2022-07-15.log

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smoothduck@minute I just received DIY #208 (sans trackball) from CS on Tuesday.01:09
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smoothduckoh @ signs, you can tell I'm stuck in slack all day01:15
minutesmoothduck: huh, interesting that they don't send it together with the TB01:23
smoothduckThey said they were out of stock on trackballs, but should be getting more in soon01:24
minutecurious because we sent them 100 and less than that were sold according to my numbers01:26
minutewe'll send them 20 more soon01:26
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smoothduckThey did ask my permission to send without. 01:28
smoothduckNo worries, It is totally usable in the interim.  01:29
smoothduckThey probably have them, I can only imagine what process they have to make their way through before they are ready to ship on their end. hah01:31
minuteha! cool, thanks for the info. always interesting what happens to the machines we build01:34
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swivelanyone have experience with this chipset in linux?  particularly the GPU https://en.t-firefly.com/product/industry/itx3588j01:59
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chartreusegrubman, yes those were the pins I was referring to , they're ground or 3.3v pins on the m.2 socket (depending on which way is up03:36
chartreusevkoskiv, and yes the earth ground isn't required to be on the output side of the PSU, IIRC it's using it more for EMI reasons inside the PSU.03:37
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minutewe still have some trouble with ls1028a, if someone knows someone with experience on this stuff: https://community.nxp.com/t5/Layerscape/How-to-debug-dysfunctional-SERDES-PCIe-SATA-SGMII-on-LS1028A/m-p/1490299#M1089413:50
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cinap_lenrekminute: i had once worked with a 10gig phy troubleshooting xfi issues14:32
cinap_lenrekminute: there where status registers on the phy where i could sample the status, and detect that the highspeed connection wasnt stable14:33
cinap_lenrektho i guess you already know that14:33
cinap_lenrekpcie controller also might have a status register for the link negotiation state machine you can sample14:34
cinap_lenrekbut really, you better ask nxp14:34
cinap_lenrekgood luck14:35
minuteyeah, there ought to be LTSSM status somewhere 14:37
minutejust weird that not even sgmii works14:37
minutenever had problems with that on any chip14:37
cinap_lenrekwe had on another nxp system issue with that, and it turned out to be that the clock was in spread spectrum mode14:38
cinap_lenrekand that didnt work14:38
cinap_lenrekall this is guessing tho14:38
minutehuh!14:38
minutei did measure the refclks with an osc and they looked pretty stable 100mhzy though14:38
minutebut idk if spread spectrum is visible like that14:39
cinap_lenrekits probably not your issue even14:47
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smoothduckDoes the current OLED battery monitor refresh at all on its own?18:11
Boostisbetterno, it is a one time poll, and you have to circle + b it again to get an update18:11
minutethere's a PR for this but untested/unmerged19:03
Boostisbetter💪️ automatic repolling could be nice, but I actually like the way it works now. It is more of a snapshot of your batteries at that exact moment. 19:33
joschBoostisbetter: what would speak against updating that snapshot 10 seconds later after you've read it?19:35
BoostisbetterI guess for me, that would be fine. I tend to exit the OLED screens as soon as I see the information presented. I don't want to "waste" power keeping it lit. 19:36
joschI agree. My idea was to let it auto-update only if plugged in. This makes sense for me because I want to watch how it charges.19:36
BoostisbetterAlso for me, the power draw for the device is pretty linear. Which is to say, if I see the batteries at a certain percentage, I know the rough amount of time I still have with them. 19:37
joschAnd when plugged in it would not waste battery power.19:37
Boostisbetterjosch: yeah that sounds great. I'd love that. 19:37
Boostisbetterbut at the same time, I'm good with it as it is19:37
kfxlogging the SPI data would surely be a better way to monitor charging behavior than staring at it?19:46
joschkfx: "logging the spi" doesn't work when my reform is off20:08
cinap_lenreksurely, one could modify the firmware to keep updating the battery status continuously20:42
cinap_lenrekand even make it blink or something once you'r low on battery20:42
cinap_lenreki have a modern thinkpad for a work laptop and one needs to run stupid software that shows the battery status20:43
cinap_lenreki rather have that done independently of the main cpu...20:44
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joschthinkpads had a feature in software that they'd stop charging at 80% (by default that functionality was off but it was configurable in their windows software) -- do lifepo4 batteries also last longer when one doesn't charge them fully but only up to 80%?20:56
minutejosch: i don't think lifepo batteries have this kind of effect21:15
joschokay, cool! :)21:15
minutereform had a blinky battery status thing initially21:15
minutebut it was also showing when the status was ???% (bug) and people got annoyed21:16
minutei changed the feature but then because of a new bug it did not actually alert at all anymore...21:16
minuteand they lived happily ever after.21:17
klardotshthere's still degradation at deeper DoD (assuming you're draining 100% to 0%), and no lithium batteries are completely happy at 100% for long periods (storage, etc), but LiFePO4 seems more forgiving than, say, traditional laptop batteries21:17
