[linux-sunxi] Re: [PATCH] sunxi: lower the DRAM frequency of Nano Pi NEO2 to 504MHz

2017-11-09 Thread Thomas Kaiser
n > > mainline. > > > > Switch to use the BSP-provided frequency 504MHz for DRAM. > > > > Thanks to Thomas Kaiser, who pointed out the frequency problem. > > What issue does this patch fix? BSPs have often been way underclocked > in the past. > > Did

[linux-sunxi] Re: [PATCH] sunxi: Tune H3 DRAM PLL to improve lock time

2016-08-25 Thread Thomas Kaiser
Jens Kuske wrote: > The H3 PLL5 used for DRAM barely manages to lock to the required > frequency before DRAM controller starts, sometimes leading to wrong > delay-line calibration results. > This patch changes the PLL tuning parameters to the same values as > boot0 used, which speeds up the

[linux-sunxi] Re: Forcing device mode on USB OTG, Pine64

2016-07-25 Thread Thomas Kaiser
Jon Smirl wrote: > > Is there some way to manually poke the kernel and force the port to > switch modes? > In case /sys/bus/platform/devices/sunxi_usb_udc/otg_role exists, setting it to 2 should switch to OTG role (assumption based on similarities in Allwinner's BSP legacy kernel for H3, A83T

[linux-sunxi] Re: [PATCH 06/14] ARM: dts: sun8i: Add cpu0 label to sun8i-h3.dtsi

2016-07-19 Thread Thomas Kaiser
Hi, Ondřej Jirman wrote: > > We have boards that have 1.1/1.3V switching, only 1.3V, fine tuned > voltage regulation and every such board will need it's own set of > operating points. > Yes, and Allwinner's current BSP kernel code might encourage board makers to implement a forth variant:

[linux-sunxi] Re: All Allwinner kernels rootable with an echo

2016-05-10 Thread Thomas Kaiser
Benjamin Henrion wrote: > All Allwinner kernels rootable with an echo: > > > https://olimex.wordpress.com/2016/05/10/how-to-root-any-allwinner-device-running-android-and-most-of-the-chinese-pi-clones-which-bet-on-allwinner-android-linux-kernel/ > > > Insane! > Wrong instead since it affects

Re: [linux-sunxi] Pine64 unreview

2016-04-22 Thread Thomas Kaiser
Siarhei Siamashka wrote: > > Having too much poorly structured information and too many SD card > images to try actually does more harm than good. Well, the unreviewer pointed out that he did what everyone would do: Go to the download section on wiki.pine64.org and choose the OS images

[linux-sunxi] SinoVoip BPi M2+

2016-04-07 Thread Thomas Kaiser
Just a try to save others some time. SinoVoip sent me a developer/review sample yesterday and I did some testing. Wiki stub: http://linux-sunxi.org/Sinovoip_Banana_Pi_M2%2B Since BPi M2+ is more or less a 99% clone of Orange Pi Plus/PC it was pretty easy to combine OPi PC/Plus stuff to a

Re: [linux-sunxi] Re: Allwinner dev board code names

2016-04-04 Thread Thomas Kaiser
Jon Smirl wrote: > Pine 64 has an android/lichee Allwinner code drop from 1/13/16. > http://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/Pine_A64_Software_Release > > Is these anything interesting in it? > I don't think the Android image the Pine64 folks provide is based on this. They might get support from

[linux-sunxi] Re: Allwinner dev board code names

2016-04-02 Thread Thomas Kaiser
Jon Smirl wrote: > > I was looking for H3. > What about dolphin then? https://github.com/friendlyarm/h3_lichee/tree/master/tools/pack/chips/sun8iw7p1/configs Thomas -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "linux-sunxi" group. To unsubscribe from this

[linux-sunxi] Re: Is a somewhat maintained 3.4 kernel branch needed for Allwinner H3?

2016-02-21 Thread Thomas Kaiser
Siarhei Siamashka wrote: So does anyone have any good ideas about how to move forward? > Or is anyone willing to step up as the 3.4 kernel maintainer for Allwinner > H3? > Neither/nor. Just to save others some time. On top of your branch here and there a lot of additional patches were

[linux-sunxi] Re: esata multiplier

2016-01-24 Thread Thomas Kaiser
Hi, on the website http://linux-sunxi.org/SATA#Caveats there is stated "Cheap > port multipliers like JMB321/JMB393", Im just wondering what are the > good esata multiplier, could you please suggest some? > Nope, since using PMs with A20 is no good idea at all (low performance, risk that

[linux-sunxi] Re: orangepi mirror

2016-01-14 Thread Thomas Kaiser
Benjamin Henrion wrote: > The naming convention (OrangePi 2, Plus, Minus, etc...) is just a > nightmare, especially to understand which image is compatible with > which, considering that the SOC is the same for all. And it won't get better with the new H3 based Orange Pi One/Lite ;) But

