Re: [PATCHv2] cpufreq for freescale mx51

2010-10-12 Thread Yong Shen
Does anybody have more comments on [PATCHv2] ? On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 8:00 PM, Yong Shen wrote: > > > Using wp_tbl is because that it also contains information like regulator >> > voltage. >> >> The clock code does not handle the regulators, not even in the fsl >> kernel. >> > I did not mean to

Re: SD/MMC for i.MX51

2010-10-12 Thread Amit Kucheria
Nico, Yes it has been reviewed several times now. So I'm hopeful it'll go in for the next merge window. Without it, linaro-media-create can't work since we don't support anything except SD boot for now. /Amit On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 6:48 AM, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > Looks like discussion is st

Re: [PATCH] cpufreq, cpuidle & clock for MOP500 hrefp

2010-10-12 Thread Vincent Guittot
I have updated the cpufreq_powertop_V2.patch with an enum for frequency index. Vincent On 11 October 2010 14:30, Amit Kucheria wrote: > On 10 Oct 11, Vincent Guittot wrote: >> On 11 October 2010 10:58, Amit Kucheria wrote: >> > On 10 Oct 11, Vincent Guittot wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> Please f

Re: export kernel clock information to user space

2010-10-12 Thread Amit Kucheria
Adding linaro-dev to cc. Kernel consolidation WG might have comments. On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Yong Shen wrote: > Hi Amit and Jeremy, > > This is not a patch review. But patch may better present my idea. Basically, > I want to add some code in common clock code to export clock information

Re: [PATCH] cpufreq, cpuidle & clock for MOP500 hrefp

2010-10-12 Thread Amit Kucheria
Patch looks OK. I'm not sure who is working to integrate the ST-E kernel into the common Linaro tree though. We want these 3 patches included there, and if relevant sent to mainline. To repeat my question since I'm still not clear, is there cpufreq/cpuidle support for ux500 in mainline? Regards,

Re: linaro-media-create speedup

2010-10-12 Thread Dave Martin
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 9:27 PM, Loïc Minier wrote: [...] >  There might be an interesting speedup + bugfix in aligning the rootfs >  partition on a power of two, e.g. 1 MiB boundary, as the SD/MMC is >  flash internally, and undergoes erase/write cycles for fs meta-data. >  I think only OMAP has

Visualizing reads, writes and alignment

2010-10-12 Thread Amit Kucheria
Should be of general interest to Linaro.. - Forwarded message from Matt Zimmerman - Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 09:48:42 +0100 From: Matt Zimmerman To: canonical-t...@lists.launchpad.net Subject: [Canonical-tech] Visualizing reads, writes and alignment User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) h

Re: linaro-media-create speedup

2010-10-12 Thread Loïc Minier
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010, Dave Martin wrote: > 32 sectors * 16 heads is what I usually use -- this gives a 256KB > cylinder size, which should be an integral number of underlying erase > blocks on pretty much any flash device, and has divided exactly into > the size of every SD card of flash stick I ha

Re: Cortex A9 vexpress MMC I/O problems.

2010-10-12 Thread Dave Martin
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 7:21 AM, Jamie Bennett wrote: [...] >>> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 01:13:40PM +0100, Harry Liebel wrote: I've had mixed results. When the box completes the boot the basic systems seem to work ok (I can get an IP and poke the filesystem). It still takes sever

Re: Cortex A9 vexpress MMC I/O problems.

2010-10-12 Thread Scott Bambrough
On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 11:17 +0100, Dave Martin wrote: > Sincle I believe this is a known issue with the hardware, it could be > wise to streamline the putting of bootloader and filesystem on > separate devices. > > Manually at least, this wasn't too hard: I ran linaro-media-create, > copied the bo

Common ARM context save/restore code

2010-10-12 Thread Jon Callan
Vishwa, I have a more-or-less complete set of example code for CPU context save/restore, currently supporting A5/A8/A9 and with planned support for Eagle. It is structured as "firmware" at the moment, but it would be much better if it was integrated into the ARM Linux kernel. The idea is the ke

Re: Common ARM context save/restore code

2010-10-12 Thread Jean Pihet
Hi Jon, That is a nice follow up to the OMAP idle code clean up, cf. http://lists.linaro.org/pipermail/linaro-dev/2010-October/001084.html. It would be nice to see how the code is organized and the impact of integrating it into the kernel. Regards, Jean On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Jon Call

RE: Common ARM context save/restore code

2010-10-12 Thread Shilimkar, Santosh
Jon > -Original Message- > From: linaro-dev-boun...@lists.linaro.org [mailto:linaro-dev- > boun...@lists.linaro.org] On Behalf Of Jon Callan > Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 4:10 PM > To: linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org > Subject: Common ARM context save/restore code > > Vishwa, > > I have a

