IRC log for #arm-netbook on 20120719

01:35.36hipboi_lundman: what do you mean by windows resume with F10
01:37.15lundmanwin7, go to hibernate, you can push a key on usb keyboard, if you set "allow this device to wake". want to do it so pushing F10 powers windows on
01:37.33lundmanI had like 1 minute to try last night, ran out of time, but didnt work. just thought I'd ask if you'd already figured it out
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01:42.39hipboi__lundman: no, i haven't tried that way
01:43.11hipboi__hackandfab hno: the picture was taken by my friend
01:43.38hipboi__he is a electronic dummy
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04:50.45CIA-122rhombus-tech: Anton master * r415b4fe9cf39 /allwinner_a10/orders/voiper.mdwn:
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05:13.05libvmnemoc: pong
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07:52.28hackandfabgood morning
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08:32.18oliv3rHi, I read that this is the temporary home of the ehombus-tech guys et al? I was curious if rhombus-tech or others are aware of what is happening on the XBMC forums.
08:32.42lundmansoemthing is happening on forums?
08:32.43oliv3rhttp://forums.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=126995&pid=1151089
08:32.52oliv3r(had to type that out ;)
08:33.10lundmanyou got it wrong :)
08:33.15lundmanhello oliver from .nl
08:33.33oliv3rAppearantly they are spamming Allwinner to get 'more' support on the VPU core in the A10
08:33.36oliv3rHi lundman! :)
08:33.54lundmanoh yes, I saw that petition
08:33.57lundmansomeone did post it on irc here
08:34.13oliv3rah! :) well allwinner is actually replying to e-mails from people :)
08:34.29lundmanreally? so like, only 5 people?
08:35.00oliv3rThey've replied to a handfull yes, wanting more information, a 'questionaire' (see j1nx's blog post)
08:35.13lundmanyour url is 404
08:35.20oliv3rmy typing skills suck :(
08:35.27lundman<oliv3r> http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=126995&pid=1151089
08:35.33lundmanFIFY
08:35.36oliv3rlol ok
08:35.47oliv3rforum instead of forums. thank you :)
08:40.28oliv3rI know it's a long long thread :(
08:40.34oliv3rthe interesting bits start around post 60+
08:43.50mnemoclibv: still around?
08:48.48CIA-122rhombus-tech: N master * r0f67e0d2f960 /allwinner_a10/orders/sagro17.mdwn:
08:50.31lundmanmy name crops up a few times
08:52.04mnemocuh, so service@ also goes to Eva?
08:54.58oliv3ri think service@allwinnertech.com goes to some support mailbox, that probably eva is in charge of dealing with :)
08:55.35mnemoceva seems to be in charge of... everything
08:55.54oliv3rI would not be supprised if they sign off all their e-mails as 'eva'.
08:56.04oliv3rmaybe a pun on 'eve' from Wall-E? :)
08:56.26oliv3ror was that Eva too? I'm sure she's not called eva though, 'eva wu'? right :p
08:57.03oliv3rJust out of curiosity, what is the actual status of the rhombustech hardware? I was reading all pages anxiously, only to be dissapointed to find no actual hardware. No set-top box, no tablet, nothing :(
08:57.19oliv3rno PCMCIA/CF-socket CPU cards either
08:57.20hackandfaboliv3r I've  also sent a email to them after reading  j1nx's post
08:57.29oliv3rthe more the better :)
08:57.51oliv3rI'm just a little worried about a lot of xbmc users, just wanting working binary blobs and are happy with that
09:08.55rmoliv3r, there's a lot of hardware
09:09.02rmMele A1000, A2000, MK802
09:09.21rmhttp://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Allwinner_A10
09:09.27rmwhat other hardware do you need
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09:23.17libvmnemoc: i am now
09:23.43mnemoclibv: hi! I flooded you on /q :(
09:24.54libvyeah :)
09:29.58lundmantake taht
09:30.13mnemoc:)
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10:00.52oliv3rrm, I was talking about the rhombus tech hardware, the EOMA-68 and friends ;)
10:01.14rmwhat do you need it for?
