Re: [RFC} arm architecture board/feature deprecation timeline

2024-07-31 Thread gene heskett
On 7/31/24 16:03, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Wed, Jul 31, 2024 at 02:53:51PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: On 7/31/24 13:32, Arnd Bergmann wrote: We removed a lot of the unused board files at the beginning of 2023, and I'd like to plan ahead for other hardware and feature support that c

Re: [RFC} arm architecture board/feature deprecation timeline

2024-07-31 Thread gene heskett
a klipper/nginx front end gui but it does work in firefoxes stead. I'm also part of your monthly support. I would appreciate the restoration of the firefox snap. All other MCUs (IMXRT, SAMV7, LPC18xx, MPS2) are used much less than STM32F and can probably follow the same path once they g

Re: Raspberry Pi: gpiomem device support

2024-04-04 Thread gene heskett
oes not refer to the Raspberry Pi [2] repo, this just came up in my research.) To me there seems to be kernel support missing or a config is not set. Can someone please clarify on this? Thank you. Best regards, Thomas. -- Beautiful Sunny Winfield Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis

Re: Ability to further support 32bit architectures

2024-01-12 Thread gene heskett
For most users, the suggestion is: upgrade to 64bit. That's not at all what I was asking or talking about. --J Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis

Re: What to do with d-i on armel?

2024-01-09 Thread gene heskett
ly running. For us, its one of those things that Just Works. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make

Re: Can't connect Raspberry Pi 3B+ Rev. 1.3 to Wifi 5G

2023-11-17 Thread gene heskett
en you need a piece of cat6 to get into my machines. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis

Re: Bug#1054583: dpkg-dev: really enable -fstack-clash-protection onarmhf/armel

2023-10-27 Thread gene heskett
mbian. And running several 3d printers here. Good stable boards. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make

need a gparted clone that works as root

2023-09-29 Thread gene heskett
Wayland don't let it run and I need a partitioner. ?? Tnx Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must fir

Re: Just tried arm64 netinstall on a bananai-m5

2023-08-20 Thread gene heskett
Armbian Jammy Just Works here and has been for months, where/what is the uboot bug mentioned in that blog? In this case, details matter, a lot. Thank you. (As long as you do not care about the SD card reader, at this point.) Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be us

Re: Just tried arm64 netinstall on a bananai-m5

2023-08-15 Thread gene heskett
On 8/15/23 15:52, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote: W dniu 15.08.2023 o 20:57, peter green pisze: On 15/08/2023 17:44, gene heskett wrote: What did I do wrong? The unfortunate reality is that boot on arm is *still* a mess. The server guys and the windows laptop guys have settled on uefi (though

Re: Just tried arm64 netinstall on a bananai-m5

2023-08-15 Thread gene heskett
On 8/15/23 14:57, peter green wrote: On 15/08/2023 17:44, gene heskett wrote: used dd to write the arm64-bookworm-12.1 netinstall image to a 64G SDXC ONN. brand card, makes no attempt to boot plugged into a bananapi-m5. bring card back to reader, can't mount it, wrong filesystem for

Re: Just tried arm64 netinstall on a bananai-m5

2023-08-15 Thread gene heskett
On 8/15/23 14:53, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: On 2023-08-15, gene heskett wrote: used dd to write the arm64-bookworm-12.1 netinstall image to a 64G SDXC ONN. brand card, makes no attempt to boot plugged into a bananapi-m5. bring card back to reader, can't mount it, wrong filesystem for

Just tried arm64 netinstall on a bananai-m5

2023-08-15 Thread gene heskett
ts ok, boots bananapi-m5 normally. What did I do wrong? Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respec

Re: [syzbot] [hfs?] WARNING in hfs_write_inode

2023-07-21 Thread gene heskett
modules would be much less if they actually got them cleaned up and made acceptable for upstream inclusion. - Ted A much more sensible answer. Thank you Ted. . Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liber

Re: [syzbot] [hfs?] WARNING in hfs_write_inode

2023-07-21 Thread gene heskett
ybody who asked about it was called a pirate by support. I'm not blaming the unstable API for the bugs, I'm blaming it for the workload. A stable API (like a userspace API) decreases the likelihood that overloaded maintainers have to orphan a filesystem implementation. . Cheers,

Re: Activate a Real Time Clock chip on I2C in Raspberry Pi 4B with Debian(not Raspbian)

2023-04-16 Thread gene heskett
hink you should make a DeviceTree Overlay, but I don't know how to do that. The last time I made a realtime preempt kernel for an armhf, the makefile did that. Std output from a make menuconfig, an rpi4b runs it just as if it doesn't know any better, has been since Feb 20, 2020. C

Re: Is an ARM computer a good choice? Which one?

