IRC log of #cubox of Thu 06 Feb 2014. All times are in CET < Back to index

01:16 Sparkler thinking of getting one of these, just wondering if it has the performance needed for what I plan for it. Does it have enough cpu to run weechat on it as a bouncer/client?
01:29 pahartik Sparkler: How many IRC users do you plan to serve?
01:29 Sparkler just myself, weechat is an irc client
01:29 Sparkler currently it is running on a P4
01:30 Sparkler (.05 load average, just about the onyl thing on the box)
01:32 pahartik Sparkler: Performance would be no issue at all
01:33 Sparkler awesome, thanks :)
02:38 cbxbiker61 i see the cubox-i is now being sold on new-egg, kudos rabeeh! i think solid-run is hitting a homerun with the cobox-i's.
02:59 cbxbiker61 i submitted a review of the i4-pro on newegg with links to the jupiter broadcasting video review.
05:54 Juggie not on newegg.ca sadly.
05:56 jnettlet there is a newegg.ca now? When did that open?
05:57 Juggie 3-4 years ago
05:59 jnettlet wow it opened when I was in Vancouver and I missed it? damn would have been much nicer for getting dev parts
06:03 Juggie http://www.newegg.ca/Info/NewsroomDetail.aspx?ID=467&Type=3
06:03 Juggie 2008
06:03 Juggie 6 years ago
06:04 jnettlet you would of thought that going to newegg.com would give you a popup asking you if you want to redirect to newegg.ca
06:04 jnettlet horrible marketing
06:06 Juggie it does
06:07 jnettlet it does now. I am pretty sure if it did when I was in Vancouver I would have known it. I was constantly angered by not being able to get the parts I wanted from NewEgg
06:08 jnettlet or it is a real popup and chrome's popup blocker was kicking in.
06:09 Juggie it does://ca.pcpartpicker.com
06:09 Juggie http://ca.pcpartpicker.com rather.
06:09 Juggie will change your life :)
06:09 jnettlet too late. CA revoked my VISA 2 years ago.
06:10 jnettlet :-( too bad. My wife and I were real happy there. Thanks to Harper's new immigration plan.
06:12 Juggie ic
06:12 Juggie weird.
06:12 Juggie well just pcpartpicker.com for usa version then
06:12 Juggie either country its handy
06:12 Juggie eg http://pcpartpicker.com/part/western-digital-internal-hard-drive-wd40ezrx
06:12 jnettle 06:12 * jnettlet is in Denmark now.
06:19 jnettlet oh just saw the WD Black 2 drive. That looks like a perfect Cubox-i companion
08:47 MikeSeth jnettlet: your uboot images don't solve the card problem, and show EHCI timeout and READ_CAP error
08:47 jnettlet MikeSeth, in u-boot or the kernel?
09:24 MikeSeth jnettlet: u-boot
09:24 jnettlet MikeSeth, so it just happens with that single card?
09:24 MikeSeth jnettlet: no, with all cards of that specific type
09:25 jnettlet and the previous behaviour was there was no ehci timeout and the partition table was returned invalid?
09:25 MikeSeth jnettlet: yes, though it is still returned invalid
09:26 MikeSeth jnettlet: in pre-SPL u-boot the problem doesn't exist, it was introduced by switchover to SPL
09:27 MikeSeth I surmise, something is different with SPL hardware initialization codepath
09:29 MikeSeth rabeeh: I was thinking, wrt yesterday's gpumem/vpumem hang issue.. is it possible that the hang is caused by allocated memory for both overlapping?
09:31 jnettlet Nope, the hardware is initialized the same there may just be some timing differences
09:37 MikeSeth strangely rabeeh seems to be unable to reproduce this phenomenon on this specific type of card, though I got mine from the same lot
09:37 MikeSeth however it has been also reported elsewhere on i4pro (mine is i1) with a different vendor and card size
09:41 jnettlet MikeSeth, do you have time to try a u-boot with a lot more debug output?
09:45 MikeSeth jnettlet: gladly, but not for another 3 hours or so, I am in the office, I will do so when I go home for lunch
09:45 MikeSeth also note I have no way to capture it other than by making phone snapshots, no serial on i1
09:52 jnettlet MikeSeth, https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/736509/u-boot/uboot_debug.tgz
09:52 jnettlet MikeSeth, that is fine.
