not yet no. It is on my list for the weekend. |
| 14:59 | jnettlet | I am running all sorts of benchmarks over the weekend for another project. So far nothing extraordinary has popped up. |
| 14:59 | hste | What does the No such IOCTL, cmd is 22032 message mean? |
| 14:59 | _rmk_ | jnettlet: this is between my laptop and the hb: |
| 14:59 | _rmk_ | [ 4] local 192.168.1.181 port 5001 connected with 192.168.1.11 port 39877 |
| 14:59 | _rmk_ | [ 4] 0.0-10.0 sec 543 MBytes 455 Mbits/sec |
| 14:59 | _rmk_ | [ 4] local 192.168.1.181 port 48258 connected with 192.168.1.11 port 5001 |
| 14:59 | _rmk_ | [ 4] 0.0-10.0 sec 158 MBytes 132 Mbits/sec |
| 14:59 | _rmk_ | .181 is hb, .11 is the laptop |
| 15:00 | _rmk_ | and... port 5001 is the receiver of the traffic |
| 15:00 | dv | _rmk_: reminds me of that article about imx6 ethernet performance |
| 15:00 | _rmk_ | so we're pretty slow at sending :( |
| 15:00 | dv | http://boundarydevices.com/i-mx6-ethernet/ <- this one |
| 15:00 | jnettlet | transmit runs on a separate clock right? |
| 15:01 | _rmk_ | yea but it can't be that far out :) |
| 15:01 | _rmk_ | I suspect it's the dma buffer flushing |
| 15:01 | dv | they reach considerably higher performance .. and less difference between sending and receiving, so perhaps it can be tweaked further |
| 15:02 | hste | what about irq balancing? |
| 15:02 | _rmk_ | my hb is a solo device |
| 15:02 | hste | :) |
| 15:02 | _rmk_ | and if you want irq balancing on ARM, run the irqbalance daemon :) |
| 15:03 | jnettlet | that is pretty much the case for any platform. |
| 15:04 | _rmk_ | yep - I refuse to have code in the kernel to do that, because getting the algorithm right is not easy (I've tried various solutions...) and since it's already been solved via irqbalanced, there's no point wasting effort on doing it in kernel space |
| 15:04 | jnettlet | I did some work for a company not to be named, and they couldn't replicate my metrics on their "big iron". Turns out their Chinese developers removed irqbalanced from my image as it was deemed "unneccessary" |
| 15:05 | jnettlet | doh |
| 15:05 | hste | jnettlet: dirtyregions is in .xbmc/userdata/advancedsettings.xml |
| 15:06 | jnettlet | okay whatever xbmc is trying to do to playback video is not working. I get the control overlay, but no video and my mouse cursor gets duplicated on the screen as I drag it around |
| 15:06 | hste | jnettlet: but u got a nice gui at least :) |
| 15:07 | _rmk_ | there's two conflicts: 1. you want to keep any particular irq on the same CPU as much as possible and not bounce it around since it will benefit from the local CPUs cache. 2. you want to distribute the IRQs across the CPUs particularly busy ones so that they're not all on the same CPU. |
| 15:07 | jnettlet | hste_ and more importantly a GLES accelerated gui running 1080p on the C1 using < 50% cpu |
| 15:08 | jnettlet | oh in this branch there is a patch that is limiting fps. I don't think I want that yet. |
| 15:09 | jnettlet | go big or go home! |
| 15:09 | hste | jnettlet: do u use fsl 3.5.0.7 or 3.10.9 |
| 15:09 | jnettlet | 3.10.9 |
| 15:10 | jnettlet | hste, I do not have an advancedsettings.xml Do you have a snippet of what should be there? |
| 15:11 | hste | jnettlet: http://pastebin.com/Gg5bdmD8 |
| 15:14 | jnettlet | think I found my playback problem. ERROR: VpuOpen - VPU load failed with error code 1. |
| 15:17 | jnettlet | hste, okay with dirtyregions patch I am running at about the same cpu usage and getting about 90fps |
| 15:17 | jnettlet | really it is bouncing between 80-90 but mostly hanging out around 89-90 |
| 15:18 | hste | thats not bad for such a tiny device |
| 15:18 | jnettlet | teh cpu seems to be bouncing wildly. I wonder if it is scaling too aggressively |
| 15:19 | jnettlet | ha, yeah it is running efficiently enough that it is scaling the cpu back to the lowest frequency and then ramping it back up. |
| 15:20 | hste | jnettlet: what about temp? |
| 15:21 | dv | what are you playing? |
| 15:21 | jnettlet | dv, just the gui |
| 15:21 | jnettlet | the decoding is broken :-) |
| 15:21 | jnettlet | well it can't open the device. I have to investigate |
| 15:21 | hste | jnettlet: remember the firmware? |
| 15:22 | jnettlet | okay so removing the lowest frequency form the scaling range has the device mostly chugging at 35% at 800Mhz |
| 15:22 | dv | jnettlet: did you install the firmware? |
| 15:22 | dv | you need one for the VPU |
| 15:23 | jnettlet | I think I have it installed. But it probably wasn't loaded because I have the driver built into the kernel, but not the firmware. |