10:01.21rmwhy it is a pity it's not available
10:01.39rmyou can get A10 hardware today and hack on it, run any distro you like, etc
10:01.53rmiow, the hardware is here, what wouldn't hurt - is more software support
10:06.38RITRedbeardI'm having a problem making the memory card
10:09.28CIA-122rhombus-tech: Pierpaolo master * rb37101112430 /allwinner_a10/orders/HyperText89.mdwn:
10:37.04oliv3rrm: If I want to support rhombus-tech's efforts into getting properly GPLed hardware into the peoples hadns. Yes I can buy a A10 based tablet/STB now. How will allwinner know this will be used for Linux things? How am I supporting rhombus-tech's mission?
10:42.16mnemocoliv3r: currently luke is not here, you are better with the mailing list
10:44.21rmHow am I supporting rhombus-tech's mission?  <- by installing/testing/developing things like the A10 kernel and the Mali driver
10:44.48rmso that by the time the board is ready, it will have a mainlined kernel support
10:45.01rmand hardware accelerated Xorg
10:48.50orly_owlthe board isnt ready now?
10:54.34mnemocfor rhombus-tech's and EOMA68's plans the A10-based board is only a very small and part, and doesn't even need to be created... ever... if by the time luke manages to get a design there are better alternatives it's very like there won't ever be an EOMA68-A10 card
11:00.34oliv3rbut why would I buy A10 hardware from rhombus-tech when I allready have working hardware from $random_mfg :p
11:01.05mnemocRT hardware aims to be different than any other random hardware
11:01.19oliv3rmnemoc: ah okay. Well I just read his mission-statement, find a hardware manufacturer that wil build boards, if he focuses on the software
11:01.42mnemocthe idea is to have user replaceable "CPU cards" and devices to connect these cars
11:01.46oliv3rand found that a good and noble cause to support
11:02.04oliv3ryeah, I think the idea behind it is very neat
11:02.30mnemocs/cars/cards/
11:06.28rmI'd say, buy A10 hardware from anyone you like
11:06.37rmafaik it's pretty uniform
11:07.01rmand provides the best bang for the buck and perhaps the best degree of openness in the ARM world, today
11:07.41oliv3rI think they make an awesome chip, it just lacks proper driver support atm. I think the arm bit is fine, the GPU bit is 'wip' 2d works ok/well 3d is being worked on by the lima project; VPU (cedarX) .... nothing but required
11:09.12rmif you want to know what 'lacks proper driver support' means, take a look at Telechips or Rockchip :)
11:09.41mnemocrm: telechips actually released their sources one or two days ago
11:09.55rm2 days ago and it's 3.0.8 afaik
11:10.31rmso it's got what, only a year or so of catch-up to play with the A10
11:10.50rmwith a massively smaller hacker-base
11:11.07rmalso, does it boot any user-made image from an SD card like the A10 does?
11:11.37mnemocthe just-boot-from-sd capability of sunxi is AWESOME
11:13.01rmexactly :)
11:13.50ZaEarlThat's great to see another company releasing source!
11:14.02mnemocindeed
11:20.17oliv3rit's probably only the arm bits. i'm betting no 2d and deffinatly no 3d bit is released with that, let alone any video-decoder (if they even have that) :( but a++ for effort
11:26.01rmopenness is not just about releasing the source
11:27.11rme.g. the SD boot capability gives you what is essentially a "PC-grade" level of openness :)
11:27.26rmhardware which will run any OS of your choice from an external storage
11:27.47rmno "flashing", no fiddling, not even UART console is required
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11:55.48zenitraMhuh, the 8192cu driver seems to support master (AP) mode
11:56.03rmschweet
11:56.46rmwondered whether or not my "mk802 server" scenario could also be an AP
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11:59.35zenitraMgoing to try to set it up
12:00.03zenitraMas a wireless repeater (using an usb antenna as client). my room is too far away from my parents router u.U
12:02.00rmhttp://www.aliexpress.com/product-fm/595634153-10-2-inch-Android-4-0-1-2ghz-cpu-1GB-RAM-4G-Flash-allwinner-a10-WiFi-wholesalers.html
12:02.04rm1GB RAM + cheap
12:05.33orly_owlooh that is cheap
12:06.11zenitraMit has vedio chat!