09:54 MikeSeth thanks!
11:53 mk01 hello everybody
11:54 mk01 any special steps / command to get file from tftp ? ipaddr is set, serverip is set, bootfile is set . works from other machines. issuing "tftpboot" command just failing on "retry count exceeded"
11:57 jnettlet mk01, do you have the latest u-boot? There was a patch that was needed to fix some problems with the ethernet phy on the CBi's
12:03 mk01 I can try to fetch from git but compiled 3-4 days ago
12:05 mk01 On branch imx6. Already up-to-date
12:05 mk01 and this is last commit "fecmxc_initialize_multi change from phy id to phy mask"
12:06 mk01 from rabeeh
12:06 mk01 3248e6381bdc0ba561e20ee999eabf99 SPL
12:06 mk01 061ba86eee21200ace385f32f74b8bd2 u-boot.img
12:07 mk01 can you confirm or not by any chance ?
12:12 mk01 also "saveenv" throwing error MMC write protected after soft reboot (reset cmd from u-boot, reboot from host os). hard reset is (unplugging power) ok.
12:14 mk01 (U Boot is reporting 2013.10-rc4-gdccc1b0
12:16 _rmk_ if that's based on commit dccc1b0, then it's quite old
12:16 _rmk_ and predates the work to support SPL on these platforms
12:16 _rmk_ where are you pulling it from?
12:19 mk01 url = https://github.com/rabeeh/u-boot-imx6.git
12:19 mk01 fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
12:19 mk01 merge = refs/heads/imx6
12:19 mk01 as it is on the wiki
12:20 _rmk_ $ git ls-remote https://github.com/rabeeh/u-boot-imx6.git
12:20 _rmk_ efc4835294122212052a8b8b2a23d14fa2b72177 HEAD
12:20 _rmk_ efc4835294122212052a8b8b2a23d14fa2b72177 refs/heads/imx6
12:20 mk01 yes
12:20 mk01 From https://github.com/rabeeh/u-boot-imx6.git efc4835294122212052a8b8b2a23d14fa2b72177 HEAD efc4835294122212052a8b8b2a23d14fa2b72177 refs/heads/imx6
12:22 _rmk_ well, it should be reporting a version of 2013.10-rc4-gefc4835 then
12:22 jnettlet mk01, can you try the u-boot I posted for MikeSeth https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/736509/u-boot/uboot_debug.tgz It has additional debug info
12:22 _rmk_ just check that git rev-parse HEAD reports the same hash
12:23 _rmk_ jnettlet: I don't think mk01 is running the uboot version he built
12:23 mk01 \rev-parse is the same indeed
12:23 jnettlet and your dd commands you used?
12:23 _rmk_ ok, now check what include/generated/version_autogenerated.h says
12:23 mk01 from wiki
12:23 mk01 copy paste
12:24 mk01 will find cmd history, wait
12:24 jnettlet mk01, use those same commands to dd the u-boot images in the tar archive I just linked to. There will be no doubt which version you are running with those :-)
12:27 _rmk_ mk01: you can also do: strings -a SPL u-boot.img | grep 2013.10-rc4 which will positively identify the version string in your built objects.
12:27 _rmk_ mk01: if that shows 2013.10-rc4-gdccc1b0, then it's a build problem. if it shows the expeted version, it's a problem in how it was copied to the card.
12:30 mk01 U-Boot 2013.10-rc4-gefc4835 is compiled image indeed
12:30 jnettlet you sure you used the proper device for your sdhc card?
12:31 mk01 yes, I'm
12:31 jnettle 12:31 * jnettlet is worried you did something bad to another disk
12:31 mk01 but the action I remember was from preparing XBian image (.img file)
12:31 mk01 so I obviously updated everyone but not my own sd card
12:32 jnettlet makes sense
12:33 mk01 ok, so I will flash first 2048 sectors from the image to my card and will confirm that bootp is fine.
12:34 mk01 quick question to saved parameters to mmc card. if I re-copy this first 2048 sectors to another card, will there be altered environment ? or is there a particular location I should copy ?
