Re: eight-core ARM64 networking platform with mainline Linux support

2020-11-18 Thread Phil Endecott
deloptes wrote: You mean the interesting thing is that the one costs $224/251/329 per month and the other is not running debian? Well I think different people may consider them interesting in different ways. Regarding the AWS instances, what's personally attractive to me is that they are so c

Re: eight-core ARM64 networking platform with mainline Linux support

2020-11-18 Thread Phil Endecott
Geert Stappers wrote: ARM64 hardware about to hit the market Traverse Ten64 an eight-core ARM64 networking platform with mainline Linux support More information at https://www.crowdsupply.com/traverse-technologies/ten64 Did order one and would like to known about simular products The bottom of

Re: Nvidia Jetson Nano

2020-07-20 Thread Phil Endecott
Phil Endecott wrote: Does anyone have an Nvidia Jetson Nano? A follow-up: I've bought one. It's quite interesting; 4 GB RAM and 4 A-57 CPUs, and somewhat better-documented and with more community than some of the other SoCs I've had to deal with. Nvidia supply a 16 GB SD

Nvidia Jetson Nano

2020-07-10 Thread Phil Endecott
Dear All, Does anyone have an Nvidia Jetson Nano? There are DebianOn wiki pages for some of the other Jetson boards but not this one. I believe it is quite similar to the older Jetson TX1, i.e. similar CPU and GPU. DebianOn TX1 describes a few rough edges, but it was last updated a couple of y

Armbian

2020-02-02 Thread Phil Endecott
Dear All, What do you know about Armbian? What do you think? Is there any overlap between the Debain ARM people on this list and the Armbian developers? I recently bought an ODROID-HC1 to use as a basic NAS. It's an interesting board with an Exynos Coretex-A15 SoC and Ethernet and SATA connec

SolidRun HoneyComb LX2K

2020-01-16 Thread Phil Endecott
Does anyone have one of these? https://www.solid-run.com/nxp-lx2160a-family/honeycomb-workstation/ Mini-ITX 16 x Coretex-A72 @ 2 GHz (NXP) 2 x SoDIMM RAM slots 1 x M.2 SSD 1 x PCIe x8 slot 1 x Gigabit ethernet 4 x SFP+ ports 4 x SATA etc. etc.

Re: firefox-esr security support for arm?

2018-09-08 Thread Phil Endecott
Marc wrote: I use Raspberry Pies running Debian Stretch (armhf 32-bit) Yesterday's message to debian-security-announce was a bit of a morning shock for me. In my case, I'm using arm64 devices (ODROID-C2) running stretch. But I have armhf as an extra architecture (dpkg --add-architecture) so tha

Re: Gigabyte MP30-AR1 sd card image

2018-01-24 Thread Phil Endecott
Do you have any pointers to TianoCore for the Gigabyte MP30-AR0/1? https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2016/03/05/notes-on-booting-rhelsa-on-the-gigabyte-mp30-ar0/ Which refers to https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/arm-dev/2016-February/001626.html Which refers to various things in Phong Vo from APM's

Re: Gigabyte MP30-AR1 sd card image

2018-01-23 Thread Phil Endecott
Hi Eric, Can someone take an image of the stock sd card on this machine? I have the machine but someone has previously removed the sd card and I've had no luck at all getting anything installed on the system. I've done lots of googling but nothing has worked. Or some other way to get ubuntu

Valgrind on ARM64, KVM

2017-09-22 Thread Phil Endecott
Hi everyone, I'm getting mixed results trying to use valgrind on various ARM64 devices. Specifically, it works on my ODROID-C2 (Amlogic SoC with kernel 3.14.29), and on my APM Xgene system with kernel 4.9.1801, but not on a Scaleway virtual machine (Cavium ThunderX with kernel 4.9.23, under K

Re: is SoftIron OverDrive 1000 right for me?

2017-02-09 Thread Phil Endecott
Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: I'm looking for an arm64 machine to use as a KVM hypervisor, to run a bunch of armhf and arm64 guests on. My copious thoughts about the Gigabyte MP30-AR1 are here: http://chezphil.org/rwanda/index.html Would the OverDrive 1000 work well as the hypervisor for this

Re: Softiron (Overdrive-3000) firmware bugs ?

