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<fralle_>
somebody know if its possible to change the uart clock in the a10?
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<oliv3r>
i see we have a new video uploaded to video.fosdem.org?
<oliv3r>
date says 16th of feb
<oliv3r>
has anybody checked it yet?
<oliv3r>
i'm downloading as we speak
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<oliv3r>
audio sounds great
<oliv3r>
libv: can you watch the video and guess what's going wrong with the slide-view in the first minute or 2? It works; then all of a sudden, it goes bad, but on the beamer it works fine
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<mnemoc>
moin
<oliv3r>
lo
<oliv3r>
mnemoc: ^
<mnemoc>
high oliv3r
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<plaes>
leviathanch: the year in your MMC patch copyrights is wrong!
<plaes>
ah.. cool fixed now :)
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<libv>
oliv3r: which video?
<libv>
ah, yours?
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<oliv3r>
yeah :)
<libv>
oliv3r: you mean this sync issue?
<libv>
oliv3r: that's just in the capture, that cannot be fixed
<libv>
oliv3r: do the slides ever return?
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<binaryferret>
With the old sun4i gpio driver, I was able to set my script.bin file up so it'd give me the following when I loaded it. /sys/devices/virtual/misc/sun4i-gpio/pin/pb3 with the new gpio_sunxi does it create something similar? I have a userspace driver that needs pointing at a GPIO device.
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<binaryferret>
It does say in dmesg gpiochip_add: registered GPIOs 1 to 1 on device: A1X_GPIO. However I'm not sure how I can use that information to point the userspace driver to that like I did before.
<Turl>
leviathanch: hi
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<Turl>
leviathanch: IANAL, but maybe it'd be wise to fix the Reuuimlla Technology Co., Ltd.
<Turl>
oliv3r: mnemoc libv ^
<plaes>
Turl: "If you have reached this domain because of reference to this company in your Allwinner Linux Kernel Sources, please advise Allwinner to stop twidiling the copyright notices"
<atsampson>
is reuuimlla Allwinner's Australian office or something?
<Turl>
stand on your head and try to read reuuimlla
<plaes>
:D
<plaes>
australian indeed
<plaes>
any backstory?
* Turl
didn't get the australian joke because he lives in the southern hemisphere
<Turl>
:p
<Turl>
I don't know the backstory
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* Montjoie
cry after benchmarking AES with arm assembly
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<Turl>
Montjoie: the in kernel NEON one?
<Montjoie>
yes, I have backported it to 3.4 for benching against the security module:)
<oliv3r>
Turl: mnemoc fixed all of that ages ago?
<oliv3r>
should all read 'allwinner' now
<Turl>
oliv3r: this is leviathanch's mmc driver
<Turl>
dunno where he started working from
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<leviathanch2_>
hi folks
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<plaes>
o/
<leviathanch2>
mripard, Turl, plaes: is anything wrong the patchset or is it ok for merging now?
<leviathanch2>
*with
<plaes>
it seems that you have to change reuuimllatech to allwinnertech
<mripard>
leviathanch2: I have comments, and the MMC maintainer hasn't said anything.
<leviathanch2>
mripard: ouch, that's why you were pissed a bit, ok, IC
<leviathanch2>
sorry
<leviathanch2>
plaes: has pinged me on IRC and told me about the copyright
<leviathanch2>
and I considered it urgent to fix it
<leviathanch2>
since copyright is a little bit sensitive
<leviathanch2>
^_^"
<mripard>
leviathanch2: I was not pissed, but sending new versions every two days make reviewing it very hard
<mripard>
cause you have to start again
<leviathanch2>
mripard: ah, ok
<leviathanch2>
well then
<mripard>
and it's kind of a big driver
<leviathanch2>
uhm yeah
<wens>
hans has a few more bug fixes i think
<mripard>
I didn't have much time either though
<leviathanch2>
took me two weeks to figure the chinese code out and rewrite it in a somehow cleaner fashion
<leviathanch2>
so yeah
<leviathanch2>
^^
<leviathanch2>
ok, that's the last patchset for the next few days
<leviathanch2>
since I'll be busy working on university stuff and IT projects anyway
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<oliv3r>
Turl: did you receive anything yet to get reviewed by packt?
<oliv3r>
i've allready sent 2 chapters; one was 'oked' from their review; so I expect you would get something too
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<binaryferret>
Has anyone else had issue with the rtl8188eu driver?
<libv>
binaryferret: that's a pretty useless question
<libv>
binaryferret: what issues do _you_ have?
<binaryferret>
Sorry it was hehe.
<binaryferret>
So I had my own driver of 8188eu that I got from source awhile ago. This was for kernel version 3.4.69
<binaryferret>
All that stuff is at work, so I just pulled the latest as I noticed it had an rtl8188eu driver actually in the tree
<binaryferret>
however when I install it I get the following 'usbcore: registered new interface driver rtl8188eu' - but it doesn't work. When is lsusb I don't get a usb device listed.
