| 00:02.25 | kristianpaul | hmm |
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| 00:39.56 | kristianpaul | qi-hw servers in maitenance? |
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| 00:45.03 | wolfspraul | down again? |
| 00:46.19 | wolfspraul | seems so, yeah |
| 00:46.30 | wolfspraul | ok, back to working on replacement server :-) |
| 00:46.50 | wolfspraul | the fpga work was so good that I procrastinated on the server again... |
| 00:59.26 | wolfspraul | he, I think it's coming back up -> back to exciting fpga first, *then* new server :-) |
| 00:59.34 | wolfspraul | kristianpaul: thanks a lot for the heads up! |
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| 01:00.08 | wolfspraul | hi qi-bot, good to have you back :-) |
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| 01:11.13 | wpwrak | what's the trouble with the server ? aging hardware ? |
| 01:13.44 | wolfspraul | don't know |
| 01:14.05 | wolfspraul | there are too many pieces that I don't have full visibility into, and/or don't want to (too much effort) |
| 01:14.12 | wolfspraul | the kernel is not 100% bugfree I would think |
| 01:14.16 | wolfspraul | there are 2 kvm instances running |
| 01:14.24 | wolfspraul | there's a raid-whatever mirror underneath, and lvm |
| 01:14.36 | wolfspraul | and there are 1 in 1^x hardware errors, as we all know |
| 01:14.48 | wolfspraul | dram, hdd issues, etc. |
| 01:15.02 | wolfspraul | of course I could improve all this, but why |
| 01:15.17 | wolfspraul | we are not operating facebook or twitter with millions of users active at any moment |
| 01:15.19 | wpwrak | hmm. so you'll just migrate to a new machine and hope for the best. well, this often works :) |
| 01:15.23 | wolfspraul | yep |
| 01:15.28 | wolfspraul | in fact I have that machine already |
| 01:15.41 | wolfspraul | but when the old one comes back up I immediately stop working on the migration :-) |
| 01:15.44 | wolfspraul | he he |
| 01:16.19 | wpwrak | ah, what happened to german discipline :) |
| 01:16.21 | wolfspraul | I use the chance of a new server also to upgrade my knowledge |
| 01:16.30 | wolfspraul | this time for example I finally make the big ipv6 push |
| 01:16.41 | wolfspraul | I will first set it all up wtih ipv6 only, and then route ipv4 into it |
| 01:16.49 | wpwrak | hah. i'm not even sure if my isp supports it :) |
| 01:16.49 | wolfspraul | in 2012, it's about time |
| 01:20.14 | wolfspraul | same here, but I mean on the server |
| 01:22.46 | wpwrak | woah :) no sign of IPv6 ... but i found this: http://www.fibertelevolution.com.ar/ |
| 01:22.55 | kristianpaul | is waiting his isp to support ipv6 as well so i can migrate server to new home |
| 01:23.12 | kristianpaul | and worldwide AAAA dns support.. |
| 01:23.13 | kristianpaul | well |
| 01:23.14 | wpwrak | 30 Mbps !! and they present it as if they had just created the iphone :) |
| 01:24.03 | kristianpaul | I tough you had used to our nice adverticement methods :-) |
| 01:24.15 | kristianpaul | s/nice/clever |
| 01:24.15 | qi-bot | kristianpaul meant: "I tough you had used to our clever adverticement methods :-)" |
| 01:25.48 | wpwrak | yeah, save on tech, spend on marketing. actually a reasonable approach :) |
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| 05:40.53 | GCW | Does anyone know where I could locate newest linux source code for Ingenic jz4770 or a Programmers Manual |
| 05:41.38 | GCW | If so please pm me |
| 05:43.08 | GCW | or e-mail me gcwnow@gmail.com |
| 06:06.45 | rz2k | the only one public source that I've found some time ago. http://git.varjanta.com/Ingenic-JZ4770-Android-Kernel/.git/tree |
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| 09:15.59 | LunaVorax | Hi! |
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| 09:52.47 | kristianpaul | erghh where is weather forecast when you need it.. |
