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#rockbox log for 2010-03-25

00:00:07kugelI seem to remember we do that on other targets as well
00:00:17ozzomaybe I should just shut up xD
00:00:25Zagorozzo: there is a manual for the clip. and since the v2 is identical I questioned the need for a special v2 manual.
00:00:26linuxstbYes, I said that - the "clipv2" and "clip+" manual links point to the clipv1 manual.
00:00:55webguest77Hi, I'd like to ask a question about the way my RiPod is behaving...
00:01:01ozzogot you wrong hehe
00:01:06linuxstbYour "RiPod" ?
00:01:10webguest77iPod.
00:01:25ozzolol nice name
00:01:35webguest77Sorry, I'm using Chromeand the "Waiting" message is blocking me reading what I write
00:01:44webguest77So there may be some typos
00:01:48webguest77Anyways,
00:01:59webguest77I have an iPod Nano, 1st gen.
00:02:16webguest77It had the lates softare when I installed Rockbox.
00:02:26webguest77When I did, I deleted the system files.
00:02:39webguest77For the iPod's orginal software, I mean.
00:02:42linuxstbYou mean the "iPod_Control" folder?
00:02:46webguest77Yeah.
00:02:57S_a_i_n_tOh....
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00:03:01webguest77I know it comes back when I open iTumes, and I've deleted it before.
00:03:26webguest77But sometimes it comes back after I make sure the folder uis gone and unplug it.
00:03:37Torneif you boot the original firmware it will get recreated also
00:03:50webguest77So what should I do?
00:03:55Torneit's probably easier to hide it instead; then it won't show up in rockbox unless you set the file viewer to all files
00:04:02Torneit doesn't matter, though
00:04:22webguest77No, I mean the original software boots INSTEAD of Rockbox
00:04:25S_a_i_n_tIf you're asking about "how can I stop this happening" don't have/use the Apple of.
00:04:36TorneThats nothing to do with the iPod_Control folder
00:04:43Tornethe firmware is not stored in there, that's just for settings
00:04:52webguest77So how do I stop it?
00:04:57stripwaxstop what
00:05:10Tornethe original firmware boots if you have the hold switch turned on when you power the player on
00:05:34webguest77So I shouldn't use the hold switch whevever the player is off?
00:05:47Tornehm?
00:05:56Torneturn off hold before you apply power ;)
00:05:59Tornethen it will boot rockbox.
00:06:01stripwaxnote that there *might* be a bug, where the alarm might trigger by mistake *and* boot up into the apple firmware if the hold switch is on
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00:06:40webguest77I can't pwere the player on if the hold is oon, though.
00:06:40S_a_i_n_tWell...you can't power the player on if hold is on...can you?
00:06:43stripwaxbut if you connect usb power, yes, turn the hold switch off.
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00:06:51Tornewebguest77: connecting usb turns the player on
00:07:02webguest77No, this happens without pplugging the thing into a computer.
00:07:20S_a_i_n_tthere *may* be a similar bug...
00:07:38S_a_i_n_tAs was said earlier, regarding the alarm.
00:07:45webguest77I don't use the alarm
00:07:51stripwaxwebguest77 - how do you turn it on, if the hold switch is on ... ??
00:07:52Tornedoes it turn on instantly into the original firmware?
00:07:59Torneor does it have to boot up for >60 seconds first?
00:08:16stripwaxTorne - (if you see the Apple logo, but it boots up in <10 seconds, it's 'apple resume'...)
00:08:26webguest77When I unplug it from the computer?
00:08:31webguest77Or just any old time?
00:08:43*stripwax is super confused
00:08:43Tornewait, this happens when you unplug? like, immediately?
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00:08:48webguest77No.
00:08:53webguest77After
00:09:03webguest77Wait, sorry, let me explain this.
00:09:12stripwaxwebguest77 - can you break it down step by step please
00:09:37webguest77When I unplug the iPod from my computer, I make sure to check and make sure the firmware files have been deleted.
00:09:48webguest77After unplug, it loads Rockbox just fine.
00:09:56S_a_i_n_tthat *really* doesn;t matter...
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00:10:16S_a_i_n_tdeleting the 'firmware files' I mean.
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00:10:35stripwaxwhat do you mean by "make sure the firmware files have been deleted". Do you really mean "deleting the firmware files" - or do you just think you mean that?
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00:10:46stripwaxipod_control is **NOT** 'the firmware files'
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00:11:01webguest77However, even after Rockbox loads then, I will try to boot it again sometime, and the old iPod firmware will load.
00:11:20webguest77There are no files on the disk besides ".rockbox" and my music.
00:11:34stripwaxit might be the alarm bug.
00:11:45webguest77I DON'T USE THE ALARM.
00:12:11stripwaxFS #11063
00:12:19Torneit doesn't matter if you use the alarm.
00:12:19stripwaxwebguest77 - right, "IT IS A BUG" .. :-)
00:12:25webguest77Also, note that I turn the hold switch off every time I go into Sleep mode.
00:12:27Tornethe hardware sets the alarm on poweroff
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00:12:34webguest77Oh.
00:12:42stripwaxwebguest77 - I saw something similar (hence the bug that I logged :-))
00:12:51webguest77So I shouldn't use the hold switch if the power is off?
00:12:51Tornethe origianl firmware uses the hardware alarm for something quite different
00:13:00Tornealso, what do you mean, go into sleep mode?
00:13:03Tornerockbox doesn't have a sleep mode.
00:13:06webguest77Turn it off.
00:13:19stripwaxwebguest77 - it is supposed to work - but I have also seen the same symptom. What I think happens is:
00:13:32stripwax1. you run rockbox, and then shut it down normally (via long press on PLAY).
00:13:40webguest77Yes.
00:13:54Tornewebguest77: yeah that's not sleep mode, that's just "off"
00:14:00webguest77OK.
00:14:08TorneHow long does it take to start the original firmware?
00:14:09stripwax2. you turn the hold switch on. 3. at some indeterminate time later, the alarm fires 'by mistake', the ipod turns on, sees the hold switch is on, and boots the apple firmware
00:14:13Tornea few seconds, or a minute or so?
00:14:16webguest77Because the iPod firmware calls it "sleep"
00:14:25stripwax4. the apple firmware gets bored (since I'm in bed), and shuts down (specifically, hibernates) later on
00:14:26Torneno, the ipod firmware *does* put it to sleep
00:14:28Torne*we* turn it off.
00:14:38webguest77Less than a minute, but several seconds longer than normal.
00:14:39Tornethey are different :)
00:14:41stripwax5. I turn the hold switch to 'off' and turn on the ipod - it wakes up the ipod firmware
00:15:03webguest77So this is an acknowledged bug.
00:15:12stripwaxTorne - you've seen the bug I mentioned? (FS #11063)?
00:15:17Torneit's an unreproducable bug
00:15:18webguest77Is there a patch or anything, or have you not been able to fix it?
00:15:24webguest77OH, okay.
00:15:28webguest77Thanks.
00:15:30Tornewhich we already spsecifically introduced code to prevent
00:15:38Torneand thus ther eis no way it should be possible for it to happen ;)
00:15:41webguest77Hmmm...
00:15:45*stripwax goes HMM also
00:15:52Tornethis happened while developing a different change
00:15:54webguest77But I have the latest version, I think...
00:16:10TorneIt doesn't matter what version you have ;)
00:16:17TorneThis should not be possible in any version :)
00:16:22Torneso, yeah, i don't know how to fix it
00:16:30stripwaxTorne - it does though, right? the whole shutdown thing was only changed recently
00:16:42webguest77Okay, thanks.
00:16:51Tornestripwax: no, it doesn't.. the only vesion that doesn't set the alarm correctly on shutdown was in FS#
00:16:58stripwaxwebguest77 - what ipod model do you have?
00:17:01Torneit was never in svn
00:17:07webguest77Nano, 1st gen
00:17:15stripwaxTorne - I mean, before that patch was even submitted to svn, everything worked fine ....
00:17:15webguest77Latest firmware
00:17:32Tornestripwax: yes, but everything works fine now :)
00:17:34webguest77So there is a patch.
00:17:39stripwaxTorne - err.. what?
00:17:45Tornewebguest77: no.
00:17:49stripwaxwebguest77 - ignore. the patch *is* in the latest version of rockbox
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00:17:57Tornewebguest77: a change was made to the way we shut ipods down, for a completely unrelated issue
00:18:00stripwaxI am of the opinion that the patch doesn't quite do what it is supposed to do
00:18:09webguest77OK.
00:18:12Tornewebguest77: during development of that patch we got the behaviour you are getting
00:18:16Tornewe fixed that before submitting the patch
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00:18:26stripwaxand only you and I seem to still have a problem...
00:18:30webguest77OK, I get it.
00:18:35Torneyah. a dozen or so peope tested that for 6+ months
00:18:39Tornewithout anyone having the problem :)
00:18:47webguest77Well, thanks for the help...
00:18:49Torneand you are only the second person to report it since it was submitted
00:18:54stripwaxwell, it's an unreproducible bug, soooo ....
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00:18:58stripwax:-)
00:19:00Stephen__just lookin at the front page. under stable it has e200 (all models) nad then under unstable it has clip (all versions) should they not both be either models or versions as opposed to being different ?
00:19:27stripwaxwebguest77 - by the way, this probably isn't what you want to hear, but I am quite grateful that I am not going crazy and someone else see the bug too .... :-)
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00:19:28TorneStephen__: no, there are lots of different models that fall under e200
00:19:40TorneStephen__: e250, e280, etc
00:19:45LloreanStephen__: The clip has 3 versions, the e200 has 2 versions and the R model
00:19:48Stephen__then should clip not be models aswell
00:19:54LloreanThe clip has clip, clip+ and clipv2
00:20:04TorneStephen__: no, because they are sold as the same model and have no distinguishing features
00:20:17TorneStephen__: the changes between v1 and v2 are internal and not visible to users
00:20:19Stephen__ah right. just thought i'd bring it up
00:20:32Stephen__thanks Torne & Llorean
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00:20:56Torneunfortunately sandisk have changed the internals of some players without actually marketing it as a new model
00:21:07Tornewhich is bad for us ;)
00:21:18Stephen__i wonder will we see a clip +v2 ?
00:21:28stripwaxTorne - (although I think I mentioned this before) - the problem seems to be aggravated if I use OF usb mode (rather than rockbox usb mode) and then reboot into rockbox - but that might just be a coincidence.
00:21:29Tornethe clip+ already has similar hardware to the v2
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00:21:52Tornestripwax: i just cannot see how it can happen, is the issue
00:21:55Lloreanstripwax: Is the clock set?
00:22:01stripwaxI wonder if FS #10830 is related
00:22:10stripwaxLlorean - rockbox reports the current time, yes
00:22:10Stephen__it's great to have rockbox on a player that is still sold new
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00:22:16Tornestripwax: the problem is that the OF enables wakeup by alarm, always, when we call it to do the dodgy shutdown for us ;)
00:22:28stripwaxAnnoyingly, the debug screen cannot tell me if the alarm is 'set', it only lets me 'set' it or 'cancel' it.
00:22:34Tornestripwax: it doesnt' actually set the alarm time, as far as we saw, just turns on the PMIC bit to do the wakeup
00:22:54Torneso, the shutdown patch sets the alarm time to the Distant Future on shutdown, if the user hasn't set a real alarm
00:22:58stripwaxTorne - well, based on which OF firmware version? I have the original (unupgraded) OF firmware
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00:23:20Tornesuch that even though the alarm wakeup gets enabled, it won't really happen until like 2080 or similar. i forget th date :)
00:23:34stripwaxlet me check my apple os version
00:23:46LloreanTorne: Does it use whatever the RTC reports as the date + some constant, or a hard coded date?
00:23:57TorneLlorean: it sets it to the maximum thing the RTC will accept, i think
00:24:02Tornethis is existing rockbox code
00:24:04Tornenot new.
00:24:22Tornewe do that anyway because there's no other way to tell whether you woke up by alarm or not
00:24:31Tornethe OF bootloader in flash eats the bit in the PMIC that tells you why you woke up.
00:24:40Torneso, we have to rely on checking the alartm time to know if we woke up because of an alarm
00:24:46Torneif it's set to Crazy Future Time then we know we didn't ;)
00:25:03Tornethis code gets run every time you disable the alarm
00:25:16Tornethe shutdown patch just runs it on shutdown, if the alarm wasn't set by the user, as well
00:25:43S_a_i_n_twhat if you *wan't* to set an alarm for ~10 years in the future? ;-P
00:25:45*stripwax just realised he has no idea how to check his apple os firmware version
00:25:56stripwaxS_a_i_n_t - haha
00:26:02TorneS_a_i_n_t: i'm prety sure it's a lot more than 10 years ;)
00:26:09stripwax1.1.1 (apparently)
00:26:13Tornethe comment in the code says whoever wrote that is assuming they will be dead
00:26:14Torne:)
00:26:25S_a_i_n_thehehe
00:26:37Tornestripwax: but yes, it's possible your OF is resetting the alarm time
00:26:39stripwaxwell, hopefully they won't be, but the battery presumably will be :-)
00:26:49Tornestripwax: but i can't see why it would unless it also went into sleep
00:26:50stripwaxTorne - ok
00:26:53Tornebut it's difficult to tell
00:27:11TorneThe whole boot/sleep/reboot/shutdown/etc mess in the flash bootloader is incomprehensible
00:27:17stripwaxagreed
00:27:31Tornei've been disasembling it a bit but it's just vast beyond any reasonable need
00:27:46Torneamusingly there is an entire serial bootloader debug console in there
00:27:53Torneit's just implemented using Angel ICE
00:27:59stripwaxwhich is worse, rockbox that sometimes need menu+select to boot at all, or rockbox that sometimes wakes up into either rockbox or apple os (depending on hold switch) at a random time you didn't specify
00:28:03Torneso you can only access it over JTAG :)
00:28:30Tornestripwax: well, nobody but you and that guy is having that problem, tho
00:28:36TorneI'd love not to have this horrible hack
00:28:55Tornebut that *also* depends on working out what the hell the bootloader is doing and why it's failing to boot in the first place.
00:29:16stripwaxpresumably there's some specific parts of iram that contain magic values
00:29:23Torneyes
00:29:30Tornebut that's not all
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00:29:36Torneit does a bunch of other crazy stuff also ;)
00:29:37stripwaxhave we tried zeroing out iram at shutdown time?
00:29:55Tornedunno.
00:30:15Torneit seems unlikely, though. not impossible
00:30:24Tornebut the data the bootloader reads from there is pretty specific
00:30:39stripwaxTorne - do you have jtag? can you see what the iram contents are after an OF 'good' shutdown?
