2024-03-14.log

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mhoyeSo, possiblydumb question, but should there be any obstacles to my getting kde running on this machine?01:59
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joschmhoye: on which machine? on the reform?07:08
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hramrachmhoye: Technically KDE should work if you have one of the faster SoCs, I would not expect much of IMX8 in this case. However, there are no reports of success or failure runnig it I know of so you would be a pioneer there.10:12
- chomwitt (QUIT: Ping timeout: 256 seconds) (~chomwitt@2a02:587:7a11:6600:1ac0:4dff:fedb:a3f1)10:22
joschi've run kde plasma successfully for a few weeks 2 years ago on the imx8mq10:31
joschthe performance was absolutely fine for me10:32
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minutethe debugging reports on https://www.powerpc-notebook.org/en/ are eerily similar to our ls1028a stuff because of the qoriq stuff, rcw and everything12:20
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hramrachyes, that's why the RiscV is not particularly promising - the SoC manufacturers tend to make SoCs of different architecture by reusing existing design, and only replacing the CPU core, keeping all the problematic perpipherals that make the ARM SoCs hell.13:16
jnat least on ARM you could rely on having somewhat predictable CPU cores (because ARM makes reference implementations, like the Cortex line, and architecture licenses are expensive) - on RISC-V you don't only get SoC hell, you also get CPU hell where every vendor implements a random set of instruction set extensions (speaking with slight hyperbole)13:30
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josch 13:56
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josch 14:47:59 up  5:27,  0 user,  load average: 0.43, 0.26, 0.2015:20
joschso...15:20
joschi bought a new set of eight eremit batteries and tested the runtime of my a311d reform with it in the following way15:20
josch1. i charged it all up to 100% and disabled upower switching off my reform on critical battery levels15:20
josch2. then i shut it down, removed the power cable and booted it up again15:21
+ chomwitt (~chomwitt@2a02:587:7a11:6600:1ac0:4dff:fedb:a3f1)15:21
josch3. i started a "while sleep 1m; do ..." loop which sent the output of "uptime" to a remote machine every minute15:21
joschi disabled my display switching off, so the display was at full brightness the whole time15:22
joschand then i just used my reform normall, writing some python, looking things up in firefox, checking my mail, do some things on remote machines over ssh, that kind of stuff15:22
joschthe line above is the last uptime output before my reform died due to empty battery cells15:23
joschso a311d reform with normal usage can last about 5.5 hours15:23
mjwnice15:23
joschwhat i find a bit upsetting is, that in the recent reviews by jeff geerling or thom holwerda, their a311d reform only lasted less than 4 hours.15:25
joschi think this is because the lpc is by default configured to show 0% way too early15:26
joschand then some part of the DE or upower switch off the machine way too early and the lpc can never learn what the actual 0% of the installed batteries is15:26
mjwold boards seemed to drain the batteries beyond the point they could get recharged, so being conservative here seems somewhat reasonable15:27
joschmjw: but new reforms, those that were sent out for review, have the protected battery boards installed15:28
mjwah, yeah15:29
joschminute: would it make sense to change the default in the lpc? if reviewers saw 5.5 hours of runtime would probably not be described as "Battery life has been only so-so" or "It’s definitely not class-leading or anything"15:29
mjwACTION is about to get the new protected battery boards :)15:29
Zabathe difference between 4 and 5.5 hours doesn't seem like much in an overall assessment15:41
joschit's a 37.5% runtime improvement -- i'd call that very significant15:43
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joschZaba: the 4 hours i mentioned above are from the review of thom holwerda who talked about 3-4 hours. In the review by jeff geerling, the runtime was described as 2.5 hours and "You can probably get a bit more if you use it conservatively." -- i don't think that the reader expect a more than double battery runtime compared to the mentioned 2.5 hours15:48
Zabawell yeah, 5.5 up from 2.5 is a big jump15:49
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sigriddo people call reform "brutalist" because of its sharp angles?18:57
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minuteheh, console with sixel support https://github.com/uobikiemukot/yaft19:11
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minutejosch: yeah i even got 5 hours from rk358819:12
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minutesigrid: i think so19:12
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joschminute: yeah, 5 hours are a really nice runtime i think. At that point one starts getting the feeling that one can just leave the laptop somewhere and forget about it for a bit without having to worry that it will accidentally run out of battery power.19:25
joschminute: i opened an issue here to not forget about this: https://source.mnt.re/reform/reform/-/issues/1819:26
