Re: New significant speedups coming to FreeRunner

2010-03-08 Thread Josh Thompson
On Saturday March 06, 2010, Michal Brzozowski wrote: 2010/2/2 Josh Thompson om-c...@joshandbianca.net I just tested this on another computer, and the USB networking worked fine. How do I change it to use the usb_storage gadget instead? Previously, I just rmmoded the g_ether gadget

Re: New significant speedups coming to FreeRunner

2010-03-08 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2010/3/8 Josh Thompson om-c...@joshandbianca.net Unfortunately, no I didn't. I'm still hoping someone that knows more about usb gadgets will figure it out. Josh It seems that the file storage driver is not even built-in. ___ Openmoko community

Re: New significant speedups coming to FreeRunner

2010-03-06 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2010/2/2 Josh Thompson om-c...@joshandbianca.net I just tested this on another computer, and the USB networking worked fine. How do I change it to use the usb_storage gadget instead? Previously, I just rmmoded the g_ether gadget and modprobed the g_file_storage one. Depending on my need,

Re: New significant speedups coming to FreeRunner

2010-01-22 Thread Denis Johnson
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:26 PM, Timo Juhani Lindfors timo.lindf...@iki.fi wrote: Helge Hafting helge.haft...@hist.no writes: That ticket seems to describe a similiar problem with wifi, it doesn't mention GSM. Or are both handled by a common piece of hardware? No. GSM runs on a separate ARM

Re: New significant speedups coming to FreeRunner

2010-01-21 Thread Helge Hafting
Niels Heyvaert wrote: It may be some kind of race condition in the SHR software, that gets trigged much more often with the faster kernel. We found this race condition in Debian, too - even before using a faster kernel by lowering the framework's log_level. So it appears the symptoms

Re: New significant speedups coming to FreeRunner

2010-01-21 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Helge Hafting helge.haft...@hist.no writes: That ticket seems to describe a similiar problem with wifi, it doesn't mention GSM. Or are both handled by a common piece of hardware? No. GSM runs on a separate ARM processor and is accessed over a serial port.

Re: New significant speedups coming to FreeRunner

2010-01-20 Thread Michal Brzozowski
I experience a very bad suspend battery life after I started using the faster kernel. Even when I make sure gps, gsm, wifi are turned off. Has anyone noticed this? Or maybe something else is causing this? 2010/1/18 David Garabana Barro da...@garabana.com On Monday 18 January 2010 17:13:42 David

Re: New significant speedups coming to FreeRunner

2010-01-20 Thread arne anka
I experience a very bad suspend battery life after I started using the faster kernel. Even when I make sure gps, gsm, wifi are turned off. Has anyone noticed this? Or maybe something else is causing this? i got the impression that bluetooth is always on (illume top shelf always shows the bt

Re: New significant speedups coming to FreeRunner

2010-01-20 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2010/1/20 arne anka openm...@ginguppin.de I experience a very bad suspend battery life after I started using the faster kernel. Even when I make sure gps, gsm, wifi are turned off. Has anyone noticed this? Or maybe something else is causing this? i got the impression that bluetooth is

Re: New significant speedups coming to FreeRunner

2010-01-20 Thread William Kenworthy
Check for cron or another app using 100% cpu - I had this awhile back and it seemed to affect suspend time, but I think that was because it chewed up so much battery that battery life overall seemed short. I am using shr-t and it seems battery life is better if anything on both the current (no

Re: New significant speedups coming to FreeRunner

2010-01-19 Thread Helge Hafting
David Garabana Barro wrote: On Monday 18 January 2010 16:52:11 Helge Hafting wrote: [...] Too bad this kernel didn't work, it seemed very interesting. I don't know what is causing gsm to not register, but it's not kernel, for sure. It may be some kind of race condition in the SHR