2023-03-21 Thread gene heskett
tability? Power failure to power failure has been my experience. A ups and a standby in the back yard that makes power failures an 8 second thing renders that moot. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Ple

Re: what is codium?

2023-01-19 Thread gene heskett
On 1/19/23 06:24, RobJE wrote: On 19-01-2023 11:36, gene heskett wrote: I see it being updated on my banana pi m5's, but it has no man page. Its apparently not an editor, so what is it? without knowing the details of the installed OS, etc. my first guess would be the open-source versi

what is codium?

2023-01-19 Thread gene heskett
I see it being updated on my banana pi m5's, but it has no man page. Its apparently not an editor, so what is it? Thanks. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (A

Re: Help with testing u-boot!

2022-12-29 Thread gene heskett
On 12/29/22 05:06, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: On 2022-12-29, gene heskett wrote: On 12/28/22 19:17, Diederik de Haas wrote: On Thursday, 29 December 2022 00:21:05 CET Vagrant Cascadian wrote: debian stable (2021.01*), testing (2022.04*), unstable (2022.10*) and experimental (2023.01-rc

Re: armbian for arm64's is 99% debian testing for arm64's.

2022-12-28 Thread gene heskett
On 12/28/22 22:41, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Wed, Dec 28, 2022 at 4:17 PM gene heskett wrote: But its dfu-util is truly ancient at version 0.9 version 0.10 has been available for several years if I read ticket dates on sourceforge correctly. dfu-util-v0.9 on a banana pi m5, cannot do any dfu

Re: Help with testing u-boot!

2022-12-28 Thread gene heskett
er, a iso-9660 and its not a u-boot, its grub. So which of the arm64 iso's is u-booter? Thanks all. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we

Re: armbian for arm64's is 99% debian testing for arm64's.

2022-12-28 Thread gene heskett
On 12/28/22 16:27, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hello Gene! On 12/28/22 21:59, gene heskett wrote: But its dfu-util is truly ancient at version 0.9 version 0.10 has been available for several years if I read ticket dates on sourceforge correctly. dfu-util-v0.9 on a banana pi m5, cannot

armbian for arm64's is 99% debian testing for arm64's.

2022-12-28 Thread gene heskett
Where can I get version 0.10? Or 0.11 if that is out? Thanks. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first ma

Re: how to enable spi on Raspberry Pi 4 (bookworm)?

2022-10-30 Thread gene heskett
ppios today, but it bailed out with can't find Documentation.de error. Is there anything I can do? Thanks Sebastian Kuzminsky. Take care & stay well. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please

Re: rock64's dead w/update, have latest bannana pi's coming

2022-10-28 Thread gene heskett
On 10/28/22 03:00, Tobias Frost wrote: On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 01:55:16PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: Greetings all; My 3d printer farm is out of business, all the rock64's died, as in no hdmi video anymore, and the rock64's weren't that great due to extreme interference betwee

Re: rock64's dead w/update, have latest bannana pi's coming

2022-10-27 Thread gene heskett
On 10/27/22 20:31, gene heskett wrote: On 10/27/22 14:21, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 01:55:16PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: Greetings all; My 3d printer farm is out of business, all the rock64's died, as in no hdmi video anymore, and the rock64's weren't

Re: rock64's dead w/update, have latest bannana pi's coming

2022-10-27 Thread gene heskett
On 10/27/22 14:21, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 01:55:16PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: Greetings all; My 3d printer farm is out of business, all the rock64's died, as in no hdmi video anymore, and the rock64's weren't that great due to extreme interference be

rock64's dead w/update, have latest bannana pi's coming

2022-10-27 Thread gene heskett
atest image would be very appreciated. Thank you all. Take care & stay well. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we m

Re: Building (Debian) kernel optimized for RPi Zero (W) and 1

2022-10-23 Thread gene heskett
knowing how to compile natively would be nice too. I do know how to compile Debian's kernels, both natively and cross building. Cheers, Diederik Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that o

Re: latency test results for armhf vs arm64?

