Re: rotate button sucks on the XO

2009-03-01 Thread Jordan Crouse
Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: > Jordan Crouse wrote: >> NoiseEHC wrote: >> >>> 2. An Xvideo RGB overlay displays the big nothing (black) while the >>> screen is rotated. >> Indeed - XV is purposely turned off when the screen is rotated (or at >> least,

Re: rotate button sucks on the XO

2009-03-01 Thread Jordan Crouse
NoiseEHC wrote: > 2. An Xvideo RGB overlay displays the big nothing (black) while the > screen is rotated. Indeed - XV is purposely turned off when the screen is rotated (or at least, not displayed): http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-geode/tree/src/lx_video.c#n465 Jordan ___

Re: OS/X11 support for XO-1 hardware?

2009-02-25 Thread Jordan Crouse
da...@lang.hm wrote: > On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Chris Marshall wrote: > >> With the spin-off of Sugar development to sugarlabs, >> it is nice to see the development continued. >> >> However, it seems that the OLPC layoffs and refocus >> has scuttled the work to complete some OS and system >> software

Re: AMD to stop working on Geodes (Carlos Nazareno)

2009-01-31 Thread Jordan Crouse
Edward Cherlin wrote: > National Semiconductor, which bought the line from Cyrix. I edited > several of the pin- and register-level manuals for various chips for > them more than ten years ago, and updates of my work are still online > on the AMD Web site. OLPC has educated AMD on how to use the >

Re: performance work

2008-12-31 Thread Jordan Crouse
Neil Graham wrote: > On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 20:41 -0700, Jordan Crouse wrote: >>> I'm curious as to why reads from video memory are so slow, On standard >>> video cards it's slow because there is quite a division between the CPU >>> and the video memory,

Re: performance work

2008-12-30 Thread Jordan Crouse
Neil Graham wrote: > On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 15:36 -0700, Jordan Crouse wrote: > >> You might want to re-acquire the numbers with wireless turned off and >> the system in a very quiet state. If you want to be extra careful, you >> can run the benchmarks in an empty X se

Re: performance work

2008-12-22 Thread Jordan Crouse
Greg Smith wrote: > Hi Jordan, > > Looks like we made a little more progress on graphics benchmarking. See > Neil's results below. > > I updated the feature page with the test results so far: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/General_UI_sluggishness > > What's next? > > Do we know en

Re: performance work

2008-12-22 Thread Jordan Crouse
Greg Smith wrote: > Hi Jordan, > > Looks like we made a little more progress on graphics benchmarking. See > Neil's results below. > > I updated the feature page with the test results so far: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/General_UI_sluggishness > > What's next? > > Do we know en

Re: Display X module for B2

2008-12-19 Thread Jordan Crouse
Guy Sheffer wrote: > Hello all, > In Israel we are starting a pilot using 30 B2 OLPC machines. > I have one running sugar 8.2 OS already, however one problem remains: > > As you might know the support for the graphical adapter has been > dropped, so the X won't start. I am not sure where to find t

Re: performance work

2008-12-16 Thread Jordan Crouse
Greg Smith wrote: > Forwarding this to devel. > > Any comments or suggestions on how we can start to optimize graphics > performance is appreciated. That is a rather open ended question. I'll try to point you at some interesting places to start with the understanding that not one thing is goin

Re: Simulating a lower resolution on the OLPC XO Laptop

2008-11-25 Thread Jordan Crouse
Thanks to Mitch, I fixed the scaling problem. Based on conversations on IRC, I am afraid that you will be very disappointed, so I am going to try to explain in great detail how this all works. First of all, you are going to need either build a new driver on your own, or convince your favorite

Re: Simulating a lower resolution on the OLPC XO Laptop

2008-11-25 Thread Jordan Crouse
Bert Freudenberg wrote: > > On 25.11.2008, at 17:37, Jordan Crouse wrote: > >> Bert Freudenberg wrote: >>> On 25.11.2008, at 11:57, Strider wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> I have a XO Laptop which is a nice machine machine with a high res >>>> d

