| 00:22 | dozn | Nah I'm good, thanks though |
| 00:50 | _dab_ | alpha_one_x86: interested |
| 01:32 | DHowett | (The cubox pro was totally superior to the Cubox-i line, and it makes me sad that it is disappearing :() |
| 01:32 | _dab_ | DHowett: +1 |
| 01:33 | DHowett | I actually stumbled across it because I was looking for an Armada 510 reference design, funny enough. |
| 01:33 | DHowett | "Oh, I don't need to build one myself. I'll just buy this badass piece of kit." |
| 01:33 | DHowett | the kicker is this; "(*) 1000Mbps link is limited to 470Mbps actual bandwidth due to internal chip busses limitation" |
| 01:33 | DHowett | :( |
| 01:35 | _dab_ | DHowett: My i4pro looks to limited to 100MBit/sec (for the foreseeable future). Best hope is that the driver god, will deliver something new |
| 01:38 | DHowett | _dab_: :( |
| 01:54 | DHowett | there are still some retailers with the pro.. considering snapping a couple up ;P |
| 02:20 | cbxbiker61 | DHowett, networking-wise i would agree with you, for everything else...the cubox-i is better. |
| 02:22 | cbxbiker61 | it's unsurprising that Marvell who is heavily invested in networking products would shine on that front |
| 06:22 | jnettlet | _dab_, rmk is almost done with a new patchset that should fix your issues. Just be a bit more patient |
| 06:28 | _dab_ | jnettlet: Will be interested to try it out. BTW. I am not being patient |
| 06:30 | jnettlet | DHowett, that 470Mbps bandwidth limit is an artificial number. rmk has the performance well up above that. Getting over 700Mbps on RX's and 500Mbps on TX's |
| 06:49 | _dab_ | jnettlet: If nothing else, the bandwidth limit is an interesting design decision. |
| 07:04 | jnettlet | _dab_, I don't really see it as that odd. We are talking about a low power embedded chip. how often are full gigabit speeds really required? |
| 07:06 | jnettlet | especially considering many "gigabit" ports are hung off a usb 2.0 device so artifically limited there. |
| 07:11 | _dab_ | jnettlet: I know of a corporate user of some with 2000 kirkwood boards in their organization that rely on gigbit performance. |
| 07:12 | _dab_ | I guess it depends on whether you want the home or corporate market |
| 07:23 | jnettlet | _dab_, I doubt he is getting full gigabit on a kirkwood board. I know that both Cubox and Kirkwood NAS both max at out somewhere in the range of 70MB/s, mostly due to memory and internal bus limitations. |
| 07:23 | jnettlet | if he is I would love to know what kernel he is running |
| 07:26 | tomlohave-away | morning |
| 09:29 | _dab_ | jnettlet: something like 880/770 from memory |
| 10:27 | ralix | morning |
| 10:45 | Tenkawa | Greetings all.. having a bit of a challenge getting my new cubox-i ultra2 to boot a kernel at all |
| 10:45 | Tenkawa | I notice the diags say if theres no led on front it cant read the card partition table.. does there need to be anything special about the partition table setup on the sd on one of these? |
| 10:48 | Tenkawa | ahh haa... may have just found something (trying now) |
| 10:52 | Tenkawa | that was it |
| 10:52 | Tenkawa | my spl/u-boot code was missing on the card |
| 10:52 | Tenkawa | dd took care of that |
| 10:52 | Tenkawa | thanks all.. now to figure out my boot syntax |
| 11:53 | satellit_ | 11:53 * satellit_A testing iPad |
| 12:38 | alpha_one_x86 | http://files.first-world.info/temp/callgrind.out.from-cubox-i-arm.xz -> backtrace of my server on cubox-i |
| 12:39 | alpha_one_x86 | MMORPG server with more than 15 player: you can see the more slow is ssl/tls part, due to missing config into debian kernel, and after the event system of Qt |
| 12:39 | alpha_one_x86 | cubox-i have well atomic int support? |
| 12:42 | Wizzup | thats part of the kernel. |
| 12:42 | Wizzup | er |
| 12:42 | Wizzup | compiler |
| 12:44 | alpha_one_x86 | atomic int support -> is part of compiler? then seam don't support here because it use the old int + mutex |
| 12:54 | Matoking | Hey, I have a Cubox-i discount code up for grabs |
| 12:54 | Matoking | It's valid until March 31st 2014 so if you are planning on buying a Cubox-i very soon you might as well take it :P |
| 12:54 | Wizzup | alpha_one_x86: how is that not atomic? ;-) |
| 12:56 | alpha_one_x86 | Matoking: Discount of how many? And on what model? |
| 12:56 | Matoking | alpha_one_x86: Every model as far as I know |
| 12:56 | Matoking | I got it with my Cubox-i package |
| 12:56 | Matoking | As for the discount... |
| 12:57 | Matoking | I'm getting a discount of $5.88 with the coupon code applied |