00:30:40Tornei would think it vanishingly unlikely for it to appear by accident
00:30:47Tornethe OF doesn't *have* a shutdown
00:30:50Tornether is no such thing
00:30:55stripwaxyeah, just realised the same
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00:31:02Tornethere is only sleep, suspend to disk, or "shit my battery ran flat"
00:31:26Torneso yeah, we are trying to produce behaviour that the OF just doesn't have.
00:31:32TorneHmmmmmm
00:31:34Tornethat's a thought.
00:31:52Tornemaybe the shutdown problem is caused by the OF's data *still* being in iram
00:32:03stripwaxTorne - re 'appear by accident' - I wonder if it's the other way around - the random data *doesn't* look like what it's expecting
00:32:04Tornewhich i guess might happen if by fluke you don't run anything that goes that high
00:32:06stripwaxright exactly
00:32:21Tornestripwax: well it must logically be able to del with powering on to find IRAM is totally blank
00:32:27Tornebecause that's what happens if you disconnect the battery
00:32:31stripwaxyep....
00:32:41Tornethough whether it always handles it correctly is a different matter
00:32:44Tornebut it must at least work in theory
00:32:48stripwaxand presumably the OF boots just fine if you disconnect (and recharge, and reconnect..) the battery
00:32:53stripwaxyeah
00:33:24Torneif you disconnect hte battery or let it run completely flat, it happily powers on on usb insert at least
00:33:29stripwaxpresumably someone has tried that though. (btw - not the first time I suggested trying to zero out the iram)
00:33:33Tornelioke i said, i've been disassembling the firmware
00:33:42Tornebut haven't found anything useful yet and it is *spectacularly* dull
00:33:54Torneand it's full of very weird stuff
00:34:02Tornee.g. detection of PP CPU types that we've never seen
00:34:26Torneand what looks like lots of leftover code from different ipod models :)
00:34:39Torneit really is a massive pile of crap. way too complicated for the miniscule amount it does ;)
00:35:04Tornei was lookign for where it writes data to the LCD, to find where the "no battery" screen comes from
00:35:08Tornebut can't bloody find it
00:35:19Torne(it doesn't help that the BCM video chip's control system is also insane)
00:35:53S_a_i_n_tIt was probably written by a thousand monkies, at a thousand typewriters... ;-P
00:36:02Torneindeed
00:36:14S_a_i_n_tannd kludged together at the end.
00:36:24Tornei wonder if someone *has* tried clearing iram ;)
00:36:33Torneor at least the bit at the end
00:36:34*stripwax suspects not
00:36:40Torne..yeah, tell you what
00:36:42Tornei will do taht :)
00:36:54Torne(and revert the other patch locally)
00:36:58Tornemy ipod seems to do it pretty often
00:37:05Torneso, it's not a bad test ;)
00:37:51S_a_i_n_twhat real harm could it possably do?
00:38:05S_a_i_n_tit couldn't...in *theory*
00:39:11Tornewell i'll try it
00:39:25Torneseriously, without the other fix my ipod does it about one time in three
00:39:39Torneso if it can go a day or three without doing it then it probabyl works, tbh :)
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00:39:58Tornei'm doing it now, anyway
00:40:05S_a_i_n_tI don't mind doing some testing...if it helps.
00:40:17TorneS_a_i_n_t: did you previously have the shutdown issue often?
00:40:20Torneif not then it probably doesn't help
00:40:43S_a_i_n_tshut down issue being "sometimes couldn;t power up without hard reset"?
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00:40:47Torneyes
00:41:00S_a_i_n_tmaybe once, twice a week...
00:41:09Torneso not super often then ;)
00:41:39S_a_i_n_tNo, but I have 4 different targets to choose from, so none get any real hard use.
00:41:49S_a_i_n_tprobably the nano1g's get the most use.
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00:49:27S_a_i_n_tHas anyone else noticed anything similar to 10981? I'm trying to track down myself exactly *what* is messing things up. My theory is, with the way I have my viewers.config now...plus my *vast* .icons file I shouldn't have any problems displaying any icons at all :-/
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00:51:49MinatakuHuzzah on Sansa e260v2 support. Works great.
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00:59:40Tornedo we really only use 0xc000 bytes of iram on the ipods?
00:59:49Torneapp.lds defines that as IRAMSIZE
00:59:56stripwaxTorne - which ipods? ..
01:00
01:00:01TorneAll of them
01:00:03MinatakuTorne: So that IS you
01:00:06stripwaxhrm.
01:00:06TorneWell, all the PP ones
01:00:11Torneboot.lds defines it as the right values dependent on PP type
01:00:12*Minataku pounces Torne
01:00:23stripwaxdifferent ones have different amounts of iram...
01:00:31TorneMinataku: this is an on topic development channel, be furry elsewhere ;)
01:00:36Minatakulol
01:00:46Tornestripwax: yes. but app.lds defines it as way less than *any* of them have
01:00:58MinatakuWell, I saw your name in some SVN commits, and I was wondering "Hm, same one?"
01:01:04*Minataku == NekoEd, BTW
01:01:18stripwaxTorne - maybe, but what difference does that make?
01:01:31stripwaxas in, what is IRAMSIZE used for / affect ?
01:01:32MinatakuBut yeah, just heaping praise for getting the SansaAMS devices up, now I can encode videos for my e260v2 myself
01:01:40Tornestripwax: it's used for the linker script..
01:01:45Torneso it's limiting the size of the iram sections..
01:01:47MinatakuYou know, WITHOUT that horrible Sansa Media Convertor
01:01:54stripwaxonly const/idata probably right
01:02:11stripwaxpresumably we can still use the rest of iram at runtime. (And presumably we also .. do ..)
01:02:27TorneNo idea
01:02:32Tornehaven't the faintest idea how it works ;)
01:02:34Torneit just seems odd
01:02:41stripwaxamiconn - any ideas?
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01:04:20Torneanyway i'm building it now to see what happens
01:04:32Tornei'm clearing from 0xc000 to the end of what my player has ;)
01:04:48Torneon the assumption that this can't destroy anything rockbox is using because of the linker script..
01:05:17MinatakuShould never assume things, it's dangerous.
01:05:28TorneI think by dangerous you mean hilarious
01:05:35stripwaxalways assume everything, otherwise you'll never really learn anything :-)
01:05:42MinatakuIt's all in the eye of the beholder
01:05:48*Torne also has his custom test_disk which writes to random sector numbers.
01:05:50TorneThat one is fun :)
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01:05:59Minatakustripwax: That's less of an assumption and more of a "what's this do"
01:06:15MinatakuAn assumption means you don't expect to break something
01:06:21MinatakuLearning means you do
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01:06:22Minataku:3
01:06:30stripwaxyou'll learn soon enough if you find out you do break something
01:06:42stripwaxer, yeah, what you just said :-)
01:07:28Torneit's *probably* fine to zero all of iram, because nothing will be happening other than calling the PCF function to shut down
01:07:41Torneso even if that happens to blow away the stack it is unlikely to notice as nothing will be doing any returning ;)
01:07:50Tornebut this should suffice
01:08:01stripwaxprobably ok so long as it's literally the last thing it does
01:08:17MinatakuI'd dump it out and take a peek at it first, myself
01:08:22stripwaxand doesn't use any variables on local stack to do it!
01:08:37MinatakuSee if there's anything in there that might be important
01:08:49TorneMinataku: i already know what is likely to be in there
01:08:51kugelTorne: app.lds has only the core iram, I think, plugin.lds the rest for codecs/plugins
01:09:02Tornekugel: ah
01:09:33kugelbecause there's no proper CORE_IRAM/CODEC_IRAM #define :p
01:10:18Torneyeah, i see.
01:10:26Torneanyway, that means it should be fine to clear from there to the end
01:10:33Tornesince codecs/plugins can't be running at shutdown
01:10:45Torneas long as the OF doesnt' care about any data before then, which i'm pretty sure it doesn't.
01:12:20MinatakuSay, the manual for the SansaAMS series seems to refer to it doing things regarding saving power for hard disk operations and such, and there's some comments in the code for it too.... but do any of the AMS series HAVE a hard drive? The e2x0v2 has NAND Flash.
01:13:42MinatakuThe old "Spinning newspaper injures publisher" comes to mind for some reason when I think about a Flash ROM "spinning up"
01:14:21Torneit shouldn't need ctual spinups, but reducing accesses is still power efficient
01:14:32Torneflashes on these things tend to go into idle when you don't access them for a while
01:14:38MinatakuMakes sense.
01:14:43kugelwhat are you trying to do?
01:14:46Torneso touching the flash less often still saves power, just not by as huge an amount as a disk
01:14:54*Minataku nods
01:15:05MinatakuBut it can be a touch confusing
01:15:17Tornewell if there's somewhere it's badly worded in the manual reaise a bug
01:15:57MinatakuIt's not so much that it's badly worded that it just refers to mechanical disks when there's no such device in any of the Sansae
01:17:27rasherWhy does rbutil still require the user to press autodetect?
01:17:28kugelTorne: ^ :)
01:17:45rasherCan't we do that automatically when we detect there's no configuration...
01:17:53Tornekugel: fix the shutdown bug on ipod Some Other Way
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01:18:05kugelthe battery icon one?
01:18:08Torneno
01:18:23Tornethe one where it doesn't turn on again
01:18:40kugelbut the battery icon is the side effect of the current fix?
01:18:44Torneyes
01:19:05kugelnobody has tried my suggestion to simply kill off the lcd before I assume?
01:19:33Tornethat doesn't fix the shutdown bug
01:19:39Tornethe point is not to solve the cosmetic issue
01:19:47Tornethe point is to not call the OF
01:19:56stripwaxsaratoga - (for the logs) - I see about a 0.78MHz gain on 266mhz nslu2 (30.77 seconds vs 31.43 seconds , for a 223.66 second example file) = around 2% improvement (so quite small). that's with ARM_ASSEM forced for both tremor trunk and tremor+patch
01:20:01Tornebecause the OF does weird shit like turning the alarm back on
01:20:05MinatakuJust have it display "Buy a better media player, you fool."
01:20:17stripwaxbang for buck, the ipod5g 60GB is pretty hot
01:20:24stripwaxwell. was.
01:20:39Tornethe ipodvideos are still pretty much the best large hdd target..
01:21:14MinatakuI liked the quote on the "GoldenQuotes" page about iPod users.
01:21:28stripwaxkugel - please read FS #11063 ..
01:22:29stripwaxkugel - and the conversation with webguest77 earlier :-)
01:22:38TorneMinataku: if you are buying a player specifically for rockbox and you want more storage than is available on a flash target, ipodvideo64mb is basically the best choice atm
01:22:47Torneso, er, generalisations not so useful ;)
01:23:11MinatakuTorne: The e2x0v2 has MicroSD external
01:23:13Minataku:3
01:23:28MinatakuTechnically infinite storage is pretty nice, you know.
01:23:30TorneMinataku: and when there's a uSD card which will hold 55.75GB let me know
01:23:35Torne:)
01:23:39stripwaxright
01:23:41vedis there any known limit for sizes of SD external for sansas e200?
01:23:47stripwax32GB
01:23:50MinatakuThey're up to 32GB so far
01:23:54stripwaxI mean, in practice :-)
01:24:17MinatakuSDXC is just another software extension to the protocol, IINM
01:24:43MinatakuSimilar to how SDHC was to SD
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01:25:16kugelnot a plain software extensions. the card readers and the cards itself have changed too
01:25:35TorneMinataku: a 32GB uSD card already costs nearly as much as an 80GB ipodvideo
01:25:43Torneso that's not such a great comparison either ;)
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01:34:21RoronoaZorook so in this part I have to implement some thing like OpenGl
01:34:31TorneRoronoaZoro: no.
01:34:42TorneRoronoaZoro: Some of our players have hardware support for resizing video
01:34:50Torneit's nothing to do with opengl
01:35:42MinatakuTorne: Well, what's the interface to the GPU to do it?
01:35:58MinatakuIt is just a straight send and the GPU handles everything on it's own?
01:36:01TorneMinataku: arbitrary
01:36:03Torneand yes
01:36:24MinatakuThe i.MX31 I know actually has a 3D accelerator
01:36:30Torneplease don't answer questions if you don't know the answers, especially to potential GSoC students :)
01:36:33MinatakuAlong with that 64bit ARM11
01:36:50MinatakuTorne: I said "standard GPUs", not embedded
01:37:03TorneYes, so your answer is irrelevant and confusing
01:37:35Torne(and there are no 64bit ARM processors)
01:38:00MinatakuHm. Then I was misinformed.
01:38:23Torneand we can't use the MBX core on the i.MX31 because there are no public docs forit
01:38:25RoronoaZoroI maent to ask what does hardware support for resizing video mean
01:39:26RoronoaZorowhat is the video resolution of the output generated by the software
01:39:45TorneRoronoaZoro:i'm not sure what you mean
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01:40:08Tornethe video decoder outputs whatever resolution the video is.
01:40:23RoronoaZoroi mean is the info about hardware support required for the code
01:40:26Torneto display that on a screen that's bigger/smaller you need to resize the image; some players would be able to do this in hardware, but we don't support this yet
01:40:52RoronoaZoro i mean is the info about hardware support required for the coding in the project
01:41:21RoronoaZorohow it does it, etc
01:41:22TorneYes, to implement it you would need to know how it works on the hardware..
01:41:28Tornehow else could you do it?
01:41:41S_a_i_n_t*magic* ;)
01:42:10Minatakulol
01:42:22MinatakuKeep guessing until it works
01:43:05RoronoaZoroi mean it could be considered as a unit which accepts 'any' resolution of video and i decode the file in the original size or the optimal resolution for decoding
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01:43:51Tornebut someone has to implement the code to drive the hardware
01:44:21Torneif we'd already implemented that code it wouldn't be on the list for a project
01:45:21RoronoaZorook so the code to drive the is also part of the project. So where do i get info about it
01:45:29kugelTorne: you think clearing iram solves it?
01:45:40RoronoaZorobefore deciding on wether i can do it
01:46:19Tornekugel: it seems possible, based on the limited disassembly i've done of the bootloader. and i can't actaulyl find any evidence that someone has tried it ;)
01:46:25Torneit's easy enoguh to try, so i'm trying it.
01:48:35TorneRoronoaZoro: I suspect we are assuming the student would investigate that
01:48:58TorneRoronoaZoro: some players have public documentation for their hardware, some don't
01:49:06RoronoaZorook
01:50:08Tornekugel: my ipod boots extremely unreliably without the workaround, so i'll test it like this for a while and see.
01:50:39S_a_i_n_thow it is working so far?
01:50:48S_a_i_n_ts/working/going/
01:50:52TorneS_a_i_n_t: perfectly, but i've only powercycled it half a dozen times, not actualyl used it
01:51:11S_a_i_n_tseems promising...
