[loongson-dev] Re: Other hardware that uses the same silicon motion chipset as the yeeloong?

2010-10-23 Thread Matt Turner
On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Daniel Clark wrote: > So we now have a 3rd person who may actually have time to work on > getting good accelerated siliconmotion for lemote yeeloong support > into mainline xorg tree (Matt; also, Bernie may be back from exile > from the US soon :-) > > A while ago

Re: [loongson-dev] Re: Other hardware that uses the same silicon motion chipset as the yeeloong?

2010-11-04 Thread Matt Turner
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 5:31 AM, Daniel Clark wrote: > So far for SM712 on x86 (which I believe someone may have told me may be > easier to debug than on loongson for some reason) I have found the below. > People working on the problem should tell us if any of the below hardware > would be useful

Re: [loongson-dev] Power consumption mearsurements

2011-05-08 Thread Matt Turner
On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Roman Mamedov wrote: > Hello, > > I have got myself a power consumption measuring device [1] and compared the > Fuloong with my desktop (AMD Phenom X4 9750). > > Lemote Fuloong PC:      10 Watt idle   12 Watt full CPU load > > AMD Phenom X4 desktop: 165 Watt idle  2

Re: [loongson-dev] Power consumption mearsurements

2011-05-09 Thread Matt Turner
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 3:01 AM, Roman Mamedov wrote: > On Sun, 8 May 2011 16:02:02 -0400 > Matt Turner wrote: > >> You're comparing a tiny netbook to a quad-core desktop. Sorry, but >> that's an incredibly meaningless comparison. >> >> Compare with an

Re: [loongson-dev] Power consumption mearsurements

2011-05-09 Thread Matt Turner
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 5:11 AM, wrote: > -[ Sun, May 08, 2011 at 04:02:02PM -0400, Matt Turner ] >> You're comparing a tiny netbook to a quad-core desktop. Sorry, but >> that's an incredibly meaningless comparison. > > I wouldn't say so, if you use the qu

Re: [loongson-dev] [PATCH] Support Loongson FPU instructions to math-emu (was Illegal instruction with guile)

2011-11-02 Thread Matt Turner
On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 6:50 PM, Mark H Weaver wrote: > Wu Zhangjin writes: >> Seems some of your patches are common to MIPS, could you please send >> them to linux-mips mailing list[1] and CC to its maintainer: Ralf[2], >> the MIPS experts may give you more professional feedbacks. > > Yes, I hope

Re: [loongson-dev] [PATCH] Support Loongson FPU instructions to math-emu (was Illegal instruction with guile)

2011-12-15 Thread Matt Turner
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Matt Turner wrote: > On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 6:50 PM, Mark H Weaver wrote: >> Wu Zhangjin writes: >>> Seems some of your patches are common to MIPS, could you please send >>> them to linux-mips mailing list[1] and CC to its mainta

Re: [loongson-dev] Selecting an operating system for your new Lemote Yeeloong

2012-01-08 Thread Matt Turner
On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Alexandre "asm" wrote: > 2012/1/8 Daniel Clark >> >> On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 10:07 AM, Alexandre "asm" >> wrote: >>> >>> >>> When you write that "Gentoo is probably the fastest current >>> distribution". Are you refering the fastest on Lemote Yeloong or in general

Re: [loongson-dev] Selecting an operating system for your new Lemote Yeeloong

2012-01-15 Thread Matt Turner
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Javier Vasquez wrote: > BTW, any distro using "-mabi=64"?  Is it actually possible or not? The Gentoo stages I'm shipping are o32/n32/n64 (n32 default), so without too much effort you could switch to n64, but n32 should be better for the vast majority of applicat

[loongson-dev] gcc loongson vector intrinsics

2012-02-12 Thread Matt Turner
Hi, gcc's support for loongson vector intrinsics is very bad. Consider gcc bugs 42951, 48068, 48348. There's no way to generate instructions like and, or, xor, shift that operate on full 64-bit doublewords without using inline assembly. Is anyone working on fixing this? Where are the Lemote deve