<Turl>
oliv3r: nope, nothing
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<Turl>
binaryferret: there was some chip with a new id that got added recently I think, maybe it's that?
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<binaryferret>
I had to echo 01cb 0179 with the driver I built from source to the new_id to get it working initially.
<binaryferret>
sorry, 0bda 0179
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<nove>
FEX could come from flex, anyway time to delete one more
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<binaryferret>
Weird. When I go back to the old kernel non-tree driver it works and has the id of 0bda 8179. When I move to the latest kernel+in tree driver it doesn't. I've tried echo 0bda 8179 > sys/bus/usb/drivers/rtl8188eu/new_id with no success. I'm going to try a new kernel from from sun5i_defconfig and only enable the rtl8188eu driver without touching anything else. Maybe I toggled something on that I shouldn't have.
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<libv>
binaryferret: enable the usbc where it's on from the .fex
<binaryferret>
libv: Enable it manually in the terminal? Could you just point me at something that I can read that explains how to do that?
<libv>
binaryferret: our allwinnerized drivers explicitely enable the usbc on load
<libv>
binaryferret: i do not know why you are faffing about with out of tree drivers here
<libv>
binaryferret: but i suggest you stop it and just use the ones in our tree
<binaryferret>
I was faffing around with them because 8188eu wasn't available when I started
<binaryferret>
or at least not in version 3.4.69. Unless I'm mistaken as it was a long time ago. I've kept the same kernel on my devices since then so just used what worked.
<libv>
it's in our .75
<binaryferret>
I've come to use the new one and it doesn't work out the box, thus the questions and the learning which I thank you for. I'll go check that but .fex file but I'm very sure it alreqady has usb_host_init_state = 1 set.
<libv>
Date: Thu Apr 25 15:25:51
<binaryferret>
Yep which is the one I'm using now
<libv>
and that doesn't work?
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<libv>
hrm.
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<binaryferret>
Alas no. I'm just gonig to check which usbc it's looking at, as usbc0 had its host init state flag set, but usbc1 doesn't.
<libv>
hrm, so if you load 8188eu it still doesn't show up in lsusb?
<binaryferret>
No. Although I've just checked the fex file and usbc1 doesn't have host_init state flag set to 1. The usb_wifi_para flag usb_wifi_usbc_num = 1 so maybe that's it. I'll give that a whurl.
<libv>
binaryferret: what board is this btw?
<binaryferret>
It's an A13 tablet.
<libv>
which one?
<binaryferret>
It's a new one, I'm currently going through the new device guide etc to add it to the wiki
<libv>
ah, ok
<libv>
+[usb_wifi_para]
<libv>
+usb_wifi_used = 1
<libv>
+usb_wifi_usbc_num = 1
<libv>
could it be that that is lacking as well from your .fex?
<libv>
you should be able to fix that by enabling the usbc though
<libv>
as all of that is to enable the usb bus, this block just makes it possible for the sunxi platform code to decide which usbc to enable
<binaryferret>
OOooo cool.
<binaryferret>
usb wifi para exists in the fex.
<binaryferret>
However usbc1 now has its init flag set.
<binaryferret>
will test. Thank libv for your suggestions.
<libv>
the real solution is to always enable all used usb busses from the kernel
<libv>
that bit of extra power will not kill us that much
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<binaryferret>
Thank you libv that worked. It also makes perfect sense why it does work now that you explained.
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<libv>
i spent a day or so banging my head against the same thing a month or two ago
<binaryferret>
Hehe.
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<speakman>
Anyone on Qt5 and having problems with tslib plugin making the touch very unstable/choppy/unprecise ?
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<libv>
things are pretty quiet on the sunxi front today
<libv>
binaryferret: where's your wiki page for your new a13 device?
<Turl>
libv: yup
<Turl>
libv: we're all waiting for kms news :)
<libv>
Turl: pfff :p
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<paulk-collins>
anyone had experience with allwinner devices that embed voice-enabled modems?
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<libv>
randomblame: i believe so, why, are you one of the few a23 owners looking for linux support, or are you just hoping to fix your android installation?
<randomblame>
oh I have an a20 tab to build android for
<oliv3r>
libv: I got an e-mail from eva about FOSDEM and how it went and if Allwinner can do anything; i told her a23 sdk :)
<oliv3r>
not sdk; usermanual
<oliv3r>
and boot0 for a23
<oliv3r>
i don't mind getting a tablet from ali-express
<oliv3r>
but i want it to have 1gb; and a proper screen, not that TN crap
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<nove>
it would be good if was allwinner giving us each new sdks, instead of being waiting for a random allwinner customer showing up here and asking if we want it
<nove>
like it happened with A23
<Turl>
oliv3r: haha nice
<libv>
oliv3r: does it really matter that it has all that, or should the tablet just be a development device?