[linux-sunxi] Re: orangepi mirror

2016-01-13 Thread Thomas Kaiser
Benjamin Henrion wrote: The few images I tested were full of bugs and needed a kernel update > to get latest Loboris.eu version. > Maybe it's a good idea to point out that while loboris' images/settings fix many things they're also responsible for worsening the overheating problems the H3 is

Re: [linux-sunxi] Re: [PATCH sunxi-boards 1/3] h3: Add fex file for Orange Pi PC

2015-12-19 Thread Thomas Kaiser
Siarhei Siamashka wrote: > It's likely that the credit for "unlocking" the 1.5 GHz clock speed > actually belongs to third-party modders. Thanks for clarifying this (and all the additional informations). I'll try to correct this where I spread wrong "informations"/assumptions asapissimo. > As

[linux-sunxi] Re: Jpeg Encoding

2015-12-17 Thread Thomas Kaiser
Martin wrote: > > I know this is a quite old thread, but I would like to implement jpeg > thumbnail encoding in XMBC (since jpeg HW decoding is working now), but > gitorious has closed down and therefore the link > https://gitorious.org/recedro/jepoc > is no longer working. > Is this proof of

Re: [linux-sunxi] Re: [PATCH 0/6] ARM: sunxi: Introduce Allwinner H3 support

2015-12-16 Thread Thomas Kaiser
Siarhei Siamashka wrote: > Unless we get more test results in a few days which radically change > the statistics, probably using 624 MHz for DRAM on Orange Pi PC would > be reasonable. I second that while also asking the overclocker community for help:

[linux-sunxi] Re: [PATCH sunxi-boards 1/3] h3: Add fex file for Orange Pi PC

2015-12-09 Thread Thomas Kaiser
Siarhei Siamashka: > Extracted from the Lubuntu_1404_For_OrangePiPC_v0_8_0_.img.xz image: > > http://www.orangepi.org/downloadresources/orangepipc/oragepipc_4a0e8d960f7f0a52606dfaba58.html > > > Not necessarily the best one > This is the worst one since it's the origin of all thermal problems

[linux-sunxi] Re: Default cpufreq governor: performance vs. interactive/ondemand

2015-12-04 Thread Thomas Kaiser
Thomas Kaiser wrote: > > I have no multimeter that would be precise enough so I rely on the thermal > sensors in the 2 SoCs I used to show the difference the clockspeed makes > depending on dvfs settings. I bought a powermeter in the meantime and get a difference of ~250mW idle

[linux-sunxi] Default cpufreq governor: performance vs. interactive/ondemand

2015-12-03 Thread Thomas Kaiser
Hello, to justify the switch from interactive/ondemand to performance as default cpufreq governor the following 2 year old sources are cited again and again: https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-sunxi@googlegroups.com/msg00492.html

[linux-sunxi] Re: [PATCH 3.4 1/9] sunxi: defconfig: Use performance cpufreq governor by default

2015-12-03 Thread Thomas Kaiser
m.silentcr...@gmail.com wrote: > > 1) If the performance governor is the default, it means that a lot of > boards will run constantly at overvolted out-of-spec settings by default. > Now, I haven't heard of any issues with boards running at 1.425 or 1.45 > volts. Nevertheless, we don't allow

Re: [linux-sunxi] Banana Pi M3 (A83T based) soon ready to donate

2015-12-01 Thread Thomas Kaiser
Luc Verhaegen wrote: >Keep it Nope, this device is completely useless (at least for me). I already finished my "review" (a severe warning regarding the board's manufacturer combined with a few technical details I was able to collect).

Re: [linux-sunxi] Re: [PATCH] ARM: dts: sun7i: Add dts file for the lamobo-r1 board

2015-11-30 Thread Thomas Kaiser
Hi, Maxime Ripard wrote: >Quite the opposite actually, it would allow people that want to >deviate from the standard to do so while allowing people that >want to follow that standard to do so as well. Well, the majority of people that buy boards because of this specific 26/40 pin header can't

[linux-sunxi] FYI: Wiki problems

2015-11-30 Thread Thomas Kaiser
Hi, currently it's not possible to edit anything in the wiki. Authentication problems due to "Warning: Unknown: write failed: No space left on device (28) in Unknown on line 0" Best regards, Thomas -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "linux-sunxi"

[linux-sunxi] Banana Pi M3 (A83T based) soon ready to donate

2015-11-28 Thread Thomas Kaiser
Hi, anyone interested in one of SinoVoip's Banana Pi M3 to improve A83T support? I've been selected to receive a free sample by SinoVoip due to being their most active forum member (a bit weird since most of the times I advise there against choosing SinoVoip products due to worst