Re: Simulating a lower resolution on the OLPC XO Laptop

2008-11-25 Thread Jordan Crouse
Bert Freudenberg wrote: > On 25.11.2008, at 11:57, Strider wrote: > >> Hi, >> I have a XO Laptop which is a nice machine machine with a high res >> display of 1200x900 pixels. The problem with this is that the laptop >> isn't powerful enugh to handle fullscreen applications at this >> resolu

Re: ACPI on XO (was: Re: [Techteam] Weekend 10/31)

2008-11-03 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 03/11/08 13:12 -0800, Deepak Saxena wrote: > On Nov 03 2008, at 13:41, Jordan Crouse was caught saying: > > The concept of suspend is muddled greatly with kernel and userspace folks > > both participating in the discussion and coming at the problem from > > different direct

Re: ACPI on XO (was: Re: [Techteam] Weekend 10/31)

2008-11-03 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 03/11/08 09:31 -0800, Deepak Saxena wrote: > [cc:ing devel] > > My understanding of cpuidle is that it is designed to be fairly CPU/system > agnostic with a clean driver interface to allow for tweaking the CPU/SOC > idle control. There is even an ARM port [1] but as you will see in that > email

Re: 9.1 Proposal: Top five performance problems

2008-10-27 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 26/10/08 14:21 -0400, Erik Garrison wrote: > On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 6:36 PM, Jordan Crouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 25/10/08 00:00 +0200, NoiseEHC wrote: > >> The Geode X drive copyes every bit of data to the command ring buffer by > >> using the CPU s

Re: 9.1 Proposal: Top five performance problems

2008-10-24 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 25/10/08 00:48 +0200, NoiseEHC wrote: > Could you be a bit more specific, please? What did you mean when you > talked about that moving a little bit more of the driver to kernel level > would not help? (This was the mentioned thread I had with Bernie.) I'm not exactly which part you want more

Re: 9.1 Proposal: Top five performance problems

2008-10-24 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 25/10/08 00:00 +0200, NoiseEHC wrote: > The Geode X drive copyes every bit of data to the command ring buffer by > using the CPU so that is sure that those "almost no CPU cycles" thing is > at least a bit stretch... :) According to Jordan Crouse it will not be > bet

Re: 5 sec boot

2008-10-06 Thread Jordan Crouse
ny USB devices attached, and then let probing take over after you have "resumed". There are several successful embedded solutions that use snapshot images to great effect. We should borrow liberally from their ideas. Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engi

Re: rendering test

2008-09-29 Thread Jordan Crouse
gt; makes many operations slower. It's hard to tell why, but it might have to > do with loosing XShmPut() (MIT shared memory), excessive migration of > pixmaps to the framebuffer, and so on. X 1.5 was supposed to have a much > better EXA, at least judging from the stream of patches landed on the tree. Indeed - migration is probably what is hurting us the most here. We would probably have to do a more in-depth analysis of what is actually happening in the engine, but the general rule of thumb is that it is very very very very very bad to read from the video memory. Jordan (Did I mention it was bad?) -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: browse and x11 performance

2008-09-03 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 03/09/08 20:20 -0400, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Jordan Crouse wrote: > | No - we don't support alpha hardware cursors at all. > > Who's "we"? According to my recollection, the Geode LX

Re: browse and x11 performance

2008-09-03 Thread Jordan Crouse
we don't support alpha hardware cursors at all. Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: OFW vs. proprietary BIOS

2008-09-02 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 29/08/08 14:07 -1000, Mitch Bradley wrote: > Edward Cherlin wrote. > > I also want to see Open Firmware replace proprietary BIOSes everywhere. > > I'd like that too, but it won't happen. The market forces that drive > the computer business still favor proprietary thinking, notwithstanding >

[DCON]: Make sure the backlight level gets restored after sleep

2008-08-27 Thread Jordan Crouse
Apparently somewhere along the line, the backlight value gets reset to full in the DCON silicon after coming back from a DCON sleep. This patch should remedy that. Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [DCON]: Make sure the backlight level

Re: Re Using scaling mode

2008-08-20 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 20/08/08 12:52 +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > On Aug 7, 2008 Jordan Crouse wrote: > > You can change the mode with the xrandr > > utility. The following is the output from my system with a 1024x768 > > panel attached: > > > > me at geodelx:~# xrandr > &g

xf86-video-geode update

2008-08-18 Thread Jordan Crouse
ay "I told you so" later.. :) Thanks, Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: xf86-video-geode: double the RandR for half theprice

