Re: [linux-sunxi] Re: A good SD card image for A10-OLinuXino-Lime?

2014-05-04 Thread Siarhei Siamashka
On Wed, 15 Jan 2014 09:20:18 +0200 Siarhei Siamashka wrote: > On Tue, 17 Dec 2013 10:15:56 -0800 (PST) > Димитър Гамишев wrote: > > > On Monday, December 16, 2013 6:44:03 AM UTC+2, Siarhei Siamashka wrote: > > > There is just one thing I'm really worried about. The 16-bit > > > memory interfac

Re: [linux-sunxi] Re: A good SD card image for A10-OLinuXino-Lime?

2014-01-15 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, On 01/15/2014 09:08 AM, TsvetanUsunov wrote: I was not going to sugar-coat anything here. And I understand that using the 16-bit memory bus width was a side effect of extreme cost reduction. The primary LIME competitors are likely not high end ARM devices, but Raspberry Pi an

Re: [linux-sunxi] Re: A good SD card image for A10-OLinuXino-Lime?

2014-01-15 Thread TsvetanUsunov
> > I was not going to sugar-coat anything here. And I understand that > using the 16-bit memory bus width was a side effect of extreme cost > reduction. The primary LIME competitors are likely not high end > ARM devices, but Raspberry Pi and low cost microcontrollers. > The whole point of my

Re: [linux-sunxi] Re: A good SD card image for A10-OLinuXino-Lime?

2014-01-14 Thread Siarhei Siamashka
On Tue, 17 Dec 2013 10:15:56 -0800 (PST) Димитър Гамишев wrote: > On Monday, December 16, 2013 6:44:03 AM UTC+2, Siarhei Siamashka wrote: > > There is just one thing I'm really worried about. The 16-bit > > memory interface is a major performance risk factor. I wonder > > how LIME performs on m

Re: [linux-sunxi] Re: A good SD card image for A10-OLinuXino-Lime?

2014-01-09 Thread Olliver Schinagl
Hey Siarhei, On 01-01-14 23:54, Siarhei Siamashka wrote: I ran some performance tests of my own, so here's the numbers. I'm using Hansg's Fedora 19 image from a class 4 MMC on the cubietruck. I did modify script.bin to change usbc to port_type 1 and detect_type 0 to drop the loadavg to 0 fro

Re: [linux-sunxi] Re: A good SD card image for A10-OLinuXino-Lime?

2014-01-06 Thread Roman Mamedov
On Mon, 6 Jan 2014 18:37:05 +0200 Siarhei Siamashka wrote: > https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/2/8/306 ("I think the biggest mistake > we ever made with cpufreq was making it so configurable. If we > redesign it, just say no to plugin governors, and yes to a lot fewer > sysfs knobs.") I wonder if t

Re: [linux-sunxi] Re: A good SD card image for A10-OLinuXino-Lime?

2014-01-06 Thread Siarhei Siamashka
On Sun, 5 Jan 2014 16:01:20 -0800 (PST) Patrick Wood wrote: > On Sunday, January 5, 2014 5:00:00 PM UTC-5, Siarhei Siamashka wrote: > > > > On Wed, 1 Jan 2014 20:03:35 -0800 (PST) > > Patrick Wood > wrote: > > > > > On Wednesday, January 1, 2014 5:54:20 PM UTC-5, Siarhei Siamashka wrote: > > >

Re: [linux-sunxi] Re: A good SD card image for A10-OLinuXino-Lime?

2014-01-06 Thread Siarhei Siamashka
On Sun, 5 Jan 2014 20:05:38 -0800 (PST) Patrick Wood wrote: > An on a different note, not to make things more difficult: the cpufrequtils > package from ubuntu (at least this version: cpufrequtils_008-1_armhf.deb) > installs an init.d startup file called cpufrequtils that sets the default > go

Re: [linux-sunxi] Re: A good SD card image for A10-OLinuXino-Lime?

2014-01-05 Thread Patrick Wood
An on a different note, not to make things more difficult: the cpufrequtils package from ubuntu (at least this version: cpufrequtils_008-1_armhf.deb) installs an init.d startup file called cpufrequtils that sets the default governor to... you guessed it -- ondemand. This is easily overridden by

Re: [linux-sunxi] Re: A good SD card image for A10-OLinuXino-Lime?

2014-01-05 Thread Siarhei Siamashka
On Mon, 6 Jan 2014 06:39:38 +0600 Roman Mamedov wrote: > On Mon, 6 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0200 > Siarhei Siamashka wrote: > > > A better solution is to really ramp up the CPU to the maximum clock > > speed if we have some external power source connected (ACIN or VBUS). > > Adhering to the "principl

Re: [linux-sunxi] Re: A good SD card image for A10-OLinuXino-Lime?