01:51:18Tornehowever if the theory is correct then powercycling it (rather than using it) is *more* likely to make it fail
01:51:32Tornesince the more codecs/plugins you load the higher the chance that any data that was in iram has been scrambled anyway ;)
01:54:06kugelsounds good
01:54:18Tornebut, yeah. i'll use it like this for a while
01:54:23kugelmaybe the troll from the forums also shuts up if that fix works
01:54:26Torneit's quite possible that nobody bothered to try this ;0
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01:56:30RoronoaZoroI read about the VP3/Theora Video documentation on http://www.theora.org/doc/ and i am planning do it. I would like to know where to go about MP4 container i could not get much info on it
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02:02:32linuxstbTheora is stored in MP4? I would have thought it would be in Ogg.
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02:03:05RoronoaZorono, i think you go it wrong ... i meant
02:03:34RoronoaZoroI read about VP3/Theora and can go about implementing it
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02:04:52RoronoaZorobut i also thought about Adding support for MP4 using the parser but could not understand much from it
02:05:13katylI have a sansa clip+ that I just installed rockbox on using the manual install process. I can't seem to get it to initialize the database. It happens on the archived and the current builds (I didn't find a release for my model). Anyone know what might be causing the problem?
02:05:43RoronoaZoro*i mean i need to know more about the parser
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02:08:00linuxstbhttp://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=68576 (the first hit on google for "mp4 specification")
02:08:11bieberDoes anyone have any comments about the WPS parsing code I posted last night (if anyone caught it in the logs), or about the architecture of the library in general?
02:08:55JdGordonrepost it?
02:09:05JdGordonI'm probably one of the people you want to talk to for wps stuff
02:09:39bieberCode is on a public Git repo at git@github.com:bieber/libwps.git
02:09:58linuxstbbieber: Only why did you re-implement it, rather than using Rockbox's existing parser? (assuming you did).
02:10:11bieberSo far it only parses comments, plaintext, newlines, and ViewPort declarations (I'm just working my way down the CustomWPS spec and implementing things as I go along)
02:11:47JdGordonyeah, reimplementing it means if needs to be kept in sync, which becomes a pain very quickly
02:12:19bieberlinuxstb:I talked with some folks on the channel about this the other day, and the consensus was that it's best not to try and use the existing parser in a theme editor (the last attempt at this project did so, and it didn't turn out well). I haven't looked into it in depth, but the parser in Rockbox's tree is all C code that's really closely tied to the internal workings of Rockbox, while I want more flexible code (that won't need to be conditionally comp
02:12:19bieberiled for different platforms) that can output a parse tree structure that the viewer/editor can use more effectively
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02:13:51RoronoaZorook so i think i may be able to do it now
02:13:55*kugel still thinks re-using the existing C code is a good idea
02:14:09kugelit's just the creator disappeared too quickly
02:14:18kugelthe creator of the old wps editor
02:14:51bieberDoes the WPS format change that frequently?
02:15:02JdGordonit can
02:15:19kugelwe usually try to keep things backward compatible but once in a while we break it
02:15:25kugelnot very often though
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02:15:45JdGordonif the existing parser is too tied into the code then maybe we should pull it out to a lib and be very strict with what it has access to?
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02:17:11bieberAs it stands, to use the existing code I think I'd have to branch it and do a lot of refactoring to deal with the fact that it's relying heavily on conditional compilation for different platforms, and that work would still need to be duplicated any time the format changed
02:18:10JdGordonwe might be able to setup a working config which has all the tags enabled
02:18:31JdGordonbut I think forcing the target type like the current half-done editor does is a good thing
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02:18:46linuxstbbieber: How do you intend to deal with target-specificness ?
02:18:54bieberimo, when/if said changes occurred, it would be significantly simpler to make the appropriate changes to a recursive descent parser built from the ground-up to parse independent of the target platform than duplicating that refactoring
02:19:25JdGordonnot when tags are pretty freeform....
02:19:33JdGordonif they were all just %xx then sure
02:20:09bieberlinuxstb: My goal is for the parser to generate a platform-agnostic parse tree, and then the editor can render the parse tree according to device settings supplied by the user (which will of course be included for standard targets)
02:21:12JdGordonhow is that different to what the current code does?
02:22:25JdGordonand how should (for example) the viewport tag work? the definition of the tag is different based on the lcd depth of the target
02:22:43JdGordonon mono targets the last 2 params don't exist
02:22:49bieberI can't speak authoritatively about the current code, but I know that there were certainly a lot of #ifdef's relating to device specifics, and a lot of includes and function calls relating to Rockbox internals
02:23:23bieberMy code can distinguish between mono, greyscale, and color ViewPort tags, and sets a flag in the ViewPort object accordingly
02:23:49bieberThe only time it can't determine it definitively is if both fg and bg color/shade are left default, and then it sets it to an EITHER value
02:24:15bieberAnd looking at the spec, I don't think there are any other tags with nearly that level of ambiguity
02:24:30JdGordonI cant think of any either
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02:26:33bieberThe other thing I forgot to mention is that the current parsing code is, of course, in C and designed to run on an embedded device. Since I'm writing a GUI application, being able to use some of C++'s features and (most importantly) generate an object-oriented parse tree is going to be a huge advantage when it comes to actually writing the editor
02:27:27JdGordonbut it is almost guarenteed to break or become outdated when tags are changed/added
02:28:11JdGordonwe have enough trouble with checkwps which is built with the same code...
02:28:43Llorean It seems like an editor should use as much of the original parsing and simulator rendering as possible (as well as being part of the main source) so that ideally when many new tags are added they'll either "just work" or require almost no added code for the editor to support them.
02:29:01LloreanOtherwise it's just going to join the ranks of things (like the manual) that get neglected when new features go in.
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02:29:23bieberRight, but it's also difficult to imagine a solution that could use the existing code without forking and refactoring, unless it had to be compiled for specific targets, which would be a pretty serious usability limitation
02:29:32retrojhi.. newbie question. i have an iPod 5, and I am in the picture viewing screen. how do I get out of it?
02:30:20JdGordonhmm, I guess a full rewrite wouldnt be so stupid though, seen as the editor will need to know about the inner workings of each tag anyway...
02:30:23LloreanSince WPSes more or less need to be created for specific targets anyway, is target-specific editors too big of a limitation if that's necessary?
02:30:48LloreanThere aren't going to be many situations where there's a job that needs a target-agnostic editor
02:30:55JdGordonbieber: as long as the tag definitions are coming from a txt file of some sort it shuold be easy enough to keep in sync
02:31:18bieberWell, if we want it to be useful for a non-technical user, platform-specificness would be a pretty big issue
02:31:22JdGordonare you doing it in Qt so it can be built into rbutil?
02:31:24Lloreanretroj: I don't know, but the manual should say.
02:31:53bieberEspecially if said user wants to build a theme for more than one platform (and yes, QT was the consensus when I discussed this previously)
02:31:58Lloreanbieber: Why? In the platform agnostic editor, they'd still need to know what their platform supports
02:32:09LloreanSo they'd still need to make the same decision, it's just whether it's a check box or a download choice
02:32:18retrojany hint on which section of the manual? i don't see anything that jumps out as "key bindings in the picture viewing screen"
02:32:21JdGordonthe parser doesnt need to be inherintly target specific thoguh
02:32:32bieberRight, but that's a pretty big difference if you want to use the application for more than one platform
02:32:45LloreanAnd either the user needs to build the theme separately for each platform, or the editor will result in a theme that's multiplatform anyway (like 320x240 themes that work on several targets)
02:33:01JdGordonbieber: if this was done as part of rbutil, AND the tag definitions are parsed from a text file in svn (and can be checked for updates in the util) then I'm for it
02:33:12bieberNo one wants to download two separate but almost identical applications to accomplish the same task
02:33:32LloreanPeople do it all the time anyway with the sims.
02:33:37JdGordonbieber: if this was done as part of rbutil, AND the tag definitions are parsed from a text file in svn (and can be checked for updates in the util) then I'm for it
02:33:39JdGordonffs
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02:33:49JdGordonhow hard would it be to go from a xml file to C++ objects?
02:33:49bieberTags in a config file is definitely a good idea, and now I'm feeling a little bit stupid for hard-coding the tag names
02:34:33JdGordon*most* tags are simple %xx and on all targets
02:34:40bieberOf course you can only allow so much flexibility, but at least the names should be changable from a config file
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02:35:25JdGordongit clone git@github.com:bieber/libwps.git -> permission denied?
02:35:36bieberDangit, must not be a public link
02:35:44kugelbieber: you haven't thought of just finishing the existing wps editor did you?
02:35:55bieberbieber/libwps">http://github.com/bieber/libwps
02:36:11bieberWe discussed it before, consensus was that it's not worth doing (the current code doesn't even compile)
02:36:38linuxstbbieber: When was this previous discussion?
02:36:46*kugel would like to see it as well
02:36:54bieberI want to say Sunday, but I'm not really sure, looking in the archives for it
02:37:40kugelbieber: it's probably not worth it if you want to reimplement the whole parser and displayer anyway; but if you want to incorporate the code that actualy runs on the targets it does make sense (IMO)
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02:38:08JdGordonI'm starting to like this seperate approach
02:38:13*JdGordon hates C++ :/
02:39:05kugelI would maybe like it if it wasn't c++, i.e. if it would have a chance to improve the target code as well
02:39:36vedc++ sux, after I started a big project I only learn what c++ cant do >_>
02:39:50vedtypedef on templates
02:39:56vedstatic constructors
02:39:58vedwhats not
02:40:17vednot to mention that asembelrs (like NASM for instance) have much better preprocessor than stupid C/C++
02:40:47JdGordonofftopic
02:40:57kugelI'm afraid Llorean has a good point with "it's just going to join the ranks of things (like the manual) that get neglected when new features go in"
02:41:19JdGordondepends how it learns about tags
02:41:26bieberhttp://www.rockbox.org/irc/log-20100320
02:41:29bieberThat's the day
02:41:55bieberI can definitely see how keeping it updated would be an issue, but I don't think that there's really any reasonable way to _avoid_ that issue
02:42:01kugelwhat's the reason to do it in c++ if I may ask?
02:42:25bieberQT and C++ were the suggested platform, and C++ is the OO language I'm most comfortable with
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02:43:04JdGordonif all tags come from a text file in svn and they are something like %V|int[0:MAX|-]|int[0:MAX|-]|int[0:MAX|-]|int[0:MAX|-]|int[0:1]|colour|colour|
02:43:15JdGordonit could work
02:43:36*kugel is still impressed by http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/ and therefore thinks c++ isn't really appropriate for this job
02:44:51kugelJdGordon: that only works for syntax checking. the theme editor sure wants to display&draw, so I don't think a simple text file does the job
02:45:40JdGordonah right, /me forgot half the requirements for the editor :p
02:45:42bieberJdGordon: I could allow specification of tags in something EBNF-esque and basically write a parser generator instead of a parser, but it doesn't seem really cost-effective
02:46:26JdGordonwithout that it means at best some lag between new tags getting added in svn and the editor
02:46:30bieberA recursive descent parser really isn't a complicated piece of software, and the difficulty of modifying the parser directly vs. modifying a potentially complex grammar specification file shouldn't be that disparate
02:46:38vedisnt wps regullar?
02:46:43JdGordonnope
02:46:54kugelJdGordon: or not at all
02:47:16bieberYou've got conditionals in there, so definitely not regular
02:47:21vedk
02:47:35kugelthe wps editor only had the problem that it lacked maintainers, not that it didn't work (it mostly did and didn't look too bad)
02:48:35vedparser is only part of the problem, as bison/yacc shows, it is no problem to do it in pure C
02:49:10bieberRight, the parser is pretty much purely procedural code
02:49:24bieberIt's the parse tree structure that's using C++'s OO features
02:49:31vedbut I would also want to do semantic check in OO code
02:50:03JdGordonyou dont need C++ for OO
02:50:27vedsurely I can do OO in asm, but its more convenient in cpp
02:50:43bieberHehe
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02:51:37bieberSince the end target is a QT application, C++ is certainly most convenient. There's Java and C#, but Java GUIs are atrocious, and C# means using Mono and its own iffy gui rendering on non-Windows platforms
02:51:43vedstill, I dont think most of problems for wps checking/editing lies inparsing/language processing, but more on uniform approach to different targets
02:51:48bieberAnd of course either one would leave systems without JRE or Mono out in the cold
02:52:35bieberFrom the WPS standpoint, how much difference does the platform make? From what I've seen in the spec, pretty much only screen size and color depth should matter, no?
02:52:54LloreanThere are some feature differences (presence of an RTC)
02:53:04LloreanAs well, one player is text-only, not bitmap
02:53:30bieberWill RTC tags still render (just as empty) on a non-RTC platform?
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02:53:38LloreanAnd some players are visible without the backlight on, others aren't. Backlight color can also matter (making a difference on whether you're willing to use shades of gray, as 2bpp can look quite different on one player than another)
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02:54:21LloreanAnd of course, sometimes 1bpp isn't exactly "black and white" (see the Clip for example)
02:54:56bieberThese are all things that can be pretty easily dealt with in configurations, though
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02:55:14LloreanYou were asking how much difference platform made though.
02:55:38LloreanMy point was that there's a lot more to how a WPS appears than "screen size and color depth"
02:55:49bieberThis is true, definitely
02:55:51LloreanAs well, in the case of touchscreen targets WPSes are interactive.
02:56:18*kugel would probably use some scripting language if OO was a requirement
02:56:23kugelbut actually I would use a higher lanaguage for the UI stuff and call the existing C code from there :)
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03:02:53S_a_i_n_t*needs improvement however...
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03:07:09bieberRe-implementing it won't be bad at all. The parsing is easy, the only thing that will really be significantly difficult is the rendering, and I can't imagine trying to port rendering code from an embedded device to a higher-level GUI library
03:07:23bieberLlorean: I'm not shy of doing actual work on this, but I want to make sure the work I do is targeted as effectively as possible. Building the editor itself is going to be a hefty task, and I don't want to spend any more time/effort than necessary getting the necessary groundwork laid
03:07:29kugelthe more code you use from rockbox, the less you need to reimplement. you could take it so far that would only implement a handful of firmware/ functions
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03:07:49Lloreanbieber: Why is the editor itself so hefty?
03:07:59Guest62701Fppl...is rockbox going to support sansa connect anytime soon?
03:08:11kugelGuest62701F: possibly, if you work on it
03:08:23kugelotherwise, very unlikely
03:08:28Guest62701Fkugel if I programmer in C I would ;]
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03:09:07bieberLlorean: Consider the complexity of it. I can't imagine ever running out of new features that could be useful to implement
03:09:19LloreanGive me some examples
03:09:27Statuskugel thats one of the best sansa's out there...supports wi-fi and everything
03:09:47Statusthats why when I saw it didn't support I was even sad :/
03:09:52kugelbieber: I think we can judge a bit from the last wps editor, the editor itself wasn't overly complex
03:09:55LloreanThere's just not that many elements of a WPS, and the vast majority of them are text.
