Pavel Machek
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@drewdevault NixOS may not be for you, but I believe it has its uses. Would not use that emoticon...
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@martijnbraam @linmob I never seen machine with ARM SBBR. Yes, that's a step in right direction, I wish PinePhone (etc) would be using that. (And it would be nice to have something similar for R-V, preferably without complexity of ACPI.)
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@martijnbraam @linmob Not sure, and have not met those uefi-only laptops, fortuantely. But I'm sure they for example power down when battery goes low? Don't require vendor-patched u-boot of particular version to init their DRAM? Can charge battery without vendor-patched Linux kernel successfully booted? I really wish there was standard arm64 platform (and standard risc-v platform).
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@thatprivacyguy One possible solution would be to start a local proxy and make chromium use that...
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@martijnbraam @linmob While x86 hardware can be pain, it usually does not have problem booting bootloaders or charging its batteries. I expect RISC-V to be improvement over x86 CPUs, and it would be cool to have some kind of next-generation platform. We should not really need 100 drivers for RTC.
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@slightlyoff It is somehow important small&light phones keep existing. (And I don't mind "cheap"). Usually I'm either on horseback (where 180gram smartphone breaks easily) or carry notebook (where I already have decent screen I want to use, thank you). I played with Geeksphone Keon, and that one is almost right size and non-evil. I wonder if I should get one of those kaiOS things.
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@AsteroidOS So... There likely is place for Linux smartwatch, but do you really want big-enough watch so that they can run Linux for weeks? Smartwatch is good reason for good & small system that is smaller than Linux (in particular does not need MMU and can run in less than 256KB RAM). See https://www.espruino.com/ , I like that one.
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Trying to do debayering on CPU using vector extension. So far targeting x86-64 and pinephone... and so far it is few times slower than naive approach. Is there good high-level overview of avx and neon somewhere? Any hints? Anyone willing to help?
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@hrw @haeckerfelix I'm afraid there way too little video clips with permissive-enough licensing...
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"Recently" terminals started beeping when mouse enters/exits the window. It seems like running emacs remotely then terminating the connection does that. How is this ... annoying glitch called and how do I get rid of it? Debian 11.8 with mate.
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c3voc_releases@chaos.socialBreaking "DRM" in Polish trains has been released on media.ccc.de https://media.ccc.de/v/37c3-12142-breaking_drm_in_polish_trains
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@drewdevault "Perfect mainline Linux support" for a SoC is cool. But even better would be create compatible hardware, so that Linux, Windows, DOS, Xenix, ... can be ran on the hardware without needing any support. PCs in 486 era used to be like that, everything compatible with everything else, and it would be good to get there again with Risc-V. Asking not for compatible instruction sets, asking for compatible platform.
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Trying to do RGBA->RGB conversion with AVX. Yes, it is trivial task. No, I don't get speedup over trivial code.
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@martijnbraam Did you have some solution to uncached memory problem? On pinephone, v4l2 passes uncached memory to userspace, leading to huge performance problems everywhere. The hw seems to have enough power, but we sabotage it be turning off caches :-(.
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@martijnbraam According to my notes, PP should be able to encode 1920x1080 video at 28fps (h264, ultrafast) or 1280x720 video at 100fps. 720p is not great, but should be quite usable.
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@martijnbraam Yeah, well, I'd prefer something that has Linux drivers.
There is video recording on Librem 5 in Millipixels (saving raw frames and processing them offline). There is one on PinePhone (saving jpegs and processing them offline, or doing gstreamer pipeline in low res). I'm playing with GPUs to turn hem into ISP so I could increase performance.
There is video recording on Librem 5 in Millipixels (saving raw frames and processing them offline). There is one on PinePhone (saving jpegs and processing them offline, or doing gstreamer pipeline in low res). I'm playing with GPUs to turn hem into ISP so I could increase performance.
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