2017-01-04 Thread Phil Endecott
Hi Ian, I get essentially the same messages on my Gigabyte MP30-AR1, which also has an American Megatrends arm64 UEFI implementation. It doesn't seem to cause any real problems as far as I can tell. I'd be interested to hear if anyone upstream comments; could you please Cc: me or the debian-arm

Re: Installing ntopng:armhf on arm64

2016-12-14 Thread Phil Endecott
Thanks Wookey. I have filed bug #848152 about ntopng-data needing Multi-Arch: foreign. I guess we should apply a bit more effort to all this long-tail multi-arch breakage so that more things cross-build and cross-install. I suspect that some sort of random-order package installation test migh

Re: How to get a current kernel for odroid-u2?

2016-12-14 Thread Phil Endecott
Robert Latest wrote: I have this old hardkernel odroid-u2 uses a Debian Wheezy I downloaded from Hardkernel's site. I dist-upgraded to jessy but got stuck halfway because the kernel is too old (3.0.57). Hi Robert, You should probably ask on the Hardkernel forum, here: http://forum.odroid.

Re: Installing ntopng:armhf on arm64

2016-12-13 Thread Phil Endecott
Wookey wrote: > Yes. ntopng-data is missing a > Multi-Arch=foreign > line in it's control file. Add one and rebuild it and you should be in > business. Thanks for your optimism Wookey! Unfortunately there's more. $ apt-get source ntopng-data $ nano debian/control (add Multi-Arch: foreign for n

Installing ntopng:armhf on arm64

2016-12-12 Thread Phil Endecott
Hi Everyone, On an ODROID-C2 arm64 (stretch) device, I just tried to install ntopng; this doesn't work because of the luajit issues described in bug #818616. Until that gets sorted I thought I'd try the armhf version; I have set up this device to support armhf but I've not used it much: # apt

Gigabyte MP30-AR1 followup

2016-09-29 Thread Phil Endecott
Dear All, I thought I should post a followup about this board. Sorry for the bits that sound ranty, I have to share with someone! Following Hector's advice I built a Debian kernel with his suggested config changes (CONFIG_ACPI=y and CONFIG_ARM64_VA_BITS_48=y), and set acpi=force on the kernel

Re: Gigabyte MP30-AR1

2016-09-13 Thread Phil Endecott
Wookey wrote: Phil, could I persuade you to file a bug against debian-installer Done; bug #837715 It sounds as if Hector knows what needs to be done and is working on it. I'm able to test things on this board if that will help, at least for the next few weeks. It might get "too important to

Re: Gigabyte MP30-AR1

2016-09-12 Thread Phil Endecott
The Ubuntu mini.iso installer from here: http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/dists/yakkety/main/installer-arm64/current/images/netboot/ also works, with a 4.4.0 kernel: [0.00] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0 [0.00] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset [0.00] Initializ

Re: Gigabyte MP30-AR1

2016-09-12 Thread Phil Endecott
lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote: On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 05:47:34PM +0100, Phil Endecott wrote: (BTW, note "EFI v2.40 by American Megatrends". I think that the people who've installed UEFI on their MP30-AR0 boards (which shipped with only U-Boot) have installed the open-s

Re: Gigabyte MP30-AR1

2016-09-12 Thread Phil Endecott
Hector Oron wrote: using ACPI boot is recommended, however it is not supported until 4.7 kernel series I've had a look at what CentOS does: [0.00] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0 [0.00] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset [0.00] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu [0.000

Re: Gigabyte MP30-AR1

2016-09-12 Thread Phil Endecott
Hi Hector, Thanks for your reply. Hector Oron wrote: Which BMC firmware are you using? AFAIK there is a broken DTB in the manufacturer's firmware I replaced the shipped UEFI firmware (version D03 I think) with version F01 from http://b2b.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5912#bios

Re: Gigabyte MP30-AR1

2016-09-09 Thread Phil Endecott
Thanks for your replies. Yes I'm observing both serial and VGA outputs. Ronald Maas shared this earlycon magic: earlycon=uart8250,mmio32,0x1c02 and now I can see how the Debian installer kernel fails: EFI stub: Booting Linux Kernel... ConvertPages: Incompatible memory types EFI stub: EF

Gigabyte MP30-AR1

2016-09-09 Thread Phil Endecott
Dear Experts, I've splashed out and bought myself a Gigabyte MP30-AR1. This is a "server" board with an Applied Micro X-Gene processor. There are various reports of people installing distributions including Debian on the previous MP30-AR0. The difference between the -AR0 and the -AR1 is that m

Re: ARM64 (was: Summary of the ARM ports BoF at DC16)

