20 May 2013 01:11
18 May 2013 03:10
eoma68 a10 progress
luke.leighton <luke.leighton <at> gmail.com>
2013-05-18 01:10:30 GMT
2013-05-18 01:10:30 GMT
well, with henrik's help and from hglm on #sunxi i got hdmi up and running on-screen, so this is great news. i'll do some cute pictures tomorrow. also i'll try a board-bring-up of the flying squirrel tablet, that has to be done with some care so i'm likely to leave it till sunday. i accidentally ended up with 2 boards again: one of them turned out be damaged, which is the likely cause of the hassle in booting with livesuite: its HDMI has gone off-line as well (can't read the i2c hdmi). the 2nd one however works fine. all the attempts of the past 2 days to get hdmi working, i put the sdcard into that one and it came up with an on-screen debian prompt immediately. ah it's all good fun :) l.
16 May 2013 15:49
Power consumption of A10/A20/A31
Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
2013-05-16 13:49:40 GMT
2013-05-16 13:49:40 GMT
Is there some info somewhere about the power consumption of those SoCs?
Not in terms of max power to plan for when designing a machine, but
rather consumption in various scenarios (e.g. when idle).
Stefan
15 May 2013 22:30
flying squirrel 1st revision pcb with components
luke.leighton <luke.leighton <at> gmail.com>
2013-05-15 20:30:11 GMT
2013-05-15 20:30:11 GMT
http://rhombus-tech.net/community_ideas/kde_tablet/news/ arrived today, the goal is to use this to do the STM32F programming. which will be _mostly_ correct for when the 2nd revision arrives :) l.
15 May 2013 01:47
a10 eoma68 cpu card bring-up
luke.leighton <luke.leighton <at> gmail.com>
2013-05-14 23:47:15 GMT
2013-05-14 23:47:15 GMT
just a quick update: thanks to henrik's help not only do we have a successful miniroot board bring-up but also henrik has worked out how to boot A10 devices over USB-FEL *without* requiring proprietary programs like livesuite or phoenixtool. basically, there's now a fel-boot.bin which is tiny and initialises DRAM (you need u-boot headers and to modify dram.c for a target board at the moment), so you load that up and execute it; then you load u-boot, then errr... execute it. err.... that's it. so, big thank you to henrik because livesuite was completely useless and my a10 eoma68 sample looked completely dead: it wasn't, it was just livesuite. l.
13 May 2013 20:57
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2013-05-13 18:57:07 GMT
2013-05-13 18:57:07 GMT
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13 May 2013 20:39
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2013-05-13 18:39:02 GMT
2013-05-13 18:39:02 GMT
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12 May 2013 15:41
Alternatives To aliexpress/Direct From china Websites?
Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross <maillist_arm-netbook <at> aross.me>
Alternatives To aliexpress/Direct From china Websites?
2013-05-12 13:41:32 GMT
Alternatives To aliexpress/Direct From china Websites?
2013-05-12 13:41:32 GMT
I know of dealextreame but who else would you recommend?
10 May 2013 08:59
hacking mele M9: the quad core allwinner SOC A31
Bamvor Zhang <bamv2005 <at> gmail.com>
2013-05-10 06:59:49 GMT
2013-05-10 06:59:49 GMT
>On Tue, 2013-04-30 at 00:07 +0800, Bamvor Zhang wrote:
>> hi,
>> hi,
>>
>> i have got the mele quad core STB. it is indeed has the same uart
>> connector as mele A1000. and the MP tools is out, it could support
>> make a bootable sd card. So, i am trying to put opensuse 12.3 on it.
>> the photos and bootlog, ref:
>> http://xen_on_arm.farbox.com/post/mele_m9_quadcore
>Cool! Thanks for posting there. Are you still planning to try and get
>Xen running on this system?
yes. it is what i want.
>With my Xen.org hat on I'm quite interested in this platform (and in the
>A20/A31 generally),
>Cool! Thanks for posting there. Are you still planning to try and get
>Xen running on this system?
yes. it is what i want.
>With my Xen.org hat on I'm quite interested in this platform (and in the
>A20/A31 generally),
So, do i. Currently, A20/A31 is only open source SOC in Cortex-A7 world.
i guess it is the cheapest device for arm virtualization.
