| --- Log opened Fri Dec 20 00:00:16 2013 | ||
| olofk_ | Ha! Finally installed python on my Jolla | 09:23 |
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| olofk_ | hmm.. qt uses Javascript for it's interfaces. slashme wonders if it would be possible to port jor1k :) | 09:23 |
| ysionneau | the beauty of the web is that it runs everywhere :) | 10:37 |
| stekern | speaking of installing stuff, I just won a battle over a HP laptop to default to Linux in a dual boot Linux/win8 setup | 10:40 |
| stekern | uefi is really broken on that... there is no way to change the boot order, it just ignore any changes with efibootmgr | 10:43 |
| stekern | hiding the windows .efi works (i.e. moving it from it's correct directory), but then when you boot windows manually it "fixes" itself and use the new location | 10:45 |
| stekern | so you have to replace the old windows .efi with a broken one (any other, it won't boot it since it can't verify it), that'll trick it to avoid "fixing" itself | 10:46 |
| olofk_ | stekern: I've been having problems with combinations of Linux kernel and efibootmgr that prevented any updates to the UEFI tables | 10:57 |
| olofk_ | Have you tried to use the EFI shell instead? That did the trick for me | 10:57 |
| stekern | no, I don't know how to get to the EFI shell... | 11:03 |
| stekern | but in a way, I like this solution, it's now very complicated to start windows, but easy to start linux | 11:11 |
| olofk_ | :) | 11:11 |
| stekern | to start windows you have to browse for the .efi and start it that maually that way | 11:11 |
| olofk_ | It might sound a little bit shady to download a bootloader binary from sourceforge, but apparently this is the official site http://sourceforge.net/projects/efi-shell/ | 11:11 |
| stekern | ah, ok | 11:12 |
| olofk_ | When I got my new computer I was determined to get rid of the pre-install win8 installation before I had accepted any EULA to prevent my installation from being counted | 11:12 |
| stekern | I'll try that as well, to see if it's actually is efibootmgr that is not working | 11:13 |
| olofk_ | Turns out that getting windows _not_ to start is just as hard as trying to keep it running ok | 11:13 |
| stekern | yeah, that's what I've been experiencing the last day too | 11:14 |
| stekern | we've bought laptops for the kids as xmas presents | 11:15 |
| stekern | and I bet there is coming a day when they want to play some stupid game that only works on windows... | 11:17 |
| stekern | olofk_: yeah, no, changing the boot order in efi shell didn't work... it reset it back to windows as first option | 11:39 |
| olofk_ | :) | 11:41 |
| olofk_ | Interesting stuff going on with steam. Hopefully they won't need windows at all | 11:42 |
| stekern | yeah, it feels like windows as a gaming platform isn't that dominating anymore | 11:43 |
| stekern | I've never cared much for gaming myself (except lucasart games) | 11:44 |
| stekern | our oldest kid is mostly playing minecraft and that works perfectly under linux | 11:45 |
| olofk_ | I have bougth a lot of games (like 20-30) the last years via Humble Indie Bundle, but I've only played a few of them, and only for a few hours at most | 11:45 |
| olofk_ | So it's more like I've been donating money :) | 11:46 |
| maxpaln | Hi, trying to determine if the Ethernet interface is setup correctly on our eval board | 13:24 |
| maxpaln | I have ethmac-ping.c test that is part of orpsocv2 - it is running (which is positive) - it has a bunch of switches for setting rates 10/100, enabling and configuring the phy and reporting status. | 13:25 |
| maxpaln | I am trying to work out what the correct input should be to do a basic test of the HW - something like, initialist the MAC, initialise the Phy and test that it is basically working | 13:25 |
| maxpaln | anyone got any tips? | 13:25 |
| maxpaln | ok, well I can't find exactly what I am looking for but I can see plenty of activity on the ethernet PHY (via the status LEDs) and the MAC and PHY via the registers. I don't really claim to understand most of it but it looks sensible and like everything is working correctly | 14:15 |
| maxpaln | so in lieu of a reason to believe it is not working I am going to assume it is working | 14:16 |
| maxpaln | might be fatal but I'll take a leap of faith - it is, after all, the festive time of year :-) | 14:16 |
| maxpaln | so, unless there is an intermediate step I've missed, I think the next thing is to build a Linux binary and see if it works! | 14:16 |
| maxpaln | eek! wish me luck! | 14:16 |
| maxpaln | ok, so in case I am heading off in completely the wrong direction - I am downloading the Linux kernel source code from here | 14:31 |
| maxpaln | git clone git://git.openrisc.net/jonas/linux | 14:31 |
| maxpaln | then I am going to attempt to compile it - this is not something I have tried before with any Linux distribution | 14:31 |
| maxpaln | so I am not expecting to go smoothly! | 14:32 |
| maxpaln | but any tips about what I should and shouldn't be doing are VERY welcome :-) | 14:32 |
| stekern | maxpaln: it should be pretty straight forward | 17:04 |
| stekern | I suggest you try to build a kernel and run it in or1ksim first though, if it's a new process for you | 17:04 |
| stekern | it should be a matter of just: make or1ksim_defconfig && make | 17:06 |
| stekern | and then: or1ksim -f arch/openrisc/or1ksim.cfg vmlinux | 17:07 |
| stekern | if that goes smoth, you can try starting to modify the or1ksim.dts to match your board | 17:09 |
| stekern | it shouldn't need much modifying, but the clock frequency you'll need to change at least | 17:10 |
| user135 | Hi, has any verilog/VHDL code been produced for an OpenRISC ASIC yet? | 17:33 |
| stekern | user135: yes, there are several implementations available, in both verilog and VHDL. most of them could be targeted for asic. | 17:50 |
| stekern | and the oldest (or1200) have been around for > 10 years | 17:52 |
| user135 | ok nice. | 18:10 |
| maxpaln | thanks stekern - very helpful. I'll report back with success or otherwise | 19:26 |
| -!- derethor is now known as printallthething | 19:40 | |
| --- Log closed Sat Dec 21 00:00:18 2013 | ||
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