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| 14:07.44 | wpwrak | Fallenou: found it ? ;-) |
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| 15:04.52 | Fallenou | wpwrak: yes =) thx for making a fool of me, I kind of deserved it ! |
| 15:04.57 | Fallenou | lazyness... |
| 15:05.42 | wpwrak | sorry, couldn't resist :) it's just so easy ... |
| 15:07.35 | roh | hey there |
| 15:08.37 | roh | btw.. on ti chips: reading the datasheet and the register level documentation isnt enough. you HAVE to read the application notes. ALL of them and importantly: check out all the small notes. they are extremely important from time to time |
| 15:09.04 | Fallenou | and the silicon errata |
| 15:09.13 | roh | compared to samsung or similar stuff its hard work getting these beasts to work. |
| 15:09.15 | Fallenou | there are a lot of silicon bugs |
| 15:09.18 | roh | ack. |
| 15:09.22 | wpwrak | roh: what hidden gems would one find in the app notes ? |
| 15:09.24 | Fallenou | is working with omap3 |
| 15:09.38 | roh | on ti one can smell the shift-registers, while samsung hides em all quite well |
| 15:10.09 | roh | wpwrak: bugs, nondocumented, enforced register orders (can only be touched in that order) etc.. such stuff. |
| 15:10.17 | roh | ti is hell to work with compared to other stuff. |
| 15:10.18 | wpwrak | ah, nice :) |
| 15:10.21 | Fallenou | wpwrak: next time try this one : lmgtfy.com/?q=ti+am3352 ;) |
| 15:10.40 | wpwrak | Fallenou: i didn't want to make it so easy for you ;-) |
| 15:10.44 | Fallenou | ahah |
| 15:10.45 | roh | anyhow. if you really want to do a product with an imagination gpu on board, then i am out. |
| 15:11.12 | wpwrak | roh: you still have the dumb frame buffer, don't you ? |
| 15:11.21 | roh | i have enough foss work in front of me and or get payed for it, i will not waste any minute of my life for such crap |
| 15:11.24 | roh | wpwrak: no. |
| 15:11.26 | roh | wpwrak: usually not. |
| 15:11.37 | roh | wpwrak: and even paying for the silicon is NOT ok. |
| 15:12.00 | wpwrak | duh. as if the "microsoft tax" had prevented us from using laptops. |
| 15:12.09 | roh | its live buying nvidia chips. its NOT giving the vendors the proper incentive. |
| 15:12.51 | wpwrak | think of it this way: if we can make a ti-nanonote with the help of ti, it'll be pretty easy to turn this into a, say, allwinner-nanonote afterwards. |
| 15:12.52 | roh | wpwrak: it hasent. and no, i did not buy windows last few times. |
| 15:13.08 | roh | wpwrak: i think you are much too eaten by the ti-marketing-bullshit |
| 15:13.22 | wpwrak | i don't particularly care about ti marketing |
| 15:13.26 | roh | ti hasent made a single foss useable design the last few years. |
| 15:13.36 | wpwrak | i'm interested in someone financing qi-hw development |
| 15:13.46 | roh | their ´documenton is sub-level compared to what i see from freescale and samsung |
| 15:13.50 | wpwrak | because we're all running out of reserves |
| 15:14.07 | roh | they are much less open when it comes to details, and they are known to 'fall into your back' when you need it the least. |
| 15:14.33 | roh | ah.. and their chips are known not to work without the help of their FAE and lots of pain and time. |
| 15:14.45 | wpwrak | yeah, i heard that one :) |
| 15:14.53 | Fallenou | their support even for a big company is shit |
| 15:15.00 | roh | as in 'sit down with their FAE to get routing changed' without any documentable reasons... sucks. |
| 15:15.10 | Fallenou | i am on the phone with a TI account manager each week |
| 15:15.19 | roh | its not that they are not trying. but their products are just crap. |
| 15:15.22 | wpwrak | maybe the AM335x aren't all that hairy, though. after all, they're only mid-range by today's standards. |
| 15:15.29 | Fallenou | he just buys time and say bullshit about his progress on fixing ours bugs |
| 15:15.45 | roh | wpwrak: doesnt matter. i would choose a freescale or samsung soc over them blindly. |
