http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.netbook.arm hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.netbook.arm/6387 <pre>How might audio inputs be achieved? USB sound "card"? or are there other way(s)? If so how many channels and khz? </pre> Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross 2013-05-19T23:11:43 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.netbook.arm/6382 <pre>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. </pre> luke.leighton 2013-05-18T01:10:30 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.netbook.arm/6381 <pre>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 </pre> Stefan Monnier 2013-05-16T13:49:40 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.netbook.arm/6376 <pre>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. </pre> luke.leighton 2013-05-15T20:30:11 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.netbook.arm/6361 <pre>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. </pre> luke.leighton 2013-05-14T23:47:15 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.netbook.arm/6360 <pre>The old machine will relay to the new machine while DNS propagates. </pre> Alain Williams 2013-05-13T18:57:07 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.netbook.arm/6359 <pre>This is to enable me to move processing to another machine. You do not need to do anything </pre> Alain Williams 2013-05-13T18:39:02 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.netbook.arm/6352 <pre>I know of dealextreame but who else would you recommend? </pre> Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross 2013-05-12T13:41:32 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.netbook.arm/6333 <pre>yes. it is what i want. 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. Thanks, i will. right now, i only post some xen tools patches to xen-devel with the email: bjzhang&lt; at &gt;suse.com. i hope i could participate the xen arm hypervisor development too. Bamvor </pre> Bamvor Zhang 2013-05-10T06:59:49 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.netbook.arm/6307 <pre>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 </pre> Ken Phillis Jr 2013-05-08T18:40:34 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.netbook.arm/6305 <pre>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 </pre> Benjamin Henrion 2013-05-08T18:35:26 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.netbook.arm/6293 <pre>http://www.c2mtl.com/eye50/ideas/the-rhombus-tech-eoma-68-initiative/ could people please click on the usual social media links, get it across to lots of networks and for a _really_ big favour could people please also ask their friends to do likewise. taaaaa. l. </pre> luke.leighton 2013-05-06T22:22:39 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.netbook.arm/6262 <pre>Hi, Stefan Enthoven has released KiCAD memory module PCB layout for A10 CPU. http://www.gplsquared.com/SoM2/SoM2.html#03May2013 All the KiCAD files are GPL'd. Anyone can download, modify, and make their own versions. Its a great project for electronics engineering students wanting to make their own touch screen tablet from scratch as a final year project. There is still enough missing information to make that a good challenge and a great adventure. The AllWinner A10 chip based SoM project has rolled forward further with this contribution. The lower half of the board has been made, and it is mechanically correct, and safe to build on. For the type of memory chips used, line length rules need not be applied if the CPU is run at low clock speed. As time goes by, more GPL'd CPU and memory boards will be added. The objective is still to make SoM boards that does everything that a tablet can do, but release it all as GPL'd files that everyone can use with Linux and embedded projects, and also make IoT happen. It goes without saying, all this was made possible from EOMA project and Luke. To all the internet trolls that recently went on the attack in slashdot I can only ask, "where is your project?" :-) </pre> joem 2013-05-03T10:56:45 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.netbook.arm/6260 <pre>Hello, The layout of the board has been almost done. The latest Kicad files are HERE &lt;http://www.iuac.res.in/%7Eelab/phoenix/SBC/&gt;. Planning to make a PCB from the Kicad output, the delay matching is done manually. If it does not work, will port it to PADS. regards ajith </pre> Ajith Kumar 2013-05-03T09:46:03 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.netbook.arm/6250 <pre>i'm not sure if this is related: http://awusb-linux.sourceforge.net/ but i've taken, as the subject line says, a dump of the awusb activity when running livesuit to flash an image to the a10 eoma68 card. i got to the "do you want to erase the nand" bit and it flipped the usb bus from 002 to 001 so i didn't see the 4gbyte download. however you can clearly see the word "DRAM" in the transfer before that point. also there is the string "AWUSBFEL" quite early on, from the client. it may turn out to be quite easy to identify what's going on, here, which would be great. if this is similar to "activewire usb" then it may be as simple as loading and executing some code, or reading/writing to memory locations. my hypothesis is that the "flip" on the USB bus was the activation of some code on the A10, which reset the bus and then re-ran the FEL mode startup in order to receive the NAND flash data. i see no reason why this should not be completely ignored, and the AWUSBFEL process used to upload e.g. spl and u-boot. l. </pre> luke.leighton 2013-05-02T21:21:13 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.netbook.arm/6245 <pre>(from the eoma boot thread..) I just got myself one of these: http://bddgroupllc.com/A-Series_Boards.php and I'm trying to find a way to get Debian on the NAND flash with a real open-source /dev/mtd driver instead of this allwinner /dev/nand nonsense. My goal is to be able to make packages that follow the debian free software guidelines so I can hit the FEL boot button, and run something like 'a10bootstrap --board [wizard|eoma|cubie|mk802] wheezy [mirror]', and blow away all the binary nonsense and leave 100% libre software on the device NAND. Has anyone else had success with an A10 device and /dev/mtd? And to follow up on: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.netbook.arm.sunxi/39 If allwinner thinks MTD is out of date and block/sunxi_nand is better, then why the hell can't I find a flamewar on linux-kernel with a discussion about the relative merits of MTD vs block/sunxi_nand? Frankly, my impression is so far is that all the cell phone developers (aka, android) wrote their applications and SDK's to work around the limitations of block-layer 'emulation' on NAND, and nobody has taken the time to actually understand what JFFS2/YAFFS+MTD actually provide. </pre> Troy Benjegerdes 2013-05-01T22:09:51 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.netbook.arm/6244 <pre>nicktime, pyraster, l.trybulec, and mr wee kiampeng - you've each signed up for a 1stbatch order, and i've emailed you asking if you could email me (privately) your shipping address and a contact telephone number. thanks! l. </pre> luke.leighton 2013-05-01T21:48:56 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.netbook.arm/6242 <pre>A quick question as in title, I am tying to capture video frames via CSI interface and encoding it real-timely, just curious if anybody every tried it before? </pre> Chris Heart 2013-05-01T17:05:52 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.netbook.arm/6202 <pre>ok so i have a first boot with android preloaded, it's in chinese so i have no idea what it says :) i'm attempting to put a USB hub onto pins 30 and 64, and using a *male* USB plug with just the 5V and GND lines, connected to pins 29,63 and 33,67 respectively. it's not _quite_ working out :) this is possibly because i've not connected the shielding on either cable to GND, which i probably should do. i say "not quite working out" - android boots, comes up on the HDMI monitor. so i have no idea if the USB Host cable i've done is not working due to the build of android or not. that'll have to be tomorrow's task - setting up a kernel, u-boot etc. etc. henrik - gonna need your help :) l. </pre> luke.leighton 2013-04-29T22:29:47 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.netbook.arm/6201 <pre>http://rhombus-tech.net/allwinner_a10/news/ we've got some close-up pictures of the PCB, as well as being in a PCMCIA socket. l. </pre> luke.leighton 2013-04-29T20:15:32 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.netbook.arm/6197 <pre>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 </pre> Bamvor Zhang 2013-04-29T16:07:19 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.comp.hardware.netbook.arm