| 15:25 | jnettlet | hste, temp is reporting 67C |
| 15:26 | jnettlet | surface of the chip is reading about 34C |
| 15:26 | hste | jnettlet: Do u have "VPU initialized" in dmesg? |
| 15:26 | jnettlet | mxc_vpu 2040000.vpu: VPU initialized |
| 15:27 | jnettlet | /dev/mxc_vpu is there and permissions are correct |
| 15:27 | dv | jnettlet: to double check that everything is okay you could also try out the 0.10 gstreamer VPU plugins. or mine. |
| 15:28 | dv | to rule out that it is a issue with the VPU in general, as opposed to a xbmc specific thing |
| 15:28 | hste | jnettlet: do u have the udev rules http://stende.no-ip.info/files/10-imx.rules |
| 15:28 | jnettlet | hste, no but I set the permissions manually for now |
| 15:29 | hste | ok |
| 15:30 | hste | jnettlet: U could try my ubuntu 13.10. vpu is working there |
| 15:31 | jnettlet | ummm. The can the vpu do xvid decoding? I was going to through something at it that would be done with software. |
| 15:31 | jnettlet | s/through/throw/ |
| 15:33 | hste | jnettlet: you could try big_buck_bunny_1080p_h264.mov |
| 15:33 | hste | http://www.bigbuckbunny.org/index.php/download/ |
| 15:33 | jnettlet | I can try. But AAC is a bear to decode in software |
| 15:35 | dv | the best aac decoder I have seen so far is the one from libav |
| 15:36 | dv | much much faster than faad |
| 15:36 | dv | (and available in the LGPL build of libav) |
| 15:38 | jnettlet | ah something is broken. Still trying to send that through the VPU. |
| 15:38 | dv | AAC through the VPU? |
| 15:38 | jnettlet | must be some way to just use software decoding. |
| 15:39 | jnettlet | oh I bet the .mov's video is h264 |
| 15:39 | jnettlet | dv, the vpu can't do AVI can it? |
| 15:39 | dv | the VPU can do mpeg4p2, h264, h263, vp8, vc1 . it presumably can also do xvid and divx, which is a little unclear to me, because xvid/divx are just mpeg4p2.. |
| 15:39 | dv | the VPU cannot demux |
| 15:40 | dv | ah, and the VPU can do mpeg1 and mpeg2 too |
| 15:41 | dv | for h264, the VPU decoder expects the h264 bitstream use the byte-stream prefixes before the NALUs |
| 15:41 | dv | plus, it also expects access units |
| 15:45 | jnettlet | oh it can't find the vpu firmware file. |
| 15:47 | jnettlet | this should be using /lib/firmware/vpu/vpu_fw_imx6d.bin right? |
| 15:47 | dv | one thing that I am a bit concerned about with the xbmc port is the frame reordering in h264. the reordering can go back up to 17 frames iirc, so you'll need at least that number of allocated frames, plus you have to be able to deal with reordered frames at all |
| 15:47 | dv | hmm lemme check |
| 15:48 | dv | /lib/firmware/vpu/vpu_fw_imx6d.bin |
| 15:48 | dv | yes |
| 15:54 | jnettlet | haha awesome. I turned on vpu debugging it still just tells me that it can't find the file in folder...blah blah blah. Don't bother tell me what you are trying to open where |
| 15:56 | hste | maybe it want the vpu_fw_imx6q.bin also :) |
| 15:58 | jnettlet | nope it wants vpu_fw_0.bin. so mxc_cpu() is returning nothing useful |
| 15:58 | hste | jnettlet : mine is -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 253968 Dec 11 13:44 vpu_fw_imx6d.bin |
| 15:59 | jnettlet | that is getting hardcoded for now. |
| 16:00 | jnettlet | oh that really made it unhappy |
| 16:01 | hste | what happened? |
| 16:07 | jnettlet | VPU firmware platform isn't matched |
| 16:09 | jnettlet | okay imx guys any ideas? |
| 16:11 | hste | jnettlet: you can check with my vpufw http://stende.no-ip.info/files/vpufw.tgz if its sth wrong with yours |
| 16:13 | jnettlet | okay. there was another place I needed to short circuit the firmware for now. Got it to think it was decoding but still no video |
| 16:14 | jnettlet | and no VPU_CODE_IRQ interrupts registered |
| 16:15 | jnettlet | we have the same firmware |
| 16:16 | jnettlet | okay well that is good progress. I need to feed the dogs and then screw around with gstreamer to see if I can debug this a bit more. |
| 17:41 | jnettlet | at 720p the C1 can do 150fps with the xbmc gui |
| 17:41 | jnettlet | vpu decoding is definitely broken. I am getting an error 7 no data available |
| 19:11 | Matoking | Any information about possible camera support in Myriad Alien (aka Android support)? |
| 19:11 | Matoking | Oops, wrong channel |
| 22:10 | pepedog | Rabeeh? |
| 22:23 | pepedog | Not in front of gear at the mo, where do I get build 6622 of xf86-video-imx-xivante? Got same version number as kernel but build number different |
| 22:23 | pepedog | Segfaults |
| 22:24 | pepedog | Builds and runs ok on utilite |
| 22:56 | hste | jnettlet: solved the vpu problem? |