Re: [linux-sunxi] Banana Pi M3 (A83T based) soon ready to donate

2015-11-28 Thread Thomas Kaiser
Luc Verhaegen wrote: >Keep it, you're doing good work. Thx, but I don't have any use for such a device (lacks I/O bandwidth compared to processing power). The only thing I'm really curious about A83T is the performance. Allwinner's weird press-release is still online:

Re: [linux-sunxi] Re: [PATCH] ARM: dts: sun7i: Add dts file for the lamobo-r1 board

2015-11-24 Thread Thomas Kaiser
Hi, Hans de Goede wrote: > The Lamobo-R1 has a gpio header idententical to the one found > on the Banana Pi, i2c2 is routed to pins there. That's the reason this header exists in this form and that's the reason customers buy these boards that expose an 'RPi compatible' 26/40 pin GPIO header.

Re: [linux-sunxi] Re: [PATCH] ARM: dts: sun7i: Add dts file for the lamobo-r1 board

2015-11-24 Thread Thomas Kaiser
Hi, Hans de Goede: > The Lamobo-R1 has a gpio header idententical to the one found > on the Banana Pi, i2c2 is routed to pins there. One thing I forgot to mention before. Please have a look into our Wiki at the second right picture: http://linux-sunxi.org/Lamobo_R1#GPIO_header The Add-On

Re: [linux-sunxi] Re: [PATCH] ARM: dts: sun7i: Add dts file for the lamobo-r1 board

2015-11-23 Thread Thomas Kaiser
Hi, Hans de Goede wrote: > On 22-11-15 20:59, Maxime Ripard wrote: > >> + { > >> +cpu-supply = <_dcdc2>; > >> +operating-points = < > >> +/* kHz uV */ > >> +96140 > >> +912000140 > >> +

[linux-sunxi] Re: [PATCH] ARM: dts: sun7i: Add dts file for the lamobo-r1 board

2015-11-22 Thread Thomas Kaiser
Stefan Monnier wrote: > > When I looked for a DTS file for this board, I was told that the > bananapi DTS works just fine Nope, there are some differences already outlined in the wiki (eg. powering of a connected SATA disk is AXP209's job -- unless you pull pin PB3 the PMU won't supply the

Re: [linux-sunxi] Allwinner pack tools adventures

2015-09-04 Thread Thomas Kaiser
Ivan Kozic wrote: > I didn't know if anyone would complain about it being not so structured, > as I've never updated any public wiki pages > You could start summarizing/editing the stuff below http://linux-sunxi.org/index.php?title=User_talk:Ikozic=edit=1 as long as it's early "work in

[linux-sunxi] Re: Banana pi BPI-M2 uboot 2015-7 and kernel 4.1.6 test

2015-08-30 Thread Thomas Kaiser
lion wang wrote: BPI team have test linux kernel 4.1.6 on BPI-M1,BPI-M1+,BPI-M2,BPI-M3 Where's the M3 stuff? And I would assume the only bit of interest inside your forked kernel is one single file (since everything else already worked before and you didn't change a single line of code).

Re: [linux-sunxi] Re: forwarding a bug: cpufreq missing in debian stable on a cuibeboard

2015-07-24 Thread Thomas Kaiser
Hi, Timo wrote: I think what Maxime was trying to say is, that while all of your boards support Cpufreq, only the Cubietruck supports voltage scaling because only Cubietruck has the power regulator nodes defined in it's dts file (just have a look at the last lines of the Cubitruck dts

[linux-sunxi] Re: forwarding a bug: cpufreq missing in debian stable on a cuibeboard

2015-07-24 Thread Thomas Kaiser
Leonardo Canducci wrote: I've submitted a bug [0] in the Debian BTS and tried kernel 4.0 and 4.1 from unstable and experimental branches with no success I can confirm that it's neither working with 4.0.4 and 4.1 on cubietruck (always tried Wheezy):

Re: [linux-sunxi] Re: forwarding a bug: cpufreq missing in debian stable on a cuibeboard

2015-07-24 Thread Thomas Kaiser
Hi, Hans de Goede wrote: Is the debian kernel building the axp209 mfd driver, and also the axp20x regulator drive, and do these get loaded properly on the cubietruck ? Unfortunately I've no idea since i fetch the kernel sources directly from

Re: [linux-sunxi] Re: forwarding a bug: cpufreq missing in debian stable on a cuibeboard

2015-07-24 Thread Thomas Kaiser
Hi, Maxime Ripard wrote: So any mechanical change is not something that can be done. Especially for something that might blow up your board. Thanks for the warning. I already started to prepare to blow away the Lamobo R1 I've here by applying the cubietruck device tree settings (for this

Re: [linux-sunxi] Re: forwarding a bug: cpufreq missing in debian stable on a cuibeboard