Re: [loongson-dev] Gdium patches

2012-03-14 Thread Matt Turner
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Julien De Bona wrote: > Hi, > > My name is Julien De Bona. I'm a Debian user and a Gdium owner. In > order to get the upcoming Debian Wheezy running on my Gdium, I looked at > loongson-community kernel as it seems the best place to get a kernel > despite the low

Re: [loongson-dev] Gdium patches

2012-03-16 Thread Matt Turner
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Julien De Bona wrote: > Hi, > > My name is Julien De Bona.  I'm a Debian user and a Gdium owner.  In order > to get the upcoming Debian Wheezy running on my Gdium, I looked at > loongson-community kernel as it seems the best place to get a kernel despite > the low

[loongson-dev] CONFIG_PATA_AMD: irq 14: nobody cared

2012-04-13 Thread Matt Turner
On my Yeeloong, when I use the libata AMD PATA driver (CONFIG_PATA_AMD), I see this in dmesg, and hard disk access is dog slow. pata_amd :00:0e.2: version 0.4.1 scsi0 : pata_amd scsi1 : pata_amd ata1: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x1f0 ctl 0x3f6 bmdma 0x4c60 irq 14 ata2: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x170 c

Re: [loongson-dev] Yeeloong Wake on LAN

2012-04-16 Thread Matt Turner
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 7:28 PM, Kip Warner wrote: > Hey list, > > Does the Yeeloong have Wake on LAN capabilities? If so, is there a way > to enable it? > > -- > Kip Warner -- Software Engineer > OpenPGP encrypted/signed mail preferred > http://www.thevertigo.com I imagine so... it's just a Real

[loongson-dev] Re: CONFIG_PATA_AMD: irq 14: nobody cared

2012-04-18 Thread Matt Turner
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Matt Turner wrote: > On my Yeeloong, when I use the libata AMD PATA driver > (CONFIG_PATA_AMD), I see this in dmesg, and hard disk access is dog > slow. > > pata_amd :00:0e.2: version 0.4.1 > scsi0 : pata_amd > scsi1 : pata_amd > ata

Re: [loongson-dev] [PATCH] Support Loongson FPU instructions to math-emu (was Illegal instruction with guile)

2012-05-13 Thread Matt Turner
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Mark H Weaver wrote: > Hello all, > > Apologies if this has already been addressed, as I am new to this > mailing list and have not had time to search the archives carefully. > > I have found and fixed the underlying cause of the illegal instruction > (SIGILL) sign

[loongson-dev] Pixman optimized for Loongson

2012-05-24 Thread Matt Turner
ble. I don't plan to do this. Give it a test. Let me know what you think. Thanks! Matt Turner -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "loongson-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to loongson-dev@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from

[loongson-dev] Re: Pixman optimized for Loongson

2012-05-24 Thread Matt Turner
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Matt Turner wrote: > Give it a test. Let me know what you think. Oh, also: I've been asked about donations. I don't feel like they're necessary, but if you so desired you could donate to the PayPal account associated with this email addre

Re: [loongson-dev] Pixman optimized for Loongson

2012-05-28 Thread Matt Turner
On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 6:26 PM, wrote: > -[ Thu, May 24, 2012 at 03:42:32PM -0400, Matt Turner ] >> I've optimized pixman (the software compositing library used by the X >> server, Cairo, et al) in the last few months to use Loongson's >> multimedia vector i

Re: [loongson-dev] sigbus in webkit

2012-06-15 Thread Matt Turner
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote: > Hello, > > I'm running vimprobable2 with webkit 1.4.0 in the fuloong (n32), and I get a > SIGBUS > (bad memory alignment I imagine). > > Has anyone experienced this and know a solution? > > Program received signal SIGBUS, Bus error

Re: [loongson-dev] siliconmotion VGA output

2012-08-19 Thread Matt Turner
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 5:19 PM, Kip wrote: > > > On Saturday, August 18, 2012 1:25:56 PM UTC-7, Daniel Clark wrote: >> >> yeeloong with gnewsnese uses framebuffer driver. If you tell linux that >> you have a 1024x768, it'll output that to the external monitor, but the >> internal monitor will hav