2016-07-23 Thread Phil Endecott
> > Affordable, usable machines are available now, e.g. the Cello Is the Cello actually available? 96boards is still saying "pre-order". > There are three other ARM64 gadgets worth mentioning... And the ODROID-C2. (Can someone add that to the list at https://wiki.debian.org/Arm64Port#Hardwar

Notes about my ODROID-C2

2016-06-27 Thread Phil Endecott
Dear All, I have written up some notes about my ODROID-C2, which I'm attempting to use as my main desktop computer (running Debian arm64 obviously!). If you've nothing better to do, have a look at: http://chezphil.org/norway/index.html "norway" is just the hostname. (I hope you're all havi

kexec-tools installs on arm64

2016-06-13 Thread Phil Endecott
Dear All, I was surprised to find that "apt-get install kexec-tools" succeeds on an arm64 system - it installs the armhf version. It then fails to run, with an "Unsupported machine type" error. Is this an error in the multiarch tagging for the kexec-tools package? Cheers, Phil.

Re: Hybrid armhf/arm64 system

2016-05-20 Thread Phil Endecott
peter green p10link.net> writes: > On 19/05/16 01:06, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > Yes, there is - #822489 in ldconfig. It's fixed already and that fix > > should be migrating into testing any day. > > According to the pts it's blocked by a "block-udeb" Is anyone going to encourage that to be unbloc

Re: affordable arm boards with plenty of ram.

2016-05-19 Thread Phil Endecott
peter green p10link.net> writes: > As much ram as possible. > Plenty of CPU power would be nice. > A good storage interface (in order of preference SATA is better than > USB3 which is better than USB2). > Support in Debian kernels would be nice. > arm64 support would be nice. This is what we've

Re: Hybrid armhf/arm64 system

2016-05-18 Thread Phil Endecott
Steve McIntyre einval.com> writes: > Yes, there is - #822489 in ldconfig. It's fixed already and that fix > should be migrating into testing any day. Thanks Steve.

Re: Hybrid armhf/arm64 system

2016-05-18 Thread Phil Endecott
Phil Endecott chezphil.org> writes: > Do you think it makes sense to use testing? I'm trying it out... The arm64 stuff seems OK so far e.g. abiword, which I mentioned before, installs and runs OK. Firefox didn't work for me though, so I tried to install the armhf version.

Re: Hybrid armhf/arm64 system

2016-05-15 Thread Phil Endecott
Alan Corey gmail.com> writes: > I don't know if you can monitor download counts or not. Both Raspian > and OpenBSD have an automated way to upload feedback that you're using > it. There is popcon, which I presume has enough detail. (It currently reports a total of 5 arm64 machines!). I think

Re: Hybrid armhf/arm64 system

2016-05-14 Thread Phil Endecott
Hi Wookey, Thanks for looking at that for me. Do you think it makes sense to use testing? I.e. do I get more benefits from post-jessie fixes in testing, or more "surprises" from testing breakages? (I have nearly always used testing on x86 systems, but I've been more cautious with ARM after so

Hybrid armhf/arm64 system

2016-05-13 Thread Phil Endecott
Dear Experts, In my ODROID-C2 thread, I mentioned that I was going to try to set the system up to use arm64 by default but to support armhf for those packages that are missing or buggy on arm64. I've not been very successful with this so far. Based on some suggestions on the ODROID forum, I hav

Re: ODROID-C2

2016-05-07 Thread Phil Endecott
Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Phil Endecott [2016-05-06 19:59]: > Does anyone here have an ODROID-C2? Anyone running Debian on it? Wouldn't it be great if I could tftp a debian installer from u-boot and have it all just work :-(. Is this *ever* going to happen for ARM systems?

Re: ODROID-C2

2016-05-06 Thread Phil Endecott
Phil Endecott chezphil.org> writes: > Does anyone here have an ODROID-C2? Anyone running Debian on it? Wouldn't it be great if I could tftp a debian installer from u-boot and have it all just work :-(. Is this *ever* going to happen for ARM systems? It looks like I have a choi

ODROID-C2

2016-05-06 Thread Phil Endecott
Hi everyone, Does anyone here have an ODROID-C2? Anyone running Debian on it? Cheers, Phil.