Re: New significant speedups coming to FreeRunner

2010-01-19 Thread Sebastian Reichel
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 09:28:10AM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote: David Garabana Barro wrote: On Monday 18 January 2010 16:52:11 Helge Hafting wrote: [...] Too bad this kernel didn't work, it seemed very interesting. I don't know what is causing gsm to not register, but it's not kernel,

RE: New significant speedups coming to FreeRunner

2010-01-19 Thread Niels Heyvaert
It may be some kind of race condition in the SHR software, that gets trigged much more often with the faster kernel. We found this race condition in Debian, too - even before using a faster kernel by lowering the framework's log_level. So it appears the symptoms have been tracked:

Re: New significant speedups coming to FreeRunner

2010-01-18 Thread Helge Hafting
Radek Polak wrote: Radek Polak wrote: Here are mine numbers on QtMoko: kernel size: old: 1 833 952 new: 1 660 364 boot time old: 1min 58s new: 1min 30s Btw if someone wants to try here is new kernel with modules: http://activationrecord.net/radekp/qtmoko/download/experimental/

Re: New significant speedups coming to FreeRunner

2010-01-18 Thread David Garabana Barro
On Monday 18 January 2010 16:52:11 Helge Hafting wrote: Installed the kernel, and the modules. It did not work. Well, X came up and was nice and snappy, but the phone never connected to the GSM network. I tried shr-settings, and GSM could not be turned on! I tried booting several times, I

Re: New significant speedups coming to FreeRunner

2010-01-18 Thread David Garabana Barro
On Monday 18 January 2010 17:13:42 David Garabana Barro wrote: On Monday 18 January 2010 16:52:11 Helge Hafting wrote: Installed the kernel, and the modules. It did not work. Well, X came up and was nice and snappy, but the phone never connected to the GSM network. I tried shr-settings,

Re: Re: New significant speedups coming to FreeRunner

2010-01-18 Thread neo
It did not work. Well, X came up and was nice and snappy, but the phone never connected to the GSM network. I tried shr-settings, and GSM could not be turned on! I tried booting several times, I tried restarting various fso daemons that seemed phone-related. Nothing helped. In the end,

Re: Re: New significant speedups coming to FreeRunner

2010-01-18 Thread neo
And sometimes, but only sometimes, when not registered on boot, I can force registration simply by rebooting libphoneui from shr-settings Sometimes it doesn't matter what daemon you reboot. It doesn't register :( I just managed to force the registering by giving the FR sth. to work and

Re: New significant speedups coming to FreeRunner

2010-01-18 Thread Neil Jerram
2010/1/14 Neil Jerram neiljer...@googlemail.com: I've just installed Timo's kernel from http://users.tkk.fi/~tajyrink/moko/kernel_20100108_nodebug_nopreempt/uImage-moredrivers-GTA02_oma-andy-2a04ce8203d7d0f1.bin, One more possible issue with this kernel. The boot messages always say

Re: New significant speedups coming to FreeRunner

2010-01-18 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Neil Jerram neiljer...@googlemail.com writes: [21474539.53] pcf50633-rtc pcf50633-rtc: hctosys: unable to read the hardware clock Can't find this from logs here. Does cat /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/since_epoch fail also? Can you reboot a few times and see if you see the bug every time or just

Re: New significant speedups coming to FreeRunner

2010-01-18 Thread Denis Johnson
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 7:21 AM, Neil Jerram neiljer...@googlemail.com wrote: and my FR's date and time is always back to 1st Jan 1970 after a reboot.  It looks to me as though the RTC device isn't working: debian-gta02:~# hwclock --show RTC_RD_TIME: Invalid argument snip I my case on QtMoko

Re: New significant speedups coming to FreeRunner

2010-01-18 Thread Neil Jerram
2010/1/18 Timo Juhani Lindfors timo.lindf...@iki.fi: Neil Jerram neiljer...@googlemail.com writes: [21474539.53] pcf50633-rtc pcf50633-rtc: hctosys: unable to read the hardware clock Can't find this from logs here. Does cat /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/since_epoch fail also? Yes:

