| 02:19 | balrog | what wifi controller does the i4pro use? |
| 13:03 | Tenkawa | Greetings all |
| 13:04 | Artox | be greeted |
| 13:06 | Tenkawa | my cubox-i2 is finally humming along quite nicely now on a 3.10 kernel |
| 13:06 | Tenkawa | wish they wouldve had the quad at my local distributor but alas |
| 13:11 | rabeeh | Tenkawa: hi |
| 13:12 | rabeeh | whom is your local disi? |
| 13:13 | Tenkawa | rabeeh: microcenter |
| 13:14 | Tenkawa | an electronics chain here |
| 13:15 | Tenkawa | I did have to go with a usb wifi adapter |
| 13:15 | Tenkawa | the brcmfmac kept not loading firmware |
| 13:16 | Tenkawa | I'm trying some updating now to see if I can figure out why |
| 13:18 | Tenkawa | Arer any of you running the quad? |
| 13:18 | Tenkawa | er Ar |
| 13:18 | Tenkawa | are |
| 13:19 | Tenkawa | I've currently got my upgrade choice down to the cubox quad, odroid u3 quad, or thr jetson tk1 |
| 13:19 | Tenkawa | I'm torn |
| 13:22 | Tenkawa | also do any of you know how much the cma can be adjusted on a cubox-i? |
| 13:22 | Tenkawa | can the amount of memory be reduced from the standard 256> |
| 13:22 | Tenkawa | er 256m |
| 13:26 | Tenkawa | yay success!! |
| 13:26 | Tenkawa | found the firmware hiccup |
| 13:28 | Tenkawa | old blob.. |
| 13:28 | Tenkawa | newer one loads up with no event errors |
| 13:34 | rabeeh | Temkawa: which firmware? |
| 13:34 | rabeeh | oh; you'v got CuBox-i2w (i.e. the built in wifi) |
| 13:37 | Tenkawa | yeah |
| 13:38 | Tenkawa | gotta run.. bbl |
| 13:38 | Tenkawa | cheers all |
| 14:32 | dgilmore | now that SPL for i.MX6 is in upstream u-boot what is the plans to get the cubox-i devices supported upstream? |
| 14:52 | jnettlet | I may submit some patches eventually, but it is no rush. I doubt they will accept my DirectBoot patchset which is something I want to keep around |
| 14:54 | jnettlet | Coreboot and DepthCharge is another option that might make more sense. |
| 15:12 | balrog | rabeeh: do you know how quickly orders ship these days? :) |
| 15:18 | rabeeh | balrog: depends on which model; we have stocks |
| 15:18 | rabeeh | notice that i don't control this; i just know it because i'm around :) |
| 15:22 | balrog | rabeeh: microsom i4pro + carrier pro :) |
| 15:23 | balrog | and yeah I'm aware, it's usually up to suppliers / part lead times anyway |
| 15:23 | rabeeh | HummingBoard? I know that they shipped |
| 15:23 | balrog | (that's cubox carrier, not humminbgoard) |
| 15:23 | balrog | hummingboard* |
| 15:23 | rabeeh | ? |
| 15:23 | rabeeh | so CuBox-i4pro then :) |
| 15:23 | balrog | basically |
| 15:24 | rabeeh | i know it's stocked all the time |
| 15:24 | rabeeh | that's probably the one that sells most |
| 15:24 | balrog | unsurprising. |
| 15:24 | rabeeh | well.... i previously said that; but for me all the machines works perfectly fine |
| 15:24 | rabeeh | jnettlet has been playing 40Mbps content on HB-i1 since this morning on a new stuff :) |
| 15:25 | rabeeh | that's h.264 40Mbps content |
| 15:29 | bencoh | yay |
| 15:29 | bencoh | high profile ? |
| 15:30 | bencoh | well that was a silly question considering the bitrate ... which level ? :) |
| 15:32 | jnettlet | bencoh, yes high profile 1080p. 24fps seeing about 20% cpu utilization on the i4p |
| 15:33 | bencoh | wow, neat |