2008-08-07 Thread Jordan Crouse
allenge. Jordan > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Jordan Crouse > Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 11:07 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Xorg-driver-geode] xf86-video-geode: double the RandR &

Using scaling mode

2008-08-07 Thread Jordan Crouse
caling - later, I might add centering if people are interested. That should be plenty to get you started - questions of course are welcome. Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. ___ Devel

xf86-video-geode: double the RandR for half the price

2008-08-07 Thread Jordan Crouse
d vtotal" If you are using a "standard" panel and you don't know the timings, you can probably steal them from the list src/lx_panel.c. Let me know if you have problems. -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. __

Re: video bleeds through somewhat between sessions

2008-08-04 Thread Jordan Crouse
ntialiased (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antialiasing). The font renderer is antialiasing the text, so that there are numerous shades of grey pixels surrounding the glyphs. These will match the color key, and will refelect the video behind it, but since you are only seeing a few pixels surround

Re: video bleeds through somewhat between sessions

2008-08-01 Thread Jordan Crouse
ns will match the color key, especially with automatic shading such as anti-aliasing. Nothing to worry about - just a fun little side effect of video acceleration. Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. _

Re: xorg.conf for VGA?

2008-07-06 Thread Jordan Crouse
e that the CRT is being turned on and used (double plus points if DDC worked). Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Add sysfs interface to enable/disable wakeup events

2008-06-13 Thread Jordan Crouse
/devices/platform/powerbutton/power/wakeup should be available, actual functionality may differ, please consult your local kernel for details and rebate offers. Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

OLPC patches in xf86-video-geode

2008-06-10 Thread Jordan Crouse
will turn into version 2.10. Please test the code, especially if you have an XO and you are willing to tinker. http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=xorg/driver/xf86-video-geode.git;a=summary Thanks, Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc

Re: Bitfrost and dual-boot

2008-05-30 Thread Jordan Crouse
ey wish. Not everybody will choose it, and as Stuart Smalley said, thats okay. We are closer to that then we ever have been before to providing this, and on behalf of the Coreboot team and the x86 users of the world, I would like to thank Mitch and Jim and the OLPC staff for supporting this

Re: XO-2 software plans

2008-05-23 Thread Jordan Crouse
> > > Note that power consumption drives price through the entire chain; > > what > > kind/size of power generation you need, etc. > > /me wants a graphics accelerator. Minor nitpick - you _have_ a graphics accelerator. What you really want is a 3D graphics engine.

Re: 15 computer science collegians looking for a project

2008-05-01 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 02/05/08 01:14 +0100, Martin Dengler wrote: > On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 01:35:21AM +0200, Reinier Heeres wrote: > > Hi, > > > > The problem you encountered was apparently caused by the compiler > > warning. > > Thanks -- that was it! > > > Renaming all instances of 'round' with something else

Re: 15 computer science collegians looking for a project

2008-04-30 Thread Jordan Crouse
IU. I can also tell you that it is optimized >> for single precision, so double precision is handled by microcode >> and needs to go through the path again. >> > Thanks! > I would also like to know how many ALU units does the FPU have? I mean FMUL > costs 1, PFMUL c

Re: Geode screen scaling

2008-04-29 Thread Jordan Crouse
roblem is that we're not using the correct timings for the panel. I'm going to have to think about the right way to handle that for "custom" panels like the one we have. Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. _

Re: 15 computer science collegians looking for a project

2008-04-29 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 29/04/08 17:41 +0200, NoiseEHC wrote: > On this page > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Geode_LX > I have named some instructions as "Synchronized ops" (in the MMX > section). Are those real or did I mismeasured something? That section is very difficult to understand. I'm not sure which operations y

Re: 15 computer science collegians looking for a project

2008-04-29 Thread Jordan Crouse
no response. If you tell me _exactly_ what you think you need, I can try to get the information. However, I do need exact demands. General "you suck, tell us more" requests are not effective arguments with the documentation gatekeepers. Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Systems S

Re: Auto backlight management?