Re: Common ARM context save/restore code

2010-10-12 Thread Amit Kucheria
Jon, I'm sure you anticipated this - What is your plan for pushing this out to the kernel? :) And how can we help? On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Jon Callan wrote: > Vishwa, > > I have a more-or-less complete set of example code for CPU context > save/restore, currently supporting A5/A8/A9 a

RE: Common ARM context save/restore code

2010-10-12 Thread Jon Callan
Jean, Yes, it is basically doing the same stuff as the OMAP idle code, but in a more generic way. It is mostly C, with assembler helper functions. I need to find out whether I can release the code. Jon. -Original Message- From: Jean Pihet [mailto:jean.pi...@newoldbits.com] Sent: 12 Oct

RE: Common ARM context save/restore code

2010-10-12 Thread Jon Callan
Well, my plan was to... er... post a message on linaro-dev and see happened! And yes, refactor as an ARM-common driver + SoC-specific stubs, that sounds about right. I plan to work on the Linux integration from 1st December. I have done some Linux kernel work before but I'm a little rusty. Jon

Re: linaro-media-create speedup

2010-10-12 Thread Dave Martin
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Loïc Minier wrote: > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010, Dave Martin wrote: >> 32 sectors * 16 heads is what I usually use -- this gives a 256KB >> cylinder size, which should be an integral number of underlying erase >> blocks on pretty much any flash device, and has divided e

Re: linaro-media-create speedup

2010-10-12 Thread Dave Martin
Note: there are some arithmetic bugs in the above code ... but you get the general idea. ___ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev

Re: Common ARM context save/restore code

2010-10-12 Thread Amit Kucheria
:) As you can see, if you make the source available somewhere, there is plenty of people interested in dissecting it. Jon, if you start working on them in December, we'll almost certainly miss the 2.6.38 merge window to get it integrated to mainline. /Amit p.s. /me makes a note to talk to bo...@

Re: linaro-media-create speedup

2010-10-12 Thread Loïc Minier
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010, Dave Martin wrote: > So we can make the /boot partition look like it has 63*255 geometry, > and we can make it start at sector offset 63. Right; ideally, we'd offset it so that it's still on a nice boundary e.g. we start at sector 512 (1, 8, 8) > Everything else can be det

RE: Common ARM context save/restore code

2010-10-12 Thread Jon Callan
Amit, Yes, it does seem a little tight doesn't it? Bobby is who I'm working with on this, btw. Maybe I could get the source code tidied and open it up in 2-3 weeks time? Then we can all work on it together :-) Jon. -Original Message- From: Amit Kucheria [mailto:amit.kuche...@linaro.or

Re: linaro-media-create speedup

2010-10-12 Thread Dave Martin
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Loïc Minier wrote: [...] >> cat <> "$device" > >  s/-us/-uS/? Ummm, yeah Funny, sfdisk didn't report an error for that... Cheers ---Dave ___ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.or

Notes & Actions: Linaro Graphics Working Group - Oct 11, 2010

2010-10-12 Thread Alexandros Frantzis
Hi, notes and actions from our Monday graphics cross-vendor call are available on the wiki: + https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/Middleware/Graphics/Notes/2010-10-11 Details about when and where of this meeting can be found here: + https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/Middleware/Graphics

Linaro Foundations Team Weekly Report (2010-09-30 to 2010-10-06)

2010-10-12 Thread Steve Langasek
The weekly report for the Linaro Foundations team may be found at: Status report: https://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/Foundations/2010-10-06 Overall status: https://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/Foundations/Status * Backports of the Linaro gcc packages to Ubuntu 10.04 LTS are now available at ht

Linaro Foundations Team Weekly Report (2010-09-16 to 2010-09-22)

2010-10-12 Thread Steve Langasek
The weekly report for the Linaro Foundations team may be found at: Status report: https://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/Foundations/2010-09-22 Overall status: https://wiki.linaro.org/Releases/FoundationsStatus Work continues on bugfixing for the 10.11 release, as well as some spec work not affecting

Re: Using Live Helper to Build Arm Images

2010-10-12 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 09:34:58AM +0200, Alexander Sack wrote: > On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 7:48 PM, Tom Gall wrote: > > I've created a wiki page at https://wiki.linaro.org/LiveHelper/Hacking > >  to describe the various steps for building your own linaro images on > > arm hardware using live help

Linaro Foundations Team Weekly Report (2010-09-23 to 2010-09-29)

2010-10-12 Thread Steve Langasek
The weekly report for the Linaro Foundations team may be found at: Status report: https://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/Foundations/2010-09-29 Overall status: https://wiki.linaro.org/Releases/FoundationsStatus * This week, Avik Sil joins us from IBM as a new assignee to the team. Welcome, Avik!