Re: arm64 port blocking packages - help welcome

2014-08-16 Thread Phil Endecott
Hi Wookey, Wookey wrote: > * qt4-x11 > > DebianBug:#735488 This one needs actual work. The existing patches > are basically fine except for one bit that turns -fpermissive on in > order to get round some casting complaints and make it build. Needs > someone with some C++ foo to work out what'

AMD 64-bit ARM developer kits available for $3k

2014-08-02 Thread Phil Endecott
Is anyone going to buy one? Or maybe someone has already got one! Will it run Debian? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/loom.20140802t223254-...@post.gma

Re: Information needed from owners/users of Debian on ARM/kirkwood base QNAP devices (should take < 1min to gather)

2014-06-24 Thread Phil Endecott
Ian Campbell hellion.org.uk> writes: > TL;DR: Please run the attached kirkwood-qnap script on your ARM based > QNAP systems as "./kirkwood-qnap --info" and report the results in this > thread along with the model/kind of your QNAP device (as precisely as > you can). $ ./kirkwood-info.sh .: 87:

Re: apt-get /lib/ld-linux.so.3 deletion screwup disaster

2013-05-10 Thread Phil Endecott
Wookey wookware.org> writes: > that's a big pile of work > we decided wasn't worthwhile/necessary in this case. My concern is exactly that it is a "big pile of work"; I'm sure you're right, but I'm disappointed to discover that apt doesn't make this easy. Anyway, moving on... > Don't forget to

Re: apt-get /lib/ld-linux.so.3 deletion screwup disaster

2013-05-08 Thread Phil Endecott
Wookey wookware.org> writes: > +++ Phil Endecott [2013-05-07 20:36 +]: > > > I eventually discovered that things would run if I invoked the dynamic > > linker directly: > > > > # /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3 /bin/ls > > > > I was then able to

apt-get /lib/ld-linux.so.3 deletion screwup disaster :-(

2013-05-07 Thread Phil Endecott
I am not happy :-( My i.MX53 quick start board had been happily running with an /etc/apt/sources.list like: deb http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian unstable main deb http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian unreleased main deb-src http://ftp.gr.debian.org/debian unstable main deb http://incoming.deb

Re: Booting Debian on my Arndale board

2013-04-16 Thread Phil Endecott
Phil Endecott wrote: > I have got as far as a login prompt, about twice. But > normally the boot process seems to stop at some random point, > maybe when "Activating swapfile" or "Cleaning up temporary > files". Sometimes it pauses for a bit, then makes some m

Re: Booting Debian on my Arndale board

2013-04-16 Thread Phil Endecott
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl.net> writes: > ... oh.. phil? traco power supplies they're shit-for-brains if > the power draw is erratic in any way. they go AWOL, and can spike > well above the rated 5V. [citation required] Phil. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.

Re: Booting Debian on my Arndale board

2013-04-15 Thread Phil Endecott
Phil Endecott chezphil.org> writes: > My "Arndale" board finally arrived recently and I have been trying > to get it to do something useful. If anyone is curious, I have put a photo and some notes about the hardware here: http://chezphil.org/india/index.html ("ind

Re: Booting Debian on my Arndale board

2013-04-15 Thread Phil Endecott
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: Phil Endecott wrote: My "Arndale" board finally arrived recently and I have been trying to get it to do something useful. should I be able to use this Linaro Ubuntu kernel (and their U-Boot) to boot a Debian armhf system? you mean t

Re: Booting Debian on my Arndale board

2013-04-15 Thread Phil Endecott
Sander wrote: Phil Endecott wrote (ao): This has worked, and I have got as far as a login prompt, about twice. But normally the boot process seems to stop at some random point, maybe when "Activating swapfile" or "Cleaning up temporary files". Sometimes it pauses for a

Booting Debian on my Arndale board

2013-04-14 Thread Phil Endecott
Dear All, My "Arndale" board finally arrived recently and I have been trying to get it to do something useful. It ships with Android in its eMMC and that seems to work OK. It can also boot from a micro-SD card and I've successfully booted the Ubuntu image from here: https://wiki.linaro.org/Board

Re: arm build hardware

2013-03-10 Thread Phil Endecott
Hi Steve, Steve McIntyre writes: > I'm looking at migrating the current Debian buildd machines across > from imx53 to arndale in the next few months > The second issue is reliability - various people have reported > instability when working their arndale machines hard for > building. Can you sa

Re: potential new build hardware, "arndaleboard" samsung exynos 5,?2GB?ram

2012-12-04 Thread Phil Endecott
Riku Voipio wrote: eSATA didn't work for me reliably, but sata code is still said to be work in progress Uh-oh, that doesn't sound good. Presence of SATA is important and needs to work well. Is there something specific about eSATA, rather than regular "internal" SATA? Regards, Phil.