2022-07-16 Thread gene heskett
On 7/16/22 11:32, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 08:41:07AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: I wish you would admit that the raspios I am running IS armhf (kernel7l) I've no clue where you got the impression it was v6. It is not. You said raspios which sure looks like ra

Re: latency test results for armhf vs arm64?

2022-07-16 Thread gene heskett
On 7/16/22 10:33, Arnd Bergmann wrote: On Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 2:41 PM gene heskett wrote: On 7/16/22 08:10, Arnd Bergmann wrote: - 4.19 is four years old, and both the mainline kernel and the preempt-rt patches have changed a lot in the meantime. It's possible that a current pr

Re: latency test results for armhf vs arm64?

2022-07-16 Thread gene heskett
On 7/16/22 08:10, Arnd Bergmann wrote: On Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 5:05 AM gene heskett wrote: On 7/15/22 21:54, Paul Wise wrote: On Fri, 2022-07-15 at 13:40 -0400, gene heskett wrote: Because our latency-test results are better on armhf than on arm64, we use armhf for its performance. Are

Re: latency test results for armhf vs arm64?

2022-07-16 Thread gene heskett
On 7/16/22 05:59, Paul Wise wrote: On Fri, 2022-07-15 at 23:05 -0400, gene heskett wrote: The whole install of raspios is armhf. So I guess its yes. I seem to remember them switching to arm64 recently? They may have, I've had a total loss of history here with 2, 2T seagate drives d

Re: latency test results for armhf vs arm64?

2022-07-15 Thread gene heskett
On 7/15/22 21:54, Paul Wise wrote: On Fri, 2022-07-15 at 13:40 -0400, gene heskett wrote: Because our latency-test results are better on armhf than on arm64, we use armhf for its performance. Are these results for armhf kernel with armhf userland? The whole install of raspios is armhf. So I

Re: armhf kernels on arm64 hardware

2022-07-15 Thread gene heskett
performance. Do i386 kernels work on amd64 machines? Different architecture. No relevance here. Sounds like something that might be worth discussion at debconf next week. I'll mention it in the talk. Wookey Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defens

Re: Debian abandoning armhf, Raspberry Pi OS - was Re: [PATCH v2] arm64:compat: Implement misalignment fixups formultiword loads

2022-07-15 Thread gene heskett
On 7/15/22 11:09, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 05:39:34AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: On 7/15/22 04:04, LinAdmin wrote: Pi 4 has much more throughput in 32-bit modes but the so called experts of Debian decided to abandon it :-( On 14.07.22 03:52, Wookey wrote: On 2022-07

Re: [PATCH v2] arm64: compat: Implement misalignment fixups formultiword loads

2022-07-15 Thread gene heskett
on 64-bit kernels and have to be built on real 32-bit hardware, but I don't know how much of that would be fixed by this patch. Some, presumably. So yes, cheers for this. It is helpful in the real world (or at least it should be). Wookey . Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are fou

Re: [PATCH v2] arm64: compat: Implement misalignment fixups for multiword loads

2022-07-01 Thread gene heskett
768e5c1..b25119b4beca 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c @@ -687,6 +687,9 @@ static int __kprobes do_translation_fault(unsigned long far, static int do_alignment_fault(unsigned long far, unsigned long esr, struct pt_regs *regs) { +

Re: Using a serial port

2022-06-17 Thread gene heskett
try. Needing a uart to talk to it is not a requirement here. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis

Re: where, besides raspian can I find a full armhf installer that works on an rpi4b?

2022-01-25 Thread gene heskett
On Monday, January 24, 2022 1:50:55 PM EST Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 23 ian 22, 20:23:18, gene heskett wrote: > > I thought I had some cornered earlier today, but when written to u-sd > > and booted, were arm64. > > > > For low latency reasons when a realtime

Re: where, besides raspian can I find a full armhf installer that works on an rpi4b?

2022-01-25 Thread gene heskett
On Tuesday, January 25, 2022 2:41:22 PM EST gene heskett wrote: > On Tuesday, January 25, 2022 1:26:39 PM EST Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 06:17:16PM +0100, LinAdmin wrote: > > > When on 16 Mar 2021 I gave the solution in > > > https://bugs.debia

Re: where, besides raspian can I find a full armhf installer that works on an rpi4b?