Re: New significant speedups coming to FreeRunner

2010-01-14 Thread Neil Jerram
2010/1/8 Timo Jyrinki timo.jyri...@gmail.com: If you want to have a quick grab of the new kernel for Debian (or any distro that loads uImage from a file), I put my compilation of kernel and modules to http://users.tkk.fi/~tajyrink/moko/kernel_20100108_nodebug_nopreempt/ I've just installed

Re: New significant speedups coming to FreeRunner

2010-01-12 Thread David Garabana Barro
On Friday 08 January 2010 19:23:00 Timo Jyrinki wrote: Hi, Just FYI to the community list, as slowness has been one of the biggest problems with Neo. Quite nice speedups are coming: http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/openmoko-kernel/2010-January/010811.htm l (performance testing by Gennady

Re: New significant speedups coming to FreeRunner

2010-01-12 Thread Thomas HOCEDEZ
Le 12/01/2010 12:42, David Garabana Barro a écrit : On Friday 08 January 2010 19:23:00 Timo Jyrinki wrote: Hi, Just FYI to the community list, as slowness has been one of the biggest problems with Neo. Quite nice speedups are coming:

Re: New significant speedups coming to FreeRunner

2010-01-12 Thread KaZeR
Le 12/01/2010 13:51, Thomas HOCEDEZ a écrit : Le 12/01/2010 12:42, David Garabana Barro a écrit : - No sound during phonecalls (can't hear nothing on both sides). Someone to confirm those bugs ? (this way I'll trac those points) Ben moi je pourrais confirmer que j'ai pas de son, mais c'est

Re: New significant speedups coming to FreeRunner

2010-01-12 Thread KaZeR
Le 12/01/2010 14:07, KaZeR a écrit : Le 12/01/2010 13:51, Thomas HOCEDEZ a écrit : Le 12/01/2010 12:42, David Garabana Barro a écrit : - No sound during phonecalls (can't hear nothing on both sides). Someone to confirm those bugs ? (this way I'll trac those points) Apologies for my last

Re: New significant speedups coming to FreeRunner

2010-01-12 Thread Lars Hennig
Am Dienstag 12 Januar 2010 schrieb Thomas HOCEDEZ: Just FYI to the community list, as slowness has been one of the biggest problems with Neo. Quite nice speedups are coming: Its *REALLY* faster. You can feel it from the very first touch: SHR-Today I can confirm, but some troubles on the SHRu

Re: New significant speedups coming to FreeRunner

2010-01-12 Thread Fabian Schölzel
Am 10. Januar 2010 18:44 schrieb Fabian Schölzel fabian.schoel...@googlemail.com: Hm... i've done that, but i'm getting the cycles, too. I can't even connect through ssh now. Will there be a v17 release soon, or do i have to revert the kernel? It seems i hadn't v16 installed, so i didn't

Re: New significant speedups coming to FreeRunner

2010-01-12 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2010/1/12 Thomas HOCEDEZ thomas.hoce...@free.fr I can confirm, but some troubles on the SHRu (Jan 6th) : - Wifi is not available (can't turn on device) - No sound during phonecalls (can't hear nothing on both sides). Someone to confirm those bugs ? (this way I'll trac those points) have

Re: New significant speedups coming to FreeRunner

2010-01-12 Thread Davide Scaini
Tried now on shr-u, simply great! d ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: New significant speedups coming to FreeRunner

2010-01-12 Thread Andrew Stephen
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 1:51 AM, Thomas HOCEDEZ thomas.hoce...@free.fr wrote: [snip] I can confirm, but some troubles on the SHRu (Jan 6th) : - Wifi is not available (can't turn on device) - No sound during phonecalls (can't hear nothing on both sides). Someone to confirm those bugs ? (this

Re: New significant speedups coming to FreeRunner

2010-01-12 Thread Richy
I think you did not install the modules. it is described earlier in this thread. I had no wifi or even usb networking left though. Solved it by removing sd-card, putting the modules on it from laptop and insert it into the neo again. Wifi works like a charm with nwa, doesn't connect with mokonnect

Re: New significant speedups coming to FreeRunner

2010-01-12 Thread Gennady Kupava
В Втр, 12/01/2010 в 20:49 +0100, Richy пишет: Anyways. Big speedup, really nicely done. - Maybe there are even more improvements to the kernel somewhere? I am planning to check various other ideas, don't expect such big difference anymore, but improvements are really possible. have fun.