Re: potential new build hardware, "arndaleboard" samsung exynos 5,2GB ram

2012-12-03 Thread Phil Endecott
Hi Kevin, Kevin Bortis ruf.ch> writes: > Actually, I have one arndale board up and running. Over the weekend I > have recompiled our embedded Debian based dist and it is awesome fast. I > have attached an 256GB Samsung 830 Series SSD on the SATA3 port and got > ~250MB/s write speed (dd from /dev

Re: potential new build hardware, "arndaleboard" samsung exynos 5, 2GB ram

2012-12-01 Thread Phil Endecott
Phil Endecott chezphil.org> writes: > peter green p10link.net> writes: > > It looks like a new samsung based devboard has come out (though it's not > > scheduled to actually ship until november). > > Ignore it until it actually exists. Maybe it does now e

Re: potential new build hardware, "arndaleboard" samsung exynos 5, 2GB ram

2012-10-29 Thread Phil Endecott
peter green p10link.net> writes: > It looks like a new samsung based devboard has come out (though it's not > scheduled to actually ship until november). Ignore it until it actually exists. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

New Samsung Chromebook

2012-10-18 Thread Phil Endecott
So, who's going to be first to buy one of these things and install something useful on it? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/loom.20121019t011138-...@post

Re: Single Chip ARM solution for Debian Linux?

2012-07-25 Thread Phil Endecott
Marcin Juszkiewicz linaro.org> writes: > Samsung s3c2440 had 64MB ram and 64MB nand flash in cpu iirc. Sorry, but I believe you have mis-remembered. When I look at e.g. this board: http://www.friendlyarm.net/products/mini2440 I see discrete RAM and Flash chips. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Single Chip ARM solution for Debian Linux?

2012-07-24 Thread Phil Endecott
Mike Thompson gmail.com> writes: > Does anyone know of a single chip ARM based solution that is capable > of running a very minimal install of Debian Wheezy armel? You'll never find a single *die* that includes CPU, RAM and Flash in sufficient quantities. However there are single *packages* with

Re: Migrating from x86 to ARM

2012-07-12 Thread Phil Endecott
mt12345 gmail.com> writes: > Which applications do you miss most in ARM Debian (comparing to x86) ? Nothing. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/loom.20120

Re: SSD in a Qnap TS-110 ?

2012-05-23 Thread Phil Endecott
David Pottage chrestomanci.org> writes: > I have a Qnap TS-110, which I am using as a home mail and web server for > the past year. It runs Debian Squeeze. > > I am considering replacing the hard drive inside with a small SSD, now > that prices have come down. Has anyone else done that? My TS

Re: Linux 2.6.35.3 Kernel for ARM and SATA problems

2012-03-19 Thread Phil Endecott
Hi Mike, Mike Thompson wrote: On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Phil Endecott < spam_from_debian_...@chezphil.org> wrote: It works for me. I seem to recall a small amount of agro getting the kernel config right, but u-boot was always able to recognise the device. I suggest that yo

Re: ARM kernel cross compilation issues for iMX53

2012-03-18 Thread Phil Endecott
Hi Wookey, Wookey wookware.org> writes: > +++ Phil Endecott [2012-03-18 20:49 +]: > > The real problem here is a lack of communication. Nowhere is there e.g. a > > "news" or "blog" type page where someone posts important stuff like "we've &g

Re: ARM kernel cross compilation issues for iMX53

2012-03-18 Thread Phil Endecott
Mike Thompson gmail.com> writes: > seems have some known incompatibilities regarding how the UARTs are > clocked with older kernels. Yes. I'm still using 2.6.35 because of this, though I am now aware of how I could fix it if I needed to. See the section "Freescale's git repository" at http://c

Re: Linux 2.6.35.3 Kernel for ARM and SATA problems

2012-03-18 Thread Phil Endecott
Mike Thompson gmail.com> writes: > In my efforts for a stable build of Debian for the Freescale iMX53 > Quick Start Board I can now reliably build u-boot and the 2.6.35.3 > Linux kernel. With these, I now have Debian Squeeze running fine > from a 4GB SD card.My next step is to get things runni

Re: Debian GNU/Linux on tablet hardware

2011-12-11 Thread Phil Endecott
> As for Buttons and I/O: I use a Gyration gyroscopic mouse. (These devices are also great if you need to give a software demo or similar on a projector.) Phil. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.

