2023-01-28.log

Boostisbetterno pun intended right? 00:08
Boostisbetterhahaha00:08
BoostisbetterANyway still dreaming about the Pocket Reform00:08
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minutevery cool https://fathy.fr/carbonyl00:37
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chartreuseINB4 pico reform that's compute stick sized01:37
violetjosch: depends on both in my experience. rock64 for example can easily handle 30fps h264 decode both in software _or_ in hardware, but playback is only smooth from tty where mpv can decode direct to a video display layer, cutting out a lot of memory copies from the equation02:46
violetwell, i guess i wouldnt say that its "easy" in software for the rock64 actually. but the point being that the hardware decode can handle a lot more than either the memory bandwidth or gpu compositing can handle under wayland (not sure which is the bottleneck)02:47
violetcause under X/wayland it can only do the version that copies the frames back from the hardware decoder to userspace ram before then sending them back to the GPU to render it02:49
violetthis isn't like, a limitation that _needs_ to exist, but it exists because nobody's written tho code to plumb together the bits that let the fast path work02:50
violetbut some chips like the one in the pinebookpro can basically just brute-force this by just having enough headroom that it still works out alright02:51
violetanyways if the hardware decoding on the imx8m* is based on v4l2-requests the way it is on rock64, you can definitely use ffmpeg with it, but you need to use a patched ffmpeg because I think that still hasn't been merged upstream unfortunately02:53
+ sevan (~sevan@user/venture37)02:53
violetrafostar[m]: if you do actually have software that can do playback without coping through system ram like you say, do you know if its using the same mechanisms as mpv's `drm` (not `drm-copy`) decode scheme? if so, then i suspect the patched ffmpeg im referring to would also work02:56
violeti guess all the more reason for me to order one and find out for myself02:58
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violetare there any SBCs that have the imx8mplus i could get maybe sooner than I'd get a reform?03:05
violeti kinda want to wait for the pocket anyway, going back and forth on that03:05
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rafostar[m]<violet> "rafostar: if you do actually..." <- Not DRM because we have a whole GTK4 GUI on top of it. Internally we get DMABuf pointer from decoder, use a MESA extension to turn it into GL texture. Pass texture ID to GTK4 so it will show it on clock. It was tested with v4l2, vaapi and nvdec that GStreamer supports and worked well. One limitation is that it needs Wayland to do so, but I am not gonna focus on X11 these days.08:27
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violetyeah i looked into it a little more, it looks like `mpv` also has this experimentally with `wayland-dmabuf` video output now09:45
violetonly on weston/sway though for now but luckily i use sway09:45
violetthat is recent i think09:45
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rafostar[m]<violet> "yeah i looked into it a little..." <- Use whatever you like obviously. I personally prefer GStreamer over ffmpeg/MPV backend. It gives me much more freedom then ffmpeg does.10:41
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joschflowy: doesn't matter because the build failed anyways. The error log looks like the ffmpeg patch was not updated to work on recent systems.13:34
joschviolet: do you have experience with the ffmpeg v4l2-requests patch stack? It worked fine for ffmpeg 4 but the patches didn't apply anymore with ffmpeg 5. A few months ago the patch stack got rebased onto ffmpeg 5 and i managed to build and run the thing but I got red-tinged output with mpv. Now I tried rebuilding it again and it fails because it cannot find some functions (ioctl and close, so probably 13:39
joschsome #include is missing). Does the ffmpeg v4l2-requests patch stack work for you on your rock64 with ffmpeg 5?13:39
- S0rin (QUIT: Read error: Connection reset by peer) (~S0rin@user/s0rin)14:39
+ S0rin (~S0rin@user/s0rin)14:40
minutehere's a fun thing: suspend/wake half works14:55
minuteif i suspend and wake, i come to a black screen, but the backlight is on14:55
minuteso if i do super+enter and enter pkill sway, the console springs to life14:55
minutesuspending in console and then after wake typing sway also works14:56
minuteso it's just something about the display not reinitializing correctly14:56
minute(this is with dcss, will try with lcdif)14:56
minute(still on 6.0.0 though)14:57
minutesame problem with lcdif15:02
minutei wonder if gpu related... going from console to sway doesn't actually bring the display to life after wake, only exiting sway to console15:02
+ mtm (~mtm@c-71-228-84-213.hsd1.fl.comcast.net)15:08
minuteupgrading to 6.1 now.15:10
minutestill the same issue. i wonder if it's related to the nwl-dsi driver, as the behavior is the same for lcdif and dcss.15:14
minuteone could experiment with putting sysfs or handlers in these drivers and try to nudge them from userspace after wakeup15:19
joschminute: you are talking about imx8mq?15:21
minutejosch: ytes.15:21
minuteyes15:21
joschoh i thought suspend/wake already worked and my system was just borked somehow?15:22
minuteno, i think it regressed15:22
minutestrangely, switching to another console with ctrl+alt+f2 and back also doesn't make the display work again... but pkill sway does15:26