12:08.04orly_owlboo windows key
12:11.30orly_owli see no arm devices with usb3 or esata
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12:17.02zenitraMokay, the 8192cu driver doesn't seem to support master mode properly (can't set SSID)
12:17.13zenitraMgoing to try the mainline one with Turl's patches
12:22.21oliv3rrm: I fully agree with you! however being able to talk to the hardware helps quite a bit. or should I       say _knowing_ how to talk to the hardware :)
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12:46.29hackandfabDoes anyone know if cedarx could in hardware encode and decode a video at the same time? (I know there is no open driver yet)
12:52.40mnemoci really doubt it can do both things at the same time
13:01.26hackandfabI looked at the code at  https://github.com/amery/allwinner-a10-video and there are no overlaping funcions. Also there is no boolean IOCTL. I mean the code looks like it could be posible but I don't know if the hardware could.
13:02.11hackandfabI meant there isn't a IOCTL parameter that is 0 or 1 to encode or decode.
13:03.23hackandfabso if the chip can't encode and decode at the same time, there is nothing in the code that prevents this
13:05.05mnemoctest it :)
13:05.29rmso if people could fly there's nothing in the US law that prevents this
13:05.54mnemocmaybe in some states...
13:06.24hackandfabmnemoc I wish i could :(
13:06.49mnemocyou have encoding and decoding sample code
13:09.22hackandfabok, I'll try and tell you but it will take all day
13:12.59mnemoconly a day? :p
13:22.19zenitraMAP mode works on the meleusing hostapd + mainline driver \o/
13:22.28hackandfabmnemoc: I'm begining to thik it will be a good idea to grab milk and krispies...
13:22.37mnemochackandfab: :D
13:22.43mnemoczenitraM: kudos!
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14:00.06zenitraMmmm, how can the LED on the Mele be toggled from Linux?
14:00.33hnoRegarding the petition for open drivers. It''s not the more the better. The less we have to deal with Eva the better. "random" Open Source requests is not going to please her at all.
14:00.47hnozenitraM, good question. Been wondering the same.
14:00.50specingzenitraM: 1) export a GPIO 2) write 1 to it 3) write 0 to it 4) profit!
14:01.30zenitraMi'll try after i get iptables up on it
14:06.31thefroghno: the Cedar driver? or are there other drivers as well that are needed?  Do they know how to deal with open source requests after they do it?
14:14.57mnemocthe same driver does cedarv and cedara (VPU and APU) prblem is that chances to piss eva off are getting high.
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14:23.13thefrogmnemoc: eva being someone at allwinner, softwinner, or Mele -- or eva being something else?
14:23.23WarheadsSEagreed mnemoc all we need is one "everything should be free!!" nut
14:24.14thefrogWarheadsSE: you have to have a plan in advance to deal with those
14:24.20WarheadsSEhno: zenitraM I was just about to ask the same thing..
14:24.39WarheadsSESuppose I should put in a patch for sys/class/led at some point...
14:25.06WarheadsSEwould be a lot easier.
14:25.54WarheadsSEAre the leds even in the Fex?
14:26.44WarheadsSE(no)
14:30.14mnemocthefrog: eva is the almighty secretary of allwinner/softwinner/wits
14:30.35WarheadsSEyes, please dont piss her off.