Re: Does anyone recommend the Smart Book from Always Innovating

2011-11-14 Thread Phil Endecott
Goswin von Brederlow web.de> writes: > Hi, > > I'm considering buying a Smart Book from Always Innovating [1]: > Does anyone have one and can recommend it? I bought a "touchbook" and it was a piece of junk, both in terms of hardware and software. I bought it because I wanted to support a compa

Re: [Arm-netbook] "Great China's Firewall" blocking access to A10 SoC

2011-11-07 Thread Phil Endecott
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: Analogue video out is something that I'm using on my i.MX board, and is nice to have. oh right, ok. hm, can you check something for me? can you find out if the following connectors fit into 53mm? micro-hdmi micro-sd micro usb-otg 3.5mm audio {insert

Re: [Arm-netbook] "Great China's Firewall" blocking access to A10 SoC

2011-11-07 Thread Phil Endecott
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton gmail.com> writes: (Comparing with my i.MX53 board:) > * ARM cortex A10 1.5ghz - see this for a "definition" of A10 in this context: > http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110912200637AAmOkiG So that's A8, with Mali GPU. 50% faster clock speed than the i

Re: Debian GNU/Linux on tablet hardware

2011-10-28 Thread Phil Endecott
Rob van der Hoeven ziggo.nl> writes: > Mass produced hardware has a higher chance of being of good quality. Absolute Rubbish. You are on a different planet. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debia

Re: Debian GNU/Linux on tablet hardware

2011-10-28 Thread Phil Endecott
lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote: On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 02:37:06PM +, Phil Endecott wrote: Why do you think that? I have personally never seen an "Android motherboard" offered for sale at all, let alone for a low price. The i.MX53 LOCO board has an android BSP available.

Re: Debian GNU/Linux on tablet hardware

2011-10-28 Thread Phil Endecott
Rob van der Hoeven ziggo.nl> writes: > > > I think the hardware of this tablet can also be used as a server or > > > desktop computer. The tablet is mass produced and very cheap (i got mine > > > for 149 euro). > > For that price, to make a server, I would rather buy a loco board or any > > other

Re: My progress on armhf

2011-08-22 Thread Phil Endecott
Lennart Sorensen csclub.uwaterloo.ca> writes: > Freescale's ubuntu kernel has 767 patches on top of 2.6.35.3 which to > me is just insane. Right, I've also been looking at that. They do have a git tree as well. I'm not sure if the patches are extracted from the git tree, or if the git tree is b

HP webOS tablets going cheap

2011-08-22 Thread Phil Endecott
Apparently these tablets are now available for $99 / £89. Does anyone have any thoughts about the possibility of repurposing them? I.e. can I run Debian??? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.

Re: Do I want to debootstrap Debian armhf on my iMX53 board?

2011-08-19 Thread Phil Endecott
lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote: On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 05:10:45PM +0100, Phil Endecott wrote: lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote: >On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 04:17:22PM +0100, Phil Endecott wrote: >>Right, that's the doc that I couldn't find a minute ago. >

Re: Do I want to debootstrap Debian armhf on my iMX53 board?

2011-08-19 Thread Phil Endecott
lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote: On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 04:17:22PM +0100, Phil Endecott wrote: Right, that's the doc that I couldn't find a minute ago. Section 5.14: http://cache.freescale.com/files/32bit/doc/user_guide/IMX53QSBRM.pdf Right. The pull up is only there BECAU

Re: Do I want to debootstrap Debian armhf on my iMX53 board?

2011-08-19 Thread Phil Endecott
lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote: On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 02:35:28PM +0100, Hector Oron wrote: "Load U-Boot, the kernel and the root filesystem from the SATA drive. This requires soldering, and not just where the DIP switch isn't, so I'm going to leave this for now." Could you please expand a

Re: Do I want to debootstrap Debian armhf on my iMX53 board?

