<Ashleee>
gediz0x539, in that case I can help :) I've used Pine64 with Allwinner A64 for several years with custom kernel and upstream debian (stretch, now buster) and now the Tanix TX6 as well :)
<Ashleee>
the only place I kept Armbian is on a OrangePi Zero because I cannot be bothered to get all the patches to build the upstream kernel etc
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<gediz0x539>
Ashleee: oh, great. thanks :)
<gediz0x539>
i want to backup current image on the eMMC though
<gediz0x539>
because idk yet if is it easy to obtain from manufacturer
<Ashleee>
heh
<Ashleee>
I have both 32GB and 64GB dumps
<Ashleee>
but no idea which revisions, the 32GB was early january date, I have not checked the 64GB image yet
<gediz0x539>
how would you do this easily? attach an sd card and raw read eMMC into some other external drive,?
<Ashleee>
install debian onto sd card as sd card takes precedence in boot order before eMMC
<Ashleee>
and then from another computer `ssh thetanixbox "dd if=/dev/mmcblk1 | pv | gz" | dd of=theimage.bin.gz`
<Ashleee>
that's what I did
<Ashleee>
pipe through ssh
<gediz0x539>
sounds cool
<Ashleee>
the tanix can pull around 35 - 40MB/s from the eMMC read speeds while gzipping it as well
<KotCzarny>
adding bs=128k to dd commands help sometimes
<gediz0x539>
i got the one with 32gb emmc so it would not take so long i guess
<KotCzarny>
otherwise dd might use 512b blocks
<Ashleee>
may be faster then :)
<Ashleee>
gediz0x539, 64GB took about 30 minutes
<gediz0x539>
KotCzarny: i have to remember this :)
<Ashleee>
but beware, upstream kernel doesn't support HDMI etc, I think there's patches for it. I use it in headless mode so I do not care
<KotCzarny>
its especially important on writes, but helps reads too
<gediz0x539>
Ashleee: 30 mins are okay
<Ashleee>
the eMMC has what, 4k blocks?
<gediz0x539>
i actually attach it to my dumb tv
<Ashleee>
libreelec I think supports tanix tx6
<gediz0x539>
so i may have to adjust one thing or two
<Ashleee>
with HDMI out
<Ashleee>
you can always just boot off sd card without overwriting the android to test things out :)
<gediz0x539>
would it be slow too much?
<Ashleee>
depends on the card
<Ashleee>
I have only cheap crappy cards so it is quite a difference for me :D
<gediz0x539>
ahah true
<gediz0x539>
i've recently bought bunch of sandisk u3 cards for faster tests
<gediz0x539>
it'd be a benchmark for this case
<Ashleee>
next step is Tanix TX6S with Allwinner H616 but there's very little info about it on linux-sunxi wiki :)
<Ashleee>
I would try also some amlogic -based boxes, but the docs are nowhere near sunxi level :)
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<megi>
gediz0x539: feel free to try :) probably not thgat hard, I'd expect mostly some differences/subtleties with clocks
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<mripard>
megi: thanks
<mripard>
megi: I was mostly interested in whether you've needed SUNXI_LCDC_TCON0_LVDS_IF_CLK_POL_NORMAL and SUNXI_LCDC_TCON0_LVDS_IF_DATA_POL_NORMAL or not
<mripard>
do you remember if you actually needed it and or just ported it over from Linux/
<megi>
I think the code is just a simple port from Linux
<mripard>
ok
<mripard>
could you test without those two?
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<mripard>
(either in Linux or in U-Boot, I'm just interested in whether the panel works without these two values or not)
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<megi>
ok
<megi>
I commented out those two flags in Linux and it doesn't seem to change anything visible
<megi>
mripard: ^
<megi>
there's something up with the display though, because I see some kind of ghosting when one part of a row is black and the other white (both with or without the flags)
<megi>
maybe something's not completely ideal with tcon code
<megi>
not temporal ghosting, but spatial... the larger the amount of white on the start of a row, the more the pattern repeats in the area that should be black towards the end of the row
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