12:37 jnettlet mk01, the env is 8KB stored at 384KB
12:37 jnettlet let me make sure that is the same for disk as memory
12:38 jnettlet yes that is correct
12:38 mk01 report: version is now reporting as it should
12:39 mk01 and BOOTP done in 2s
12:39 mk01 thanks
12:41 mk01 Och, what a comfortable life suddenly
12:58 mk01 jnettlet: please to confirm the settings, for dd that means "skip=384 bs=1K count=8" ?
12:58 mk01 settings = saved env
13:00 jnettlet to store them? yes that should be correct
13:06 mk01 yes, "seek" is the other part ... thanks !
13:07 jnettlet oh yes, you need to get there first :-)
14:09 MikeSeth hey mk01
14:09 MikeSeth I need to talk to you about the debian packaging
14:18 mk01 whenever you wants. I'm here.
15:37 xraxor the android beta 2 is that oficial _505 ? like from SolidRun
16:31 xraxor anyone know anything about this http://cubox-i.com/important-update-re-shipping-eco-post-upgrade/
16:31 xraxor ECO post, never heard off :/
18:06 _rmk 18:06 * _rmk_ now has a UHS-1 card
18:09 hste _rmk_: how is the speed?
18:11 _rmk_ we will see
18:15 _rmk_ http://www.samsung.com/uk/consumer/memory-cards-hdd-odd/memory-cards-accessories/micro-sdhc-pro/MB-MG8GB/EU-spec
18:19 _rmk_ I'll give it a go later this evening
18:21 davorin i'm very impressed even by the i1
18:22 davorin flawless bluray playback...
18:22 davori 18:22 * davorin watching quantum of solace rip....
18:22 davorin will there be a 4k cubox sometime?
18:22 davorin though not that many 4k movies besides pr0n (o;
18:25 davorin if all pr0n sites were running ipv6, the whole world would be migrated already to ipv6 (o;
18:40 rabeeh davorin: which bitrate?
18:40 davorin media info shows a total of 35mbits/sec
18:40 rabeeh that's the ves
18:40 davorin currently at 47% cpu load with 5.1 dts
18:41 rabeeh the limitation is typically ddr
18:41 davori 18:41 * davorin is still looking for the highest bitrate bluray (o;
18:41 rabeeh xbmc uses vpu and gpu so it eats lots of ddr bandwidth
18:41 davorin can't find my vc-1 rip....hmm...
18:41 rabeeh if you do a gst command line you would see you can fast forwar 2x smooth playback on bluray
18:42 rabeeh this means decoding is done 2x times while presenting odd or even frames
18:42 davorin ah got it...
18:42 davorin iron man is vc-1
18:42 davorin hitch is mpeg-2
18:44 davorin hmm...vc-1 is a problem on the i1
18:44 davorin cpu 56% but no playback..
18:46 rabeeh which distro?
18:46 rabeeh GB?
18:46 davorin yepp..20140116
18:47 davorin mpeg-2 is playable..
18:48 davorin hmm..which movie was also mpeg-2...paul?
18:48 davorin i extra bought 3 blurays for testing (o;
18:49 davorin okay..cpu much lower....35%, but only due to that mpeg-2 has ac3 audio tracks only
18:52 davorin hmm...hot fuzz is playable nicely
18:52 davorin also vc-1 rip
18:52 davorin higher cpu load though...
18:55 jnettlet _rmk_, excellent
18:59 MikeSeth I'm going to hook up a cubox-i to a big ass projector tomorrow
18:59 MikeSeth see what happens
19:00 davorin is just the projector big or also the picture it throws? (o;
19:02 davorin hmm...i4p visited 2.55 as much as rpi...
19:46 davorin hmm..after watching vc-1 then playing h.264 crashes xbmc...
20:58 paharti 20:58 * pahartik can play SD MPEG-2 video but not HD H.264 video with "Totem" on "SolidRun CuBox Pro"
21:01 paharti 21:01 * pahartik gets HD video started fine but after few seconds it slows down, loses audio and displays occasional single frames, CPU at ~45%
21:31 dv_ otavio: \o/
21:32 otavio dv_: :)
21:32 otavio dv_: doc is updated too
21:32 dv_ yeah
21:32 dv_ rabeeh: cubox-i is now fully integrated into meta-fsl-arm (and -extra)
21:32 otavio http://freescale.github.io/doc/release-notes/current/