2011-08-19 Thread Phil Endecott
Hi Hector, Hector Oron wrote: Hello Phil, 2011/5/24 Phil Endecott : p.s. I am going to try to record my progress here: Â http://chezphil.org/tvcomputer/ Very interesting notes. I am trying to get one of this devices up and running and reading your notes I found on SATA booting: "L

Re: I can't make my NSLU2 boot with Debian squeeze (nor any other release for that matter) :(

2011-08-18 Thread Phil Endecott
Nicola Bernardini sme-ccppd.org> writes: > I don't have a serial port and am not that good > at hacking hardware... Personally, I couldn't imagine doing something like that without a serial port. It will save lots of agro. Do you have a friend with a soldering iron and a steady hand? On the

Re: Single-Core Cortex A9 1ghz, ECC DDR3 RAM available soon

2011-08-14 Thread Phil Endecott
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl.net> writes: > * Single-Core Cortex A9, 1ghz > * MALI 400MP 3D > * SATA-II > * 10/100 Ethernet > * 32-bit-wide access to DDR2 and DDR3 ECC RAM, up to 2gb. > * the usual interfaces - HDMI, SD/MMC, USB2, USB-OTG. So like the iMX53 but with a slightly faster p

Re: Freescale iMX53 Quick Start board

2011-08-10 Thread Phil Endecott
Hi Luke, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl.net> writes: > question (for everyone): if there existed a board which used a > single-core 800mhz Cortex A9, maximum hard limit of 512mb RAM, but > also had SATA-II and 10/100 Ethernet, would it be of interest, and how > much would you pay for it? sim

Re: Freescale iMX53 Quick Start board

2011-08-09 Thread Phil Endecott
Jeremiah Foster jeremiahfoster.com> writes: > Sure. Here's a link: http://jeremiahfoster.com/trimslice/ Right, so that's a half-size SATA SSD (JEDEC MO-297). Nice that they're using a standard form-factor with a connector. Would a full-size 2.5" drive fit? It looks like it might hit the USB co

Re: Freescale iMX53 Quick Start board

2011-08-08 Thread Phil Endecott
Phil Endecott chezphil.org> writes: > > David Given cowlark.com> writes: > > it appears > > that the SATA port [on the Trimslice] is actually connected via USB > > internally and so, really, doesn't count. > > I don't know what they've done

Re: Freescale iMX53 Quick Start board

2011-08-08 Thread Phil Endecott
David Given cowlark.com> writes: > it appears > that the SATA port [on the Trimslice] is actually connected via USB > internally and so, really, doesn't count. I don't know what they've done on the Trimslice. My understanding of the Tegra is that it doesn't have SATA but it does have PCIe, so i

Re: Freescale iMX53 Quick Start board

2011-08-08 Thread Phil Endecott
Andrew McGlashan affinityvision.com.au> writes: > I think we need a good comparison / feature / selection page -- choose > the requirements, then see the result: I wish we were so overwhelmed with options that this were necessary Phil. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lis

Re: Freescale iMX53 Quick Start board

2011-08-06 Thread Phil Endecott
David Given cowlark.com> writes: > Are there any decent-looking Cortex A9 boards out or upcoming which > support ethernet and SATA? So far I've found: > > PandaBoard --- $180, ethernet, no SATA. > > Samsung Origen --- $250, no ethernet, no SATA. > > Igloo Snowball --- $209, ethernet, no SATA (

Re: Freescale iMX53 Quick Start board

2011-08-05 Thread Phil Endecott
David Given cowlark.com> writes: > What's Freescale's shipping and handling like? Don't buy it from Freescale; their website is unusable. There are two or three distributors who sell it, and their websites are not quite as awful. I got mine from Mouser for £111 inclusive of postage and all tax

Re: Freescale iMX53 Quick Start board

2011-08-05 Thread Phil Endecott
lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote: On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 04:07:06PM +, Phil Endecott wrote: Hi Steve, Steve McIntyre linaro.org> writes: > Hi folks, > > We've got a number of discount vouchers for these Too late for me... > We're about to purchase a numb

Re: Freescale iMX53 Quick Start board

2011-08-05 Thread Phil Endecott
Hi Steve, Steve McIntyre linaro.org> writes: > Hi folks, > > We've got a number of discount vouchers for these Too late for me... > We're about to purchase a number > of these for buildds for the Debian armhf port Hmm. Are you sure it's the best choice? It has a single Cortex A8 (like the

Re: (unofficial) Debian packages for Toshiba AC100 (Tegra; armel and armhf)

2011-07-27 Thread Phil Endecott
Julian Andres Klode debian.org> writes: > Installation guide (all on the device itself): > > (1) Bootstrap Debian on USB stick, SD, or eMMC > (2) Install busybox and initramfs-tools > (3) Set MODULES=dep in /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf > (4) Copy /boot/bootimg.cfg

Is the ARM hf gcc the Linaro version?

