<fenixfunk>
Q: rk3188 loader does not work on rk3066 boards, is this correct?
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<ferric>
bootlaoder?
<ferric>
fenixfunk: yes. you need an older version of the bootloader for 3066 boards.
<fenixfunk>
thank you very much :)
<ferric>
np.
<ferric>
i'm trying to figure out how to flash the official kitkat rom now.
<ferric>
it only has one .img file in it, no boot.img/parameters
<ferric>
etc.
<fenixfunk>
I have to say the combined efforts of everyone working to bring Linux to Rockchip devices have really propelled me into the world of ARM/Linux development. I can't articulate well enough how appreciative I am of the whole effort.
<fenixfunk>
hm, let me grab that and take a look at it today
<ferric>
yep, lotsa cool stuff going on.
<fenixfunk>
have you been able to unpack the rom?
<fenixfunk>
also have you tried installing kitkat to virtualbox yet?
<ferric>
fenixfunk: haven't tried either.
<ferric>
fenixfunk: i was hoping i could just run upgrade_tool new_rom.img and be done with it ;-)
<ferric>
</lazy>
<fenixfunk>
hehe
<ferric>
hm... my crouton install won't let me mount cramfs images.
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<honx>
are the partitions on flash really just defined as mtdparts in the parameters file, or do i have to use some kind of partitioning tool to prepare an empty flash IC so i can later use upgrade_tool to flash images to it?
<phh>
only parameter file
<honx>
a nice. i have a couple of hdmi dongles here that i want to use with a bigger flash. so that sounds like i just edit the parameters file to make the partitions larger, flash everything on it and i'm good to go...
<phh>
why not rather boot on SDcard ?
<honx>
because the system does not have an sd card slot (or any other means of storage)
<phh>
oO
<honx>
its a 10$ HDMI dongle..just the rockchip, some ram, flash, the wifi-module and thats it :)
<phh>
10$... not bad
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<ferric>
i can't mount that .img, grm.
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<fenixfunk>
0.o $10 you say... i'm interested, even though there is no SD
<ferric>
yeah, $10 for a rk3188 board is kinda awesome.
<fenixfunk>
we live in an exciting time
<ferric>
makes sense, now that rk3288 boards are coming out
<ncrmnt>
Okay, rk_nand looks like pretty much the same crippled blob.
<ncrmnt>
As if I expected anything else...
<phh>
isn't everyone moving to emmc ?
<ncrmnt>
Well, rk3188 devices still use nand.
<ncrmnt>
with their crippled up FTL
<ncrmnt>
rkwifi is still that crap... Well, at least they now put in the sources for bcmdhd and it's not a blob any more
<phh>
i've never tried but rkwifi doesn't sound hard to recode
<ncrmnt>
rk_fb is there, still ugly as hell. Now, if only someone told those guys to open up their *** nand
<ncrmnt>
Anyway, we have a good chances of upstreaming at least a more or less useable system.
<ncrmnt>
What looks strange - there's uboot repo (FINALLY!) but no source code
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<ncrmnt>
Btw, did anybody manage to get bluetooth running on MK809III (AP6210) ?
<ncrmnt>
Hm... earlyprintk still uses ttyFIQ0
<fenixfunk>
re:bt, sunxi?
<ncrmnt>
fenixfunk: No, rk3188 (MK809III)
<fenixfunk>
oh whoops, apologies.
<ncrmnt>
Basically, I figured out all the rkfill stuff, etc. But bcrm_patchram_plus just hangs
<ncrmnt>
sometimes writes/reads a few bytes, sometimes not. Tried all the *.hcds and parms
<ncrmnt>
Looks like I'm missing somethings
<ncrmnt>
*something
<ncrmnt>
Okay, and now the fun starts, 3.10 doesn't compile.
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<phh>
:/
<ncrmnt>
I'll see if I can fix that. If I succeed - I'll post it on github.
<ncrmnt>
Does anyone have rk3xnand.ko for the 3.10 kernel?
<ncrmnt>
Wonder what gcc version those guys were using. They are declaring functions inline and then doing EXPORT_SYMBOL() on them
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<ncrmnt>
Hm... pie stuff crashes the hell out of my ld
<ferric>
needs more pie :p
<ncrmnt>
arm-allwinner-linux-gnueabi-ld: BFD (crosstool-NG 1.19.0) 2.23.1 internal error, aborting at elflink.c line 8822 in elf_link_output_extsym
<ncrmnt>
Anybody knows a remedy?