2008-04-24 Thread Jordan Crouse
specification. You can turn on monochrome mode at any time. Try it yourself: echo "1" > /sys/devices/platform/dcon/output Boom - there you go. Monochrome for your pleasure. Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: ACPI/APM

2008-03-25 Thread Jordan Crouse
=stable You'll also want to investigate OHM, which is the userspace power controller. Good luck. Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists

[OLPC] Fix the VIP resource BAR in the PCI spoofing

2008-03-12 Thread Jordan Crouse
Minor little problem that was breaking the libpciaccess hotness in the upstream X driver. This makes it all better. Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [OLPC] Fix the VIP resource BAR in the PCI spoofing From: Jordan Crouse <[EM

Re: libpciaccess patch

2008-02-29 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 29/02/08 08:44 -0700, Jordan Crouse wrote: > On 29/02/08 17:33 +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 5:28 PM, Bernardo Innocenti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > > > > > > > This needs to

Re: libpciaccess patch

2008-02-29 Thread Jordan Crouse
ce he'll end up being the maintainer of the final product in Fedora. Are you ready for OLPC to bang on your drum? Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: libpciaccess patch

2008-02-29 Thread Jordan Crouse
to work out of the > > box on the OLPC. > > Having a look at the commit log or the X.org wiki would have already > answered this. Actually, no - we're not up to date with OLPC, and nobody has actually tested the vanilla driver on the XO. The status on the wiki is clearly in

Re: Alternative power/recharging source?

2008-02-22 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 22/02/08 17:12 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Richard A. Smith wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >>> Again whats your source for this info? Because its news to me. > >> > >> http://laptop.org/en/laptop/hardware/specs.shtml > >> LCD power consumption: 0.1 Watt

Re: power management experiences with joyride-1572

2008-01-27 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 26/01/08 21:47 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Richard A. Smith wrote: > > > Chris Ball wrote: > > > >> >> Can I wake up 10 seconds from now? Is there a timer in any of the > >> >> hardware that is left running? > >> > >> > Yes, but the software does not support th

Re: Why can't i access /dev/dsp or /dev/snd on my XO

2008-01-18 Thread Jordan Crouse
te hardware controls are in place. Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Outstanding kernel patches

2008-01-14 Thread Jordan Crouse
t; cs5535audio These are the hacks for the input mode, right? > Core OLPC platform support: > - Need to clean up the device-tree handling. Can we use fdt? > - PCI support This will be an interesting battle to fight. :) I'll work with Andres to get my stuff ready to go. --

Re: auto screen rotation

2008-01-10 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 10/01/08 22:02 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 10 Jan 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Thu, 10 Jan 2008, Chris Ball wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> > I just installed 679 and one new feature is that switching to > >> > tablet mode rotates the screen to one click from normal and

Re: jffs zlib tuning

2008-01-09 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 08/01/08 17:09 -0800, William Fisher wrote: > Jordan Crouse wrote: >> On 08/01/08 12:06 -0500, Bernardo Innocenti wrote: >>> (cc CP, aleph) >>> >>> David Woodhouse wrote: >>> >>>>> 1. Did anybody profile the kernel while reading file

Re: jffs zlib tuning

2008-01-08 Thread Jordan Crouse
#x27;m no oprofile expert (I couldn't get it working at all when I tried it the other day), but do you have the debug version of libc loaded too? Maybe it can't find the symbols. Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

Re: XO Xorg.log

2008-01-03 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 03/01/08 18:41 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > for several versions (650, 653, joyride 1489, 1495, 1498) I've been > noticing errors on the boot console from X. some of these are due to errors > in other software (the 'invalid filter 1' errors), but there are a > surprising number of errors

Re: Kernel configuration options

2008-01-02 Thread Jordan Crouse
what you would you have us do differently? Are you advocating that we move to 4Mb pages? Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Kernel configuration options

2008-01-02 Thread Jordan Crouse
; > > > The magnitude of the performance benefit is not at all obvious. The > Geode's graphics accelerator uses physical addressing. True - but the framebuffer is also mapped into virtual space for the benefit of the kernel and userspace, and ou

Re: suspend/resume support?