2011-06-18 Thread Phil Endecott
Dear Experts, I was considering downloading the Linaro toolchain to run on my iMX53 board - but then I noticed that the gcc that I already have claims to be "Debian/Linaro": $ gcc --version gcc (Debian/Linaro 4.5.2-5.1) 4.5.2 So, does this already include whatever ARM tweaks the Linaro people h

Re: Do I want to debootstrap Debian armhf on my iMX53 board?

2011-05-25 Thread Phil Endecott
Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: On 25 May 2011 22:21, Phil Endecott wrote: ... efikamx-armhf.lan login: root Password: ??? Login incorrect Oops, yes, I forgot to tell you that, it's: efika Thanks, but I bypassed that :-) One other thing I've noticed is udev's persistent

Re: Do I want to debootstrap Debian armhf on my iMX53 board?

2011-05-25 Thread Phil Endecott
Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: I have a 2GB sd card image at: http://freevec.org/packages/efikamx-armhf.img.xz Thanks! It seems to work: (On desktop) $ wget http://freevec.org/packages/efikamx-armhf.img.xz $ unxz efikamx-armhf.img.xz $ file efikamx-armhf.img efikamx-armhf.img: x86 boot sect

Do I want to debootstrap Debian armhf on my iMX53 board?

2011-05-24 Thread Phil Endecott
Dear All, I now have an i.MX53 "quick start" board, which I have connected to a SATA disk and it is running the Freescale-supplied Ubuntu from it. Next I need to decide whether to try to install some form of Debian. (I guess the alternative is to use this Ubuntu image as a starting point and to

Re: Looking for a well supported ARM device for demo usage

2011-05-03 Thread Phil Endecott
Meike Reichle debian.org> writes: > What I am looking for is an ARM device that is very well supported within > Debian and is reasonably current, especially with regard to the processor. The QNAP TS-119 (or one of the variants) is as well supported as you will find, and the hardware is good co

Re: Anyone here made a "TV computer"?

2011-04-13 Thread Phil Endecott
Robert Nelson gmail.com> writes: > Actually got one just a few weeks ago. > > looks like out of stock at the moment: > http://search.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?vendor=0&keywords=MCIMX53-START-ND Robert, do you also have the HDMI daughter-card? (Or anyone else?) As far as I can see,

Re: Anyone here made a "TV computer"?

2011-04-13 Thread Phil Endecott
Jeremiah Foster jeremiahfoster.com> writes: > FWIW, and at the risk of incurring the wrath of Mr. Leighton et. al. > there is a thing called the "TrimSlice" > which is shipping, at least to developers. Its a Tegra2 box with some > nice specs. > > http://www.trimslice.com/ Yes, that's mentioned

Re: Anyone here made a "TV computer"?

2011-04-12 Thread Phil Endecott
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl.net> writes: > http://imxcommunity.org/group/imx53quickstartboard > > "The first in the series, the i.MX53 Quick Start board is a $149 open > source development platform. Integrated with an ARM® CortexTM-A8 1 GHz > processor, the Quick Start board includes a d

Re: Anyone here made a "TV computer"?

2011-04-12 Thread Phil Endecott
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl.net> writes: > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Wookey wookware.org> wrote: >> LKCL says 'they all work' - is is really that simple? > > wlll i didn't *quite* just say that :) i said that of the two > usb ones i've used, they worked fine (as did a hauppau

Re: Anyone here made a "TV computer"?

2011-04-12 Thread Phil Endecott
Marcin Juszkiewicz linaro.org> writes: > Pandaboard has just one USB Host port. I thought it had a second port connected to an OTG controller that could be used as a host. Maybe that's not supported, or something. I've been trying to look at the block diagram at http://www.pandaboard.org/node/2

Re: Anyone here made a "TV computer"?

2011-04-11 Thread Phil Endecott
Matti Palmström gmail.com> writes: > > i've been studying and tracking HD-capable ARM processors for quite > > some time now, and it's a very short list. > > Maybe the cpu is known under some other name but I didn't see the Tegra2 > there on your list > > http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/t

Re: Anyone here made a "TV computer"?

2011-04-11 Thread Phil Endecott
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl.net> writes: > *click*. seven. phil... i just remembered. i got the perfect > system for you :) > > http://imxcommunity.org/group/imx53quickstartboard > > "The first in the series, the i.MX53 Quick Start board is a $149 open > source development platf

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