2014-01-05 Thread Siarhei Siamashka
On Mon, 6 Jan 2014 00:07:02 +0100 Carlo Caione wrote: > On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 12:04 AM, Olliver Schinagl wrote: > > On 01/05/14 23:00, Siarhei Siamashka wrote: > >> > >> # cat /sys/devices/platform/sunxi-i2c.0/i2c-0/0-0034/axp20_regs > >> only power adapter : REG[0x0]=0xc1,REG[0x1]=0x

Re: [linux-sunxi] Re: A good SD card image for A10-OLinuXino-Lime?

2014-01-05 Thread Siarhei Siamashka
On Sun, 5 Jan 2014 23:25:29 +0100 Michal Suchanek wrote: > On 5 January 2014 23:00, Siarhei Siamashka > wrote: > > === cubietruck === > > > > # echo 1 > /sys/devices/platform/disp/graphics/fb0/blank > > > > # cat /sys/devices/platform/sunxi-i2c.0/i2c-0/0-0034/axp20_regs > > only power adapter

Re: [linux-sunxi] Re: A good SD card image for A10-OLinuXino-Lime?

2014-01-05 Thread Patrick Wood
On Sunday, January 5, 2014 7:13:06 PM UTC-5, Roman Mamedov wrote: > > On Sun, 5 Jan 2014 16:01:20 -0800 (PST) > Patrick Wood > wrote: > > > Also, my experience with performance on the A10 devices over the last > two > > years has shown me that ondemand is a really terrible governor, as it >

Re: [linux-sunxi] Re: A good SD card image for A10-OLinuXino-Lime?

2014-01-05 Thread Roman Mamedov
On Mon, 6 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0200 Siarhei Siamashka wrote: > A better solution is to really ramp up the CPU to the maximum clock > speed if we have some external power source connected (ACIN or VBUS). > Adhering to the "principle of least surprise", it makes sense to fork > the "ondemand" governo

Re: [linux-sunxi] Re: A good SD card image for A10-OLinuXino-Lime?

2014-01-05 Thread Roman Mamedov
On Sun, 5 Jan 2014 16:01:20 -0800 (PST) Patrick Wood wrote: > Also, my experience with performance on the A10 devices over the last two > years has shown me that ondemand is a really terrible governor, as it > doesn't boost the CPU frequency unless utilization has been high over an > extended

Re: [linux-sunxi] Re: A good SD card image for A10-OLinuXino-Lime?

2014-01-05 Thread Patrick Wood
On Sunday, January 5, 2014 5:00:00 PM UTC-5, Siarhei Siamashka wrote: > > On Wed, 1 Jan 2014 20:03:35 -0800 (PST) > Patrick Wood > wrote: > > > On Wednesday, January 1, 2014 5:54:20 PM UTC-5, Siarhei Siamashka wrote: > > > I myself still see no good reason for using any governor other than >

Re: [linux-sunxi] Re: A good SD card image for A10-OLinuXino-Lime?

2014-01-05 Thread Carlo Caione
On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 12:04 AM, Olliver Schinagl wrote: > On 01/05/14 23:00, Siarhei Siamashka wrote: >> >> # cat /sys/devices/platform/sunxi-i2c.0/i2c-0/0-0034/axp20_regs >> only power adapter : REG[0x0]=0xc1,REG[0x1]=0x10 >> power adapter + miniusb : REG[0x0]=0xf9,REG[0x1]=0x10 >

Re: [linux-sunxi] Re: A good SD card image for A10-OLinuXino-Lime?

2014-01-05 Thread Olliver Schinagl
On 01/05/14 23:00, Siarhei Siamashka wrote: # cat /sys/devices/platform/sunxi-i2c.0/i2c-0/0-0034/axp20_regs only power adapter : REG[0x0]=0xc1,REG[0x1]=0x10 power adapter + miniusb : REG[0x0]=0xf9,REG[0x1]=0x10 only miniusb : REG[0x0]=0x3d,REG[0x1]=0x70 miniusb + li

Re: [linux-sunxi] Re: A good SD card image for A10-OLinuXino-Lime?