2007-12-23 Thread Jordan Crouse
; suspends; press again to resume. Lid closures do it too. And as always, /sys/power/state is available for your manual power suspending needs. Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. ___ Devel ma

Re: Oprofile, swap

2007-12-19 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 18/12/07 22:54 -0800, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > Jordan Crouse wrote: >> On 18/12/07 12:39 -0500, Chris Ball wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>>> However, you appear to be correct about the oprofile kernel. >>> >>>> $ grep OPROFILE c

Re: Oprofile, swap

2007-12-18 Thread Jordan Crouse
ed with only zeros, as far as I can tell) , and opreport spits back errors, consistant with badly formed sample files. We need some people who understand oprofile to take a look at whats happening and diagnose it. Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software D

Re: DCON improvements...

2007-12-17 Thread Jordan Crouse
ts, or output the vsync from one to use as the input on the other. Whichever your GPU of choice might be able to support. I'm sure more thoughts will dribble out later as I work through the blocks that my mind set up to protect me from the DCON pain we once suffered through. Jordan -- Jordan Cro

Resuming video

2007-12-04 Thread Jordan Crouse
though, so I do need testers. Thanks, Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [LXFB]: _Really_ fix suspend/resume for LX video From: Jordan Crouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It turns out that the registers on resume are picky about when t

Re: alternate h/w for devel use?

2007-12-03 Thread Jordan Crouse
that are easier to get worldwide. Sure, you're not going to get the DCON or other custom XO hardware, but you will get pretty close - at least close enough to do reasonable work. Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. __

Re: Where I can download source code of OFW for OLPC?

2007-10-10 Thread Jordan Crouse
comments says "No commits". > > > > Thanks a lot, > > Kein > > > > > > > > ___ > > Devel mailing list > > Devel@lists.laptop.org > > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > > > > ______

Re: oddball video modes (was: Sugar's fonts)

2007-10-02 Thread Jordan Crouse
specific request, IIRC), and I don't believe Andres has ever said he would outright reject a patch, and he's the only one you ever have to convince. Code on. Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. __

Re: XFree86-DGA

2007-09-27 Thread Jordan Crouse
se an API already built into the system and available today would be a little over the top. Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: XFree86-DGA

2007-09-26 Thread Jordan Crouse
en it can implement it iself with simple Xlib calls which are backed by accelerated hooks. Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: FreeBe, Displaylink

2007-09-26 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 26/09/07 10:31 -0400, Jim Gettys wrote: > On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 06:52 -0700, big one wrote: > > > No VGA/EGA/CGA. > > > > This is some sort of free VESA BIOS and the author said the source code can > > be ported to Linux platform: > > > > http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/freebe/ > > The Geode e

Re: DOSBox VGA Emulator, SDL, Svgalib

2007-09-26 Thread Jordan Crouse
upport for svgalib, though, if you are interested in adding it. Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Modification of Public OLPC Software

2007-09-26 Thread Jordan Crouse
ll together, and not distributed. Jordan > Carl-Daniel > _______ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > > -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Dev

Re: Fwd: Less Watts

2007-09-25 Thread Jordan Crouse
Because the MFGPT provides the timer tick for the system. You should know this. Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: OLPC: decouple sleep/resume from powerdown/powerup (take 3)

2007-09-25 Thread Jordan Crouse
think it should, but its something that we need to be aware of. So anyway, long story short, its all below in black and white. Please reply with comments. Jordan [OLPC] use the fb_blank() infrastructure to turn off the GPU From: Jordan Crouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Remove the powerup and po

Re: PATCH: suspend and poweroff (#3603 candidate)

2007-09-19 Thread Jordan Crouse
d to enter CPU > mode\n"); > dcon_pending = DCON_SOURCE_DCON; > return; > @@ -250,8 +250,8 @@ static void dcon_source_switch(struct work_struct *work) > if (!dcon_switched) >

Re: The "iGoogle bug"

2007-09-19 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 19/09/07 08:14 -0400, Bernardo Innocenti wrote: > Jordan Crouse wrote: > > An interesting project for the near future would be adding DRM support > to the amd driver. Yes it would be. I'm not sure how much we would gain overall - but having the interrupt support and bette

Re: The "iGoogle bug"