14:30.53specingheh
14:31.13traeakmaybe you guys can wear her down :-p
14:31.38mnemocthey have no obligation on helping us, so annoying her isn't a good idea
14:31.54mnemocWarheadsSE: there is a gpio driver
14:32.06mnemoccalled GPIOUGLY or something like that
14:32.14mnemocwritten by hipboi__
14:32.22mnemocuh, his nose is getting bigger
14:33.59thefrogmnomoc: I haven't written to them yet.  was going to wait until I was in a good mood and be nice and positive and praising.
14:34.23mnemocgood idea :)
14:35.05thefrogI figured it would be nice to wait until after the rush and then be nice
14:37.09thefrogI suspect they need help themselves on figuring out how to deal with this.
14:37.54hnothefrog, Allwinner knows nothing about how Open Source works. And there is no noticeable business case in it for them. But thanks to careful negotiations by lkcl we have Tom on our side.
14:39.31traeakhow difficult is it to market, sell and support POS systems?
14:39.47traeaktoo mcuh software involved and they are a hardware company
14:39.51traeakugh, forget that then
14:40.18thefroghno: I suspect that they didn't know.  The spectere of an early open-source nut demanding compliance is real.
14:40.53hnoand not helping.
14:40.54traeak"nut"?
14:41.10thefrogtraeak: zealot ?
14:41.12traeaksomeone wanting to be able to pursue a new business model with minimal resource requirements
14:41.18mnemocthefrog: [mark as spam] .... and after some training, bye bye crowd
14:41.23traeakthat's a reality
14:41.35traeakif one of these experiments takes off then they might get tons of orders
14:41.52traeakbut they are afraid that by that time somene else will have undercut them or something
14:42.27traeakthe big problem is they don't seem to have risk takers
14:43.04mnemoctraeak: they also provide the $service$ of dealing with software changes for their paying customers
14:43.18mnemochaving sources open undermines that part of their business model
14:43.38traeakah yes the almighty maintenance dollars
14:44.04mnemocwhich are more real that any promises made by the open source advocating crowd
14:44.19traeakgotcha
14:44.35traeakso they take whatever theycan and give back the minimum they can
14:44.38traeakthe game everyone playes
14:44.56zenitraMAP mode is utterly unstable :( connection drops every second
14:47.39mnemoctraeak: isn't that the definition of business?
14:48.22traeakmnemoc: only one type of business
14:48.36traeakmarket entrechment
14:48.45traeakpeople who really make it big are the ones who createnew markets
14:49.16traeakthose creators of new markets should be allowe to do so, the problem is those are the ones hurt the most by stupid policy
14:49.56mnemocthose are who didn't get a brainwashing MBA ;-)
14:51.18mnemocI mean, business schools advocate the do whatever you need to earn more faster
14:51.32mnemocscrewing whoever you need
14:51.48mnemocif the laws are a problem, $change$ the laws
14:52.37traeaksounds like the rules of an agnostic/atheist society :-p
14:52.50mnemoc:)
14:53.01traeakchina, russia
14:53.55mnemocas if the US money didn't buy laws
14:54.28traeakthat's because the us government went form ~3% of gdp at the peak of growth to whatever massive percent it is today
15:02.07thefrogtraeak: POS system.  Lots of logistics, litterally.  If the POS is down, the end-user isn't making money.  Techs and Parts within single-digit hours of most customers.
15:14.26rm<traeak> china, russia   <- if the laws are a problem, you just pay/earn more bribes
15:14.33rmdepending on which side you are at
15:18.15traeakthefrog: i know, these hardware manufacturers end up being squeezed because that's all they mostly offer...unless they try to play chicken and lock up the hardware by obscurity
15:29.37thefrogtraeak: maybe using more common/commodity hardware.  square (squareup?) has an almost zero footprint solution to overcome it.
15:30.07thefrogi wouldn't want to do what they are doing though
15:33.41traeaksupport for POS is murderous, the liability is monstrous
15:34.51traeakand i think in the US now government regulation has kicked in on purchase tracking as well (i'm totally against that BTW)
15:34.52traeakheh
15:35.37thefrogtraeak: i don't understand 'purchase tracking'
15:36.06thefrogi'm dense though.. it took me 3 days to figure out what ICS was.