| 15:33 | jnettlet | the single core can play it back at about 30-50% cpu utilization. You do get a dropped frame here or there. |
| 15:33 | jnettlet | and this is at 1080p 32bpp output |
| 15:34 | bencoh | using gstreamer ? |
| 15:34 | jnettlet | xbmc |
| 15:34 | jnettlet | haven't tested gstreamer yet |
| 15:34 | rabeeh | gstreamer is lighter; much lighter |
| 15:34 | bencoh | xbmc has its own backend to talk the vpu api ? |
| 15:34 | rabeeh | yes |
| 15:34 | bencoh | +to |
| 15:34 | rabeeh | but xbmc uses both the vpu and the gpu to render |
| 15:35 | bencoh | hmm, so double the memory transfers ? |
| 15:35 | rabeeh | while with gstreamer the gpu is not required if using the overlay |
| 15:35 | jnettlet | so does gstreamer with dv's vivante sink |
| 15:36 | bencoh | I guess I should have a look at the vivante public api some day ... maybe port it to upipe |
| 15:36 | jnettlet | bencoh, no. both xbmc and dv's gstreamer sink use zero copy textures to directly pass decoded frames to the gpu to render |
| 15:36 | bencoh | jnettlet: oh, okay |
| 15:36 | jnettlet | bencoh, if you haven't yet don't worry about it now. We will have etnaviv ready first |
| 15:37 | bencoh | haha okay |
| 15:37 | jnettlet | with proper dmabuf fd passing for zero copy |
| 15:37 | bencoh | but still you wont have vpu support ... in etnaviv ... will you ? :) |
| 15:38 | jnettlet | well vpu support has actually landed upstream now in v4l |
| 15:38 | jnettlet | so that supports the mem2mem interface, which I personally hate |
| 15:38 | jnettlet | but we (rmk, dv, myself) have sorted out how we will handle dmabuf's for the vpu |
| 15:50 | bencoh | hmm, which means we can use some v4l api to talk to the vpu ? |
| 15:50 | bencoh | send it encoded frames and get raw frames back for instance ? |
| 15:53 | jnettlet | yes, the v4l2 api has examples for this. |
| 15:54 | jnettlet | The i4p just played back an 80Mbps h264 hp with only 7 frame drops |
| 16:03 | Tempest | I see that hardware cryptodev was just added to the arch version of the 3.10 kernel. Would this affect openvpn performance? |
| 16:06 | jnettlet | it plays! 120Mbps h264 hp. Got a few dropped frames in the beginning but then things smoothed back out. cpu usage was about 20-30% on a couple of cores |
| 16:16 | jnettlet | single core handles 80Mbps using about 50% cpu. Seeking is nice and fast |
| 17:26 | Tempest | I have tried benchmarking openssl-cryptodev with the cryptodev engine enabled, but it shows no difference from software based cryptography. |
| 23:18 | oevillegas | Hello, I'm trying to get my Hummingboard i2 ex loaded with Arch Linux. I have tried everything and I just cant get it to work. Anyone have a suggestion on what is the easiest way to get linux in the Hummingboard? |
| 23:19 | oevillegas | I am mainly a Windows user, but I have an Arch Linux VM that I'm using to flash the microSD with Arch for the Hummingboard |
| 23:19 | oevillegas | Anyone? |
| 23:21 | Artox | well, I dont have a HB |
| 23:21 | Artox | but the easiest wayper definition is writing an image to sdcard |
| 23:21 | Artox | and thats it |
| 23:21 | Artox | since oyu say you tried everything |
| 23:21 | Artox | there is not anything I can offer |
| 23:29 | oevillegas | Yeah, I tried writting images to the SD card, I can't even get the monitor to display what is going on. |
| 23:29 | oevillegas | Thanks anyway |