2022-01-25 Thread gene heskett
's a good port for UEFI - and > that's what Fedora is also using, for example - but the need for > non-free firmware persists. > > > LinAdmin > > > > On 24.01.22 02:23, gene heskett wrote: > > > I thought I had some cornered earlier today, but when written

Re: where, besides raspian can I find a full armhf installer that works on an rpi4b?

2022-01-24 Thread gene heskett
On Monday, January 24, 2022 1:50:55 PM EST Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 23 ian 22, 20:23:18, gene heskett wrote: > > I thought I had some cornered earlier today, but when written to u-sd > > and booted, were arm64. > > > > For low latency reasons when a realtime

where, besides raspian can I find a full armhf installer that works on an rpi4b?

2022-01-23 Thread gene heskett
I thought I had some cornered earlier today, but when written to u-sd and booted, were arm64. For low latency reasons when a realtime kernel is installed it must be for armhf. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and

Re: cubox-i does not boot after upgrade to bullseye

2021-12-29 Thread gene heskett
../../mmcblk0p1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Oct 18 06:55 5e3da3da-02 -> ../../mmcblk0p2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Oct 18 06:55 c2cbc1a6-01 -> ../../sda1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Oct 18 06:55 c2cbc1a6-02 -> ../../sda2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Oct 18 06:55 c2cbc1a6-03 -> ../../sda3 lrwxrw

Re: odd result for sudo dpkg -V

2021-11-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 08 November 2021 11:19:12 Daniel Serpell wrote: > Hi, > > El Sun, Nov 07, 2021 at 03:54:50PM -0500, Gene Heskett escribio: > > On Sunday 07 November 2021 03:19:09 deloptes wrote: > > > > Note that I as the OP was using dpkg -V, not --verify. Might &g

Re: odd result for sudo dpkg -V

2021-11-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 07 November 2021 03:19:09 deloptes wrote: > > Note that I as the OP was using dpkg -V, not --verify. Might their > > be a difference? > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett. > > Gene always check the -h vs --help or man page > > dpkg --help > -V|--ver

Re: odd result for sudo dpkg -V

2021-11-06 Thread Gene Heskett
; > > I don't see any evidence that there is a problem with dpkg in > Debian; all of these derivatives make changes to configuration > files and similar which dpkg --verify correctly reports. > > > Cheers, Phil. Note that I as the OP was using dpkg -V, not --verify. Migh

Re: odd result for sudo dpkg -V

2021-11-05 Thread Gene Heskett
rpi4 is a full blown armhf development system with a realtime kernel in addition to running a 70 yo sheldon lathe with linuxcnc. > cheers > markus Thanks Markus. Take care & stay well now. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot,

odd result for sudo dpkg -V

2021-11-05 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; Does it work on debian arm? Thanks! Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law r

Re: Raspberry pi 3b+ i2c

2021-10-22 Thread Gene Heskett
her when not familiar with the language... > > > > Greetings, > > Christian Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for

Re: Trouble installing bullseye on Rock Pi 4 A

2021-09-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 24 September 2021 04:54:08 Christian Kastner wrote: > Hi, > > For some reason, I'm not getting a signal via HDMI when running the > bullseye installer from the prepared SD card images. I thought this > might be a monitor issue, but booting a microSD card with the > manufacturer's image s

Re: Debian on Pine64 H64B?

2021-09-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 22 September 2021 17:56:18 Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 04:52:15PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > bookmarked, that will take some study to grok how that works. Is > > there a minimum kernel version? > > It appears it has been around for m

Re: Debian on Pine64 H64B?

2021-09-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 21 September 2021 14:43:57 Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 11:36:51AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Humph, idea borrowed from the Z-80 of the very late 70's, or > > possibly from the TI 9900's, which had no registers, all in memory >

Re: Debian on Pine64 H64B?

2021-09-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 21 September 2021 07:59:42 Lennart Sorensen wrote: I'm subbed, no need to CC: me. > On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 05:00:12AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > No, in fact disabling that is a bios setting done before even > > installing LinuxCNC. It may make winderz seem to

Re: Debian on Pine64 H64B?

2021-09-21 Thread Gene Heskett
of various builds here, and none of them have that enabled even if its not running machinery. This cheap 6 core i5 certainly doesn't need it and its actually running at 800 MHz, but capable of 3.7 GHz. Close to zero heat, all 6 cores are below 32C right now. Take care all. Cheers, Gen

Re: Debian on Pine64 H64B?

2021-09-20 Thread Gene Heskett
and a successful product. > > l. +10 or more. For those of us who need the armhf variant its a basic requirement. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Auth

Re: Debian on Pine64 H64B?

2021-09-20 Thread Gene Heskett
e rpi4 can and does do ok, but its 10x slower than my i5's running 3 other machines here. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the l

Re: Debian on Pine64 H64B?

2021-09-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 13 September 2021 10:09:05 Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 01:17:02PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I am not aware that it ever existed. So I install the needed meat to > > make it work, via a card reader and the non-compressed tarball is > > ju

Re: Debian on Raspberry Pi and Pine* and probably ARM support in general (was Re: Debian on Pine64 H64B?)

2021-09-11 Thread Gene Heskett
ed in months. No audio buttons to be found. Thanks Keith. > All the best > > Keith Bainbridge > keith.bainbridge.3...@gmail.com > > 0447 667 468 Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in t

Re: Debian on Pine64 H64B?

2021-09-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 10 September 2021 12:46:54 Reco wrote: > On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 12:04:56PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > So why do we not have a .deb builder for kernels.? > > wiki.debian.org is your friend, consider learning how to search it. > In this particular case, yo

Re: Debian on Pine64 H64B?

2021-09-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 10 September 2021 12:32:49 Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 12:04:56PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I knew that Reco, but the howto install after building it is the > > best kept secret on this ball of rock and water, so I invented my > > own in

Re: Debian on Pine64 H64B?

2021-09-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 10 September 2021 10:35:09 Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Gene Heskett dijo [Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 08:07:56AM -0400]: > > > On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 09:50:24AM +0200, LinAdmin wrote: > > > > I have some doubts that debian.net has the same ownership > > > > than

Re: Debian on Pine64 H64B?

2021-09-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 10 September 2021 10:30:28 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 08:07:56AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 10 September 2021 06:59:17 Reco wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 09:50:24AM +0200, LinAdmin wrote: > > > > I have

Re: Debian on Pine64 H64B?

2021-09-10 Thread Gene Heskett
Gunnar Wolf's key > (who is Debian Developer), that's good enough for me. > > Reco But will they run my lathe? If they cannot do it safely, with IRQ latency response well under 50 microseconds they are of sub-zero interest to me. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four bo

Re: Debian on Pine64 H64B?

2021-09-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 06 September 2021 13:59:12 Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Gene Heskett dijo [Sat, Sep 04, 2021 at 09:43:07AM -0400]: > > (...) > > So I found my own solutions. So, debian-arm, please make up your > > mind, do you support the pi's or do you NOT support the pi's? &

Re: Debian on Raspberry Pi and Pine* and probably ARM support in general (was Re: Debian on Pine64 H64B?)

2021-09-04 Thread Gene Heskett
ple, > the Armbian based on Ubuntu Focal? https://www.armbian.com/pine64/ [or > any other third party rebuild similarly]. > > If you're on the Raspberry Pi4 - yes, you have Ubuntu LTS - but you > also have Debian https://raspi.debian.net. > > Strictly, discussion of other distribut

Re: Debian on Raspberry Pi and Pine* and probably ARM support in general (was Re: Debian on Pine64 H64B?)

2021-09-04 Thread Gene Heskett
s a pretty broad spectrum of ways to help out... sometimes > things are even supported but undocumented. Documenting workarounds > and filing bug reports appropriately is one angle that could > potentially help. > > > I switched to Ubuntu LTS which made me (and many others) happy. > &g

Re: Debian on Pine64 H64B?

2021-09-04 Thread Gene Heskett
;s or do you NOT support the pi's? When I did try a net install of buster, but had no network after the reboot, I went back to a raspbian seed image and haven't looked back, it Just Works. > Whatever floats your boat. That attitude is Indicating to me that debian-arm still has zero inter

Re: OT: Right to Repair Executive Order in US

2021-07-11 Thread Gene Heskett
pecializes in consumer protection. He is very easy to > understand. > > Jeff Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, w

Re: Feedback from the community -> ARM

2021-06-11 Thread Gene Heskett
uses unless we spend an additional $200+ on hardware interfaces to get that performance back. We may as well use a bigger, uses 20x the power but its cheaper pc. I'm doing it both ways, but my shop isn't commercial, its hobbiest. I don't have to make xx dollars per hour for a livin

Re: Feedback from the community -> ARM

2021-06-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 10 June 2021 15:03:22 Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote: > W dniu 10.06.2021 o 20:36, Gene Heskett pisze: > > On Thursday 10 June 2021 12:44:23 Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote: > >> My questions (probably get ignored): > >> > >> 1. When CBSA spec gets relea

Re: Feedback from the community -> ARM

2021-06-10 Thread Gene Heskett
it was built, and finally invented my own installer which has worked well now for over a year, on several more machines now, a very simple installer that unpacks a less than 30 meg tarball preconfigured to copy whats needed to the proper locations on the pi's u-sd boot card while its moun

Re: OT: Huge Right to Repair Win for Consumers

2021-06-10 Thread Gene Heskett
you imply in your sig, something I rather doubt given the thrust of this message, and I was on the controlliing end of debian, the first thing I would do is remove your account. Debian is being poisoned from within if people of your beliefs are allowed to contribute a single byte of code. Chee

Re: More progress to report [Re: Debian Bullseye on Raspberry Pi 4 4GB?]

2021-03-03 Thread Gene Heskett
hief Engineer of another medium market tv station, equipment in a tv station control room has an average lifetime of 2 to 5 years. To have something I designed and built still in daily use 16 years later was quite a surprise. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in def

Re: More progress to report [Re: Debian Bullseye on Raspberry Pi 4 4GB?]

2021-03-03 Thread Gene Heskett
ade. That kernel was also built for a pi3b and worked well for around 2 years, but the pi3b was about to its limits. The other limit to using it, is the odd layout of the /boot directory enforced by the firmware that boots it, not well documented, so I had to invent my own way to install that

Re: Progress report [Re: Debian Bullseye on Raspberry Pi 4 4GB?]

2021-02-21 Thread Gene Heskett
typical pool, I am just one client. Since its a free service but they still have to pay for the bandwidth, and electricity to run them, it makes sense to cut the bytes used if you can. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and a

Re: Issues installing libc6:arm64 on amd64

2020-11-20 Thread Gene Heskett
1) but it is not going to > be installed > Depends: init-system-helpers (>= 1.29~) but it is not going > to be installed > Recommends: psmisc > E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be > caused by held packages. > $ > > I tr

Re: bt question

2020-09-26 Thread Gene Heskett
w an old fart? guilty. :) I'll start a new thread about the 17th of next month if the gismo I ordered doesn't work. So lets put a ~30~ on this one. > On 9/26/20, Alan Corey wrote: > > bluetoothctl's info feature can be useful to see what states devices > > are in even i

Re: bt question

2020-09-26 Thread Gene Heskett
ctl trigger that wakeup? > On 9/26/20, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Saturday 26 September 2020 06:48:11 Alan Corey wrote: > >> Bring your devices closer together at least until you get them > >> paired. BT doesn't have great range. There are covid tracing >

Re: bt question

2020-09-26 Thread Gene Heskett
o pair with is about 3 weeks away, so I'll suggest we shelve this until that kit arrives. > On Sat, Sep 26, 2020, 4:22 AM deloptes wrote: > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Can anyone else contribute here? > > > > for the audio you may need the pulse bluetooth module

Re: bt question

2020-09-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 26 September 2020 04:22:31 deloptes wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > Can anyone else contribute here? > > for the audio you may need the pulse bluetooth module package. > pulseaudio-module-bluetooth But wouldn't that be only if the phones were going t

Re: bt question

2020-09-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 26 September 2020 04:15:10 deloptes wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > Can anyone else contribute here? > > What specification of BT hardware does your keyboard implement? It doesn't say in the booklet accompanying the keyboard. And I don't recall seeing

Re: bt question

2020-09-25 Thread Gene Heskett
, and connects the headphones, yet a 3rd item to have to recharge the batteries in. I've a usb2 hub she can plug them all in to recharge them. Can anyone else contribute here? Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Pl

bt question

2020-09-25 Thread Gene Heskett
d new play for me. What modules do I load, and what command will I need to run to scan and ID whats in the rpi4's near field? Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdersh

Re: The state of Arm64 on Raspberry Pi (and its Documentation

2020-03-31 Thread Gene Heskett
rofitted Genet network driver, which we submitted 2 > months ago, in the vanilla aarch64 installation images... > Tweaks my curiosity. That driver doesn't exist in the raspi armhf build from raspbian, yet the networking is flawless. I run a host file based net config, and it Just works. > Rega

Re: Resize a disk image from 32G to 4G or copy u-boot?