minutei wonder what would happen if i were to switch resolution15:26
minuteor scale, that is15:26
minutefound a workaround15:34
minuteblindly typing the following works: swaymsg output eDP-1 disable; swaymsg output eDP-1 enable15:34
minutelittle test: bindsym $mod+x exec 'swaymsg output eDP-1 disable; swaymsg output eDP-1 enable'15:36
minuteworks!15:37
minuteso now the question, how to send a message to sway in the suspend script15:37
minutehere's an ugly hack:15:53
minutesway_display_restart() {15:53
minute  export SWAYSOCK=$(echo /run/user/1000/sway-ipc*.sock)15:53
minute  swaymsg output eDP-1 disable15:53
minute  swaymsg output eDP-1 enable15:53
minute} 15:53
minutebtw, somehow i didn't notice before that cpu frequency scaling is happening. in htop under f2->display options you can enable display of the frequency for the cpu cores16:05
minuteit toggles between 1000mhz and 1500mhz for me depending on what i do16:05
sigridmaybe sway doesn't get some kind of event then?16:07
minutesigrid: the same problem is also in the linux console, without sway16:08
- buckket (QUIT: Read error: Connection reset by peer) (~buckket@pdp8.buckket.org)16:09
minutethe display re-enabling just nudges something in the kernel display stack16:09
sigridinteresting16:09
minutedon't have the energy/tools right now to investigate what exactly that is in the kernel16:10
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joschI lack the skill to fix this properly in the kernel but since the script cannot know the user running sway, maybe this can replace the 1000 in sway_display_restart:21:26
josch$(pgrep sway | xargs -I'{}' ps -p '{}' --format uid= | sort -u)21:26
joschthis will find all sway processes and print their user ids (hopefully only one after running through sort -u)21:26
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+ jnerula (~jnerula@li1009-93.members.linode.com)22:26
blueriseAH FOR FUCKS SAKE22:49
blueriseminute: I found out why my PCIe wasn't working anymore...22:49
ex-parrotCard fell out?22:50
joschbreadcrumbs found their way from the keyboard to the bottom of the unit? (don't ask)22:51
minutebluerise: what was it22:51
bluerisesomeone at u-boot replaced the power domain driver that calls into ATF with a 'we twiddle the bits ourselves' one22:52
blueriseI ruled out the power domain stuff because I thought no one would ever touch that again22:52
blueriseturns out I was wrong22:52
blueriseu-boot=> pci 22:54
blueriseBusDevFun  VendorId   DeviceId   Device Class       Sub-Class 22:54
bluerise_____________________________________________________________ 22:54
bluerise00.00.00   0x16c3     0xabcd     Bridge device           0x04 22:54
bluerise01.00.00   0x1987     0x5012     Mass storage controller 0x08 22:54
bluerisebetter22:54
joschbluerise: are you working on making upstream u-boot work on the reform?22:57
blueriseyes, already sent v6 of my basic support patch22:57
joschwow this is awesome, thank you for working on that!! :D22:58
minutebluerise: wow!22:59
blueriseok, booted with NVMe on current U-Boot master23:00
bluerisenow I can try and add the lcdif stuff23:00
bluerise... or debug the power domain thing first, I reverted the change locally for now.. sigh23:00
minutemeanwhile i am debugging etnaviv23:01
minutei think glVertexAttribPointer is broken and causes mmu faults23:01
bluerisefound the bug, yay, can send another diff to u-boot :D23:06
minuteawesome23:07
joschbluerise: this still requires the memory training binary blob, right?23:07
blueriseyep23:08
joschworks for me -- Debian now has a new archive section exclusively for firmware that is loaded up on some chip but isn't part of the OS otherwise. If reform support is in upstream u-boot then Debian can build u-boot for the reform and ship the memory training blob as addon package in the non-free-firmware section.23:10
joschvagrantc: ^23:10
blueriseok, PCIe fixed and the PCIe driver is a little nicer now as well23:15
bluerisenow... lcdif...23:15
vagrantcjosch: last i looked, the licensing on those training blobs still wasn't permissive enough to allow redistribution ... but maybe i am misremembering23:22
minutehmm i hope i haven't found a serious problem, it looks like glVertexAttribPointer() with invalid pointers might be able to scribble into memory 23:23
vagrantcjosch: but yeah, i have been wondering a bit about the ramifications for debian's policy changes regarding firmware as they relate to u-boot or similar23:24
minuteit can def. ruin other programs' textures and cause weird dmesg messages... building the latest mesa git to see if the problem is still there23:24
joschvagrantc: hrm... maybe... i guess minute knows the answer. But even if the license doesn't allow redistributions, we can ship the training blob in reform-tools because apparently minute is allowed to redistribute it. :)23:48
minute;)23:49
minutehttps://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/818023:49
joschoh wow that must've been really "funny" to track down23:51
minuteyeah it took a few hours 23:52
minutei have kind of a migraine today and was "bored"23:52
minutebut i learned more about using apitrace and qapitrace23:52
minuteone can capture a programs opengl calls and then selectively replay them and inspect state at any point23:52
minuteand also toggle the calls on and off23:52
minutethat way you can boil it down to the offending calls23:52
joschuff.. hope you feel better soon! i cannot concentrate on anything when having a migraine XD23:58

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