Re: New significant speedups coming to FreeRunner

2010-01-12 Thread Gennady Kupava
В Втр, 12/01/2010 в 13:51 +0100, Thomas HOCEDEZ пишет: Le 12/01/2010 12:42, David Garabana Barro a crit : On Friday 08 January 2010 19:23:00 Timo Jyrinki wrote: Hi, Just FYI to the community list, as slowness has been one of the biggest problems with Neo. Quite nice speedups are

Re: New significant speedups coming to FreeRunner

2010-01-11 Thread David Wagner
Michal Brzozowski a écrit : 2010/1/9 Radek Polak pson...@seznam.cz mailto:pson...@seznam.cz Btw if someone wants to try here is new kernel with modules: http://activationrecord.net/radekp/qtmoko/download/experimental/ Is this going to work with SHR or only with Qtmoko? I

Re: New significant speedups coming to FreeRunner

2010-01-10 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2010/1/8 Timo Jyrinki timo.jyri...@gmail.com Hi, Just FYI to the community list, as slowness has been one of the biggest problems with Neo. Quite nice speedups are coming: Wow, this is big. Literki is like 3x faster ___ Openmoko community mailing

Re: New significant speedups coming to FreeRunner

2010-01-10 Thread Ole Kliemann
On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 08:23:00PM +0200, Timo Jyrinki wrote: Hi, Just FYI to the community list, as slowness has been one of the biggest problems with Neo. Quite nice speedups are coming: This is the single most incredible speedup so far! Big thanks to anyone involved! I'm running

Re: New significant speedups coming to FreeRunner

2010-01-10 Thread Denis Johnson
Good work, Do I only need the .bin or the config and modules also. I have tried just the .bin using qtMoko v16 image and it boots quite quickly to qt ui then cycles to black screen with blinking cursor then after some time back to qt screen then back to black screen. etc cheers Denis On Sat,

Re: New significant speedups coming to FreeRunner

2010-01-10 Thread Thomas Hocedez
Ole Kliemann wrote: On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 08:23:00PM +0200, Timo Jyrinki wrote: Hi, Just FYI to the community list, as slowness has been one of the biggest problems with Neo. Quite nice speedups are coming: This is the single most incredible speedup so far! Big thanks to anyone

Re: New significant speedups coming to FreeRunner

2010-01-10 Thread ole-om-community-2008
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 02:05:17PM +0100, Thomas Hocedez wrote: @/ole : How did you managed to change the resolution ? I have in /etc/fb.modes: mode 240x320 geometry 240 320 240 320 16 timings 10 8 88 2 2 8 2 endmode Now stop the Xserver. Do:

Re: New significant speedups coming to FreeRunner

2010-01-10 Thread Radek Polak
Denis Johnson wrote: Do I only need the .bin or the config and modules also. I have tried just the .bin using qtMoko v16 image and it boots quite quickly to qt ui then cycles to black screen with blinking cursor then after some time back to qt screen then back to black screen. etc You need

Re: New significant speedups coming to FreeRunner

2010-01-10 Thread Michael Zanetti
On Sunday 10 January 2010 13:59:01 Denis Johnson wrote: Good work, Do I only need the .bin or the config and modules also. I have tried just the .bin using qtMoko v16 image and it boots quite quickly to qt ui then cycles to black screen with blinking cursor then after some time back to qt