15:37.13traeaknow ics falls to jellybean
15:37.19traeakanything short for jellybean ?
15:37.26thefrogseeing a lot of jb
15:37.36thefrogwhich keys to 'jailbreak' in my mind
15:42.57WarheadsSEdont worry, it will get worse as people get dyslesic and type "MY PHONE GOT BJ!"
15:43.38CIA-122rhombus-tech: amix master * r1d95e518b83a /community_ideas.mdwn: added active cross-over idea
15:44.28traeakbj and max iPad ?
15:57.50mnemocTurl: ping
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16:42.48thefrogWhat does the A10 product page mean by multi-channel display?
16:44.10mnemocthefrog: probably that you can have separated outputs at the same time
16:45.09thefrogmnemoc: so rendering to an LCD and an HDMI output at the same time.. or overlaying two decode streams on the same video output?
16:47.34mnemoci think both...
16:47.43mnemocbut i've not played with either
16:48.47thefrogmnemoc: i am trying to tamp down any excitement.  I have an Mele a100 on the way.  If it works, I'd like to get a few of the tablet designs to play with
16:49.04Turlping mnemoc
16:49.59mnemocTurl: hi, can you give the new wip/linux-sunxi-3.0/mem a test?
16:50.45mnemocmoved all the memory reserving changes to a different branch, until we find something that works :<
16:51.23mnemocTurl: I stole your CONFIG_SUNXI_MALI_SIZE hack for now
16:55.14Turlmnemoc: after thinking about it some time, the kconfig approach isn't so good, I'd do it inside core.c and set config_sunxi_mali_size there
16:55.28Turlif you disable mali it'd still reserve the memory on the kconfig approach
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16:57.15mnemoci think fixup is even too early even for checking script.bin
16:57.23mnemocas we do in .reserve
16:58.14mnemocbut I can't find a way to get rid of the .fixup hackery
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16:59.10mnemocand would like to have something that... "does the job" merged
17:00.39Turlmnemoc: something like http://pastebin.com/t6iZBXdL
17:01.17TurlI failed @ one of the defines on the pastebin even :)
17:01.22mnemocso you only want to avoid the extra CONFIG_
17:01.34Turlyeah and make it more dynamic
17:01.39Turlif your defconfig has the size stuff
17:01.44Turlthen you disable mali
17:01.52Turlit'll still have the size stuff
17:02.09Turlwith the #if inside the code it'll refresh dynamically
17:02.35mnemoc#if is compile-time
17:02.41mnemocnothing dynamic there
17:03.05Turlwhat I meant is, the kconfig is kinda set in stone on your config
17:03.12mnemocbut you protect yourself from someone setting a random number
17:03.15Turlthe if switches depending on the mali config only
17:03.55mnemocdoesn't see the difference
17:04.22mnemocbeside saving one line in .config
17:04.27Turlmnemoc: enable mali, have the stuff allocate ram. then disable mali
17:04.39Turlmnemoc: on #if, ram won't be allocated. on kconfig, it will
17:04.49mnemocah, ok
17:05.07mnemocthis is more *reliable* than Kconfig, yes
17:08.27mnemocTurl: http://dpaste.com/772694/
17:08.56mnemocTurl: something like that?
17:13.29RaYmAnTurl: if you made config SUNXI_MALI_SIZE depend on MALI, wouldn't it take care of it as well? kernel config should automatically remove it if mali is disabled then...
17:14.15mnemocisn't the 'default' only used when the variable is first set?
17:14.27mnemocah, meh
17:14.32mnemocforget what I said
17:15.20RaYmAnyou could do something like #ifdef CONFIG_SUNXI_MALI_SIZE mali = CONFIG_SUNXI_MALI_SIZE #endif, and have CONFIG_SUNXI_MALI_SIZE depend on CONFIG_MALI? Surely that would have same effect.
17:15.38RaYmAn(but this only takes care of the argument about allocating memory still if you disable mali)
17:15.39mnemocRaYmAn: http://dpaste.com/772694/
17:16.13mnemocthere you have the old proposal as - and a replacement as +
17:16.16Turlno need to have an int named mali mnemoc
17:16.22Turlyou can use #define
17:16.24RaYmAnyeah, I saw it :) I was just mostly pulling apart Turl's argument for going that direction instead
17:16.47mnemocTurl: sure it's not needed, but looks cleaner :p
17:16.47TurlRaYmAn: yeah but then on non-mali it wouldn't be 0 but undefined instead
17:16.48traeakwhatever you pick may stick :-p
17:17.07RaYmAnTurl: yes - but that's easily fixable in source file
17:17.19TurlRaYmAn: crapton of ifdefs? :D
17:17.21RaYmAn#ifdef #else mali =0
17:17.41RaYmAnTurl: no, exactly the same amount as in the second proposal
17:17.41Turlmnemoc: anyway the compiler can optimize those constants I think? :)
17:17.42RaYmAn:P
17:18.25mnemocTurl: "in dead code elimination we trust"
17:19.03RaYmAnI honeslty don't really care whether it's kconfig or statically defined (though - magic constants annoy me ;)) - was just the argument I didn't really like ;)
17:19.16RaYmAnalso, yay! My n7 has been shipped :D
17:19.47mnemocfrom uk?
17:20.11RaYmAnno, it's been shipped from google to the guy I bought it through
17:20.21RaYmAnshould arrive tomorrow and then he can reship so it should be here around monday
17:21.12TurlRaYmAn: have him check if the screen doesn't bleed like no tomorrow :D
17:21.28mnemocenless it slips out of the envelope :<
17:21.40mnemocunless*
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17:22.55RaYmAnTurl: lol
17:23.01RaYmAnTurl: nah, I'd prefer unopened :P
17:23.22RaYmAnmnemoc: I'll have him ship it as a package ;)
17:23.26mnemocwant to video some unboxing pr0n?
17:23.31mnemocRaYmAn: :)
17:23.33RaYmAnlol
17:23.37RaYmAnthere's plenty of that online
17:23.43RaYmAnhalf the people fail at opening it :P
17:24.08RaYmAnNow I just need ot find a usage for it! :)
17:24.33mnemocdust collector?
17:24.57RaYmAnlol
17:25.13RaYmAnsadly, probably not entirely wrong
17:25.21RaYmAnI should really sell some of the tablets I don't use
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18:22.08t0dbld|workRaYmAn: no family ? mine jsut got about 3k in devices from me last month or two
18:22.23RaYmAnI'd rather sell them ;P
18:23.30t0dbld|workhaha no doubt ... if they didnt need device so bad i prob would have done the same
18:24.16thefrogwhat was the use case for reserving the physical address space for 64Meg for the Graphics?
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18:31.44mnemocthefrog: apparently the driver needs a fixed address. if we don't reserve it, by the time the module is loaded it's already (partially) used
18:31.57mnemocand if we reserve it, mali fails to re-reserve it
18:32.24mnemocand AllWinner's solution was to hide it from the kernel entirely
18:32.54mnemocthere are a bunch of failed experiments to remove this hack in the wip/3.0/mem_mali branch
18:33.20mnemocif you want to play. I already gave up
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19:05.29Turlmnemoc: found this document, is it something we got already? http://wenku.baidu.com/view/6656c88d84868762caaed530.html
19:10.03thefrogIt'll take some reading.  I would like to look.  I mostly don't know what I am doing.  I was thinking a character speical device.
19:26.25mnemocTurl: yes, we do
19:27.12mnemocTurl: baidu is also a bad source... you don't only need to register (in chinese) but then to upload stuff to gain credits to then be used for downloading stuff
19:27.29Turlmnemoc: huh?
19:27.50mnemocat least they don't spam you much
19:28.04Turlmnemoc: I used a bugmenot.com account and downloaded it and the a10 datasheet :P
19:28.26mnemocwe have the datasheets in the wiki....
19:29.04mnemochttp://linux-sunxi.org/A10
19:29.44RaYmAnIt'd be nice to get some register documentation, lol
19:29.51RaYmAneven nvidia document their platform better than this
19:29.55RaYmAn(publicly!)
19:30.19Turlmnemoc: it's not linked there
19:30.26Turlthe dev bloard user manual that is
19:30.35mnemocthere is a ~400p incomplete PDF with A10 registers
19:30.54mnemocTurl: sure, why do you need the manual of a board you don't have?
19:31.17RaYmAnmnemoc: hrm, where?
19:31.31Turlmnemoc: it has info on how the pins multiplex and stuff
19:31.40mnemocTurl: the datasheet too
19:31.56mnemocRaYmAn: not publicly available
19:44.13thefrogwow... github threw a 500 on getting the branches
19:44.28mnemocnot uncommon :p
19:45.11Turlfirst time you see github failing? lucky you :)
19:45.44thefrogTurl: first.  playing with the graphic.  Not a github shop here.
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19:49.44thefrogand I ment the graphic on the 500 page.. you can make it move.   easily amused
19:52.59Turltry a 404
19:55.44thefrogDon't have hardware yet.  Will have to setup a toolchain
19:56.11thefrogare on-device compiles decent are is everyone cross-compiling?
19:56.53Turlpersonally I cross compile all the things :)
19:56.56Turlbe back later
19:58.01hnoRaYmAn, there is quite a bit of register documentation in the kernel sources. Collecting the pieces I find at https://github.com/hno/Allwinner-Info/tree/master/registers
19:58.26hnoand the restricted access 400p document mnemoc mentioned.
19:58.49RaYmAnheh
20:02.31hnothe kernel sources is the authorative source for information.
20:03.21hnoallwinner apparently have additional internal documentation somewhere. Tom was able to dig out basic watchdog details not available anywhere known outside Allwinner.
20:03.37hno(magic numbers needed to make the watchdog actually work)
20:04.20thefrog. OK.  I got the diffs and see the driver work.  I might be able to do something on this when I get my hardware.  At least I have something to read until then.
20:05.11hnoRaYmAn, intention is to transform all those headers into a register map. See http://rhombus-tech.net/allwinner_a10/A10_register_guide/
20:05.17RaYmAnyeah
20:05.19RaYmAnwould be cool
20:05.56hnodoing piece by piece as needed, which also happens to be those pieces which is not covered in the 400p Allwinner register guide.
20:07.32hnoFor A13 there won't even be a restricted access register guide available.
20:08.08hnono idea what the situation will be like for Allwinner A15 when it comes out.
20:09.08thefroghno: is there any chance that the j1nx/gimli thing will actually open them up a bit?
20:10.36gimlithefrog: nope. they requested me to write them, did it. no anwser. my standpoind is allwinner can fuck off
20:11.23thefroggimli: i expect it will take them a week to digest your response.  then I guess you will get a few conflicting communications.
20:12.16thefrogthen it will either work or won't work.
20:12.19gimlii alrady started last week official contact to them. only one mail back, in the rest silence
20:12.45thefroggimli: when we had manufacturing in there.. it was always like that.
20:12.51gimliquite strange that Eva lost my mail adress even she anwsered me last week.
20:13.49mnemocwe are all filtered as spam :p
20:14.29furanI wish I could figure out what this register is
20:14.30gimlifor me a10 is dead from the xbmc point of view.
20:14.31thefrog"hey, all the batteries exploded and leaked.. " *silence* "Hey we're not gonna pay for this shipment"  "what was the problem.. you never told us"
20:14.48furan01C22000
20:15.47thefroggimli: that's a perfectly reasonable view.. unless they change something.  I try to not get my hopes up.