2020-03-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 25 March 2020 09:51:03 gru...@mailfence.com wrote: > On Wed, 25 Mar 2020, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Wednesday 25 March 2020 08:51:17 gru...@mailfence.com wrote: > >> On Wed, 25 Mar 2020, Gene Heskett wrote: > >>> On Wednesday 25 March 2020 04:18:20 Andr

Re: Resize a disk image from 32G to 4G or copy u-boot?

2020-03-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 25 March 2020 08:51:17 gru...@mailfence.com wrote: > On Wed, 25 Mar 2020, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Wednesday 25 March 2020 04:18:20 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >> On Ma, 24 mar 20, 19:12:46, Gene Heskett wrote: > >>> And nothing so far, and I hav

Re: Resize a disk image from 32G to 4G or copy u-boot?

2020-03-25 Thread Gene Heskett
could find it and I set the label for p2 to > "root" as it is on the 32 GB card. > > - Nate Has it occured to you that "root" is often used to mean the root of the filesystem? Aka "/". Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense

Re: Resize a disk image from 32G to 4G or copy u-boot?

2020-03-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 25 March 2020 04:18:20 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 24 mar 20, 19:12:46, Gene Heskett wrote: > > And nothing so far, and I have been watching, in the way of reducing > > a filesystem to only the actual size occupied. Then it can be backed > > up with dd and re

Re: Resize a disk image from 32G to 4G or copy u-boot?

2020-03-24 Thread Gene Heskett
om the 32 GB image to the 4 > > GB card and be on my way. > > > > Ideas? > > > > TIA > > > > - Nate > > > > -- > > > > "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all > > possible worlds. The pessimist fears this

Re: Raspberry Pi

2020-03-02 Thread Gene Heskett
gt; > Has very basic DRI support as of Mesa 20.0 and no free OpenGL/GLES > implementation at all. > > > I would consider a limit a defect if there's no way to disable it > > for benchmarking purposes, > > Glxgears is an old and somewhat obsolete benchmark. > Try using

Re: Raspberry Pi

2020-03-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 01 March 2020 13:31:21 Pete Batard wrote: > On 2020.03.01 16:30, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> Debian 10.3 ARM64 should install and work just fine on the Pi 3, > >> including full graphical mode. No need for 32-bit. > > > > Yes, I've done it, works fine,

Re: Raspberry Pi

2020-03-01 Thread Gene Heskett
r torque with increases in the timeing jitter, with a 50 microsecond jitter killing over 75% of a motors usable power. > > Please see either: > https://pete.akeo.ie/2019/07/installing-debian-arm64-on-raspberry-pi.h >tml or > https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=

Re: arm64-net-install buster 10.2

2020-02-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 03 February 2020 14:53:09 Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Mon, Feb 03, 2020 at 01:50:25PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I have no "leveerage" with raspbian. They officially have zero > > support for a realtime kernel. 4 posts to their forum in threads > &g

Re: arm64-net-install buster 10.2

2020-02-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 03 February 2020 14:21:37 Pete Batard wrote: > Hi, > > On 2020.02.03 15:53, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 03, 2020 at 10:41:17AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> Written to a 64GB card with dd, makes zero attempt to boot on rp4b. > >> > >

Re: arm64-net-install buster 10.2

2020-02-03 Thread Gene Heskett
ooking at. > Nige > > On Mon, Feb 3, 2020 at 11:00 AM Lennart Sorensen > > wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 03, 2020 at 10:41:17AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Written to a 64GB card with dd, makes zero attempt to boot on > > > rp4b. > > > >

Re: arm64-net-install buster 10.2

2020-02-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 03 February 2020 10:53:31 Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Mon, Feb 03, 2020 at 10:41:17AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Written to a 64GB card with dd, makes zero attempt to boot on rp4b. > > > > Put presently running raspbian buster 10.2 card back in

arm64-net-install buster 10.2

2020-02-03 Thread Gene Heskett
Written to a 64GB card with dd, makes zero attempt to boot on rp4b. Put presently running raspbian buster 10.2 card back in, boots up normal. Suggestions? Thanks. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in

  1   2   3   4   5   >