Re: New significant speedups coming to FreeRunner

2010-01-10 Thread Fabian Schölzel
On Sunday 10. January 2010 15:10:31, Radek Polak Polak wrote: You need to unpack modules for newer kernel first. ssh r...@neo cd / wget http://activationrecord.net/radekp/qtmoko/download/experimental/modules- v17.tar.gz tar xzvpf modules-v17.tar.gz Hm... i've done that, but i'm getting

Re: New significant speedups coming to FreeRunner

2010-01-10 Thread Denis Johnson
Thanks to Radek, I indeed also needed to download an untar the modules. All good, great work. On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 10:59 PM, Denis Johnson denis.john...@gmail.com wrote: Good work, Do I only need the .bin or the config and modules also. I have tried just the .bin using qtMoko v16 image

Re: New significant speedups coming to FreeRunner

2010-01-09 Thread Radek Polak
Radek Polak wrote: Here are mine numbers on QtMoko: kernel size: old: 1 833 952 new: 1 660 364 boot time old: 1min 58s new: 1min 30s Btw if someone wants to try here is new kernel with modules: http://activationrecord.net/radekp/qtmoko/download/experimental/ Regards Radek

Re: New significant speedups coming to FreeRunner

2010-01-09 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2010/1/9 Radek Polak pson...@seznam.cz Btw if someone wants to try here is new kernel with modules: http://activationrecord.net/radekp/qtmoko/download/experimental/ Is this going to work with SHR or only with Qtmoko? ___ Openmoko community mailing

Re: New significant speedups coming to FreeRunner

2010-01-09 Thread Christian Rüb
Am Samstag, 9. Januar 2010 schrieb Michal Brzozowski: 2010/1/9 Radek Polak pson...@seznam.cz Btw if someone wants to try here is new kernel with modules: http://activationrecord.net/radekp/qtmoko/download/experimental/ Is this going to work with SHR or only with Qtmoko? I used

Re: New significant speedups coming to FreeRunner

2010-01-09 Thread Fox Mulder
Radek Polak wrote: Btw if someone wants to try here is new kernel with modules: http://activationrecord.net/radekp/qtmoko/download/experimental/ I see in your supplied config that you still have CONFIG_MTD_NAND_VERIFY_WRITE=y which was found to be a slowdown in write performance. In latest

Re: New significant speedups coming to FreeRunner

2010-01-09 Thread Radek Polak
Michal Brzozowski wrote: Is this going to work with SHR or only with Qtmoko? Yes, it should. Regards Radek ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: New significant speedups coming to FreeRunner

2010-01-08 Thread Davide Scaini
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 7:23 PM, Timo Jyrinki timo.jyri...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Just FYI to the community list, as slowness has been one of the biggest problems with Neo. Quite nice speedups are coming: http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/openmoko-kernel/2010-January/010811.html

Re: New significant speedups coming to FreeRunner

2010-01-08 Thread Radek Polak
Timo Jyrinki wrote: Disabling kernel debug features and pre-empt has resulted eg. these kind of improvements (from IRC, #openmoko-fi): - boot time 68.5% of original - apt-cache search nano 20s - 14.8s - emacs -f kill-emacs 3.8s - 2.2s Here are mine numbers on QtMoko: kernel size: old: 1

Re: New significant speedups coming to FreeRunner

2010-01-08 Thread jeremy jozwik
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Radek Polak pson...@seznam.cz wrote: Here are mine numbers on QtMoko: kernel size: old: 1 833 952 new: 1 660 364 boot time old: 1min 58s new: 1min 30s huzzah! lets get this piped in asap. would this help with application load time?

Re: New significant speedups coming to FreeRunner

2010-01-08 Thread Dave
Hi, I get similar boot speed improvements on my FR with both qtmoko v16 in NAND and Hackable1 rev5 on SD. The kernel also fixes an issue with both distro's where BT would fail to wake after suspend. Well done! -Dave On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 8:49 AM, jeremy jozwik jerjoz.for...@gmail.comwrote: