IRC log for #qi-hardware on 20120413

00:02.17whitequarkDocScrutinizer: I was recently thinking about freedom and such
00:02.24whitequarklook, there's CPUs, and they are proprietary
00:02.27whitequarkespecially when good
00:02.32whitequarkbut we'll have M1 SoC
00:02.38whitequarkbut also there are for example NAND flashes
00:02.40whitequarkand chip cases
00:02.42whitequarkand whatnot
00:03.06whitequarkshould we [we = OSS people] launch our own semiconductor industry? where the border lies?
00:14.15wolfspraulthe boundary is where something works best
00:14.42DocScrutinizer51I think 'our own chipfab' is at least a factor 10E3 too huge a chunk for any community to bite and chew
00:14.52wolfspraulin other words - if a chipmaker (designer or foundry) can make a great chip today, that leverages software that we know well, then that's a chip we want to use
00:15.11wolfspraulDocScrutinizer51: sure, and it's nonsense if you know how diverse the "chipmaker" industry is
00:15.36wolfspraulI think practical, we know certain software best, and we are looking for ways to make that software shine in peoples lives
00:15.55wolfspraulI don't plan to work on a phd in physics the next few years
00:16.18wolfspraulneither do I plan to "recreate" what millions of people have worked on the last 60 years, aka "the semiconductor industry"
00:16.36wolfspraulbut I think we can become much smarter in picking the right chips, yeah :-)
00:16.37wolfspraulthat for sure
00:16.47wolfspraulI'm still mostly blind there, maybe some rays of light reaching me slowly
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00:17.35wolfspraulgood morning everybody btw
00:17.48DocScrutinizer51moo
00:18.11wolfspraulDocScrutinizer51: you still shed tears for Nokia?
00:18.12wolfspraul:-)
00:18.20whitequarklooks at the window and recalls UGT
00:18.35DocScrutinizer51no, not for Nokia
00:18.42wolfspraulI somehow think they can't get out of that trap anymore, let's hope it's a large corp and they have some huge invisible growth opportunities somewhere
00:19.19wolfspraulwe need to speed up and make devices that are better at mobile communication :-)
00:19.29DocScrutinizer51rubber dhingi
00:19.52whitequarkwhat
00:20.25DocScrutinizer51nokia's next field of excellence
00:21.00DocScrutinizer51building rubber boots boats
00:21.06DocScrutinizer51tires
00:23.27wolfspraulDocScrutinizer51: what phone do you use right now?
00:29.08DocScrutinizer51N900
00:30.46DocScrutinizer51aka rover aka rx_51
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00:32.45DocScrutinizer51that's why I contribute to CSSU that's why I asked for alternatives to mtools
00:33.08DocScrutinizer51lemme see...
00:33.18DocScrutinizer51~cssu
00:33.18infobotcssu is probably http://wiki.maemo.org/Community_SSU
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00:37.11wolfspraulah updating is good
00:37.23wolfspraulI hope some generally usable libraries or packages come out of that, not just a huge mess tied to one distro
00:42.05DocScrutinizer51wolfspraul: that depends on your metrics
00:43.06DocScrutinizer51while CSSU is also trying to be as much main/upstream as possible, our main goal is keeping maemo for N900 in a usable state
00:43.49DocScrutinizer51doesn't mean we'd not feed upstream with bugfixes, e.g. for gnome-vfs
00:44.15DocScrutinizer51to mention one example of last 2 days
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00:44.47DocScrutinizer51but for obvious reasons this project isn't much involved in creating new libs
00:47.18wolfspraulok, got it
00:47.53wolfspraulI'm always interested in where new packaging and update mechanisms emerge
00:50.33DocScrutinizer51then probably meego-harmattan and mer/nemo is more your focus
00:51.06DocScrutinizer51they all are OBSed now ;-D
00:51.43wolfspraulOBS?
00:51.51DocScrutinizer51Opensuse build service (aiui) seems is the hot new shit now
00:52.59DocScrutinizer51they came up with 'buildyour own distro at a mouseclick' some 2 or 3 years ag
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00:53.37DocScrutinizer51now they offer building $whatever for $your-target
00:53.50DocScrutinizer51aiui
00:54.19DocScrutinizer51absolutely not my domain
00:54.45DocScrutinizer51so all just what I heard occasionally
00:54.47wolfspraulI don't understand
00:54.56wolfspraulthey offer build as a paid service? free service?
00:55.13DocScrutinizer51free
00:55.31wolfspraulhmm
00:55.32DocScrutinizer51and maybe now even the buoildhost sw
00:55.32wolfspraulok
00:56.02DocScrutinizer51really, no clue
00:56.45DocScrutinizer51check out #mer and #harmattan and what they do for buiing/pkging
00:57.48DocScrutinizer51maybe OBS is sth completely different than opensse build server/service, and I'm telling BS
00:59.09wolfspraulI just wait until more generally usable libraries or packages emerge :-)
01:01.11DocScrutinizer51Idon't get your definition of this
01:06.38DocScrutinizer51anyway, on my walk back home
01:06.41DocScrutinizer51bbl
01:34.05DocScrutinizerdo you mean alternatives to apt/dpkg resp zypper/rpm?
