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Nov 09 16:31:03 <dromede> jay7:ping
Nov 09 19:40:00 <Jay7> dromede: pong
Nov 09 19:41:11 <dromede> hi
Nov 09 19:41:26 <dromede> i will have some more patches for kexecboot
Nov 09 19:41:30 <dromede> soon
Nov 09 19:41:38 <dromede> more fb code refactoring
Nov 09 19:41:54 <dromede> the end result is virtually no delay in menu navigation
Nov 09 19:42:14 <ben1066> I don't get any delay on my Nexus 7
Nov 09 19:43:16 <dromede> that's normal, it's not noticeable on fast machines
Nov 09 19:43:25 <ben1066> Ah right
Nov 09 19:43:35 <ben1066> Yeah, 1280x800 update here instantly
Nov 09 19:43:40 <dromede> so you use kexecboot on na nexus 7? is that a 32 bit lcd ?
Nov 09 19:43:58 <ben1066> Yeah, it's 32bit, though I have to reinitialize it to make it see it as 32 bit
Nov 09 19:44:03 <ben1066> the bootloader uses it in 24 bit mode
Nov 09 19:44:27 <ben1066> Which is fine, but also when kexecboot starts I get screwed output (read: none) if I don't reload it
Nov 09 19:45:06 <dromede> that's weird, because i tried running kexecboot on my x86 machine with a 32 bit output and i get garbled output
Nov 09 19:45:28 <dromede> same thing happens if i try running kexecboot on a vmware virtual machine
Nov 09 19:45:38 <dromede> also with a 32 bit framebuffer
Nov 09 19:45:59 <ben1066> This is ARM and Tegra 3, just a little different :P
Nov 09 19:46:09 <dromede> of course
Nov 09 19:46:43 <dromede> i have and nvidia card, i suspect that their framebuffer is tiled, hence the broken rendering
Nov 09 19:47:24 <dromede> jay7: have you tried running kexecboot on any hardware that has a 32 bit framebuffer?
Nov 09 19:48:15 <ben1066> I wish there was an easier way to add settings menus though
Nov 09 19:48:32 <ben1066> for example, I need to change reboot to have bootloader, recovery and plain reboot
Nov 09 19:49:29 <ben1066> It's tempting to port across a richer UI toolkit...
Nov 09 19:50:43 <dromede> there is a program similar to kexecboot in function that has an efl based gui
Nov 09 19:50:47 <dromede> i forgot it's name though
Nov 09 19:51:44 <ben1066> EFI is useless to me :)
Nov 09 19:51:57 <ben1066> Port EFI...yeah no thanks
Nov 09 19:53:06 <dromede> EFL, not EFI
Nov 09 19:53:21 <ben1066> Oh derp
Nov 09 19:54:19 <dromede> here it is:
Nov 09 19:54:20 <dromede> http://www.ohloh.net/p/qi-bootmenu
Nov 09 19:54:27 <dromede> although it looks abandoned
Nov 09 19:54:36 <Jay7> dromede: I'm testing only on qemu-x86 and zauruses
Nov 09 19:54:39 <Jay7> no other hw yet
Nov 09 19:54:44 <Jay7> pandaboard is planned
Nov 09 19:55:10 <dromede> qemu-x86 framebuffer is 32 bit?
Nov 09 19:57:13 <Jay7> imho yes
Nov 09 19:57:16 <Jay7> iirc
Nov 09 19:58:20 <dromede> i've only refactored 32,24,18 and 16 bit routines
Nov 09 19:58:42 <dromede> what's the plan for 4,2,1 bpp support? you still want to keep these?
Nov 09 20:05:36 <Jay7> I think we should remove it
Nov 09 20:05:47 <Jay7> too hard to make it work
Nov 09 20:05:52 <Jay7> and nowhere to test
Nov 09 20:06:35 <dromede> i agree, anything lower than 16 bit should fall back to the text ui
Nov 09 20:10:52 <Jay7> btw, yes
Nov 09 20:10:59 <Jay7> we have text ui now
Nov 09 21:08:41 <dromede> jay7: i'll send you my patchset tomorrow
Nov 09 21:26:14 <Jay7> thank you
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