2007-09-18 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 18/09/07 20:09 -0400, Bernardo Innocenti wrote: > Jordan Crouse wrote: > > > > NAK. What you are suggesting will completely breaking the entire Cimarron > > infrastructure, which is not something I am willing to do at this stage. > > Much time (and by that I mea

Re: The "iGoogle bug"

2007-09-18 Thread Jordan Crouse
v. > > Is it ok to commit, for now? For always. It *is* the permanent fix for the problem. Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: The "iGoogle bug"

2007-09-18 Thread Jordan Crouse
system horribly. > - Seeing if we can get the blitter to read source data directly from system > memory. I'd be very surprised if there was no way to make it work > with virtual memory enabled, because, without such a mechanism, the > blitter would be less than fully usefu

Re: The "iGoogle bug"

2007-09-18 Thread Jordan Crouse
he engine. Thank you for reporting this, and I'll look into ways we can make the upload blit behave better. Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: More 16 vs 24 bpp profiling

2007-09-12 Thread Jordan Crouse
ally two, an update to the cpu flags and > > also a strcmp() on the processor ID that had to be fixed to get pixman > > to detect MMX capability on the geode. > > > > Yeah this the current check: > > (strcmp(vendor, "AuthenticAMD") == 0 || > strcmp(

Re: More 16 vs 24 bpp profiling

2007-09-11 Thread Jordan Crouse
86-amd-devel tree. The fd.o tree is for the rest of the world. Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: More 16 vs 24 bpp profiling

2007-09-11 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 11/09/07 13:05 +0200, Stefano Fedrigo wrote: > I've done some more profiling on the 16 vs. 24 bpp issue. > This time I used this test: > https://dev.laptop.org/git?p=sugar;a=blob;f=tests/graphics/hipposcalability.py > > A simple speed test: I measured the time required to scroll down and up > o

Re: Teleconference information for software status meeting ( today, 21:00 EDT Boston)

2007-09-05 Thread Jordan Crouse
to get distracted with topics that could just as easily be discussed on e-mail or in other IRC forums. Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: EXA performance

2007-08-30 Thread Jordan Crouse
char rgb line (Charter 24) > 41600.046400.0 ( 1.12) Copy 10x10 from window to window > 49000.055100.0 ( 1.12) Map window via parent (100 kids) > 41900.046800.0 ( 1.12) Scroll 10x10 pixels > 49400.055700.0 ( 1.13) Map window via parent (200 kids) >678.0 779.0 ( 1.15) 100x100 stippled rectangle (8x8 stipple) > 17500.020200.0 ( 1.15) Char in 30-char aa line (Charter 24) > 28.3 32.8 ( 1.16) 500x500 stippled rectangle (8x8 stipple) > 10400.012100.0 ( 1.16) Char in 80-char a line (Charter 10) > 9110.011000.0 ( 1.21) Char in 80-char a line (Courier 12) > 5560.0 7340.0 ( 1.32) Fill 10x10 aa trapezoid > 3700.0 5030.0 ( 1.36) Fill 300x300 aa trap with 1 bit alpha > 4110.0 5760.0 ( 1.40) Char in 30-char a line (Charter 24) > 5530.0 9110.0 ( 1.65) Fill 100x100 aa trap with 1 bit alpha > 6670.012700.0 ( 1.90) Fill 10x10 aa trap with 1 bit alpha >163.0 315.0 ( 1.93) Fill 100x100 aa trapezoid > 6870.013500.0 ( 1.97) Fill 1x1 aa trap with 1 bit alpha > 18.3 36.9 ( 2.02) Fill 300x300 aa trapezoid > ___ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: accessibilities first tests - many questions

2007-08-24 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 24/08/07 15:47 +0200, Guylhem Aznar wrote: > Hello > > On 8/20/07, Jordan Crouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It'd be great if this could be included. Better yet would be > > > to allow specifying the raw register value, of course with > > &

Re: Questions on LinuxBIOS and OpenFirmware

2007-08-24 Thread Jordan Crouse
ottom [1]. Jordan [1] Well, actually, the low level stuff is in assembly, which I think the OFW purists will claim isn't actually OFW, but it all comes together in the same package, and Mitch owns it all, so to us, its OFW. -- Jordan Cro

Re: accessibilities first tests - many questions

2007-08-20 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 19/08/07 21:20 -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote: > Guylhem Aznar writes: > > On 8/18/07, Jordan Crouse wrote: > > >> We didn't enable this ability in the sysfs/ interface. I have > >> never been too clear on what the actual practical uses are for > >> s

Re: accessibilities first tests - many questions

2007-08-17 Thread Jordan Crouse
ardware doesn't have any way of zooming the graphics screen, so you would have to do it in software, which is probably not ideal on the Geode. Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: (temporary) patch for font corruption problem.

