Thank you very much for your work, Wolfgang! As I recently got an I9300, I am at disposal for any use-case testing or, with your guidance, even deeper testing. I'm not familiar with building replicant or anything low-level, but I guess I can learn along the way and get involved in building and debugging, with your help.
As for the scripts, I'm really glad you had them working! I'm open to any suggestion or criticism about them, so don't worry about pointing out any defect! Thank you again. Fil -- Sent from my libre Replicant phone: www.replicant.us Il 22 gennaio 2017 19:57:32 CET, Wolfgang Wiedmeyer <w...@wiedmeyer.de> ha scritto: > >Fil writes: > >> Hi Kurtis, >> >>> I would personally love to see Tehnoetic's awesome addition added to >>> Replicant 6.0. My s3 phone got stolen a few weeks ago and haven't >found >>> a replacement yet, so I'm sorry that I can't contribute by testing >right >>> now. A ton of work has been done on Replicant 6.0 though on the >i9100 >>> and i9300 and it might see a beta release sooner rather than later. >> AFAIK (not sure though), Tibi is in contact with Paul K. to integrate >> his patches that made libre wifi available into the next stable >release >> of Replicant. So, you should definitely ask Tibi or Paul about all >this >> (or ask publicly in the forum). >> >>> So, what are the blockers to adding this feature? Does more >development >>> need to be done? Or do we need some organized testing of different >>> builds? Who all is down for some alpha testing of the feature and >what >>> phones do you have? >> As far as I know, no big blockers are in place. Everything works >> sufficiently (IMO) and it only needs to be merged in the official >repos. >> The situation is usable, but not-so-stable on the I9100, crashes >happen >> quite often, due to current consumption spikes. It should be much >more >> stable on the I9300. As for testing, I seem to remember that the >> Tehnoetic Team was planning to work on the ath9k driver to try and >> resolve the power consumption issue but, again, you should ask Tibi, >for >> more precise information. > >Added Tiberiu to CC. I can confirm that on Replicant 6.0, the S3 also >seems to be more stable. I only had crashes when the battery was really >low. Otherwise, the adapter simply powers down if there is not enough >battery power left and the connection is lost. >In the Replicant 6.0 kernel, I included a backport of the ath tree from >the 3.4 kernel. So it would be good to test the optimizations regarding >the power consumptions on top of the backport. I'm also wondering if >other projects already have solutions for these issues with the ath9k >driver. The wireless wiki has a page about power consumption with >ath9k[1]. mac80211 also has a dynamic power save feature that should be >enabled with ath9k[2]. Some testing could be done to see how well this >works with the smdk4412 kernel. > >Best regards, >Wolfgang > >> I personally did some (very limited) testing while developing the >> scripts I published on the forum, and the results are reported in my >> posts. >> I own one I9100 and I'm expecting to buy an I9300 sooner or later. So >I >> put myself at disposal to do some testing on those two devices, if >> needed. >> >>> >>> Can we use this email thread to organize the progress on this? If >you >>> think that the issues, forum or wiki is a better place to have this >>> discussion, reply to this thread if move the discussion, or parts of >it, >>> over to one of those. >> I guess that a forum thread would be better, allowing anybody to read >> and contribute, and making it persistent through time. >> There's the wiki too.. when we have something more comprehensive, we >> could put together an article on the libre wifi situation... again, >I'm >> at disposal for this too.. >> >> As for the graphical front-end, things are exactly as I stated in the >> forum. Nothing has changed. As soon as I get past the SDK >limitations, >> developing the GUI won't be a problem. Any help is appreciated. >> >> Happy Hacking to everyone, >> >> Fil >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Replicant mailing list >> Replicant@lists.osuosl.org >> http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/replicant > > > >[1] >https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/ath9k/power-consumption > >[2] >https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/documentation/dynamic-power-save > >-- >Website: https://fossencdi.org >OpenPGP: 0F30 D1A0 2F73 F70A 6FEE 048E 5816 A24C 1075 7FC4 >Key download: https://wiedmeyer.de/keys/ww.asc
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