klardotsheg https://community.victronenergy.com/questions/10779/official-depth-of-discharge-recommendations-for-li.html21:17
minutebottom line: the blink alert feature exists, it just never shows21:17
minuteone would need to fix the bug 21:18
kfxI prefer it to just shut off mysteriously.  Less stress.21:23
minutehehe21:24
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minutewould you people be interested in an imx8mplus upgrade module for reform, with 1.8ghz and 8gb ram, and integrated wifi+bt module?22:12
minute(the wifi probably needs firmware)22:13
minutethe cores are still cortex-a53 but it's a 14nm instead of 28nm chip and thus higher clock freq and less heat22:13
technomancyif it had a gpu that worked with xorg i'd be all over it =)22:14
minutewell, the current gpu works with xorg, just someone needs to fix xorg22:15
cinap_lenrekminute: i wonder, is it alot of work on the hw side?22:15
minutethe GPU is GC7000UL22:16
minutecinap_lenrek: well it will be the default for pocket reform so i will do it in any case22:16
minuteand pocket reform takes the same kind of modules as reform22:16
cinap_lenrekminute: oh22:16
minutethere is only one drawback, which is that there's only one PCIe (gen3) controller, not two. but you don't need the wifi card anymore, as there would be wifi on the module.22:17
minutethere's also a third display output but i'm not sure if it can really drive 3 displays in parallel22:18
minutethere's also a hifi dsp, an npu and a cortex-m7... don't know what those are useful for22:19
cinap_lenrekso its really about designing a new som for both pocket and classic reform?22:24
minuteno, the som exists (again by boundary), but it's a board-to-board connector thing similar to cm422:26
minuteso i'll make a card for it that plugs into our existing SODIMM slot22:27
cinap_lenrekOH22:27
minutehttps://boundarydevices.com/product/nitrogen8m-plus-som/22:27
klardotshminute: WiFi being on-board and now not replaceable over PCIe would be a huge downgrade for me sadly. when the motherboard is back, the wifi card I have to put in mine is an AX200NGW, a WiFi 6 + BT5 chip, and I can later upgrade to new wifi specs if I ever want. onboard SOM WiFi precludes that :\22:27
klardotshthe 8gb RAM is absolutely **clutch** though (I've been eagerly awaiting that 16GB SOM you're working with NLNet on, despite its fewer CPU cores, for example)22:28
minuteklardotsh: alright! yeah, there are pros and cons.22:28
minuteyeah, the ls1028a is still in debugging phase22:28
minutei mean, there will always be more upgrades.22:28
minutethere's also an almost-working rpi cm4 adapter. the cm4 has other pros and cons again... quad a72 but videocore, no usb3, one pcie...22:29
klardotshsince I've been looking at ITX boards with this chip, I'll throw one more on your radar, as if you needed a longer todo list ;) RK3588 looks bananas. not quite at the level of M1/8cxg3, but looks very performant, and up to 32GB RAM for those of us stuck working on, well... rails apps to pay the bills :) (and for browser tabs...)22:30
klardotshminute: oh yeah. all things in tradeoff for sure. didn't know CM4 had no USB3, that surprises me a bit. is that CM4 pinout problem or just the RPi CM4 (meaning some other CM4-pinout-compat board (I see some starting to exist) could add it)?22:31
minuteklardotsh: i have 2 rk3588 modules on my desk22:31
minutethat's a thing for later22:31
klardotsh!!!!!!! eek!22:31
minutewill need a new motherboard though22:31
minuteso nothing to plug into the old motherbaord22:31
minuteklardotsh: on the regular rpi4, the usb3 is realized by a controller chip that uses pcie22:32
minuteklardotsh: on the cm4, pcie is exposed22:32
klardotshohhhhhh neat. TIL122:37
klardotshminute: as for the new motherboard, curious, **how** different is rk3588? like how bad of a mobo overhaul would it be?22:37
minuteklardotsh: the module i want to use has the same connector like MXM, 314 pins instead of 20022:38
minutealso i want to offer some usb-c connectors and possibly split the motherboard into som carrier + charger board, like on the pocket22:39
minuteso, some design i'm doing now for pocket will probably go back into a next-gen reform motherboard22:39
minutethere might then be different carrier board variants to accomodate a variety of soms22:40
Boostisbetterminute: any idea when beta pocket's might be available for testing? not rushing. Quality takes time. 22:40
minuteBoostisbetter: it really depends on how well things go in the next two weeks when the first pcbs are coming in22:41
minutealso we're doing a lot of work on the case design atm22:41
Boostisbetterminute: I'm super excited about it all. I would test the heck out of the thing. 22:43
Boostisbetter👍️22:43
minuteoh yeah, we're excited as well22:43
klardotshminute: ohhhhh you're doing the charging daughterboard thing I alluded to?! exciting! yeah, that plus USB-C (even if just PD spec, but the DP alternate mode would also be great if it's ever possible) would be an instant mobo upgrade purchase for me23:03
minutegood to know, thanks for the feedback!23:04
klardotshI don't have the time or (currently?) KiCAD, SMD, etc. skills to do what Jacqueline did and swap the charge port on the one in your shop, so for now I have two of the USB-PD to barrel jack adapters the forum linked23:05
klardotshthe ability to single-port dock a Reform (Power + Display) would basically obviate the need for me to ever have a second laptop machine laying around once the rooted-with-Linux chromebook I keep around finally dies23:06
minuteinteresting!23:06
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