Re: export kernel clock information to user space

2010-10-12 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Tuesday 12 October 2010, Amit Kucheria wrote: > Adding linaro-dev to cc. Kernel consolidation WG might have comments. > > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Yong Shen wrote: > > Hi Amit and Jeremy, > > > > This is not a patch review. But patch may better present my idea. Basically, > > I want to

Re: Visualizing reads, writes and alignment

2010-10-12 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Tuesday 12 October 2010, Amit Kucheria wrote: > http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/10/05/visualizing-reads-writes-and-alignment/ > > This looks like pretty cool stuff. Using a patch to qemu, these tools > generate a visualization of I/O showing the location and alignment of reads > and writes. >

Re: linaro-media-create speedup

2010-10-12 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Tuesday 12 October 2010, Loïc Minier wrote: > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010, Dave Martin wrote: > > So we can make the /boot partition look like it has 63*255 geometry, > > and we can make it start at sector offset 63. > > Right; ideally, we'd offset it so that it's still on a nice boundary > e.g. we

Re: linux-linaro pull request

2010-10-12 Thread Tim Gardner
On 10/11/2010 01:17 PM, John Rigby wrote: The following changes since commit d0bbdab2bb2c55c3dc6a4b3fd2128250dff99feb: LINARO: Linaro-2.6.35-1006.12 (2010-09-20 20:01:02 -0600) are available in the git repository at: git://git.linaro.org/ubuntu/linux-linaro.git linaro-2.6.35-1007.13 Al V

Dashboard API authentication issues

2010-10-12 Thread Zygmunt Krynicki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi. As you know we've been trying to deliver an authenticated interface for the dashboard for quite some time now without success. Recently we've decided to add oauth support to the current XML-RPC interface we have. James implemented a rough support

Re: export kernel clock information to user space

2010-10-12 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Tue, 12 Oct 2010, Amit Kucheria wrote: > Adding linaro-dev to cc. Kernel consolidation WG might have comments. > > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Yong Shen wrote: > > Hi Amit and Jeremy, > > > > This is not a patch review. But patch may better present my idea. Basically, > > I want to add s

Re: Problems with headless rootfs image lh build

2010-10-12 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Shawn, On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 04:20:30PM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote: > I'm using lp:~linaro-maintainers/linaro/live-helper.config.maverick.headless > to build the rootfs image for imx51, and running into the following > problems. > - Need --force-yes apt option > I have to get APT_OPTIONS="--yes

Re: Problems with headless rootfs image lh build

2010-10-12 Thread Shawn Guo
Thanks, Steve. On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: > Hi Shawn, > > On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 04:20:30PM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote: >> I'm using lp:~linaro-maintainers/linaro/live-helper.config.maverick.headless >> to build the rootfs image for imx51, and running into the following

Login headless serial console

2010-10-12 Thread Shawn Guo
I'm trying to login mx51evk headless on serial console, and facing the following problems. - No /etc/init/ttymxc0.conf in headless rootfs - Do not know what username and passwd to login Should we get these addressed in headless build? We do not expect users to do extra manual works after l-m-c,

Re: Login headless serial console

2010-10-12 Thread Jammy Zhou
Hi Shawn, For "console=ttymxc0" boot option used by mx51evk, there is a bug in /bin/auto-serial-console, which has been fixed by Alexander in linaro.overlay. Could you please have a try with the changes below? Normally, we don't need to input username/passwd for headless rootfs. line #15 of auto

Re: Login headless serial console

2010-10-12 Thread Amit Kucheria
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 8:48 AM, Shawn Guo wrote: > I'm trying to login mx51evk headless on serial console, and facing the > following problems. > > - No /etc/init/ttymxc0.conf in headless rootfs > - Do not know what username and passwd to login > > Should we get these addressed in headless build?

Re: Login headless serial console

2010-10-12 Thread Shawn Guo
That is exactly what I'm curious. Maybe I did not look at the correct place. But I did not see it in linaro-media-create. Can someone using beagle board please confirm? On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Amit Kucheria wrote: > On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 8:48 AM, Shawn Guo wrote: >> I'm trying to l

Re: export kernel clock information to user space

2010-10-12 Thread Amit Kucheria
On 10 Oct 12, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Tuesday 12 October 2010, Amit Kucheria wrote: > > Adding linaro-dev to cc. Kernel consolidation WG might have comments. > > > > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Yong Shen wrote: > > > Hi Amit and Jeremy, > > > > > > This is not a patch review. But patch may