**** BEGIN LOGGING AT Sat Aug 04 03:00:00 2018 Aug 04 08:19:20 Jasu_M, do you see output from bootloader to start with? Aug 04 09:27:50 TheKit: Yeah, and I can type to the shell on Gemian Aug 04 09:31:16 is it USB cable or you soldered to pins directly? Aug 04 09:31:51 I added console=uart8250,mmio32,0x11002000 to forced cmdline in mainline kernel config to get output Aug 04 09:32:14 USB. Took a USB-A female connector from a broken router and soldered an old serial microcontroller programmer to it :P Aug 04 09:34:12 thanks! that'll definitely help, but I have lots to figure out still. Also, UART8250? O_o isn't that the really old UART that's used in PCs? Aug 04 09:38:27 bumped into this before: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/292661/kernel-parameters-console-and-earlycon-refer-to-old-hardware Aug 04 09:54:50 ok, makes sense :P Aug 04 10:13:01 btw any idea why /proc/modules does not exist on Gemian? Is it some Android thing? Aug 04 10:15:22 ok apparently not an android thing, just a config option in the current kernel Aug 04 10:18:45 kernel is currently built without modules support, yes Aug 04 10:22:36 TheKit: So you've also got mainline to boot? Aug 04 10:24:24 I've seen your name on some commits in Gemian's kernel Aug 04 10:25:36 only early init, omegamoon[m] got it further to initramfs Aug 04 10:25:54 nice Aug 04 10:34:04 awesome, I'd take mainline with nothing but text mode and sleep over present state Aug 04 10:36:14 I kinda bought the thing because I wanted to try to make mainine run on it. not sure if I had bought if it already ran mainline :P Aug 04 10:36:40 Jasu_M: <3 Aug 04 10:36:58 but don't put too much hope on me, I've never even cross-compiled a kernel before... Aug 04 10:37:33 as if you need cross on modern arm devices... Aug 04 10:51:44 I figured it's easier to cross-compile, since I'm expecting to have to re-flash the thing countless of times :P also, faster compilation Aug 04 10:53:26 faster than the Gemini multi-core? not too sure ;) Aug 04 10:54:14 and I find `dd` more convenient than flashing, but then my flashing is a bit weird Aug 04 10:54:57 So we have TheKit, OmegaMoon mainlining; I want to help, Jasu_M wants to help Aug 04 10:55:20 Who else could be loing at mainlining. Jolla? Other devs around here? Aug 04 10:56:09 I didn't do anything besides trying to boot it, unfortunately Aug 04 10:58:08 well, I don't know how much time I'll have, I was epecting loads of free time, but looks like I have an assignment starting Sep 1st Aug 04 10:58:12 there is some support for mt6797 in kernel tree, but not even display or storage driver Aug 04 10:59:11 so is the display controller separate from Mali? Aug 04 10:59:20 yes Aug 04 11:00:11 ok. I took a quick look at some mali stuff and thought that it had some standard display controller, so I just misunderstood something Aug 04 11:02:18 https://github.com/mbgg/linux-mediatek/tree/for-next/drivers/gpu/drm/mediatek - needs to be adapted to support 6797, plus then we need panel driver Aug 04 11:04:01 Is there an (or several) overview somewhere with (partial?) kernel repos? Aug 04 11:04:12 oh. I imagined that the drm/mediatek thing was only for PowerVR-based SoCs Aug 04 11:04:31 (happy to make one, when provided with info) Aug 04 11:05:06 Jasu_M, they added support for Banana Pi-R2 there, which is with Mali, for example Aug 04 11:05:24 ah ok Aug 04 11:09:30 mgbb/for-next adds power support for MT6797, not sure if this includes charging Aug 04 11:09:45 s/mgbb/mbgg/ Aug 04 11:10:42 ooh nice. I looked at the mediatek mailing list, but somehow missed all of those things Aug 04 11:11:53 merge window starts tomorrow night, so this will hit mainline in just a few days Aug 04 11:16:41 http://forum.banana-pi.org/t/is-someone-working-on-the-project/5255/19 - it seems Banana Pi BPI-R2 support is pretty recent Aug 04 11:29:42 nice :) I won't look at that now though, have to get a hang of the basics first... a toolchain, kconfig and dts would help at this point Aug 05 02:02:30 I don't know if this was giving you guys trouble, but I had a hell of a time getting the resolution to change on my Gemini Aug 05 02:04:51 I found an app that can do the job, but it took some digging. I'll hold off on a direct link because I didn't do a full scan of the apk or anything (no problems so far), but I'll point you in the direction of "Screen Shift" by somebody called Aravind Sagar Aug 05 02:05:33 You'll need root access, but you can set custom resolutions, 1920x1080 being the most obvious choice Aug 05 02:06:31 (No refresh rate controls, but there is DPI settings, which might be less cumbersome than the one buried in the developer settings) Aug 05 02:06:43 are* Aug 05 02:12:25 Oh, it still defaults to landscape, and if you've set your nav bar to automatically be hidden, that's a little fiddly, since it doesn't like the swipe input starting from offscreen **** ENDING LOGGING AT Sun Aug 05 02:59:59 2018