20:17.15thefrogok.. that's today then.
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20:52.37mnemochno: can I steal your registry guide?
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21:21.15hnomnemoc, what do you mean?
21:23.03hnofuran, a bit of more context please. Where are you seeing this register?
21:24.07furanI'm reversing a driver for the yinlips ydpg18 (an a10 device). It has a gamepad that is run with a heavily modified sun4-ir.c driver (called ioc)
21:24.07mnemochno: migrating it from one wiki to the other
21:25.03hnomnemoc, I need offline access to work on that one.
21:25.13furananyway I read the code wrong
21:25.32furanit's using 0xF1C22000+0x800, aka LRADC
21:25.57furanit sends it strange values
21:26.02furanwhen enabling it sends
21:26.05furan<PROTECTED>
21:26.19furanwhen disabling it sends     writel(0, 0xF1C22000 + 0x800);
21:26.44mnemochno: allwinner_info.git + python script to push it?
21:27.36hnomnemoc, also would like others to be able to work online or offline.
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21:27.59furanah I am finding useful info in sun4i-keyboard.c
21:28.01mnemochno: so if the wiki it's not git based you won't use it, right?
21:28.08hnoif moving I'd rather move it to github wiki I think.
21:29.19hnogit / bzr / mercurial / whatever DRCS that works.
21:32.22CIA-122rhombus-tech: Peter master * rdd5adc3db220 /allwinner_a10/orders/peter.mdwn:
21:32.54mnemoc:(
21:33.39Turlwasn't there a mediawiki filesystem?
21:33.51mnemocyes, but doesn't work offline
21:45.20mnemochno: a parseable text file in allwinner-info can be edited by more people (as any project on github) and the generated output be protected with a note pointing to the repo
22:01.38mnemocsad there is no offline support for mediawiki yet
22:07.04specingwell
22:07.20specingyou can download the wikipedia.org database and use it offline....
22:07.26specing20G text only
22:07.56mnemocspecing: i'm talking about linux-sunxi.org
22:08.14specingwell them must have scripts to dump it
22:08.18specinglook at them :)
22:08.44mnemocmaking a bot (with pywikipediabot) to maintain a git-based mirror wouldn't be hard, making it sync bidirectionally is another story
22:13.49hnomnemoc, rhombus-tech wiki is open for anyone to edit. Not the most user friendly editor but there is no restrictions.
22:16.02mnemochno: unfortunatelly I lost my hope of ever seeing an A10-based product from RT, and even if one comes it's a very minor player in their plans
22:16.19mnemocso for me it's the wrong place for anything A10-related
22:18.54mnemocexcept the stuff about the EOMA68-A10 cards obviusly
22:24.57Manofthe1eahmm?  mnemoc, you're expecting the first card to be a different processor?
22:25.41mnemoci don't discard it
22:26.20mnemocthe only info about the cards is about how many other SoC makers have been visited
22:26.45mnemocand the exciting deals "the associates" have made
22:27.16Manofthe1eawell, would you want it to be the only card?
22:27.17mnemocwhich is great, for RT and EOMA68 goals
22:28.06mnemocManofthe1ea: of course not, I only mean that it's the wrong place for documenting the A10 SoC which is only a minor player in RT's plans
22:28.18Manofthe1eaoh, I follow.
22:28.28Manofthe1eaYeah, not documenting all A10, but just EOMA-A10
22:28.36Manofthe1eaI had misunderstood
22:30.50specingheh then why linux-sunxi.org? why not just sunxi.org?
22:32.15mnemocno reason in particular beside that one exists and the other doesn't (yet)
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22:40.40mnemocas long as it's a place without economic goals where the A10 is a prime actor I'm happy. Not just an excuse to attract attention to a particular business
22:41.20specingheh
22:50.40mnemocgood night
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