01:35.26DocScrutinizer.s/zypper/yum/
01:37.16DocScrutinizernot
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01:42.28wolfspraulno 'alternatives' but more options to update running systems, yes
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02:01.49qi-bot[commit] Adam Wang: changed AP2142ASG-13's package 8-SOIC to SO-8 (master) http://qi-hw.com/p/wernermisc/af618b2
02:01.50qi-bot[commit] Adam Wang: Merge branch 'master' of projects.qi-hardware.com:wernermisc (master) http://qi-hw.com/p/wernermisc/ef5fa7e
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03:02.42qi-bot[commit] Xiangfu: new package libzip (master) http://qi-hw.com/p/openwrt-packages/a7dc528
03:02.43qi-bot[commit] Xiangfu: bard: DEPENDS, add libzip for EPUB support (master) http://qi-hw.com/p/openwrt-packages/bed9012
03:11.19qi-bot[commit] Xiangfu: gmenu2x icon: remvoe pickpdf (master) http://qi-hw.com/p/openwrt-packages/0ee9b4d
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03:17.07DocScrutinizerooh, update running system - a rather ambitious task
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08:01.03qi-bot[commit] Xiangfu: Revert "add common.lib include R, C, LED" (master) http://qi-hw.com/p/kicad-libs/422df1b
08:05.02wpwraknaw, we should replace the kicad libs. they're too unreliable.
08:05.26wpwrakthey change slowly over time and there's no telling what someone has installed on their system
08:09.05xiangfuwpwrak, Hi.
08:09.15xiangfuwhy you add './' to the 'components.pro' Library?
08:09.28xiangfuwpwrak, oh.
08:10.00xiangfuwpwrak, so you advice we add our 'common.lib'?
08:11.43wpwrak(./) i think relative paths didn't work without ./ in earlier versions
08:11.49wpwraknow it seems that they do
08:12.18xiangfuok.
08:12.56wpwrakyes, we should make our own library of basic parts. in most cases, we can just adapt the default library. some parts need font size or line width changes. a few are very ugly and need redrawing, though
08:13.27wpwrake.g., most/all the power symbols have a font that's too tiny
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08:13.44xiangfuwpwrak, ok. got it.
08:13.52xiangfuwpwrak, so I needs revert again. :)
08:14.18wpwrakgit revert revert ;-)
08:20.14xiangfuwpwrak, 'git revert revert' done.
08:23.37xiangfuwpwrak, do you we should use one 'device.lib' as base?
08:24.05xiangfuwpwrak, use device.lib overwrite this common.lib. then we start to edit it little by little.
08:25.08xiangfuoverwrite the 'kicad-libs/components/common.lib'
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11:09.28rz2kI'm surpised how many chinese electronic companies want to work with Russia, I just got back from ExpoElectronica and there was like 30% of panels having "seeking for representative" label.
11:13.46kyakthey want to work with everybody
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11:26.57JCGspHi everyone out there
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11:54.18JCGspthe .sh on the debian 6 image used to compile openwrt updates the source?
12:04.13kyakwhitequark: how can i force using rndis in linux rather than cdc ethernet?
12:04.59kyaki tried to preload rndis_host before connecting Ben, but it still selects CDC Ethernet (ECM) config
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13:54.25mthkyak: afaik it's a compile time option
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14:29.24kyakmth: no, it's not like that.. there are two configurations and the driver choses one of them
14:29.36kyakwhen i plug it into windows, it choses rndis
14:29.57kyakbut when i plug it into linux, it choses cdc
14:30.24kyakand i can't make it choose rndis when i plug it into linux
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15:23.07mirkowhat's the patent-situation with gif by the way?
15:23.17mirkois it free to use and distribute (now)?
15:24.52wolfspraulI would think so :-)
15:25.20wolfspraulthat sounds like a question for computer historians :-)
15:26.40wolfspraulaccording to wikipedia, the last known patents expired in 2004 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gif
15:26.50mirkoah, ok - cool
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17:21.45qi-bot[commit] Paul Cercueil: Removed the "wrapper" feature. (master) http://qi-hw.com/p/gmenu2x/7687212
17:21.46qi-bot[commit] Paul Cercueil: Added a "show console" link parameter (Dingux build only). (master) http://qi-hw.com/p/gmenu2x/e6ca072
17:25.48LunaVoraxHello everyone!
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22:11.51whitequarkkyak: just unload & blacklist the cdc-ecm driver
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22:21.30rjeffriesI serached irc log for "zpu" only found one line from 2010. so maybe it is ok to ask this:
22:21.55rjeffrieswhat do people think of http://www.alvie.com/zpuino/index.html  ?? thanks in advance.
22:24.14rjeffriess/sera/sear/
22:24.38rjeffriess/sera/sear/
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