<Turl>
libv: well, working with crap hardware isn't as motivating
<Turl>
:)
<libv>
on the other hand, what oliv3r is waiting for will not happen
<libv>
and working on a23 now is a stepping stone for the next generation
<libv>
it takes in a lot of a31 blocks
<Turl>
that's also true
<libv>
so some people really need to start taking the initial steps with that hw
<libv>
and just spend the lowly 40€ or 50$ that it costs, and just see it as a development device
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<Nazcafan>
how different is the FEL flashing process/protocol on A10 and A20?
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<libv>
Nazcafan: why do you ask?
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<hno>
nabblet, it's 99.99% the same, but FEL in itself is incapable of flashing anything.
<hno>
Nazcafan, ^
<libv>
hno: i wonder what issue Nazcafan is running into for him to ask this question
<Nazcafan>
I just took some time last week end finishing the move to usblib version 1.0 of the awflash util, but then I kind of realized the whole stuff was designed to work with A10, and that some functions are missing as well
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<Nazcafan>
I think it would be nice to have a working awflash utility to avoid the need of a kernel module
<libv>
yeah
<hno>
Nazcafan, awflash can not flash an A10 device. It's only early and abandonded skeleton because the developer initially misunderstood what FEL is.
<Nazcafan>
maybe I am misunderstanding as well, then?
<hno>
FEL is only an USB protocol for loading and executing stuff from your PC into RAM on an Allwinner based device.
<Nazcafan>
what prevents to write a flash utility based on usblib that is virtually equivalent to the live suite?
<Nazcafan>
hno, what does the live suite do, then?
<hno>
The fact that you need an application to run on the Allwinner device for doing that.
<Nazcafan>
I assume the application is embedded in the livesuite,
<hno>
livesuit first loads a small piece of code that sets up the DRAM controller, then a much larger piece of code that implements the livesuit USB protocol, then uses that to upload a flasher application and the image to flash into RAM.
<hno>
the non-livesuit process is to uload u-boot FEL to configure DRAM, then u-boot + linux kernel + initramfs for doing whatever you want including flashing.
<Nazcafan>
is this process somehow compatible with the images that the vendors provide for livesuite?
<hno>
no
<Nazcafan>
I was starting to get that
<hno>
but in theoyou need to unpack such images first.
<Nazcafan>
if IP wasn't a problem, it would be theoretically possible to sniff my usb code and retrieve the two pieces of code that control the DRAM and USB protocol?
<Nazcafan>
s/usb code/usb port/
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<libv>
we're only stuck because of libnand again?
<hno>
The pieces are well known. Available as standalone blobs in the SDK.
<hno>
libv, libnand mess, plus that we still haven't added a NAND bootblock driver to the kernel so we can't flash that small area.
<Nazcafan>
so wait a minute
<Nazcafan>
the pieces are available
<Nazcafan>
so what is the roadblock, then?
<hno>
roadblock for what?
<hno>
reflashing the logical part of the NAND (what is visible as partitions) is only a matter of doing.
<hno>
reflashing the initial bootloader which configures DRAM settings and a bit more requires a bit more
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<libv>
so it all boils down to our issue with libnand, and how the nand is used in allwinner-world :(
<hno>
a bit too many incompatible libnand versions to cater for yes.
<hno>
as these discussions always ends up in "I want to flash livesuit images"
<Nazcafan>
well, ain't flashing livesuit images the first step than any person who pursued a new board wil try to proceed with?
<libv>
hno: :)
<hno>
if we restrict ourselves to what us supported by linux-sunxi.org then it is possible to keep sanity.
<hno>
Nazcafan, I have never flashed a board with livesuit.
<libv>
i think livesuite can indeed be ignored for linux-sunxi.org
<hno>
completely
<libv>
as long as we can get the script.bin and meminfo off of android, we're all good
<hno>
for most purposes you don't need to touch those.
<libv>
well, those, and a bit of other info from time to time, is all that we need to successfully bring up an allwinner device with sunxi
<hno>
you can keep original boot0+boot1 + script.bin in place, only replace u-boot and onwards.
<libv>
ah, right, nand booting, yes
<libv>
but we're all very much focussed on sd-card and things, sadly
<libv>
every few months, someone comes round and claims to try to fix nand
<libv>
but then... a few weeks in...
<libv>
and we do need to keep a libnand enabled kernel around
<libv>
as i otherwise would've had a much harder time getting the script.bin off of the hc860 device i just submitted
<hno>
mtd is not a viable replacement for libnand unfortunately. Patents mess holding it back.
<libv>
right :(
<libv>
i find this tie-in between fs and wear-levelling rather strange, but i did not know that this was due to patents
<hno>
most methods to provide a wear leveled and journaled block emulation layer for NAND is restricted by patents.
<hno>
sd-cards do have the beauty that they encapsulate this mess f NAND in what looks like hardware.
<hno>
so we can level off from the patent licenses taken by the sd-card manufacturers.
<libv>
Nazcafan: does all of this answer your question?
<Nazcafan>
I think I'll have to digest on all of that
<Nazcafan>
what is mtd?
<libv>
hno hit the nail on the head 22 minutes ago :)