<ncrmnt>
This stuff pops when linking pie/pie_stage2.o
<ncrmnt>
I wonder what rockchip has to do with that 'embedded position independent executable' stuff
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<fenixfunk>
ferric, regarding that kitkat rom, I noticed picuntu 5.1 images are mtd. any chance you can just flash that kitkat rom to NAND? do you need a parameters file for that? how big is the rom?
<dw>
is 'rkchrome' some kind of official repository?
<ncrmnt>
dw: Nobody knows
<ncrmnt>
But it needs love to compile
<dw>
someone must have spotted it first :)
* dw
wishes there weren't 400 different phpbb installs you had to go poking for this information
<ferric>
cnxsoft might know :-)
<ncrmnt>
I just learned about it today and am know knee-deep in rockchip's next-gen madness
<dw>
i follow one of the radxa guys on github, saw him/her starring it a week or two back
<ferric>
fenixfunk: i'm a doofus. :-) the img file can just be flashed on, it has the bootloader, etc. all inside it.
<ferric>
fenixfunk: i couldn't figure out how to mount it though, probably some weird obfuscation.
<dw>
also, i have seen a uboot repository on GH with code committed to it, with rockchip-style debug macros of the same names that appear in their kernels
<dw>
think it might be under the radxa account
<fenixfunk>
has that crouton install ever been bratty about mounting .img's in the past? that'd be really interesting if they did employ obfuscation...
<ferric>
fenixfunk: most ROMs are obfuscated somehow, never straight up ext3 or cram
<ferric>
fenixfunk: i doubt it's crouton, tho.
<ferric>
dw: how weird. someone inside rockchip leaked the kernel to radxa?
<dw>
i think that's the android-style BOOT partition format? would seem it goes on top of where the regular mkbootimg-output kernel goes
<dw>
(make an image of your flash first :)
<dw>
but i read through that code for 30 mins or more. could have sworn it referenced nand-related functions that didn't appaer anywhere in the source code. but this was over a month ago
<ncrmnt>
Well, I'll just finish patching 3.10 and give at a try as a boot partition
<ncrmnt>
wonder if it works, lol
<dw>
do you have serial console soldered?
<dw>
i highly doubt it drives the graphics at all
<ncrmnt>
Yep, I even have better - HC-5 bt module soldered in there.
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<ncrmnt>
dw: E:Invaid tag(0x544F4F42)!
<ncrmnt>
No, it doesn't boot if flashed in place of the regular boot.img
<dw>
eep :)
<ncrmnt>
Something tells me it should be flashed to idblocks
<ncrmnt>
or where that thing keeps its loader. Unfortunately I don't know any way to do that, but by removing the nand, putting it into programmer and back
<dw>
forgotten how rockchip boot works.. but definitely the IPL understands that header if it appears in the correct partition, AFAIK. also i think there are multiple versions of that android header format
<dw>
but its claiming the first 4 bytes are incorrect, so sounds like its flashed in the wrong place
<ncrmnt>
I flashed that in the very place a put zImage packed with dummy initramfs with mkbootimg
<ncrmnt>
I flashed that in the very place I put zImage + a dummy initramfs packed with mkbootimg
<ncrmnt>
After giving the first message a read, I understood that wasn't quite english... sorry.
<dw>
no clue, sorry :) i'm just an amateur with a crappy rk3066 :P
<ncrmnt>
I'll give u-boot a try, for not I'm going to start playing with 3.10
<ncrmnt>
It's finally compiled and ready (hehe!)
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<ncrmnt>
Well... doesn't boot.
<ncrmnt>
nothing on the serial console, sadness.
<ncrmnt>
Looks like a big banner "LOVE WANTED" to me..
<Rj_>
smeared arctic silver on a coin and put it between my rkcpu and an old gpu cooler
<fenixfunk>
haha, what kind of coin?
<Rj_>
The only coin I had, a norwegian crown
<fenixfunk>
for it to work properly it may need to be a lapped (very flat, very polished) surface. is there a temp sensor in the chip?
<ncrmnt>
Well, I guess they should now have polished support... You know, Finger Of Linus...
<ferric>
tegra 4's are more powerful than rk3288 right?
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<dw>
Rj_: allwinner seems a good bet there
<dw>
if microsoft forked the kernel and smashed it to the point that abi and even syscall interfaces differed they'd have caught hell, but android, *whistles* nothing to see here
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<Rj_>
The a10 you mean? seems like a downgrade from my mk802iv unfortunalety. Then again, if there is proper linux gpu support for it, it would be a nice investment.
<Rj_>
I guess I haven’t got linuxiums mali driver to work properly, 70 fps is es2gears
<ferric>
Rj_: a80 looks pretty hot
<Rj_>
is that a phone?
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<Rj_>
guess not
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