| 15:16.16 | wpwrak | the cpu choice would be determined by who feeds the project :) |
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| 15:16.19 | roh | Fallenou: i have never seen ti accept that a bug is theirs, even when provided proof.- |
| 15:16.22 | wpwrak | s/who/whom who |
| 15:16.23 | qi-bot | wpwrak meant: "the cpu choice would be determined by whom who feeds the project :)" |
| 15:16.32 | roh | wpwrak: anyhow. any ti project cannot be foss. |
| 15:16.42 | roh | atleast not with the chips they have. |
| 15:16.48 | Fallenou | roh: they accepted to say they are out of jedec spec |
| 15:16.53 | Fallenou | for omap3630 |
| 15:17.02 | roh | Fallenou: whohoo... |
| 15:17.17 | Fallenou | which implies troubles with several ram chips |
| 15:17.23 | Fallenou | at precise freq |
| 15:17.25 | roh | nah.. its so much work and pain to do a project/product. i do not need additional weight. |
| 15:17.26 | wpwrak | as far as i can tell, the LCD controller should be able to provide a dumb frame buffer. and that part is documented. |
| 15:17.49 | Fallenou | wpwrak: yes |
| 15:17.59 | Fallenou | just drawing to framebuffer is fine |
| 15:18.00 | roh | wpwrak: doesnt matter. either you can use the accel. or you choose another chip. |
| 15:18.13 | Fallenou | you have linux framebuffer which works |
| 15:18.28 | Fallenou | just forget about opengl |
| 15:18.28 | wpwrak | we don't need accel at those resolutions. hey, even my desktop doesn't have 3D accel. |
| 15:18.45 | roh | wpwrak: you need accel. even for blitting. |
| 15:18.53 | roh | wpwrak: without its painfully slow. |
| 15:19.13 | wpwrak | remember gta01. considerably weaker hardware. and graphics speed was just fine in the end. |
| 15:19.30 | mth | rz2k: whoever is maintaining that git is doing some weird things to the commits |
| 15:19.32 | roh | and yes, i also only use 2d desktops. but yes i need accel. why? for yuv conversion and bitblit with keying and alpha. |
| 15:19.37 | mth | date and author info are lost |
| 15:20.31 | roh | wpwrak: you forget that on the moko even the screen-refresh ate 1/3rd of our total memory bandwith already due to the 'big screen' |
| 15:21.23 | wpwrak | see ! |
| 15:22.03 | wpwrak | the AM335x supports DDR3. and DMA seems pretty flexible, so even if you can't do blit with the CPU, you have a plan B |
| 15:22.06 | roh | anyhow. making a product which is in the same market as the efika (which are there and done) will be more than hard. |
| 15:22.17 | roh | and less free as ti. |
| 15:22.45 | roh | eh... i mean.. ti will be less free afaik (due to details, also imx has pvr) |
| 15:23.58 | roh | http://www.genesi-tech.com/products/smartbook |
| 15:24.52 | wpwrak | from the discussion, i gather there are a number of undesirable properties, most of them well-known. but nothing that would make such a device un-viable. |
| 15:25.19 | roh | wpwrak: the major thing i just named: market already taken. |
| 15:25.31 | roh | you would have to beat a 200 euro product |
| 15:25.49 | wpwrak | for me the question is whether TI would provide the resources for such a project, accepting it to be open (according to qi-hw standards) for the rest of its structure and parts |
| 15:26.21 | wpwrak | that's a different class of device |
| 15:26.38 | roh | the allwinner cpu is at least interresting |
| 15:26.50 | roh | ti and freescale are both extremely expensive. |
| 15:27.01 | wpwrak | i wonder about the allwinner. where is the documentation ? |
| 15:27.17 | roh | me too.. i only find linux ports |
| 15:27.21 | roh | i guess its chinese |
| 15:27.59 | roh | but atleast it has a mali-gpu .. which means its from arm and needs only one reverse-engineering, not a new one every time |
| 15:28.27 | wpwrak | heh ;-) |
| 15:28.34 | wpwrak | does powervr change so often ? |
| 15:29.45 | roh | wpwrak: yes and no. there are some -zig revisions |