2015-07-24 Thread Thomas Kaiser
Hi, Maxime Ripard wrote: On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 04:36:57AM -0700, Thomas Kaiser wrote: And this was the kernel config I used: https://github.com/igorpecovnik/lib/blob/429867a80c85011b6d31048481c0beb1c7bc76fa/config/linux-sunxi-next.config # CONFIG_REGULATOR_AXP20X is not set

Re: [linux-sunxi] Banana Pi M2 (A31s based) ready to donate

2015-07-06 Thread Thomas Kaiser
In the meantime someone reverse engineered some stuff for the M2 and saud to send patches upstream: http://www.bananapi.com/index.php/forum/general-discussion-for-bpi-m2/995-working-wifi-on-modern-kernels-4-1-tested#2747 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: [linux-sunxi] Banana Pi M2 (A31s based) ready to donate

2015-07-06 Thread Thomas Kaiser
And in the meantime somewhere on baidu.com Sinovoip put their Android sources (using kernel 3.3) for the M2 online: https://github.com/BPI-SINOVOIP/BPI-Kernel4.0/issues/1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups linux-sunxi group. To unsubscribe from this

[linux-sunxi] Adding upstream u-boot/kernel support for Lamobo R1?

2015-06-22 Thread Thomas Kaiser
Hi, I added the ressources I use with the Lamobo R1 to its wiki page: http://linux-sunxi.org/Lamobo_R1#Mainline_U-Boot Both defconfig/dts file work like a charm after several issues have been discovered and resolved: - SATA power definition was missing in manufacturer's fex file:

[linux-sunxi] Re: [RFC] A2x touchpad temperature readout

2015-06-22 Thread Thomas Kaiser
Hi, schroete wrote on 18. Juni 2015 18:02:44 UTC+2: just seen that Hans did a temperature readout in sunxi-next in the sun4i-ts module. If this is responsible for the value reported by /sys/devices/virtual/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp then the output seems to be wrong. Steps to reproduce:

[linux-sunxi] Banana Pi M2 (A31s based) ready to donate

2015-06-18 Thread Thomas Kaiser
Anyone interested in a chinese A31s SBC called Banana Pi M2? The board works, UART is accessible but the software the vendor provides (and his attitude) really suck: http://www.bananapi.com/index.php/forum/general-discussion-for-bpi-m2/895-status-quo-of-m2-regarding-software-support#2538 If

Re: [linux-sunxi] Banana Pi M2 (A31s based) ready to donate

2015-06-18 Thread Thomas Kaiser
Hi, Hans de Goede wrote: On 18-06-15 08:53, Thomas Kaiser wrote: Anyone interested in a chinese A31s SBC called Banana Pi M2? I'm interested, so that I can add upstream u-boot and kernel (dts file) support for it. If you're ok with donating it to me let know and I'll send you

[linux-sunxi] Re: GMAC Reveice Clock Delay Chain value

2015-06-05 Thread Thomas . Kaiser
m.silentcr...@gmail.com wrote: Sound interesting. How did your test runs work out? I found a couple of settings for the Lamobo R1 that might work slightly better than the default 3/0 TX/RX delay settings. But on Banana Pi and Olimex Lime2 the defaults (3/0 and 0/0) provided the best results.

[linux-sunxi] Re: Banana R1 router german article

2015-05-12 Thread Thomas . Kaiser
Small follow-up: I'm refering to GMAC send/receive clock delay chain. For Banana Pi/Pro it was necessary to set bit 10-12 of the gmac clk register to 3 to get decent network throughput (for Cubietruck it's set to 1 currently). http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2014-September/190239.html

[linux-sunxi] Re: Banana R1 router german article

2015-05-12 Thread Thomas . Kaiser
Benjamin Henrion wrote: http://www.pc-magazin.de/ratgeber/banana-pi-r1-router-anleitung-openwrt-bananian-3021511.html Anyone has ever tested this router? I heard they had problems to make the BCM switch working properly. I have it here and Igor Pečovnik already added support for Mainline

Re: [linux-sunxi] Re: [PATCH][RFC] Add standalone driver for the A20 Soc TP embedded temperature sensor

2014-11-09 Thread Thomas . Kaiser
thomas.kai...@phg-online.de wrote: In the meantime I realized that it's bit 7 of the touchpanel's TP_CTRL1 register so when sunxi-dbgreg.ko is loaded I should succeed with echo 'f1c25004' /sys/devices/virtual/misc/sunxi-dbgreg/rw/read; Corentin's code in this module as well as the

[linux-sunxi] Re: [PATCH][RFC] Add standalone driver for the A20 Soc TP embedded temperature sensor

2014-11-05 Thread Thomas . Kaiser
clabbe.montjoie wrote: For the temperature value, I cannot found any document on how to transform the raw value in °C. [...] Under heavy loads, the temperature of both sensors rise linearly. But based on a series of tests with and without heatsinks applied to the A20 I came to the