03:10:09LloreanAnd positioning for most of those is line-based within the parent viewport
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03:10:47LloreanStatus: Being a volunteer project, support only happens when people who actually own the device are interested enough to do the necessary work. Anyone can learn C if they're dedicated enough.
03:11:03bieberI'd think that building the rendering system to adapt to the different targets would be a pretty significant task to start with
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03:11:15bieberThere should be a decent code editor attached to it, with some form of syntax highlighting
03:11:19StatusLlorean I tried learning C already on my own just to do simple things...but C doesn't like me ;/
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03:12:01bieberIt would be nice if a "project" could allow a user to target multiple targets with the same project file, adapting common elements as much as possible
03:12:08kugelbieber: that's why should spend as little time as possible on the rockbox-side and more on the editor side
03:12:17Lloreanbieber: What common elements?
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03:12:50LloreanThere's no relative positioning, so it's simply "if all the elements fit on screen, it's cross platform, if they don't, it's not"
03:12:51JdGordonthe skin enginge shold be completly seperate from the build and only use function calls/stubs instead of directly hitting stuff like screens. and global_settings
03:13:21*kugel liked (and still likes) the old wps editor's aproach
03:13:52bieberkugel: That's why I'd rather re-implement the parser than try and deal with the existing code. imo it will entail significantly less effort, it'll leave the Rockbox main tree unaltered by my application, and it will be more easily maintainable
03:14:16*kugel largely disagrees but well
03:14:18JdGordonleaving the rockbox tree unalterned isnt necessarily a good thing
03:14:20Lloreanbieber: Wouldn't "it doesn't require separate maintenance" be more easily maintainable?
03:14:29bieberI just don't think that building an editor that can automagically adapt itself to however Rockbox's skin engine may change is a realistic goal
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03:14:37LloreanI think the first goal of the WPS editor should be accuracy. If it can render exactly what the sims do, that would be ideal
03:14:59Lloreanbieber: The sims "automagically" adapt themselves to changes in Rockbox's skin engine.
03:15:11bieberWhat do the sims do?
03:15:20LloreanThey run on the host PC and simulator the UI of Rockbox
03:15:22LloreanIncluding WPS
03:15:24JdGordonwe should be able to build a copy of the lib with support for every tag and make then run-time configurable (and compile time configurable on real targets also)
03:15:27kugelcompile all apps/ and most firmware/ code :)
03:16:18bieberI'm guessing the sims do something like creating a vm that responds to all the system calls and such in the Rockbox source?
03:16:30bieberIt doesn't seem like a standalone theme editor would really be comparable
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03:17:33Lloreanbieber: I was just pointing out that it's not unrealistic for something to be able to adapt itself in such a way to skin engine changes.
03:17:56kugelwell, I consider it a win for rockbox if we would fix the skin engine-side as well
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03:18:13bieberIs there really anything broken about it?
03:18:56kugelit's not broken, but it appearently doesn't attract 3rd party app developers to work with it
03:18:57bieberIf it's running on an embedded platform and its sole purpose is to parse and render skin files, it seems perfectly reasonable that the parsing, rendering, file-system and so on code should all be integrated together
03:19:35*Llorean just doesn't see the benefit of having a theme editor done if it's just going to fall to the wayside like the last one.
03:20:12LloreanThere needs to be a plan in place for how it's going to be kept up to date, since there's no way to guarantee or even encourage feature authors to also update it.
03:20:36kugelit's most certainly possible to make it automagically adapt changes, but yes, it probably needs changes in the skin engine itself as well
03:20:51LloreanAnd the most reliable plan in that sense is for it to share as much code as possible so that it updates itself (or at least requires the author to fix it too when committing the patch so there's no red in the build table)
03:23:41kugelbieber: in fact, you'll probably be the only maintainer, nobody here is keen on touching c++ code for a desktop app :)
03:24:10bieberIt's possible, but then I'd be looking at two completely separate projects: completely refactoring RockBox's skin engine and building a theme editor
03:24:53kugelyou have 2 separate projects anyway, either refactor the skin engine or reimplement it, then build the editor
03:25:09bieberAnd considering that I really know nothing about Rockbox's codebase or embedded programming in general, I don't even know if learning enough to accomplish the first project would be doable in a Summer
03:25:12kugelwhat of the 2 former is less work? I'd think the refactoring
03:25:21bieberMaybe if you already know your way around the code
03:26:02bieberRe-implementing a parser and renderer is something I know for a fact that I can do, and doing it all in OO C++ rather than trying to refactor a large body of C code to do what I want will save a lot of effort
03:26:32kugelnot without getting deeper into rockbox and its codebase
03:26:34bieberAside from the fact that if I refactor the skin engine to work with my editor, then being able to pass an OO parse tree to the GUI app becomes impossible
03:26:37LloreanThe thing is, it may be something you know you can do, but if the end result of the project is something the mentors decide isn't something we want, it doesn't matter whether or not you can do it.
03:26:47kugelyou want to emulate, not an alternative renderer
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03:28:00LloreanIf a WPS change changes aspects of the rendering in Rockbox, someone is going to have to reimplement those changes in a way that works right in your renderer too.
03:28:02bieberfwiw, the earlier conversation with an actual potential mentor had everyone telling me that the last editor was a mess and that I would be better off re-implementing things
03:28:17bieberI must have hit a different crowd tonight ;)
03:28:25Lloreanbieber: Kugel and JdGordon are responsible for a significant chunk of the existing WPS code.
03:28:46bieberDuly noted
03:29:30bieberimo, heavily refactoring the skin engine for the benefit of a standalone editor looks like overengineering a great deal
03:30:55LloreanCreating a standalone editor that becomes outdated the first time the skin engine changes significantly and nobody is around to update the editor, on the other hand, is a big waste of Google's money. ;)
03:31:16LloreanAny code that comes out of this needs to be code the project will keep using.
03:31:50LloreanSo if it leads to over all improvements of the skin engine, but doesn't result in a finished editor due to time constraints, I personally would say that's better than an editor that's likely to gather dust.
03:31:55kugelbieber: yes, you talked to a different croud :)
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03:32:19bieberCode in general needs to be maintained. If the code that comes out of the project is useful to enough people for a long enough period of time, then it's worth the money, regardless of what may happen to it later
03:32:26kugelI think you heavily overestimate the work the skin engine needs
03:32:37bieberRegardless of how you build it, at some point it will break without someone keeping it up to date
03:32:58bieberkugel: It's a possibility. I guess you've worked with it a lot, could you give me an idea of the complexity of the codebase?
03:33:31kugelthe skin engine is only a few thousand lines. the parser and displayer are mostly separate already
03:34:08bieberMy other concern is how much it might impact performance if you completely separated parsing from any of the system-specific functionality
03:34:33kugelparsing is not a problem, it only happens rarely
03:34:53LloreanOnly on theme load, right?
03:34:58kugeland displaying is usually limited by the lcd drivers, so not a real problem too
03:35:06kugelLlorean: yes
03:35:15LloreanWhich for a lot of us is once per boot.
03:35:31bieberAnd, of course, how feasible it would be to adapt Rockbox display code to render into a QT GUI
03:36:11LloreanIt renders into SDL already.
03:36:12kugelI think the old editor Qt'ified a lot, if not too much
03:37:23kugelI just remember the fonts looked quite awkward compared to the targets
03:37:39kugelI think it would possibly be a good idea to compile to reuse the lower level drawing functions as well (font, scrolling)
03:38:35kugels/to compile//
03:38:41kugelbut maybe that's asking too much
03:38:42Statuswouldnt gtk be lighter?
03:39:05LloreanWeren't' the old pre-SDL sims in GTK?
03:39:34kugelbieber: the old wps editor actually rendered WPSes IIRC, you could have a look at that code to see how much it involves
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03:41:50bieberGTK may be lighter, but it looks awful on Windows/Mac, and QT's a much friendlier library
03:42:24bieberI'll have to take a look at the old editor code
03:43:11*Llorean isn't sure "looks awful" is too significant of a concern, but also doesn't see any big reason not to use QT.
03:43:13kugelyou probably only need a few dozen wrapper/stubs (and resolve the conditional compilation things) - that's it
03:43:48bieberMy biggest concern would be how much of the maintenance costst that kind of refactoring would actually alleviate
03:44:56bieberAside from parsing and rendering, the editor has to implement a lot of other functionality that's going to be directly dependent on the parse tree it gets, and there's really no way you can make that change when the underlying engines change
03:45:41kugelare you sure?
03:46:06bieberEven if we make rendering and parsing completely dependent on Rockbox's own source code, if you change the WPS structure enough it's still going to reduce the editor to a glorified UI sim, if it will still work at all
03:46:25kugelI'd imagine it would just do wps_widget_draw(), and the skin engine would be setup to draw into rectangle, then be done
03:46:27bieberCode generation, for instance, is just as an important element of the editor as code interpretation
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03:47:26kugeljust reparse the whole file once in a while
03:47:30LloreanAnd as long as backward compatibility is maintained all the basic code generation will still function.
03:47:36kugelthe parser is blazing fast, especially on desktop systems
03:47:59Lloreanand as long as there's a manual text editor, any new features can be addressed by hand until a gui implementation for them is added.
03:48:14bieberI'm not worried about how fast it will run, just working with the code from the GUI application
03:48:50kugelyou said your editor is dependant on the parse tree, it's unclear to me how
03:49:17bieberBesides, using Rockbox's code just to render the parse tree into a window would leave the editor out in the cold when you wanted that display to be interactive
03:49:41kugelit doesnt need to be interactive
03:49:42bieberIt's not enough for it to be able to draw the elements, it has to know where they are, and be able to modify them accordingly to get what the user wants when they're doing their graphical editing
03:49:59Lloreankugel: Well a WYSIWYG style editor with drag and drop positioning of viewports and images would be heavily dependent on the wps language coming from WPS screen to .wps file, when traditionally we go the other way.
03:50:30kugeldrag'n'drop wps elements?
03:50:42bieberIf it's not interactive, aren't we really just chaining a text-editor to a UI sim?
03:50:48*kugel apparently has a different, clearly lower, expectation
03:51:00Lloreanbieber: A live preview with a syntax highlighting text editor would (to me) be the obvious first step anyway
03:51:18bieberAs a first step, yes, but I certainly wouldn't be satisfied with stopping there
03:51:40kugelbut it would maybe enough to make the soc project succeed
03:51:50bieberIf I'm going to spend all Summer on this, then I should certainly be able to come up with something artistic types can use to make their themes without having to know or care about how the underlying code works
03:51:58kugelyou're of course welcome to work further on it, after gsoc
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03:52:41kugelbieber: I don't think that's possible
03:52:55scorchethe idea is that we want to keep you working on it with us forever ;p)
03:52:56kugeland I'm not sure we want that
03:53:14LloreanI think evidence shows that the artistic types are willing to get their hands pretty dirty to work on WPSes as it is.
03:53:35bieberWell, I guess at very least they'd have to be able to use simple tags, but I'd still want at least something like a dropbox to insert those so they don't have to remember them
03:54:13bieberAnd don't get me wrong, I'm certainly into this for the long haul (If SOC doesn't work out, I'll still be hacking away on it in my spare time), but if I'm going to have a couple of months where I get to work on it full-time, I know I can accomplish a lot
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03:54:21LloreanI think the idea should be to remove as much burden from them as possible, sure, but that's often going to be just cutting out the rough edges of the testing and previewing process, and providing buttons to add tags and such
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03:55:32kugelbieber: I doubt you can do it that fancy within gsoc no matter of reusing or reimplementing the skin engine
03:55:37saratoga_labi proposed yet another GSOC project today, a test driver for audio playback
03:56:14bieberI don't know how far I could get, but at least rudimentary graphical editing wouldn't be too terribly difficult to implement
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03:56:49bieberAnd with the object-oriented parse tree I'm generating, it's dead-simple to make changes go back and forth between changes users make to code and the graphical representation
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03:57:24bieberJust give each sub-class a draw() method and a genCode() method. User edits something on the canvas, call all the genCode() methods. User edits something in the code, reparse and call the draw() methods
03:59:31bieberSince the parser as I've built it so far is including whitespace and such in the parse tree, no user formatting will even get lost between edits
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04:01:03Lloreanbieber: Remember that you can have nested conditionals, alternating sublines and other "objects with an object" situations, too.
04:01:29LloreanI don't know if you could reliably generate code from a purely graphical representation of the WPS
04:01:45bieberHmm, conditionals would be tricky
04:02:18bieberI could probably display them as an area with a little page-corner-looking icon to flip between true/false or different enumerated values
04:02:28bieberOr maybe a side-panel that lets you flip the state of different conditionals
04:02:30LloreanAlso, it matters where in a file many objects are defined.
04:02:48bieberRight, z-ordering and such will have to be specifiable
04:03:24bieberOh, btw, I read in the wiki page that a named viewport has to be displayed before it's declared. Is this meant to be the other way aroun?
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04:16:22S_a_i_n_tTheSeven: Around?
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04:21:33S_a_i_n_tis the *correct* syntax for the .icons file "ext:0" or "ext: 0" (I've seen examples of both in various iconsets) does it matter?
04:22:17Statussaratoga_lab I did...
04:22:37Statusbut there's no status about the player anywhere..only stuff on the wiki
04:22:51Statusthats why I posted to see if any progress was actually made
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04:23:15LloreanStatus: The stuff on the wiki is where you'd see progress if there was any
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04:23:40Statusso progress would be 0 ;/
04:24:11LloreanWell, because the people who want it don't work on it.
04:25:08StatusLlorean well I do want it...and would even pay for one of these for a dev if necessary...
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04:25:56LloreanStatus: As I told you earlier, you're better off putting in the effort to learn what you must and do it.
04:25:58StatusI don't code C...and telling me to learn isn't gonna do any good...by the time I could even code would take what? 3/4 months to code crappy code?...1 year to actually get into firmware stuff? ;]
04:26:10LloreanAnd 1 year is still shorter than "never"
04:26:49LloreanA port is hard work. There's no magic trick for making someone dedicated to doing it, so it's better to find someone dedicated and have them learn the parts that *can* be learned.
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04:27:26StatusI know it's hard work...
04:27:39Statusthat's why I was wondering if its missed hardware or something
04:28:27Statusbecause usually devs/testers..sometimes don't even have hardware to work on...rely on testing done by others..
04:28:41LloreanThat's rarely the case here.
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04:29:41Statushard port then?
04:30:05LloreanNobody who wants it is working on it.
04:30:15LloreanI've said this already.
04:30:18Status:/
04:30:31LloreanThe people who want it are apparently all like you - hoping someone else will do it for them.
04:31:12Statusbecause most people don't code...so they help in other ways...hardware...donations etc... ;]
04:31:34bieberC is a pretty simple language, don't be discouraged about trying to learn it
04:32:00bieberDo you know anything about programming?
04:32:03Statusbieber I must have about 3/4 C/C++ books
04:32:29StatusI get lost on all that pointers and var assignment stuff
04:32:34S_a_i_n_tIs it immediately obvious where the piezo frequency (which line(s) of code etc.) is being set in FS #5111? It doesn;t sound quite right to me, and I wish t have a fiddle with it, but I'm definately missing someting...
04:32:40Statusbieber I can do magic in tcl ;]
04:33:16bieberOkay, so we just need to get you thinking a little bit lower level ;)
04:33:23Statusbe it in shell-scripts...web..eggdrops ;]
04:33:48LloreanWell, a port often also involves some reverse engineering unless there's good hardware docs. And that's after you've figured out a means of running your own code and/or decrypting the original firmware.
04:34:11LloreanSo some assembly knowledge would also help.
04:34:25bieberOoh, I didn't even think about that
04:34:27Statusuhum
04:34:41StatusLlorean by the time I learn asm I'll have white hairs
04:34:43Statushehehehe
04:34:50LloreanBut, practically speaking, ports don't happen from donated hardware or a bunch of people saying "this is a really neat player."
04:34:56Statusassembly is the language of the devil
04:35:01LloreanThey almost always happen by someone who is already interested in the player doing the hard work necessary
04:35:37LloreanIf you aren't interested in doing the work, about all you can do is hope someone interested in it shows up in the future, and check back every now and then to see if the page is updating.
04:35:46StatusLlorean do you code?
04:35:57StatusC? something else..?
04:36:29LloreanSeveral languages including C, but in regards to Rockbox I'm more of a user.
04:37:15Statushow would you consider yourself on C?
04:37:24LloreanWhat does this have to do with Rockbox?
04:37:45Statusjust to have an idea how you learned it ;]
04:37:54bieberJust out of curiosity, if you're willing to contribute monetarily, and you really want to run Rockbox, why not just buy a player that runs it?
04:37:55Statusbecause apparently the books I got don't cut it
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04:38:22Statusbieber I have one that runs it
04:38:37Statusand I got a 2nd one that doesn't ;/
04:38:57*S_a_i_n_t asks if people can please review/add to http://pastebin.com/Sij10HSw any supported (or unsupported, which may still be viewed in the filebrowser if used as a storage device) filetypes he has missed...
04:39:06S_a_i_n_tThere shouldn;t be *too* many to go now ;)
04:39:17Statusanyhow...
04:39:32LloreanS_a_i_n_t: What are the 5e,5f etc?
04:39:52S_a_i_n_tfor pacbox
04:40:04LloreanSo why are they listed?
04:40:24LloreanI mean, if you're going to include unsupported files, isn't that every extension ever?
04:41:15S_a_i_n_tIn theory...yes, but I'm trying to come up with all the exts likely to be seen in the filebrowser...
04:41:19S_a_i_n_tits a bit of a mission.
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04:44:02LloreanS_a_i_n_t: What's the extension for the lossless correction file for lossy .wv?
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04:44:43S_a_i_n_tSomething is broken in viewers.config, even physically changing it so that it only points to 1 icon (like my .icons file) doesn't work right/as expected. FS #10981 gives a peak at this.
04:45:25S_a_i_n_tLlorean: Pass...sorry, thats kinda why I asked in here, I bet I'm missing a *heap* of ext's I *should* have in there.
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04:46:56LloreanI see .voice but not .talk
04:47:36S_a_i_n_tAha...thanks :D
04:47:45S_a_i_n_t1 down, a million to go ;)
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04:48:31Llorean.wvc for the wavpack correction file
04:49:10S_a_i_n_tLlorean: Thanks again.
04:49:25Lloreansrobbler.log is a file, right?
04:49:38*Llorean also wants to say .ini but doesn't know where that'd be from
04:50:46S_a_i_n_tand yes, you're right about .log...wow, you're good at this ;)
04:52:33LloreanI see .tar and .gzip but not .gz or .tgz or .rar
04:53:42RoronoaZoroFor the project 'Improved video playback', I would like to know where to start for the part of MPEG4 (A)SP Video
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04:54:44S_a_i_n_tWow! Thanks *so* much :D Its obviously a lot better to get a clear head to look at this, I look at that list (which has taken me ages to get as thorough as it is) and I'm just like "Gah! so. many. filetypes..."
04:57:25moosis it intended to have duplicated types?
04:57:57moos@S_a_i_n_t
04:58:12S_a_i_n_tThere are duplicates?
04:58:44moosjust spoted one, line 87 and 81
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04:58:58moosafter quick look to be precise :p
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05:00:30S_a_i_n_tHmm, that was odd..thanks for that moos
05:01:06moosyou are welcome, btw I guess you checked the filetypes .c file?
05:01:08S_a_i_n_tlooking at a long list for ages (especially your own) can have drawbacks when it comes to seeing failures.
05:01:20moosindeed
05:01:22S_a_i_n_tmoos: yep, checked.
05:01:33moosgood
05:07:17S_a_i_n_twhats the Mac equivelent of an .exe again? (is it different? it is, isn't it?)
05:09:51JdGordon.app i tihnk
05:09:58JdGordonApplication.app
05:10:01JdGordonwhich is really a folder
05:10:03S_a_i_n_tthanks.
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05:11:06S_a_i_n_tmy .icons file has now grown to 170 ext's :D
05:11:17moosS_a_i_n_t: you can add .mmf file type too
05:11:37S_a_i_n_t+10 from all you guys so far ;)
05:11:41S_a_i_n_t+11 :D
05:11:45moos:)
05:12:02moos-1 too? ;)
05:13:21moos+ .au
05:14:01JdGordonyou rang?
05:14:09RoronoaZorois there a git webpage or any other way to browse rockbox code on http
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05:15:16JdGordonhttp://svn.rockbox.org
05:16:02RoronoaZorothanks
05:17:02moosS_a_i_n_t: seems to miss some audio file types: .snd .vox... according to filetypes.c
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05:19:02S_a_i_n_tmoos: Thanks again, I was *certain* I had all the ones from filetypes.c, but the list there isn;t alphabetical...so it was very hard for my scarrtered brain to compare the two lists ;-P
05:19:26JdGordonmake it alphamabetical then!
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05:20:47moosS_a_i_n_t: you have even a list just for audio extension on the parser .c file IIRC
05:20:55moosplenty files :)
05:21:24S_a_i_n_tAhhh..I'll have a look there too, thanks.
05:21:50S_a_i_n_tI guess its pretty safe to say already that this .icons file has the most cases covered ;)
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05:22:11S_a_i_n_tIts preety easy when you're only pointing to 1 icon ;D
05:22:22JdGordonthats just stupid
05:22:24S_a_i_n_t*pretty also.
05:22:39mooscheck svn r24939, 50 file types for audio last time I did count for the stat plugin
05:22:50S_a_i_n_twhat is? pointing to 1 icon?
05:23:02S_a_i_n_tIt fits in with the theme *so* well though...
05:23:05*moos is remenbering that he gave a stats plugin patch he have to commit
05:23:28moosall audio type, for 1 icon the audio one 0: )
05:23:44moosgave/have
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05:24:58S_a_i_n_tmoos: All icons are the same...*all* Icons, every icon :D Check the Symmetry theme (Nano1/2g) for a reference
05:25:15S_a_i_n_tI think it looks cool, but it takes some getting used to.
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05:27:29moosS_a_i_n_t: if you want audio extension apart, they are on apps/metadata.c
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05:30:33S_a_i_n_tmoos: Thanks, there's quite a few I don't have in that list ;)
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05:31:37moosnp, have fun, you must have 50 filetypes just for audio
05:32:04mooscodecs
05:32:06S_a_i_n_t<shakes fist>yes, and the list seems arbitrarily listed...alphabetical would be *so* nice right now</shakes fist>
05:33:41moos{"mp3","mp2","mp1","mpa","ogg","oga",
05:33:43moos "wav","flac","ac3","a52","mpc","wv","m4a","m4b","mp4",
05:33:44moos "shn","aif","aiff","wma","wmv","asf","spx","ape","mac",
05:33:46moos "sid","mod","nsf","nsfe","spc","adx","sap","rm","at3",
05:33:48moos "ra","rmvb","oma","aa3","dmc","dlt","mpt","mpd","rmt",
05:33:50moos "tmc","tm8","tm2","cm3","cmc","cmr","cms","mmf"};
05:34:38moosa few :)
05:36:41moosS_a_i_n_t: historicaly sorted I guess
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05:43:58mooseven on the stats plugins, it seems I missed a few. I have to commit the easy patch I have to replace this constante with the variable we have on core to have the audio type regarding the file name
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05:46:34S_a_i_n_tAfter painstakingly going through metadata.c I managed to find *one* I'd missed... w64 ;D
05:48:16S_a_i_n_trevised list (moos + Llorean + Others suggestions included.) http://pastebin.com/qkKtjcaA
05:49:16CIA-5New commit by moos (r25327): Stats plugin: Add 3 missing types to count.
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05:49:47S_a_i_n_t175 extensions...!!! *evil laugh!*
05:50:46moosthis is the last update, I'll commit soon the patch I have to get rid of this const.
05:50:55mooshehe :)
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06:05:19S_a_i_n_ts/etx's/etx's/
06:05:32S_a_i_n_thahahah...fail. .ext
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08:25:17wodzHello. Can someone from coldfire developers review apps/plugins/plugin.lds change in patch from #11137? It changes ifdefs for coldfire from targets specyfic to procesor variant specyfic. I think it is cleaner.
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08:41:41Zagorwodz: did you see funmans comment in the tracker?
08:43:25wodzyes
08:44:01wodzI am talking only about apps/plugins/plugin.lds change since it is the most intrusive one
08:44:23Zagoroh, right, I didn't read fully
08:45:56Zagoris dram location always in a permanently fixed location on these chips, or is that configurable?
08:47:20ZagorI would assume iram is fixed, but does the same apply to dram?
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08:48:17wodzdram address as well as iram adresses are configurable
08:48:30wodzbut all cf target uses the same bases
08:48:38Zagorin that case I disagree with your change
08:48:39wodzI mean in rockbox
08:49:05wodzZagor: why?
08:49:36Zagortheoretically, a new MCF5250 target could appear with these areas in different locations. so it's bound to the player models, not the cpu model.
08:50:24wodzZagor: no no. You select by writing to register where to put dram/iram - look at crt0.S for coldfire
08:50:49Zagoroh. I thought it was a pin configuration.
08:50:57Zagorin that case, I *agree* with your changes! :-)
08:53:52Zagoror,wait
08:53:54wodzcrt0.S lines 45-65 sets irams addresses, lines 161-173 sets dram address
08:54:26Zagorthe comment "Note on 32Mbyte models: We place the SDRAM on an 0x1000000" makes me confused
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08:55:33Zagoraha, it refers to the use of 0x3100000 instead of 0x3000000
08:55:48wodzZagor: yes
08:56:06wodzit is related to error in BGA version of 5249
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10:04:36pamauryI think I sorted out the (un)famous HID bug
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10:06:27Gartralare there any known bugs with the buildclient scripts?
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10:06:56ZagorGartral: none known, no
10:07:01Zagordo you have a candidate?
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10:11:07GartralZagor: yes, im not sure if this is a bug with ubuntu 9.10 or the buildscripts, but about 5 hours ago i started the script. and a few minutes later.. "2010-03-25 00:35:22 Starting client quarterof7, revision 34, cores 2" which is right and good, then: " * Reloading Common Unix Printing System: cupsd" and - no - action, or activity period for 5 hours
10:11:37Gartraland it's still sitting there like i just started it >.>
10:11:46Zagorsurely you did not get a CUPS message in rbclient.log?
10:13:04Gartraltrue, i did not.. but neither has my buildclient done *any* work since
10:13:05Zagormy log shows a disconnect from you ~5 hours ago and nothing since
10:13:31Gartralwtf.. it must be an ubuntu issue..
10:14:16ZagorI can't ping your host, but I guess I'm not supposed to?
10:14:32Zagortry killing rbclient.pl and see what happens
10:14:35Gartralno, i have a stealthwall
10:15:41Gartralhuh.. it says no process found
10:17:44Zagorthat would be a good reason :-)
10:17:46*Gartral thinks ubuntu is screwy
10:18:15Gartrali cant find either the .sh or .pl scripts
10:18:37Gartralbut the terminal running the .sh hasen't returned a prompt or error
10:18:45Zagor!
10:19:31Gartralso why would the script be killed rudly?
10:20:04ZagorI have no idea
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10:21:24Gartralok.. im back up.
10:23:02ZagorI don't see a connection
10:24:20Gartraldoi... stupuntu failed again.. it disconnected me.. that's why the script failed
10:24:53Gartraloh crap
10:24:59Zagorheh, now you have two clients :)
10:25:07GartralHELLO failed: error duplicate names!
10:26:48Gartralbut i killed the first one..
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10:29:03GartralZagor: do you have a log of my upload speeds?
10:30:22ZagorGartral: yes. you can see them in the build graphs. for example: rasher.dk/rockbox/buildgraphs/graph.php?r=25326&debug">http://rasher.dk/rockbox/buildgraphs/graph.php?r=25326&debug
10:30:56Zagorthe dark green fields are upload. mouseover shows the time.
10:35:06TheSevenS_a_i_n_t: pong (although the ping has probably timed out by now :-P )
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10:44:36GartralZagor: but that doesnt show my upload speeds as seen from the server
10:44:50Gartral(in kbps)
10:45:15Zagorright, it only shows the time.
10:45:42Gartralis there a server side log of the reported network speed downstream from me?
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10:46:54ZagorGartral: sort of. we store lots of statistics in a database.
10:47:40Gartralmay i have access (or a copy of my entry) to it?
10:48:04Zagorsure, just a minute
10:49:02Gartralif it reads 165 kbps imma be really angry with my isp
10:49:04Zagoryour last 11 builds have been uploaded at 145-180 kbyte/s
10:49:10GartralARGH
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11:19:00amiconnTorne: It is absolutely correct that app.lds defines iramsize as 0xc000. That's the part we reserve for the core; the rest is given to codecs and plugins
11:19:19amiconn(either another 0xc000 or 0x14000, depending on PP version)
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11:25:22Torneamiconn: right, i figured that out after a bit ;)
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11:52:48byondohello everyone
11:53:10byondojust flashed my clipv2
11:53:22byondoit works like a charm :)
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11:59:16topikit should work like a mediaplayer
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12:58:22pamaurygevaerts (and others): I'm now prettry sure I understand the usb hid bug, the explaination was trickier than I expected first but I think I now grasp it ! The solution is simple however.
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13:03:10gevaertspamaury: is it still simple enough to explain? :)
13:03:20pamauryyes
13:04:31JdGordondoes it go something like "whoever wrote the hid code is a flaming gallah"?
13:04:42pamauryNo, it's a usb-arc bug
13:05:05pamauryGive me a minute to write an explaination :)
13:05:15*gevaerts starts his stopwatch
13:05:38pamauryFrom what I understand, it's *just* a stupid mistake in usb-arc. On usb interrupt, the controllers write the ENDPTCOMPLETE register with the mask of completed transfers. Now the code goes though all the endpoints if if ENDPTCOMPLETE bit is '1', it ends the transfer
13:06:07gevaertsyes, or at least it should...
13:06:10pamauryBut, we're are talking about a transfer descriptor here and for the usb code, transfer!=transfer descriptor.
13:06:30pamaurySo, the code ends up big transfers in a premature way sometimes
13:07:13gevaertsOh, right...
13:07:18*gevaerts thinks he understands
13:07:37pamaurythe fix, is to check that ALL tds of a transfers are finished, by looking at the active bit of the status...
13:07:47gevaertsIt's set up to only fire an interrupt at the end of the transfer, but it *looks* at all of them...
13:08:16pamauryYes, and for an unknow reason, the controller sets ENDPTCOMPLETE bit even for non ioc tds
13:08:47gevaertsThat might indeed cause lots of interesting weirdness
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13:09:51pamauryIndeed, so the solution is to look at the active bit, and not only use ENDPTCOMPLETE
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13:10:56pamauryOn my e200, it works, I'll submit a patch to FS so that others can check if there are no side effects.
13:11:04gevaertsand possibly at the IOC bit
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13:12:59pamauryWell, as transfers don't queue, it's not necessary, just go though all the tds of each endpoint and don't finish the transfer if the active bit is still set on one.
13:14:54*gevaerts congratulates pamaury for spotting this
13:15:46gevaertsI wouldn't actually be surprised if this one also caused the other problems we've been seeing over time, where too much system load in general caused USB to go bad
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13:18:53pamauryDon't know. I also noted that the usb-arc driver doesn't check for error status in TDs but as interrupt and bulk transfer are retried on error, I believe it's not crucial
13:19:15pamaurygevaerts: do I create a separate task on FS ?
13:21:01gevaertspamaury: I don't know. I'd just commit it, it sounds obviously correct to me
13:21:39pamauryok, I'll poste to pastebin so that people can look at it
13:22:52pamauryhttp://pastebin.com/qM8Gd7XH
13:23:58pamaurythere's a ugly goto but it can be change if some are scared
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13:25:02gevaertsas far as gotos go, this one isn't ugly I think
13:25:21pamaurythe Lskip:continue is ugly but C doesn't allow empty statement after goto iirc
13:25:32pamaury*after a label
13:26:58*gevaerts wonders if FS #9969 might now also work properly
13:28:54pamauryit didn't work ?
13:29:36gevaertsit caused bus resets
13:30:13pamaurythat's weird
13:30:31pamauryhow is this possible ? It doesn't touch usb code...
13:30:52gevaertsyes and no. To use it you need to change an #if 0 in usb_storage.c
13:31:59pamaurythe queue_broadcast one ?
13:32:47gevaertsyes
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13:34:12gevaertsbad news
13:34:23gevaertsThe bug seems to be harder to trigger, but I still have it
13:35:32pixelmacould this also be the cause of the MacOS 10.4 USB problems?
13:36:57gevaertspixelma: I doubt it
13:37:04JdGordoncan someone with some graphics skill make the rockbox logo somewhat rounded and fit on about the size of a cd please?
13:37:43pamauryarg, by harder you mean ?
13:37:48pixelmagevaerts: thought so
13:37:58pixelmabut one can hope :)
13:38:11gevaertspamaury: I mean my e200 wheel turning finger gets a lot of exercise before I get problems
13:38:26gevaertspamaury: isn't there still a possible duplicate send in hid?
13:38:59pamauryyes there is,
13:39:17gevaertsmaybe I'm hitting that one now then
13:39:23pamauryCan you try to prevent sending while a transfer is on in usb-hid ?
13:39:51pamauryThat's a simple fix, I'm pretty sure you post a diff on FS about that, but that only few lines
13:45:02gevaertspamaury: can you check if http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/10319?getfile=21252 looks correct? That one doesn't seem to fix the problem here
13:47:20pamauryit looks ok
13:47:48pamaurythat's a shame
13:49:00gevaertsI suspect you're on the right track though. Without your patch I get problems after a quarter turn of the wheel, with our patch it takes me at least 10 or 20 seconds of turning
13:50:39gevaertsAlso, without my patch, MSC transfer speed goes down to about half immediately when I start using HID. With my patch, it stays at or near the HID-less speed
13:51:08gevaertsso there definitely is a HID issue...
13:52:41gevaertsgah, HID is definitely buggy...
13:53:26pamauryok, then it's better. Then can the queue_post in usb_core.c (for signaling completion) can overflow and cause mess ? Just a thought...
13:54:04gevaertsI doubt it
13:54:45gevaertsWhat I *seem* to be seeing is that as long as keep HID active, things work. If I put the player down for a minute or two and then turn the wheel again, it breaks
13:55:06gevaertsI think that that points to a bug in usb_hid.c where it doesn't handle its internal queue properly
13:55:16gevaertss/queue/ring buffer/
13:55:29pamauryPerhaps. I'll investigate it tonight
13:55:45*gevaerts thinks that HID should be rewritten to use a proper state machine
13:56:07gevaertsThe way it is now, you don't know what state it's in and what is expected to happen next
13:57:50gevaertsAnyway, I think your patch is OK and should be committed
13:58:14pamauryok, I'll do it later :)
13:58:21pamauryThe hid one also
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14:05:52wodzhello, I am writing bootloader and I want handle let sey 1s long keypress and discard shorter ones. How to do that?
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14:25:14JdGordonwodz: what do you want to do?
14:25:21JdGordona fully graphical bootloader?
14:26:58JdGordoneasiest is probably making firmware/button.c compile for the bootloader
14:29:06JdGordondamn this laptop sucks... 60min battery life!
14:29:11JdGordonwoops
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14:33:41linuxstbwodz: Do you enable interrupts in your bootloader?
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14:42:41wodzlinuxstb: yes I do
14:44:05linuxstbWhat do you want to do? I'm guessing other Coldfire bootloaders don't do what you want?
14:45:23CIA-5New commit by pamaury (r25328): Fix usb-arc driver: the driver would prematurely mark a transfer as complete whereas only a part of it actually is, check the active of the TDs to ...
14:45:40pamaurygevaerts: can I commit you hid fix ?
14:49:37wodzlinuxstb: You have to press and hold PLAY button to power up dap. Than I want to display small menu with rockbox/OF/shutdown options. This is no problem. But if I want to boot OF I have to have PLAY button still pushed. The easiest way to do this is to use PLAY button as a confirmation but this makes it pretty hard to release button not to early (dap powers down) and not to late (bootloader grabs button event and loads first position from list)
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14:50:38linuxstbWhy not just do the same as the other devices? i.e. not have a menu, and if the user holds play in the Rockbox bootloader, then it starts the OF?
14:52:05wodzYou are holding play button to power up.
14:52:41wodzI can't use REC+PLAY combination also because it is treated specialy in OF
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14:54:36linuxstbI'm sure at least one of the iriver targets has the same issue, but forget how it's handled. (amiconn?) How long does your bootloader take to run? Is there time for the user to release the PLAY button to not start the OF?
14:55:46wodzlinuxstb: I don't quite understand question
14:56:54linuxstbIf you turn the DAP on by pressing PLAY, how long do you need to hold it (for the Rockbox bootloader to start)? Can you just press and release it quickly, so that when the bootloader starts, it's not being pressed?
14:57:28linuxstbSo in effect "short press on PLAY" - boot Rockbox, and "very long press on play" - start OF.
14:58:05wodzlinuxstb: hmm I have to check but I think this is possible scenario
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14:58:33wodzgeneraly You have to hold press as long as crt0.S is finished
14:59:00linuxstbI'm guessing that's quite fast though? Or are there artificial delays?
14:59:14wodzits fast
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15:00:10wodzbrains stroming is always good :-) I have to test the ideas
15:00:18linuxstbAnd I'm guessing you need to spin the hard disk up to load Rockbox? So maybe you could check for the button after the disk has spun up, to give the user time to release it.
15:04:41wodzwhat is default cluster size for FAT32 in windowsXP?
15:12:01TheSevenwodz: depends on the size of the partition, IIRC
15:12:34TheSevenpamaury: do those fixes resolve the HID trouble completely for ARC-based devices?
15:13:00TheSevenor is it just a first stage of a fix?
15:13:16TheSevenand are they likely to affect the nano2g hid trouble?
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15:14:30wodzTheSeven, 8Gb CF card
15:14:59TheSevenIIRC it always used 4K clusters on my 8GB ipod
15:15:26TheSevenwhy do you need to know it?
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15:17:10wodzI had few partition corruption during test with entering usb mode. I formated card with mkfs.vfat and rockbox is happy but OF is not
15:17:36TheSevenwait, it's an iPod?
15:17:57TheSevenor which other targets are using cf?
15:18:12*Torne would guess it's the sector size, not cluster size, that it's pissed at
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15:18:34Tornebut http://support.microsoft.com/kb/140365 has MS's choice of cluster sizes
15:18:50pamauryTheSeven: from gevaerts tests, it seems that with those both commit, it's real harder to trigger the hid bug, gevaerts suspect the hid driver is ill-written in some way
15:18:59pamaury*really
15:19:04TheSevenTorne: There's a bug regarding superfloppy formatting in the Nano2G OF, but I guess a non-nano2g wouldn't even boot when formatted as superfloppy
15:19:33wodzMPIO hd200 it is early stage not commited yet
15:19:34pamauryTheSeven: but please, try it and give your feedback :)
15:19:37TheSevenpamaury: do you think it makes sense for me to re-test HID on nano2g, if there is less trouble now?
15:19:39TheSevenok
15:19:48Tornei only speculate that it's sector size because I know that mkfs.vfat doesn't obey the disk's sector size when formatting :0
15:19:57Torne(whereas windows does)
15:20:16TheSevenTorne: not even most partitioning tools for linux seem to be able to deal with big sectors
15:20:24wodzshit
15:20:40*wodz is looking for XP machine around
15:20:48Tornewodz: do you not know the sector size?
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15:20:55Torneyou can tell mkfs.vfat to use whatever.
15:21:16wodzTorne: I lost my notes abot this
15:21:27Tornethe disk will tell you if you ask ;)
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15:21:38Torneit's in IDENTIFY somewhere
15:22:03TheSevenit's probably also in some dmesg output during connection of the UMS device
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15:23:42TheSevenreading battery current for better runtime approximations isn't a NODO, is it?
15:23:58Torneno, it's just difficult :)
15:24:14Tornewell not the reading part
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15:24:59*TheSeven suggests wrapping the old battery current estimation code into some kind of dummy ADC API and implementing a real one for targets that support it
15:25:28Tornedepends whether you want it to be averaged over too much time (so it doesn't adapt to usage very well) or too little time (so it always massively underestimates because typically the user will only be looking when the device is drawing way more power than usual, i.e. when the screen is on)
15:25:35Torne:)
15:25:48TheSevenwhat is it doing right now?
15:26:01Torneright now, neither
15:26:11TheSevenIIRC it's not keeping any history at all and just uses the current state of the backlight etc. to guess a current
15:26:20TorneNot quite..
15:26:26TorneIt ignores the backlight current
15:26:31Torneunless the backlight is set to *never* shut off.
15:26:35TorneWhich is a good approximation, really
15:26:57Torneif the backlight has a timeout at all,then it's likely to be on very infrequently, and thus probably won't make much difference
15:26:58TheSevenhm, that won't fit different codecs well at all
15:27:09Torneso for most users it solely uses the CURRENT_NORMAL value
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15:27:24Tornewhich is someone's super long term average, usually computed using a codec with minimal/no boosting
15:28:22Torneas i see it the problem with doing it from real current readings is mostly that when the user is *doing something* the current is basically irrelevant
15:28:31Tornesince they are probably causing disk spinups, backlight on, etc
15:28:41*TheSeven considers some kind of x = ((x * 127) >> 7) + read_current() averaging mechanism with, let's say, 5 second resolution
15:29:16Tornemy math is not so hot
15:29:33Tornewhat will that do if I have a playlist that alternates a codec that doesn't boost and one that boosts a very high percentage of the time? :)
15:29:56Torneer, i mean, by album or similar
15:29:57Tornenot per track
15:30:04TheSevenit will smooth that out a bit, but not completely
15:30:07Torneso it does an hour or so at no boost, then an hour or so at high boost
15:30:12Tornealternating for 20 hours :)
15:30:39Tornethis happens a lot for my player, at least (i have quite a lot of m4a files that have to boost a lot on ipodvideo) :(
15:30:59Torneat the moment it overestimates remaining time, because its estimat eis based on mp3
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15:31:34Tornebut yeah, obviously there are a wide range of ways to average it out ;)
15:31:35TheSevenwith that method, the estimation would always slowly drift towards the current value
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15:32:05TheSevenso it will be oscillating a bit in your case, but the estimation should still be better than before
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15:32:40Tornei'm imagining some way of taking user behaviour into account
15:32:57TheSevenuser behavior in terms of what?
15:33:08TheSevenhow much he is skipping around, having the backlight on, etc?
15:33:17Tornewell, the power profile of hte device while the user is listening to music only, is different to when they're actively using the UI
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15:33:44Tornewhen listening to music only a very long term averge works pretty well
15:33:57Torne(i.e. battery-bench like usecases)
15:34:27Torneand if you do it over a sufficiently long term it will give you a number based on the rough mix of codecs in your playlist so far, which is probably a good indicator of the remainder
15:34:44TheSevenwhen rebuffering 32mb, for how long does the drive usually spin?
15:34:50Torneer
15:34:54Tornenot long.
15:35:12TheSevenso a 5 second resolution might be not enough?
15:36:06Torne5 seconds seems veyr unlikely to catch enough of the disk spinning to account for it, yeah
15:36:36TheSevenso let's do it on a second base
15:37:15TheSevenhow fast do we want old measurements to decay?
15:37:52Tornestopped to buffer full on ipodvideo64mb takes about 9 seconds btw
15:38:01Torneand i think rebuffering would be slightly faster
15:38:19Tornemost of the players have only half that big a buffer, also
15:38:47TorneI really don't kow
15:38:57TorneI'm just pondering a more complex method than sampling+averaging
15:39:40Tornee.g. extend the current system to know how much current is drawn by disk spinup, and try and keep track of how often we rebuffer
15:40:05TheSeventhat would need to know the bitrates of tracks in advance
15:40:17TheSevena sampling and averaging algorithm will probably do better
15:40:35Torneno it wouldn't
15:40:43Torneyou guess based on history
15:40:58TheSevenyou don't have data about the future in any case
15:41:10TheSevenso we can at least try to make assumtions based on history
15:41:23Torneno, but you are losing a lot of data about the *present* by just averaging samples
15:41:48TheSevenwell, those samples are weighed
15:41:57Torneif i fiddle with a game for half an hour then exit it and turn on hold, then the past is probably now irrelevant
15:41:58TheSeventhe newest ones have the highest weight
15:42:03Tornebecause we're back to just playing music
15:42:10Torneand the screen is off
15:42:17Torneand yes, it'll pick that up over time
15:42:26TheSevenwell, but the user will probably continue playing games another half an hour later
15:42:30Tornebut how fast are you gonna have it decay?