| 15:30.04 | roh | and the company is quite extreme on legal cases. |
| 15:30.37 | roh | the mali stuff will be less stressfull from that corner afaik |
| 15:30.37 | wpwrak | hunting reverse engineers ? |
| 15:30.40 | roh | yes. |
| 15:31.03 | wpwrak | well, eventually someone will crack the secret ... :) |
| 15:31.47 | roh | http://lists.openmoko.org/nabble.html#nabble-td7561473 |
| 15:32.10 | wpwrak | it's not as if people couldn't figure out how to work together on things that must avoid the light of day :) |
| 15:32.11 | roh | wpwrak: anyhow.. why license a gpu which is closed and even pay for it? |
| 15:32.30 | roh | thats not sensible behaviour |
| 15:33.48 | wpwrak | my reasoning is based on TI financing the project. if they don't, it's obviously a no-go. |
| 15:34.24 | roh | wpwrak: you know that intel had the sgx in one of their products? |
| 15:34.33 | roh | which they dropped completely because of that |
| 15:34.33 | wpwrak | if they finance it, this would allow us to make that ben successor we've always talked about but never started with. |
| 15:34.53 | wpwrak | maybe intel are smarter than ti, at least in that regard ? :) |
| 15:35.19 | roh | the poulsbo chipset |
| 15:35.41 | wpwrak | also, if ti finance such a project, that would completely offset the extra cost of the gpu. that is, unless we sell millions of units. |
| 15:35.57 | roh | intel seems to have a 'need to write open drivers or release datasheets' paradigm, which they couldnt do with sgx, so they remove the product in the process |
| 15:36.06 | wpwrak | in which case, we'd of course have the means to change the design to use whatever chip we truly like. |
| 15:36.25 | wpwrak | yes, intel are very friendly |
| 15:36.37 | wpwrak | too bad they're stuck with x86 |
| 15:36.41 | roh | ack. |
| 15:36.54 | roh | well.. sometimes friendly, sometimes just good-willed |
| 15:37.13 | roh | for some stuff there is no documentation, just drivers (even open ones) |
| 15:37.21 | whitequark | nowadays if I would ever want to buy a notebook, that'll be an Ultrabook |
| 15:37.28 | whitequark | because it awesomely works with Linux out of the box. |
| 15:37.28 | wpwrak | maybe they just didn't get around to writing proper docs |
| 15:37.58 | whitequark | not to mention that they tend to generally have quite good hardware. |
| 15:38.06 | roh | buys 5 year old thinkpads. because they work great and are only a few hundred euros for hw which doesnt get built that way anymore |
| 15:38.31 | whitequark | well, I think I'll get myself an Asus UX31E with i7 |
| 15:38.39 | whitequark | I need quite a lot of CPU power for my work |
| 15:38.50 | larsc | roh: R61/T61? |
| 15:38.50 | wpwrak | ti should also feel some pressure on the gpu. the android customer base if getting increasingly unhappy with the update situation and binary-only drivers don't exactly help. (of course, there are many more factors) |
| 15:38.59 | roh | larsc: t60p etc. |
| 15:39.02 | whitequark | and Ivy Bridge graphics is finally something that can be called a GPU. well, this is offtopic anyway. |
| 15:39.11 | roh | no R series (plastic crap) and no 61 series (nvidia) |
| 15:39.41 | roh | magnesium frame and intel/amd chipsets |
| 15:40.05 | roh | and screens with resolution for men without glasses. |
| 15:40.30 | wpwrak | netbooks are also nice. disposable computers. and with enough cost pressure to eliminate any fancy proprietary stuff quite rapidly ;-) |
| 15:40.36 | larsc | i had tought I had hd a T61, but since it had a intel graphics card it must have been T60 |
| 15:40.46 | whitequark | wpwrak: AC100 was a... nice try. |
| 15:40.55 | whitequark | it was cheap and it also had Nvidia Tegra |
| 15:40.56 | whitequark | nuff said |
| 15:41.11 | whitequark | http://tegra.enodev.org/ |
| 15:41.23 | whitequark | (translates to: "No fucking drivers! Throw out that crap.") |
