| 08:25 | rabeeh | http://solid-run.com/marvell-armada-family/clearfog/ |
| 08:25 | rabeeh | clearfog pro is released; a headless Marvell based machine |
| 08:27 | kelly | congrats, rabeeh |
| 08:28 | rabeeh | kelly: thanks :) |
| 08:28 | rabeeh | some initial wiki pages too - |
| 08:28 | rabeeh | http://wiki.solid-run.com/doku.php?id=products:a38x:clearfog |
| 08:35 | vpeter | rabeeh: What kibg of M.2 disk can go in? I mean dimensions. |
| 08:36 | vpeter | ^^^kind |
| 08:37 | vpeter | I now see - 2242 :) |
| 08:39 | vpeter | btw: In firefox the page doesn't show correctly. |
| 08:40 | kelly | it's good to see that they're writing u-boot to micro sd like the cubox-i, convenient easy upgrades |
| 08:41 | jnettlet | it can be written to micro-sd or flash |
| 08:42 | jnettlet | you can do recovery over the serial console, so there is no bricking possible |
| 08:42 | kelly | attemp micro-sd first, then fallback to flash? |
| 08:42 | jnettlet | yeps |
| 08:43 | jnettlet | vpeter, the two mini pcie connectors can be configured to be either mini pcie or msata, so they can be expansion or storage |
| 08:43 | kelly | seems like it has the potential to be a good "iot" router |
| 08:43 | jnettlet | it has really fast I/O |
| 08:43 | vpeter | jnettlet: Yes, I'm aware of that. But my idea is to hook one wifi card, one sata drive and one ssd which obviously must be on M.2. |
| 08:44 | vpeter | To bad it doesn't have any real sata connector. |
| 08:44 | jnettlet | vpeter, you can put a mini-pcie to sata card in it for two internal sata connectors |
| 08:44 | kelly | yeah, i looked at a review of a new WD device that has the chip, very fast |
| 08:44 | vpeter | jnettlet: One mini-pcie to two sata? |
| 08:44 | suihkulokki | rabeeh: cool :) |
| 08:45 | jnettlet | vpeter, yep. one sec. http://www.amazon.com/Syba-Port-SATA-Mini-SD-MPE40056/dp/B009WN7QTE |
| 08:45 | jnettlet | or similar |
| 08:46 | vpeter | Thanks. Didn't saw that. Only with one connector. |
| 08:46 | jnettlet | I actually was looking at this one. http://www.pridopia.co.uk/3132me.html Put it in the end port |
| 08:46 | vpeter | My idea is to make all-in-one box. Router, AP, NAS, + something else :) |
| 08:47 | vpeter | Hope disk speed is better than in off the shelf routers. |
| 08:48 | kelly | routers are not specifically designed for disk io, this chip will be way better |
| 08:48 | vpeter | Then me happy. |
| 08:49 | jnettlet | vpeter, we can saturate 3 ssd dd's at 455-500MB/s |
| 08:51 | vpeter | More than enough for me. |
| 08:52 | jnettlet | and we have SFP fiber interconnects working fine. https://goo.gl/photos/opfNRE1WqXj3eZdE6 |
| 09:14 | rabeeh | 540MB/sec jnettlet actually |
| 09:14 | rabeeh | with unbuffered i/o i was able to read 1.6GB/sec from 3 SSDs |
| 09:15 | rabeeh | i didn't have a 4th SSD interface; but my guess is that it would take it |
| 09:15 | jnettlet | rabeeh, you have better SSD's than me ;) |
| 09:15 | rabeeh | jnettlet: nice !!! i didn't you already have two boards connected with fiber |
| 09:16 | jnettlet | yep, both rmk and I have the same setup. This works with the upstream kernel, I have not backported patches yet to the Marvell kernel. |
| 09:16 | jnettlet | and hotplugging works :) |
| 09:17 | rabeeh | jnettlet: one of the remarkable things about this device is that upstream port is ready :) |
| 09:17 | jnettlet | yep, or will be very soon. The patches are submitted, but I don't think merged yet. They will be in 4.4 |
| 09:18 | jnettlet | I should have a 4.1LTS tree based on upstream tommorrow |
| 18:52 | sopparus | hello |
| 18:53 | sopparus | has anyone tried usb dac or optical out on the lollipop build? |
| 18:53 | sopparus | and had it working |
| 18:53 | jnettlet | I don't believe so. |
| 18:53 | sopparus | ok |
| 18:54 | kelly | hey jnettlet, how're the kodi patches? |
| 18:55 | kelly | i thought i'd migrate to the new api with my next kernel build, but it'll depend on working kodi |
| 18:56 | jnettlet | cbxbiker61, okay that nick makes more sense. |
| 18:56 | sopparus | :) |
| 18:57 | jnettlet | I am just getting back to them. They rely on some pretty major upstream patches. I am trying to decide the best way to manage it. |
| 18:57 | cbxbiker61 | ok, just give me a heads up when they're ready |
| 18:58 | cbxbiker61 | main thing for me is a smooth transition |
| 18:58 | jnettlet | well mk01 and I are cooking up some more fixes/optimizations for better rendering |