| 11:11 | vpeter | jnettlet: You are working for solidrun? Or just hired for one job? |
| 11:29 | jnettlet | vpeter, long standing contractor |
| 11:35 | vpeter | conractor - this is what I though :) |
| 11:39 | jnettlet | not a lot of OSS opportunities in DK |
| 17:23 | jnettlet | mk01, vpeter, so I found some bugs in the galcore driver (yeah I know shocking) while trying to fix some bottlenecks. Here is a new opreport after fixing them all. http://pastebin.com/3cMdK9yu |
| 17:24 | jnettlet | no more in kernel mutex locking bottlenecks. everything is evenly distributed and the main users as expected are optimized memcpy's and copy_to_users' |
| 17:24 | jnettlet | I can't do any further optimizations on the open side of the graphics drivers |
| 17:33 | vpeter | Maybe time to move into closed one? Disassemble and analysing :) |
| 17:35 | jnettlet | well we have done that. Now I can finally move over and focus my time on etnaviv. I can't make this any faster or more stable. |
| 17:35 | vpeter | I wish I had knowledge to work in this area. |
| 17:36 | jnettlet | you have the hardware. Got to the etnaviv github paage and read about how it was reverse engineered |
| 17:36 | jnettlet | that is the point of OSS...we share the knowledge :) |
| 17:38 | vpeter | Sure. But you can't just read and understand if you don't have much background. I'm more in protocols not graphics, kernel, .. |
| 17:39 | vpeter | I mean in daily job. All this here is only hoby for me. |
| 17:40 | vpeter | But after all this years I'm in touch with this embeeded world I can't understand the companies to hide all such stuff. |
| 17:40 | jnettlet | vpeter, sure but I was a chief security/network admin/architect before I picked it up. Started as a hobby because the OSS graphics on my laptop sucked and I moved on from there. |
| 17:42 | vpeter | What a sentence: "Avoid Imgtec PowerVR like the plague if you're building an open source SoC." |
| 17:42 | vpeter | jnettlet: So you are not age old kernel hacker? |
| 17:44 | jnettlet | vpeter, nah I have a degree in marketing, worked my way up through IT, got angry at dealing with closed IT systems and saving IT middle management with my OSS solutions |
| 17:45 | jnettlet | Then ventured out and have been through a bunch of startups and contracting/consulting phases. |
| 17:46 | vpeter | Interesting! |
| 17:47 | jnettlet | I am a product of the OSS ideals. I have never taken a class related to a computer :) Just lots of internet reference, hacking and self teaching |
| 20:12 | and15 | does anyone know of a pre-built OS with both serial and CPU temperature monitoring working? Seems as if 3.0 kernel has serial problems, and can't get temp monitoring on 3.14 |
| 20:30 | and15 | please ignore above question. jmontleon's fedora works great out of the box |
| 20:30 | jnettlet | and15, we will be rolling new releases with the latest kernels over the coming weeks. |
| 20:31 | and15 | ok, great to hear |
| 20:32 | jnettlet | we have the new build service up that will be providing optimized imx6 based packages to all the distro maintainers. I believe we have debian, suse, fedora, and yocto covered. |
| 20:33 | jnettlet | oh and a very optimized build of openelec is on its way. |