| 15:41.31 | roh | whitequark: i bet that all of that cheap netbook crap is nonworking defective stuff in a short time. |
| 15:41.37 | larsc | it's still running, but the screen hinges have broken multiple times |
| 15:41.41 | roh | whitequark: just wait 3-4 years |
| 15:41.47 | whitequark | roh: exactly |
| 15:42.01 | whitequark | I had a Toshiba netbook, and southbridge died after half a year |
| 15:42.06 | roh | i still use the same machine i worked on at openmoko |
| 15:42.19 | whitequark | now I have a Samsung one (not me actually, given it to a friend), and it works for 2.5 years already |
| 15:42.23 | whitequark | not sure how long it'll last |
| 15:42.56 | whitequark | roh: well, for me, upgrade from 1+ year old Core2 to 0 year old i7 does matter much, so I upgrade frequently. |
| 15:43.14 | roh | and the hammerhead gps story healed me when it comes to binary drivers |
| 15:43.19 | roh | whitequark: whatfor? |
| 15:43.40 | whitequark | roh: 1. compiling stuff 2. writing very high-level software in Ruby. |
| 15:43.49 | roh | whitequark: i only find io too slow (only up to some 30-70mbyte/sec) .. cpu... well... |
| 15:43.52 | roh | bwahahahaha |
| 15:44.00 | roh | ok.. forget it. i only do C and python |
| 15:44.16 | whitequark | roh: try writing LLVM in python and you'll understand what I mean. |
| 15:44.21 | whitequark | that's basically what I did in Ruby. |
| 15:44.32 | roh | still bad idea to use ruby for that |
| 15:44.40 | whitequark | not at all |
| 15:44.49 | roh | besides... its a notebook. if you need power.. thats what rackmounted hw is for |
| 15:44.56 | whitequark | developer cycles are way more important than processor cycles |
| 15:44.57 | wpwrak | (powervr vs. gnu) well, that's the gnu side (rightly) being worried. doesn't say anything about imagination having issues any threats |
| 15:45.24 | whitequark | roh: it's noninteractive software. the fact that I can write a sophisticated SSA transformation in less than 200 LOC _does_ matter a lot |
| 15:45.33 | whitequark | the fact that it'll execute for minutes does not, mostly |
| 15:45.58 | whitequark | I even have map/reduce for the cases where you have >1 core/machine. |
| 15:46.14 | whitequark | roh: (rackmounted hw) not if you travel much. I do, and I work from... strange places sometimes |
| 15:46.44 | roh | and there is no internet there? |
| 15:47.25 | whitequark | sometimes there isn't (~20kbps UMTS with 1000+ms latency) |
| 15:47.50 | whitequark | it's as much as you can get anywhere outside of Moscow if you don't have a dedicated (LAN/ADSL) line |
| 15:47.55 | wpwrak | when it's not snowing |
| 15:47.58 | whitequark | yep |
| 15:48.45 | roh | your bandwith is snow-dependant? |
| 15:49.15 | whitequark | roh: I dunno how 2g/3g works in your country, but here you're lucky if you have 3g _in a center of a big city_, and even there it's crap. |
| 15:49.27 | whitequark | and yes, it's snow-dependent |
| 15:49.29 | whitequark | and luck-dependent |
| 15:49.30 | roh | ;) pun aside.. i am used to quiet computers... even that c2d is quite loud |
| 15:49.45 | whitequark | a few days ago 3g just stopped working in the place where I live |
| 15:49.55 | whitequark | maybe some piece of shit at the tower died, I dunno |
| 15:49.58 | whitequark | happens all the time. |
| 15:50.11 | roh | <PROTECTED> |
| 15:50.12 | whitequark | er, not only 3g but 2g internet too. |
| 15:50.47 | whitequark | if I could get out of Russia right at this precise moment, I won't think even once. |
| 15:51.10 | roh | whats the issue? passport? |
| 15:51.13 | wpwrak | probably also depends on whether the girl at the switchboard had the right quantity of vodka for breakfast. too much or too little and she'll misroute the packets. |
| 15:52.55 | whitequark | roh: I'm 19 with no university degree, which means if I lose my current job I'll probably have a hard time finding another one, and yes, there are some problems with passport due to obscure details of russian law. |