2007-07-12 Thread Jordan Crouse
Never mind, the fix is already included in build 499. Actually, I don't think it is. It might be in 502, though. > -- > // Bernardo Innocenti > \X/ http://www.codewiz.org/ > > -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. __

Re: add powerbutton and lid platform devices

2007-07-09 Thread Jordan Crouse
ily set through sysfs. It doesn't need a new > component to make that decision. I'm talking about OHM for userspace policy decisions. But you are correct. It all boils down to a single sysfs knob for the kernel. Nothing more is needed. Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Systems

Re: suspend-to-disk

2007-07-09 Thread Jordan Crouse
lifetime issues on the flash, and do it anywhere fast enough to make it worthwhile during regular use? These are questions I know not the answer to. Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: add powerbutton and lid platform devices

2007-07-09 Thread Jordan Crouse
but I don't know about the lid. Imagine a scenario where somebody manually puts the machine to sleep and then shuts the lid. You wouldn't want the machine to turn back on when you lifted it. Lid behavior is so policy driven, I think we should leave it off by d

Re: Shutdown after resume using power button

2007-07-07 Thread Jordan Crouse
gt; the reason why we're seeing the powerdown sequence being started. > > Jordan, > > I remember you mentioned that reading PM1_STS might be unreliable... > Can you shed more light into the issue? Hmm - I don't rem

Pagemap

2007-06-27 Thread Jordan Crouse
They just talked about pagemap from Matt Mackall during an BoF at OLS. This seems like something useful we can use to measure our memory usage - in particular, it is screaming for tinderbox integration.. :) http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/3/405 (patches are in -mm - map2*). Jordan -- Jordan

Re: Power Management

2007-06-08 Thread Jordan Crouse
;* if there isn't a software tick (dynticks/tickless) planned for the > > very near future > > Can we get this info from the kernel? Probably not - and if you could, the latency to tell you would probably be longer then the delay. This will also have to be automatical

Re: GEODE Power Saving

2007-06-08 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 08/06/07 15:51 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote: > Does the geode support frequency or voltage scaling? If so, how is this > communicated to userspace? No. Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Senior Linux Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. ___ Devel m

Re: White background with OLPC logo

2007-06-05 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 05/06/07 12:01 -0400, Andres Salomon wrote: > Jordan Crouse wrote: > >On 05/06/07 11:28 -0400, Bernardo Innocenti wrote: > >>David Woodhouse wrote: > >> > >>>This hasn't a whelk's chance in a supernova of going upstream, > >>Why? T

Re: White background with OLPC logo

2007-06-05 Thread Jordan Crouse
they see our 80's fashioned text console in > an otherwise cute green laptop. > > I always need to justify it with some excuse such as > "err... this is to help us debugging the system, > it's not really meant for the end user". Exactly - so why

Re: White background with OLPC logo

2007-06-05 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 05/06/07 09:28 -0400, Bernardo Innocenti wrote: > Hello, > > these patches make our boot sequence a little more pleasant > in time for B4, and are anyway a desiderable improvement > even after we have the real boot splash. To complete > the effect, I'm also planning to patch X11 to start with

Re: 3d graphics

2007-05-30 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 30/05/07 17:55 +0200, NoiseEHC wrote: > I have read the OpenGL thread and at that time displaying was a problem. > However I noticed that SDL_CreateYUVOverlay does the exact same thing, > the only question is: does it allow creating two of them and flipping? Displaying, or scaling? Yes - scal

Re: 3d graphics

2007-05-30 Thread Jordan Crouse
ng. Even with a video overlay implementation, you still have to render the whole image before sending it up through Xv, and thats where you will fall down. But, if you want to try, then be my guest. The Xv driver has everything you need to render YUV images to the screen - just make yourself

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