00:32 <ar-rahman> greetings to y'all

00:33 <ar-rahman> who is still alive ?

00:33 <ar-rahman> let me know I have few questions concerning odroid c1 board

00:33 <ar-rahman> with the latest armbian here : https://www.armbian.com/odroid-c1/

00:35 <ar-rahman> is the USB external HDD bug fixed? When booted with external HDD plugged-in the board was not recognizing it and was freezing without SSH access

00:35 <ar-rahman> are those problems still there or did they have been fixed?

00:36 <ar-rahman> LAN + HDD was problematic

09:24 <ar-rahman> greetings to y'all

09:24 <ar-rahman> who is still alive ?

09:24 <ar-rahman> let me know I have few questions concerning odroid c1 board

09:24 <ar-rahman> with the latest armbian here : https://www.armbian.com/odroid-c1/

09:24 <ar-rahman> is the USB external HDD bug fixed? When booted with external HDD plugged-in the board was not recognizing it and was freezing without SSH access

09:25 <ar-rahman> are those problems still there or did they have been fixed?

09:25 <ar-rahman> LAN + HDD was problematic

09:26 <xdarklight> ar-rahman: Hi. USB not being recognized is unfortunately still an issue. any LAN issues should be fixed with Linux 5.8

09:28 <ar-rahman> hi xdarklight

09:28 <ar-rahman> thank you for your quick answer

09:28 <ar-rahman> I don't understand why it is still not working for many years... can't the code for linux 3.1 just be taken and injected for the HDD and LAN part?

09:29 <ar-rahman> USB and LAN are vital for a reliable headless server

09:30 <xdarklight> the answer for that is: no it can't for the mainline Linux kernel. Amlogic has hacked a lot of things throughout the whole kernel and those would be rejected by the maintainers of each subsystem. so it's about finding out *why* things are not working and how to properly integrate them into the mainline kernel

09:31 <xdarklight> also documentation is rare, so it's not an easy task to see why something is not working

09:53 <ar-rahman_> xdarklight: Thank you for your insight

09:53 <ar-rahman_> So what you are saying is that some crappy developers did shit code back then

09:54 <ar-rahman_> and then some more mastery one's saw that and they vomitted?

09:57 <xdarklight> ar-rahman_: their goal back then was to just make it work when products (with the Amlogic S805 SoC) were shipped. looking at it in that way they have succeeded. but looking at it from a 2020 kernel developer perspective it's still very hard to make everything work

09:58 <ar-rahman_> Alright so they achieved their own personal goal but didn't do it in a way for the greater common good :D

10:00 <xdarklight> yes, unfortunately

10:00 <ar-rahman_> damn that's capitalism right there :D

14:34 <spikerguy> Hello Everyone, I see all senior developers here :D Great place to learn more about kernel developement.

14:35 <spikerguy> I cannot see Christian Hewitt here, I hope he is fine as I didn't get any reply from him since sometime now.

14:38 <spikerguy> I have few Amlogic SBC which I have used and added its support to Manjaro ARM Project. I am having hard time with S922X-H Used in Beelink GT King PRo and GS King X. I hope Devs are aware of the Kernel panic while transfering files

14:56 <spikerguy> I have posted the logs here and some other have also posted a video about the kernel panic https://forum.armbian.com/topic/13969-beelink-gt-king-stability-issues/?do=findComment&comment=105779