2014-01-05 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 5 January 2014 23:00, Siarhei Siamashka wrote: > On Wed, 1 Jan 2014 20:03:35 -0800 (PST) > Patrick Wood wrote: > >> On Wednesday, January 1, 2014 5:54:20 PM UTC-5, Siarhei Siamashka wrote: >> > I myself still see no good reason for using any governor other than >> > "performance" when running

Re: [linux-sunxi] Re: A good SD card image for A10-OLinuXino-Lime?

2014-01-05 Thread Siarhei Siamashka
On Wed, 1 Jan 2014 20:03:35 -0800 (PST) Patrick Wood wrote: > On Wednesday, January 1, 2014 5:54:20 PM UTC-5, Siarhei Siamashka wrote: > > I myself still see no good reason for using any governor other than > > "performance" when running with a wall connected power plug. Poor > > default cpufre

Re: [linux-sunxi] Re: A good SD card image for A10-OLinuXino-Lime?

2014-01-01 Thread Patrick Wood
On Wednesday, January 1, 2014 5:54:20 PM UTC-5, Siarhei Siamashka wrote: > > I myself still see no good reason for using any governor other than > "performance" when running with a wall connected power plug. Poor > default cpufreq behaviour is a major performance pitfall for > inexperienced

Re: [linux-sunxi] Re: A good SD card image for A10-OLinuXino-Lime?

2014-01-01 Thread Siarhei Siamashka
On Tue, 17 Dec 2013 10:15:56 -0800 (PST) Димитър Гамишев wrote: > Hi Siarhei, > i can not agree with everything you say. > > 1. I think that user may deal with cpu frequency settings, there are many > examples to do it. Sure, the users may tweak cpufreq settings themselves. And there are guide

Re: [linux-sunxi] Re: A good SD card image for A10-OLinuXino-Lime?

2013-12-31 Thread Tim Fletcher
On 31/12/13 07:40, Siarhei Siamashka wrote: On Tue, 17 Dec 2013 11:36:29 +0100 Michal Suchanek wrote: That is pretty much what I use but I have quite hackish image where some libraries are symlinked from the source dir, some are installed, some are copied because make install puts them in a w

Re: [linux-sunxi] Re: A good SD card image for A10-OLinuXino-Lime?

2013-12-30 Thread Siarhei Siamashka
On Tue, 17 Dec 2013 11:36:29 +0100 Michal Suchanek wrote: > On 17 December 2013 07:09, Siarhei Siamashka > wrote: > > On Mon, 16 Dec 2013 14:13:11 +0200 > > Tsvetan Usunov wrote: > > > >> Hi Siarhei > >> You are right, the RPI fans are a bit dissapointed by the Debian image > >> generated from

Re: [linux-sunxi] Re: A good SD card image for A10-OLinuXino-Lime?

2013-12-17 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 17 December 2013 19:15, Димитър Гамишев wrote: > Hi Siarhei, > i can not agree with everything you say. > > 1. I think that user may deal with cpu frequency settings, there are many > examples to do it. > I could not predict if there would be people wanting their boards working on > batery or n

[linux-sunxi] Re: A good SD card image for A10-OLinuXino-Lime?

2013-12-17 Thread Димитър Гамишев
Hi Siarhei, i can not agree with everything you say. 1. I think that user may deal with cpu frequency settings, there are many examples to do it. I could not predict if there would be people wanting their boards working on batery or not 2. There is no effective way to do it, but kernel hacking,

Re: [linux-sunxi] Re: A good SD card image for A10-OLinuXino-Lime?

2013-12-17 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 17 December 2013 07:09, Siarhei Siamashka wrote: > On Mon, 16 Dec 2013 14:13:11 +0200 > Tsvetan Usunov wrote: > >> Hi Siarhei >> You are right, the RPI fans are a bit dissapointed by the Debian image >> generated from Linux-Sunxi GitHub and no hardware acceleration. > > It's not just RPI fans.

[linux-sunxi] Re: A good SD card image for A10-OLinuXino-Lime?

2013-12-16 Thread Tsvetan Usunov
> It's not just RPI fans. Trying your debian image (on a cubieboard, > because I don't have lime yet) was kinda a wake up call for me. send me your address and you will have LIME to test ;) > And I have also seen some other less than perfect linux distros > earlier. People here may be developing

[linux-sunxi] Re: A good SD card image for A10-OLinuXino-Lime?

2013-12-16 Thread Siarhei Siamashka
On Mon, 16 Dec 2013 14:13:11 +0200 Tsvetan Usunov wrote: > Hi Siarhei > You are right, the RPI fans are a bit dissapointed by the Debian image > generated from Linux-Sunxi GitHub and no hardware acceleration. It's not just RPI fans. Trying your debian image (on a cubieboard, because I don't have