Re: [loongson-dev] Gentoo Desktop for the Lemote Yeeloong,

2012-09-09 Thread Matt Turner
On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 11:24 AM, wrote: > -[ Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 11:49:33AM -0400, Anthony G. Basile ] >> Its not perfect yet. We have yet to get video working. Also the >> current browser is dillo which is not the most popular browser. > > X11, Mesa and Firefox were made to works by Zhang

Re: [loongson-dev] Gentoo Desktop for the Lemote Yeeloong,

2012-09-10 Thread Matt Turner
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 12:50 AM, wrote: > Again, If you need some manpower from a gentoo on mips newby, feel free > to ask. Yes, definitely! The easiest way is to join #gentoo-mips on Freenode. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "loongson-dev" group

Re: [loongson-dev] Gdium GPIO support broken

2012-09-12 Thread Matt Turner
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Julien De Bona wrote: > Hello, > > I found that commit 2539387611b8b15bb2367275df9bfd3e29dc2a0e in December > 2010 broke the Gdium's GPIOs by doing this: > - set ARCH_NR_GPIOS to 4, which can fit the Loongson 2f's 4 GPIOs but not > the 64 GPIOs from the SM501 (the

Re: [loongson-dev] Gdium GPIO support broken

2012-09-13 Thread Matt Turner
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Julien De Bona wrote: > Le 12/09/12 19:29, Matt Turner a écrit : >> >> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Julien De Bona >> wrote: >>> >>> I found that commit 2539387611b8b15bb2367275df9bfd3e29dc2a0e in December >>>

Re: [loongson-dev] Graphic acceleration on Yeeloong anyone?

2012-11-21 Thread Matt Turner
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 4:19 AM, s.bouta...@free.fr wrote: > Hi, > > We managed to get the graphical desktop working in Debian/Wheezy, > thanks to the upgrade of > xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion_1.7.6-1loongson_mipsel.deb from [1]. > > Does anyone got the graphic hardware acceleration working? >

Re: [loongson-dev] Re: Graphic acceleration on Yeeloong anyone?

2012-11-22 Thread Matt Turner
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 2:56 AM, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote: > On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 02:54:41AM -0800, s.bouta...@free.fr wrote: >> Thanks you Matt, Mart, Anthony, Roman & all! >> >> On this hardware, graphic hardware acceleration is not on the top of the >> priorities, for the most of us, I p

Re: [loongson-dev] mpg123 and lame

2013-03-30 Thread Matt Turner
On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to play mp3 (or decode to wav) using mpg123 and lame, and both > decode > to a noisy pcm. > > The pcm is clearly different than what I get decoding the same mp3 to wav in > x86. > > Does anybody experience the

Re: [loongson-dev] VGA binary blob?

2013-07-21 Thread Matt Turner
On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 11:46 AM, Kip wrote: > I've heard rumours that the Loongson 3A Notebook / 8133 have 3D hardware > accelerators, unlike the Yeeloong, but that they require a binary blob. Is > this true? It has a Radeon 3200. 3D acceleration requires a little firmware for the ring buffer or

Re: [loongson-dev] VGA binary blob?

2013-07-21 Thread Matt Turner
On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 12:23 PM, Kip Warner wrote: > How difficult do you think it would be to replace the firmware with a > libre replacement? I don't have any idea. Sorry. Someone with more reverse engineering experience would be needed. -- You received this message because you are subscrib

Re: [loongson-dev] Would anyone like to hack for 2D acceleration of sm7xx?

2013-12-28 Thread Matt Turner
On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Tom Li wrote: > Anyone who has a YeeLoong Laptop will find the graphics performance is > unacceptable. Even just run dmesg, the output will take a lot of time. > > In fact, there is a built-in 2D acceleration in SM712, the video chip of > YeeLoong. And the driver

Re: [loongson-dev] Possibility to get dual socket motherboard with 3b cpu

2014-11-20 Thread Matt Turner
On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 7:57 AM, Alexey Shvetsov wrote: > Is that somehow possible to get dual socket motherboard with 3b cpu? As far as I can tell, no. I tried without success for a long time. They (loongson.cn) would go for months without responding to emails, and when they finally did they'd s