>so I'll be keeping an eye on your progress. Good
>Luck & See you on xen-devel <at>
!
Thanks, i will.
>Luck & See you on xen-devel <at>
!Thanks, i will.
right now, i only post some xen tools patches to xen-devel with the email:
bjzhang <at> suse.com. i hope i could participate the xen arm hypervisor development too.
>Ian.
>Ian.
Bamvor
<div><div dir="ltr"> <div>>On Tue, 2013-04-30 at 00:07 +0800, Bamvor Zhang wrote:<br>>> hi, </div> <div>>> </div> <div>>> i have got the mele quad core STB. it is indeed has the same uart</div> <div>>> connector as mele A1000. and the MP tools is out, it could support </div> <div>>> make a bootable sd card. So, i am trying to put opensuse 12.3 on it.</div> <div>>> the photos and bootlog, ref: </div> <div>>> <a href="http://xen_on_arm.farbox.com/post/mele_m9_quadcore">http://xen_on_arm.farbox.com/post/mele_m9_quadcore</a> <br>>Cool! Thanks for posting there. Are you still planning to try and get<br>>Xen running on this system?<br>yes. it is what i want. <br>>With my Xen.org hat on I'm quite interested in this platform (and in the<br> >A20/A31 generally),</div> <div>So, do i. Currently, A20/A31 is only open source SOC in Cortex-A7 world.</div> <div>i guess it is the cheapest device for arm virtualization. </div> <div>>so I'll be keeping an eye on your progress. Good<br> >Luck & See you on xen-devel <at>
8 May 2013 20:40
Testing the EOMA68 ( and possibly other SOC's ) for gpu stability and functionality
Ken Phillis Jr <kphillisjr <at> gmail.com>
2013-05-08 18:40:34 GMT
2013-05-08 18:40:34 GMT
I know that the 3D functionality tends to be a major issue with most vendors. A good example is PowerVR chipsets and bugs involving npot ( Non-power-of-two) textures. That said, I think it would be a good idea to check with allwinner ( and possibly other soc's ) to see if they would give the driver a good vetting. I know that there is an ever increasing number of tests that can be found using piglit[1]. Piglit may advertise specifically having tests for OpenGL, however there is plenty of tests for mobile devices considering that there is tests for OpenGL ES 1, OpenGL ES 2, OpenGL ES 3, and OpenCL. This is a tests a lot of functionality and probably could be used to make sure functions work as expected. I also know that the project is open to all sorts of patches and that can be helpful in grey areas seeing as how that can be an problem. I have also found that this provides a relatively good test for stability seeing as how the first step with piglit is to get the test suite to run from start to finish without any ill effects. This is probably the most important thing piglit can offfer... It offers automated tests to make sure that things are working as intended. As for actual installation, The documentation is a good Source, the only part that is not obvious on where to find it is Waffle[2]. As for packaging, Ubuntu has an example package of piglit in a launchpad ppa and this can be modified for use on debian [3] [1] Piglit - piglit is an OpenGL test suite http://cgit.freedesktop.org/piglit [2] Waffle - a library for selecting GL API and window system at runtime http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~chadversary/waffle/ [3] piglit: "xorg crack pushers" team https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/piglit
8 May 2013 20:35
Allwinner outsells Intel
Benjamin Henrion <bh <at> udev.org>
2013-05-08 18:35:26 GMT
2013-05-08 18:35:26 GMT
Allwinner outsells Intel: http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/05/08/1636217/chinas-allwinner-outsold-intel-qualcomm-in-tablet-processors-in-2012 http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-blogs/other/4413656/London-Calling-Did-Allwinner-outsell-Intel-Qualcomm -- -- Benjamin Henrion <bhenrion at ffii.org> FFII Brussels - +32-484-566109 - +32-2-3500762 "In July 2005, after several failed attempts to legalise software patents in Europe, the patent establishment changed its strategy. Instead of explicitly seeking to sanction the patentability of software, they are now seeking to create a central European patent court, which would establish and enforce patentability rules in their favor, without any possibility of correction by competing courts or democratically elected legislators."
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