| 12:59 | Matoking | But if you are buying one I'm sure a free discount of $5.88 wouldn't hurt at all :) |
| 13:28 | coinsen | hi jnettlet |
| 13:29 | Matoking | A quick question, has the low upload speed in the WiFi module been fixed, in the official kernel or elsewhere? |
| 13:31 | coinsen | Matoking: i don't think so |
| 13:31 | Matoking | Dang |
| 13:31 | coinsen | Matoking: i'm using an usb wifi stick at the moment |
| 13:32 | Matoking | Yeah |
| 13:32 | Matoking | I bought a D-Link WiFi dongle to use with my desktop PC but it's very flaky with Linux |
| 13:32 | coinsen | you will have to recompile your kernel |
| 13:32 | Matoking | I bought an Asus WiFi dongle which should work a lot better |
| 13:32 | coinsen | most of the default kernels dont include hardware for usb dongles |
| 13:33 | Matoking | coinsen: I've already compiled a kernel once but I gave up on the kernel modules or whatever they are called |
| 13:33 | Matoking | Didn't need them at the time |
| 13:34 | Matoking | Anyway, if I somehow get that D-Link WiFi dongle to work better with my Cubox-i I'll just use it instead |
| 13:34 | coinsen | do you know which chipset it has? |
| 13:36 | Matoking | Let me check again |
| 13:37 | Matoking | rtl8192cu |
| 13:37 | Matoking | The module is provided with linux-firmware-nonfree or linux-firmware |
| 13:37 | Matoking | But Linux doesn't detect the device automatically, so I had to make it load it automatically on boot |
| 13:38 | Matoking | Even then, the connection hangs really often and I have to unplug and plug the device back in to make it work again |
| 13:38 | Matoking | Realtek also has a driver you have to compile yourself, but I haven't tried that yet |
| 13:38 | Matoking | Especially since an Internet connection is pretty much a prerequisite for compiling anything :P |
| 13:39 | coinsen | which distro do you use? |
| 13:40 | Matoking | The Cubox-i I have currently runs Debian |
| 13:40 | Matoking | I use Linux Mint on my desktop |
| 13:40 | coinsen | ah, that debian jesse release? |
| 13:40 | Matoking | I did compile a newer version of the kernel for that, but yeah, it's the debian-jesse release otherwise |
| 13:46 | satellit_ | Wiki Debian .img has no networking for i4P will it get upgraded? |
| 13:47 | satellit_ | On cubox wiki |
| 13:47 | satellit_ | Wirelessk + wired |
| 13:48 | coinsen | Matoking: btw did you benchmark your network performance over wifi? |
| 14:24 | cardiel | i cec working on latest geexbox? |
| 15:05 | Matoking | coinsen: Well, upload speed normally starts at 1 MB/s after which it goes down to as low as 100 KB/s |
| 15:26 | coinsen | Matoking: same for me :( |
| 15:27 | coinsen | btw does anyone know if the cubox's ethernet is connected via the USB bus? |
| 15:54 | satellit_e | coinsen http://imx.solid-run.com/wiki/index.php?title=Common_problems |
| 15:58 | satellit_e | http://imx.solid-run.com/forums/ think saw it discussed http://imx.solid-run.com/forums/ here |
| 16:02 | satellit_e | here http://imx.solid-run.com/wiki/index.php?title=CuBox-i_Hardware |
| 16:02 | satellit_e | "(*) 1000Mbps link is limited to 470Mbps actual bandwidth due to internal chip busses limitation. " |
| 16:03 | coinsen | ah :( |
| 16:03 | coinsen | seems like usb2.0 |
| 16:19 | obinou_ | coinsen: I never thought of that, but I really hope not :-( |
| 16:27 | dv_ | it is not |
| 16:28 | dv_ | it is a compromise |
| 16:29 | dv_ | and rmk has been pushing it beyond 470 MBps |
| 16:29 | dv_ | boundarydevices also managed to achieve over 600 MBps |
| 16:38 | freinhard | what's the bottleneck? the reference manual is not very verbose on how the different portions of the chip are connected |
| 18:00 | coinsen | is there a video player on xorg which uses cubox's gpu? |
| 18:02 | Coolg33k | geexbox use hardware to decode video and audio |
| 18:04 | coinsen | i know, but i want a standalone player for x.org |
| 18:04 | coinsen | like OMXPlayer for the raspberry pi |
| 18:24 | coinsen | hi mal- |
| 18:27 | mal- | hi |
| 20:03 | idosch | anyone ordered last month and already got his order? |
| 20:18 | dozn | Power adapter for the i4-Pro is still $2 more than the other models |
| 20:18 | dozn | the fuck... |
| 21:16 | mhoney_work | its 3.5amp |
| 21:16 | mhoney_work | others are 3am |
| 21:16 | mhoney_work | amp |
| 21:20 | dozn | mhoney_work, thank you |
| 22:45 | Tenkawa | Greetings all |
| 22:45 | Tenkawa | by any chance has anyone tried getting 3.10 working and it complain at u-boot about misalignment? |
| 22:48 | Tenkawa | ahhh... might know why... |
| 22:52 | Tenkawa | here goes |