15:42:43Torneif you have it decay quickly then it will sawtooth around rebuffers
15:42:47TheSeventhe history-based estimate would take that into account
15:43:02Torneif you have it decay slowly then it will overestimate consumption after the UI stops being used for a long time
15:43:06TheSevenyes, it will always sawtooth a bit
15:43:43TheSevenand i see no reason why it should overestimate comsumption when decaying slowly
15:43:43Torneyah. but my point is that we *know* why it's changing
15:44:03Tornethe upward spike on every rebuffer is not a mysterious factor, we initiated it
15:44:19Torne(and we know when it's coming, maybe even 30 minutes in advance) :)
15:44:27TheSevenif that spike is small enough, it would just don't care about it
15:44:58TheSevenwe won't know when it's coming, if the user decides to mix things like flac and mp3
15:45:17Tornewe know when the next one is coming, almost always
15:45:17TheSeventhat would cause estimation spikes
15:45:22Torne(except when people skip tracks)
15:45:27TheSeveni somehow would rather like it to sawtooth than to spike
15:45:58TheSevendo we really analyze the playback time of the data while rebuffering?
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15:46:10Tornewell, no
15:46:20Torne..yeah
15:46:21Torne:)
15:46:23Torneahwell
15:46:24*Torne shurgs
15:46:29Tornei'm not saying don't do it
15:46:41Tornei'm just saying there is extra information we have thta might be able to be taken into account
15:47:08Tornebecause we know the common use cases for the device, in a way that a general purpose computer OS doesn't
15:47:08TheSeveni'm open to better proposals of course, but right now i can't see that taking those data into account would make the estimations any better
15:47:41Torne*personally* i like it how it is, but i am not a very typical user, so that's not relevant
15:48:02TheSevenhow many people will actually look at that estimation?
15:48:04Torne(I measured the current while playing different codecs, then averaged them based on the proportions in my music collectoin, and stuck that in the config) :)
15:48:37Torne(so for my specific ipod the estimate is really good anyway, and would probably only get worse with dynamic estimation) :)
15:49:05TheSeveni basically want to get rid of that 8000 minutes estimate for nano2g, but i'm hesitant to add it to that old crappy estimation framework
15:49:29TheSevenso you are basically doing ultra-long-term estimates
15:49:53Torneyah. i rarely use my player for anything but playback, so backlight or non-buffering disk spinups are irrelevant
15:50:17Tornenothing makes a significant difference to my battery life other than boost % and rebuffer frequency
15:50:27Torneand I have pretty good long temr estimates of both
15:51:18TorneI guess you could actually keep long term stats, if you were really determined :)
15:51:25Torneand work out the same thing without human intervention ;)
15:51:40Tornenothing says you actually have to forget history when the battery gets recharged
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15:52:59Tornei am probably overcomplicating this, anyway
15:53:11Tornei suggest you write a decaying average thiny
15:53:19Torneand test it out with various parameters :0
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15:54:22Tornebut also, you should probably put estimates in for nano2g in the current scheme
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15:54:39Tornebecause it does work reasonably well for people who don't play lossless files and don't use the UI very much.
15:54:48Torne:)
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16:20:42BuschelTorne/TheSeven: Take a look at FS #10890 "Dynamic runtime estimation". This patch also uses a lowpass-filter for the current consumption −− with a time constant of about 20 minutes, shorter time constants lead to alternating runtime estimations.
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16:45:30TheSevensomething like linky for wikipedia would be nice for FS numbers
16:45:54TheSeven(a bot that detects all FS#numbers and posts URLs to them)
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16:48:29TheSevenBuschel: that's basically what I was thinking about
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17:11:25pamaurygevaerts: I don't know how you managed to break HID but with the new patches, I can turn the wheel of e200 a long time without any problem. I also wait several minutes as you said but it didn't break.
17:11:42gevaertspamaury: while transferring data at the same time>
17:11:43gevaerts?
17:12:12pamauryyes, dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/null bs=128k
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17:21:27pamaury*your
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17:25:44ranma /* Sansa can't be powered off while charging */
17:25:48ranma /* #define HAVE_POWEROFF_WHILE_CHARGING */
17:26:10ranmaAny reason for this? OF allows poweroff while charging apparently... (on my C200v2)
17:26:23Torneis it really off, or just turning off the screen, or some kind of sleep mode?
17:26:29TorneThe reason is right there
17:26:44ranmaAny reason for that statement I mean
17:26:55gevaertsThis might be inherited from the v1s
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17:26:57ranmaIt doesn't say why it's supposed to be not allow and OF allows it
17:27:00TorneEr, presumably because whoever did the port believed they couldn't be powered off while charging
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17:27:34Tornewhen turned off (from rockbox) does it turn itself on when you connect power?
17:27:40Torneif so that suggests they are almost certainly right :)
17:28:20Torne(also, if you boot the OF, start charging, then power off, then power on again, does it actually boot up from scratch and start rockbox? or does it just resume the OF?)
17:28:42pamaurygevaerts: (I'm sure I already asked you) Are you working on usb host ? which devices support it ? (and which are still on the market)
17:29:32gevaertspamaury: have a look at some old gsoc ideas pages. I think I proposed that last year
17:30:48ranmaTorne: It boots OF, but presumably that's because dualboot can't distinguish between just charging (usb data lines not connected) and usb data connection. TODO: Verify using modified dualboot...
17:31:04Torneranma: is it really booting up, though
17:31:05Torne?
17:31:34ranmaIt shows the sandisk bootloader, but as said, pending real confirmation.
17:32:12Tornewell, try it
17:32:26Torneif you uncomment that define, it will stop preventing you from powering off
17:32:37Torneif you then find it just turns itself straight back on again, then it doesn't work.
17:33:00ranmaAnd yes, when power is connected it turns on (presumably because it will only change when it is on), but it _can_ be turned off (showing the normal sandisk goodbye screen) and then stays off until I press power of insert usb.
17:33:14ranmaMake that reinsert.
17:33:34ranmaOk, I'll try a rockbox image with #define HAVE_POWEROFF_WHILE_CHARGING
17:33:44Torneright, so try it. but just because it works in the OF doesn't mean it will work in rockbox, on many targets we handle power differently
17:34:09LloreanI would say that if it doesn't charge while off, we shouldn't allow it to be turned off while the cable's connected.
17:34:23LloreanThat's just a recipe for people who are used to players that *can* charge while off to have dead players in the morning
17:34:27Tornewell, that too. is it actually charging :)
17:35:14ranmaLlorean: At least it would be nice to show an info message to that extent in the GUI.
17:35:54ranmaI was wondering before why I couldn't poweroff properly sometimes until I realized it's only with charger connected...
17:36:11TorneAnyway, all that define does is stop you powering off.
17:36:18Torneer, the lack of it, i mean
17:36:37ranmaYeah, I figured that much
17:36:37Torneso if you add it back and it behaves fine, and you can verify that it does indeed still charge while it's like that, then let us know and we can change it in svn
17:45:32ranmaOk, for one thing it stays off when I power off with the define uncommented. The datasheet says "automatic 50mA trickle charging" in the overview, need to test that...
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18:11:36saratogathe AMS players have software controlled charging, so you won't be able to charge with the player off
18:12:04Torneah :)
18:15:14Torneis it normal that the SBS flashes on and off when splashes and the like are happening?
18:16:21Tornemy player is doing the committing datbase super long splash
18:16:29Tornewhich i guess is a bunch of shorter ones in a row
18:16:41Torneand the statusbar is flashing nice and regularly ;)
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19:04:37funmanTorne: is there a reason why STORAGE_ALIGN_MASK isn't using CACHEALIGN macros ?
19:04:49Tornefunman: because nobody involved in 9708 noticed them
19:05:05funmano
19:05:07funmanok*
19:05:08Torneso, i guess i actually mean "no" :0
19:05:11Tornefeel free to change it
19:05:17Tornein fact you are encouraged to do so :)
19:05:24funmanwell i could certainly
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19:05:49TorneIt might be better if it was more than just a mask defined, also
19:05:51funmanbut so far only PP defines PROC_NEEDS_CACHEALIGN, i need to figure why (perhaps something to do with the COP)
19:06:09TorneWell, only PP defines STORAGE_ALIGN_MASK
19:06:13Torneso.. yeah
19:06:15funmanand ipodnano2g
19:06:35TorneOh. yeah, i suggested to TheSeven he could reuse the 9708 code for that
19:06:41TorneWell, define it on nano2g
19:06:43funmanand you don't know about my plan for sansa AMS
19:06:47TorneYah
19:06:59TorneI just mean, is there any reason not to have the cachealign stuff defined on every target with a cache?
19:07:03funmanright but PROC_NEEDS_CACHEALIGN has other implications so i don't want to enable it blindly
19:07:06TorneOh, hm
19:07:18Tornei guess it actually goes and aligns a bunch of stuff, rihgt.
19:07:25Tornepardon me, i've been at work for too long ;)
19:07:40Tornehm
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19:08:01TorneI suspect the "right" answer is to have a stnadard way of specifying what cache alignment *is* for a given platform
19:08:02funmanthe comment in mpegplayer makes me think this is needed for dual core
19:08:07Tornei.e. 16-byte-aligned, 32-byte-aligned
19:08:23Torneand then to have PROC_NEEDS_CACHEALIGN for whatever it's used for now, to actually make those things aligned
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19:08:43Torneand define STORAGE_ALIGN_WHATEVER for platforms that benefit from storage_* calls being aligned
19:08:53funmanyup
19:08:56Tornesuch that htey are enable-able independantly
19:09:02Tornebut get their definition of alignment from the same place.
19:09:16funmanbtw grep STORAGE_ALIGN_MASK only shows buffering.c, calls in fat.c are already aligned?
19:09:26Torneno, i've not gotten around to fixing anywhere else
19:09:36Tornenormal non-buffering accesses are mostly *not* aligned atm
19:09:38Torneso DMA is not used
19:09:47Tornethat's one of the things that's sitll left to do
19:10:03TorneI have half of a patch to track down unaligned accesses using the return address intrinsic, but haven't gotten around to doing it yet
19:10:59Tornefat.c is not quite the only place where it would be useful
19:11:06Tornethere's things like the image loaders for album art, etc
19:11:19Torneso i was gonna write a thing that tracks them all down for me and then fix them en masse :)
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19:11:46Tornethe main concern was just to do buffering because that's the primary source of large accesses :)
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19:12:15Torneagain if you wanna go and align all the buffers in fat.c please do ;)
19:12:47funmani need to modify the AMS sd driver(s) because now they use an aligned extra buffer
19:12:48Torneif i get around to all this before anyone else, i will do it as above now that I am aware of the cachealign stuff
19:13:00Torneif someone else does it first then goody for them :)
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19:17:26Tornebut yeah thanks for pointing it out, i hadn't noticed.
19:17:57CIA-5New commit by funman (r25330): mpegplayer: align video output data structure only on multicore
19:18:06funmanthanks for the work ^^
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19:18:24Tornebut he seems to have vanished
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19:26:08funmanTheSeven, Torne: http://pastie.org/886989
19:26:40funmanhm actually STORAGE_ALIGN_MASK could go in system.h with other alignement attributes
19:28:32funmanhttp://pastie.org/886993
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19:37:37amiconnlinuxstb: Both irivers check REC for booting into the OF. The iAudios don't have the problem since they're single boot
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19:51:00linuxstbamiconn: I thought the OF on the irivers also checked that the "power" (play) button was being held when it was being started? Am I mis-remembering?
19:51:27amiconnIirc it does, but I'm not 100% sure
19:52:02amiconnWho uses the OF when (s)he has rockbox installed?
19:52:25linuxstbfunman: Can you tag the Clipv2/Clip+ bootloaders in SVN? Also, they need manuals (or the clipv1 manual needs changing), as the installation instructions contain links to the bootloader to download, so are currently wrong.
19:52:32linuxstbamiconn: Exactly. That's why I can't remember...
19:52:39funmanlinuxstb: ah i forgot to do that after they've been tested
19:52:47funmanthanks for reminding
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19:53:07linuxstbfunman: Also, why are they called "-RC" ? If they're on the download server, then aren't they "1.0" by definition?
19:53:32funmanthey are RC because only a few people tested them so far
19:54:00linuxstbThen why are they on the download server? IMO, either they're released, or they're not...
19:54:00amiconnWell, on the H300 there's one situation when you might want to use the OF: USB host
19:54:05funmanmy fuze still says RC too
19:54:46linuxstbfunman: Yes, I know. And they shouldn't be either (I've mentioned that in the past).
19:55:24funmani'm fine either way (1.0-RC or 1.0), i'll just need to rebuild them if we change the version number
19:57:25funmanthere's already a "bootloader_ams_v1" tag, i don't think "bootloader_amsv2_v1" would be fine
19:58:22linuxstbJust call it bootloader_sansaclipv2_sansaclipp_v1
19:58:32linuxstb(or whatever the official target names are)
19:59:59CIA-5New commit by funman (r25331): Tag release v1 of Clipv2 and Clip+ bootloaders
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20:02:26funmanClipv1 bootloader says "Boot Ver. 1.0", Clipv2/+ say "Boot 1.0-RC" and e200v2/fuzev1 say "Boot Ver. 1.0RC"
20:03:21funmaniirc mc2739 had rebuilt fuzev1/e200v2 bootloaders to change the version string, dunno what happened
20:04:13linuxstbWouldn't it make sense to test the actual binaries being released, rather than testing, then recompiling to change the version string?
20:04:54*linuxstb always did it that way for ipod bootloaders when he released them
20:05:31funmanlinuxstb: i didn't say they hadn't been tested
20:07:55linuxstbI'm not sure what you mean. I'm suggesting you never build binaries with "1.0-RC" in the version string, but build them with "1.0" instead, which are then tested before being put on the download server.
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20:09:11funmanah ok. I don't remember the discussion when we did the first "RC" bootloaders but I suppose we thought it could be needed to change them before a rockbox release for those models.
20:09:37ender`include a build number in the version string?
20:09:55funmanbut then bootloader releases are independant from rockbox releases so we can perfectly release 1.0 bootloaders now
20:11:15*ender` installed the bootloader that was put online yesterday on his 8GB Clip v2
20:12:47linuxstbfunman: The pain now is that to fix the version string, you now need to go through another round of testing. Which is probably why it never happened for most of the other AMS Sansas.