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minutejosch: thx19:26
minutejosch: i am currently looking into tuigreet again. at least i got it to build now19:26
joschminute: i found the youtube video that jeff geerling used to benchmark the capacity with firefox playing it on fullscreen. Now that I have brand new cells, do you think it would be make sense if i repeated that benchmark and posted my results publicly?19:27
minutejosch: sure!19:27
joschor would that be seen as me throwing shade in their direction19:28
minutejosch: no, it's cool... it's just another POV19:28
joschokay :)19:28
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minutelmao > setfont: ERROR psffontop.c:179 read_fontfile: Font is too big19:35
minutei tried: setfont /usr/share/consolefonts/spleen-32x64.psfu.gz19:35
hramrachjust get kmscon or mlterm if you want that19:45
hramrachthe fbcon is severely limited, and with the monolithic kernel approach every single line of code added is an attack surface increase so there is strong resistance to adding major features there19:46
minutehramrach: makes sense19:47
minutein any case, i have decided to go with tuigreet, it works nicely now19:47
hramrach"The setfont command reads a font from the file font.new and loads it into the EGA/VGA character generator" ...19:48
minutei just have to get rid of kernel messages on its tty19:48
minutegreetd uses tty7 already, i thought the messages only go to tty119:48
minutei.e. i am getting wifi spam printed over the login form19:49
hramrachusing a different terminal might get rid of those messages as a sideeffect as well19:52
hramrachthere used to be a problem starting a graphical session from kmscon, interestingly. That's quite curious ginven you can start X from X. Well, it used to work, maybe not anymore with the session/seat nonsense today.19:59
minuteyeah, i don't wanna introduce tooooo many nonstandard things by default though20:12
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minuteok, loglevel of 4 (instead of 7) gets rid of the spam20:22
minuteok, will try to fix the issues with this MR https://source.mnt.re/reform/reform-debian-packages/-/merge_requests/2520:29
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minutetuigreet aarch64 build https://source.mnt.re/reform/reform-tuigreet/-/jobs/3565/artifacts/browse/tuigreet/target/aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/release/21:31
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joschminute: do you think you are happy enough with tuigreet such that i can start spending time on packaging it?22:10
joschcan MR !24 in reform-debian-package bbe closed?22:13
minutejosch: yes, happy enough with it22:14
minutejosch: yes, !24 can be closed :322:14
minutejosch: the only thing i don't like about tuigreet is the window title "Authenticate into ${HOSTNAME}", it sounds a bit strange22:15
joschmaybe upstream can be convinced to make that configurable?22:16
minutei would like to change this to "Login to ${HOSTNAME}"22:16
minuteyeah, currently it comes from a file contrib/locales/en-US/tuigreet.ftl22:16
minutewhich is included in the binary22:16
minuteso during my build process i can just change that line22:16
joschhrm... that doesn't sound like it should be configurable at run-time22:21
joschi find it a bit odd that files like these are just embedded into the binary instead of being sourced from /usr/share or from /etc or from $XDG_CONFIG_HOME or some such22:27
minutewoah why the hell can't i rebase the rk3588-reform2 branch22:30
minuteit's always changing?!22:30
minuteare you working on rebasing it at the same time maybe?22:30
minuteso i did a rebase but then hint: Updates were rejected because the tip of your current branch is behind22:31
minuteah22:31
minutegit pull --rebase did the trick22:31
minutebut the ui still says > Merge blocked: the source branch must be rebased onto the target branch.22:31
joschhuh, i'll have a look22:32
minuteah because my local main was behind i guess22:32
minutei will rebase again22:32
joschseems other people also observe the problem of kernel log messages overwriting things: https://github.com/apognu/tuigreet/issues/6822:34
minutejosch: yeah i already solved this22:35
minuteby changing the default log level :D22:36
minute(to warning+)22:36
minutehmm i always fail to rebase this22:38
joschminute: somehow there are commits of mine in the middle of your patch stack (according to the web ui)22:40
minuteah i had to force push after rebase22:42
minutelol the history looks like a huge mess22:43
minutei guess i'll have to completely redo this branch22:46
minutebut not today, too tired already22:46
joschminute: i also noticed that some of your patches are against 6.6 and others are against 6.722:48
minutejosch: yeah22:48
minutejosch: i wanted to add the pocket-a311d patches to 6.7. as well 22:49
joschminute: i suggest you work on patches for 6.7+ and let me do the work for 6.6 because the latter is not relevant for you as the MNT repos only do unstable22:49
minutejosch: ok22:49
joschminute: your patch stack should not include the "linux: rebase patches on 6.7.1" commit as that one is already in main22:51
joschmaybe i find some time to clean this up a bit tonight but if so, i'll do that in another branch, no worries :)22:52
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minutejosch: ok cool ^^23:17
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