| 15:53.18 | whitequark | the company I'm currently working for is absolutely fine with me working from any other point on earth, which is good. |
| 15:53.44 | roh | wpwrak: http://e2e.ti.com/support/dsp/omap_applications_processors/f/42/t/89852.aspx |
| 15:54.24 | roh | wpwrak: in short: ti fucked up their own hawkboard evb design and need to respin it completely (routing issues or so between soc and ram) and recommends other evalboards in the meantime |
| 15:54.34 | wpwrak | "recommended layout recommendations" ;-)) |
| 15:54.53 | roh | whitequark: well.. sounds good and bad |
| 15:56.37 | wpwrak | if the project was sponsored by ti, i wouldn't worry all that much about this sort of design weaknesses. even if it should turn out in the end that the chip is broken beyond repair, we'd still have gathered valuable experience in other areas. |
| 15:57.21 | wpwrak | it all depends on the angle from which you view the issues |
| 15:57.27 | whitequark | roh: I hope to resolve the latter in a year or so, and a diploma can be bought. (I'm not going to waste 4+ years on 80% shit I'll never actually use and 20% shit I could figure out myself.) |
| 16:00.17 | whitequark | bbl |
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| 16:40.14 | roh | i know somebody in the health field doing foss work |
| 16:40.28 | roh | but much more low-level.. no mcus' but mechanical hacks |
| 16:40.45 | roh | for developing countries... low-tech.. hi-tech isnt serviceable there |
| 16:41.19 | roh | got asked if i can help building a machine which helps dispensing a fluid onto tests-paper and then cut that into stripes |
| 16:41.48 | wpwrak | seems that integration is a big issue in health. they have the equipment but connecting it to a computer costs an arm and a leg. |
| 16:41.51 | roh | a machine from locally available/scrap parts which can be serviced whereever |
| 16:42.21 | roh | wpwrak: e.g. they got a ultrasound machine from siemens and it broke down and nobody could fix ir |
| 16:42.36 | wpwrak | makerbot to the rescue ! :) |
| 16:42.50 | roh | or they got a machine and it had a color-crt and then there was world cup and it got disassembled and nobody could reassmeble it |
| 16:43.25 | wpwrak | of course, it's difficult to make money with those clients/customers who are extremely poor and who need individualized service |
| 16:43.43 | roh | or, machines get broken due to flakey power supply from the grid. not everything works well in dusty environments or high air humidity |
| 16:45.21 | wpwrak | of course, fixing that may quickly mean a complete redesign |
| 16:45.42 | roh | exactly. sometimes also a completely differnt attempt at the problem |
| 16:47.35 | wpwrak | there's one opportunity, though: a lot of medical equipment is priced with us lawsuit risk in mind. if you make it for countries where a hot cup of coffee doens't get you sued for the equivalent of the gross domestic product of a small industry nation, you should be able to sell things at a considerably better price point. |
| 16:49.25 | roh | i think the selling works differently in that field |
| 16:49.36 | roh | that one guy i know gets paid from aid organisations. |
| 16:49.54 | roh | so its more a 'developing stuff' than selling stuff what gets paid, and not from customers |
| 16:50.19 | wpwrak | alright, that may be a more viable approach for one-off tasks |
| 16:51.02 | wpwrak | to make money from the customer (e.g., hospitals), you'd have to solve a problem that appears at many places |
| 16:54.38 | roh | i think that 'selling the product' will be not the major focus.. rather 'providing a solution' |
| 16:55.17 | roh | the ideal open source product can be easily made everywhere by lots of people. so one needs to find a way living from designing it, not making it. |
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