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20:14:02funmanender`: a build number isn't release friendly, but if necessary you can know the svn revision used for the build from the svn tag
20:14:14topiksvn fuze v1 bootloader has the same version numbering as regular rockbox. so rXXXXX-YYMMDD
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20:14:39funmanlinuxstb: true, i could test clip+ & fuzev1 bootloaders, just need someone to test clipv2 & e200v2 ones
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20:19:01topiki wonder if flashing a Fuze v1 a lot causes some kind of wear. it's faster to reflash, turn off, turn on and boot rockbox then have the 'refreshing database' thing
20:20:14funmanwear levelling should be handled by SD card
20:20:55topikfirmware is on the internal sd card?
20:21:55funmanyes
20:23:41topiki suppose it is rather off-topic, other than making rockbox use on samsa's more convenient until there is rockbox usb support, but would it be possible to disable the OF's "refreshing database" behavior?
20:27:30linuxstbfunman: Sorry to be a pain, but there are also no manuals for the clip+ and clipv2...
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20:31:07funmani'm not going to work on the manuals now
20:32:16funmani think they should be removed from manual webpage
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20:33:19Lloreantopik: Do you know how to disable it?
20:34:45topikno, i was hoping someone who disassembled the OF had come across it
20:35:37Bagdertopik: on the 1st gen sansas we found out that info was stored on the nand by dumping the contents between runs
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20:37:51linuxstbfunman: I'll give the manual a shot...
20:40:23funmanthanks
20:40:35gevaertsDon't kill it entirely!
20:40:39funmanwho can test a bootloader on e200v2 and clipv2 ?
20:41:48topikBagder: "that info" being the device's decision to do the "rebuilding database" action?
20:41:56Bagderyes
20:41:58Luca_SBagder: I'd be interested in disabling the 'refreshing database' feature on my fuzev2... how can I dump the nand content?
20:42:19Bagderwe just dd'ed it
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20:51:12topikthe OF must respond in its code to the settings on the nand though
20:51:55topikif i had any clue, i'd say the OF could be patched to ignore the nand value and not start refreshing
20:52:10Bagderyes, but in the days we could just set the "right" value to trick the OF
20:53:02topikthat's clever too
20:54:58funmanender`: would you try a clipv2 bootloader ? just check that it works and that it prints "Boot Ver. 1.0"
20:58:56ender`funman: sure
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21:10:57linuxstbAm I right in thinking the clipv1 and clipv2 look the same, but the clip+ is different?
21:11:06funmanlinuxstb: yes
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21:11:36CIA-5New commit by dave (r25332): Initial manuals for clipv2 and clip+, with corrected installation instructions. The player picture in Chapter 3 is the same as the Clipv1 for both ...
21:11:38funmanClipv1 & v2 are just similar to e200v1 & v2 : different firmware, same marketing from Sandisk
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21:12:33linuxstbBagder: What needs doing to make the clipv2 and clipplus manuals "live" ? The manuals page currently point to the clipv1 manual for all three variations, but now the clipv2 and clip+ have their own.
21:14:46*linuxstb guesses tools/builds.pm is one thing?
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21:15:30Bagderyes, it should be fairly automatic
21:16:05Bagderit checks for a trunk/manual/platform/$name.tex file
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21:16:37CIA-5New commit by dave (r25333): Sansa Clipv2 and Clip+ now have their own manuals. Also add "v1" to the label for the clipv1
21:16:56Bagderwhere $name is the model name OR the specific 'manual' field in build.pm
21:17:25linuxstbOK, thanks. I've updated builds.pm. Anything else to do?
21:17:36Bagderthat should be enough methinks
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21:18:30linuxstbBagder: Can you easily force a manual build? Or shall we just wait until tomorrow?
21:19:14Bagderit's better to just wait, it runs with a specific user in a specific path and it's not that easy to just build a specific one
21:19:17linuxstbThere's no real rush - at least now there are no install instructions, rather than the wrong ones.
21:20:06*linuxstb wonders if someone wants to rename the "sansaclip" target to "sansaclipv1"...
21:20:29funmanlinuxstb: same for fuze and e200?
21:21:02linuxstbErr, yes. Although I would have thought the e200 existed when Zagor did the big rename?
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21:21:30funmanbtw if we have instructions in the manual we should remove the duplicate in wiki>SansaAMS and link to the manual instead
21:22:05linuxstbfunman: Yes, but we won't have manuals until tomorrow morning though.
21:22:33funmanlinuxstb: I see sansae200 sansam200 sansac200 sansaclip and sansafuze , all of them have a 'v2' model
21:23:31linuxstbAlso, I left it as it was, but the link for the clipv1/v2 firmware is (I think) pointing to an older thread on those forums. The link in the manual is http://forums.sandisk.com/sansa/board/message?board.id=clip&thread.id=15109
21:24:38funmanwe could just point to the clip board, but some users might get lost and not find the correct thread, so the link is bound to be obsolete one day or the other
21:24:56funmani changed the thread url the other day when updating the wiki
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21:26:02linuxstbIt's in manual/getting_started/sansaAMS_install.tex if you (or someone else) wants to fix the manual.
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21:50:48funmani'll send Bagder or Zagor the "1.0" fuze/clip+/clipv2/e200v2 bootloaders once the e200v2 one get tested
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22:17:28linuxstbdomonoky: Was the "online services" SoC project your suggestion?
22:17:58domonokylinuxstb: jup, nobody objected to it :-)
22:18:37linuxstbdomonoky: I'm just wondering what you think the voice generating service would do?
22:18:50linuxstb(that isn't done by the voice files we already make available)
22:19:34domonokylinuxstb: more languages and voices for example.
22:20:03linuxstbWouldn't it be better to generate them all nightly - i.e. expand the current system?
22:20:10domonokybut i am more interested in other services like fm-presets, or what ever a student can imagine :-)
22:21:02domonokylinuxstb: sure, thats also possible. if the combination doesnt go up too much.
22:22:22domonokybut it would also be good if a voicefile service could provide correct voice files for specific revisions (like rbutil does). And then it gets much files to build nightly :-)
22:23:26linuxstbBagder: Do you know how long it takes to generate all the voice files? I'm guessing the caching makes things quite fast?
22:24:47domonokylinuxstb: but currently we only provide english with one voice. imagine 30 languages with 5-10 different voices each, and different speeds etc :-)
22:25:23linuxstbDo we need both an online service and rbutil though?
22:25:47linuxstbI'm guessing rbutil is potentially better, as it can use commercial voices.
22:26:13domonokyyes, rbutil will always be better, but it has accessibility problems :-)
22:26:34linuxstbSo the solution to rbutils accessibility problems is an online voice service? ;)
22:26:59linuxstbCould that be an SoC project?
22:27:11domonokybut i am really more keen on other webservices, i just added the voice one too for completeness :-)
22:27:13linuxstbOr is it fundamental problems with Qt that we can't really solve?
22:27:29*linuxstb assumes it's not too late to add new project ideas...
22:27:52domonokylast time i researched the accessibilty problems, it always was a Qt problem. and thats not easy to fix. so nothing for SoC.
22:29:04domonokythe "workaround" to make rbutil speak itself would be a better SoC project, but maybe thats too cracy :-)
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22:29:52linuxstbAnd then an online service to generate voicefiles for rbutil? ;)
22:30:05domonokyhehe
22:30:58domonokyit wouldnt need voicefiles, it has support for many different tts already. Only some magic need to catch things under focus and speak its title/content.
22:31:22linuxstbBut IMO accessibility for rbutil seems quite important - so it could be an SoC project, where the student does as much as can be done via Qt, and then implements workarounds in other places.
22:32:27domonokyi dont know if that is a good project, so many possible blockers.
22:33:00linuxstbs/blockers/opportunities for the student to show initiative/
22:33:01domonokyFor some issues, i posted workarounds in the tracker, but we didnt commit it, because they are too hackish :-)
22:33:29linuxstbBut OK, you know the issues far better than me (I don't have a clue...)
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22:33:54gevaertslinuxstb: with that reasoning, "Port rockbox to the Zune" would be a perfect project :)
22:33:54domonokybut i would love some SoC project with rbutil, just can image a good defined project at moment.
22:34:06linuxstbgevaerts: I'll go and add it...
22:34:26domonoky+t
22:35:37linuxstbMaybe the online services could have the "integration with rbutil" parts included as well - so at least the student will get involved with rbutil, and may hang around after the summer doing other things...
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22:37:10linuxstbMaybe I'm underestimating the complexity, but the online services all seem relatively straightforward. Including rbutil work adds some more (and useful) work to them.
22:42:39xiainxwell, the project says to create a few new services from scracth
22:42:53xiainxso, if you're going to create two entirely new services from scratch, that could take 3 months or so...
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23:18:41Farthenwhat is about FS #2660 ? seems to be the oldest still open bug and I'm wondering if it was still valid
23:19:37domonokyxiainx: remember, that this is just a suggested goal. So the actual project a student does could get different goals.
23:21:08domonokyxiainx: so if you can convince us, that for example 1 service + rbutil integration would be a worthwile gsoc project, all is fine :-)
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23:27:23xiainxyes, well I guess it depends to some degree on the complexity/quality of the service, doesn't it?
23:29:30domonokysure
23:30:48domonokyif the students wants to create some complex/big project, he perhaps will only work on this.
23:31:19domonokys/this/one
23:32:05domonokyor maybe he wants to work on different small thing, and so plans to create many small service.. all is possible.
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23:32:42xiainxYeah, I'm actually kind of interested in that project
23:32:51domonokyThey just have to convince us in their application (or even better here in irc) that, what they plan is worthwile for gsoc.
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23:34:35domonokyxiainx: do you have any specific interests for this services project, any specific preferences ?
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23:35:06xiainxwell, I'm kind of interested in the fmpresets database one, and/or the voicefiles one
23:35:18xiainxthe voicefiles doesn't seem like it would be terribly complicated
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23:36:17domonokyxiainx: voicefiles can get pretty complicated if you want all the bells and whistles :-) ( i did the voice generation in rbutil)
23:36:30xiainxOh, really?
23:36:46xiainxWhat exactly are these voicefiles for? RB's tts system?
23:37:03AlexPRB doesn't have a tts system :)
23:37:07xiainxyet
23:37:27AlexPmaybe, but we would hardly be supplying voice files for something that doesn't exist
23:37:29domonokyxiainx: its rockboxs tts replacement. prerecorded audiofiles with menucontent.
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23:37:37xiainxOk
23:37:53amiconntopik: On the c200v1, where we can't intercept the OF in the necessary way to stop it from updating its database, it helps to make the SYSTEM folder write protected
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23:38:00domonokyxiainx: rockbox can use this to readout its menus. (there is also a similar thing for files and folders)
23:38:12xiainxRight, okay, I see
23:38:26amiconnThe OF will comlain that there is no space to update the database, but that only takes a few seconds. Maybe the trick also works on the later sansas
23:38:27xiainxSo, you could use a tts system to generate the sound files, and store those using a database system?
23:39:26domonokybut to generate voices we already have different tools. usersubmitted /generated fmpresets are much more interesting, because there is no good solution for that available (only fmpresets in the wiki).
23:40:16AlexPKeep in mind also that this is three months full time work
23:40:34domonokyxiainx: yes, we use tts systems to generate those prerecorded files, and assemble the to a voicefile. the webservice would ofcourse do something similar.
23:42:21xiainxOkay, so is the fmpresets project doable in 3 months, and if so, would there be time for more, by your estimation?
23:42:22*domonoky thinks fmpresets and rbutil integration of this could be enough work for gsoc (depends a bit on how a potential fmpreset site would work).
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23:42:37xiainxRight, that's what I'm wondering, is how much to aim to accomplish!
23:43:00domonokyxiainx: fmpresets service alone is probably not enough work.
23:43:35xiainxOk
23:44:06domonokyat least a fmpreset site with usersubmitted content. Maybe it gets more work if it would use a potential global fm frequency db (dont know if they exist)
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23:44:26bluebrothera website for fm presets shouldn't be much work if it doesn't include fancy features
23:44:52bluebrotherand integration in rbutil shouldn't be much work either.
23:46:08xiainxbluebrother: so you think there's time to tackle another project as well over the summer?
23:46:19bluebrotherdefinitely.
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23:46:49bluebrotherthe fm presets site (assuming its simply a site user can submit their preset files to similar to the themes site) is nothing complex.
23:47:02xiainxdomonoky: Something like.... http://qrg.broker.freenet6.net
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23:47:16xiainxdomonoky: That seems to have mostly German frequencies though
23:47:39xiainxbluebrother: Okay, yeah like I said, it depends a lot on how powerful/feature-ful you want it to be
23:48:07bluebrotherif its to retrieve data from some global database it obviously also depends on the way they provide the information and if they provide an API for accessing that.
23:48:38domonokyxiainx: yes, something like that as sources to get the frequency to put into fmpresets. Probably needs a bit research to find good dbs as sources.
23:49:29bluebrotherwell, from my point of view having a page users can upload their presets, list available presets and batch-download them is the most important features. Plus rbutil integration.
23:49:45bluebrotherfurther features are nice but not that important IMO.
23:50:03xiainxOkay
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23:51:42bluebrotherbut the features I mentioned aren't hard. I'd expect something around 2 weeks for that, at least for the functionality.
23:51:58xiainxOkay, 2 weeks isn't very long!
23:52:46*domonoky would plan 4 weeks with rbutil, you have to learn new stuff, and will probably hunt for some nasty bugs sometime.
23:52:52bluebrotherno, but it isn't a complex or hard task either.
23:53:12xiainx4 additional weeks, or 4 weeks total for the whole thing?
23:53:26domonoky4 total
23:53:29xiainxOkay
23:53:49bluebrothertheme site integration for rbutil was done in less than 2 weeks :)
23:53:50domonokybut thats ofcourse my view. others might see it different :-)
23:54:20bluebrothertime estimations of course depend on the knowledge of the programmer :)
23:54:25domonokybluebrother: not true. it was done first by me, and redone by you sometime later :-)
23:54:51bluebrotherdomonoky: well, as the Qt version was a complete rewrite I didn't count that at all.
23:55:31domonoky:-)
23:56:06xiainxand then what would the rest of the summer be spent doing? the tts thing? themepage?
23:56:29bluebrotherif we'd count the wx version rbutil has been quite a lot of work. It has done for the Qt version too, but summing that up would make it even noticably more :)
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23:56:51domonokytranslationpages improvements would be nice too.
23:57:10bluebrotherwhat needs to be done about translate.themes.org?
23:57:24domonokywe want bluebrothers rbutil translationpage finsihed and integrated into translate.themes.org :-)
23:57:53domonokyand i am sure there a things to improve at the core translationpage too, if you look closely :-)
23:58:07*bluebrother plans looking into that during the next train trip :)
23:58:39bluebrotherhmm, rbutilqt is already 2 3/4 years old. Time files ...

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