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  1. i've only used iperf3, make sure you test unidirectional in both directions, server then client en on box. You can also test in android adb / terminal but in my case the results were the same.
  2. flashed it to my a95x box with ubuntu server rootfs on emmc and it booted okay here. On another topic i'm currently trying to get an hw accelerated version of the kernel/kodi/mpv, mostly from kszaq git onto your armbian ubuntu image. Can you confirm that you are not using any of his 3.14 kernel patches in your kernel ? I'm also not quite sure which mali version you are using at the moment. I'm not done browsing through kszaq LE 8 files, and LE get script output, so i'll get my answers in time but if you're kind enough to tell me what you know is missing in your image, it would be nice. thx.
  3. @balbes150 small "bug" in your ubuntu desktop image. I flashed your latest ubuntu desktop image and after user creation / reboot, when the (mate?) desktop auto opens, i'm getting an error message window : "The panel encountered a problem while loading "TrashAppletFactory::TrashApplet" i can say "delete" or "don't delete" if i click "don't delete" and logout (auto login) and get back in the desktop i get the message again. if i click "delete" the error is gone but i guess the Trash Applet is gone as well..
  4. humm yeah you have to be careful looking at those block diagrams, aka cnx-soft about his s905x specs "Update September 2016: Removed Video Input Unit and Gigabit Ethernet MAC, since the latest documents have removed them" s905 having only GMAC still requires an external PHY chip to provide Gbe thus most s905 boxes are 10/100.. All of my 1G/8G cheap ones are, and the one s905 (or s912?) i got because i knew it had Gbe, performs dramatically bad (150-300Mbps top depending on the dtb used), thx to that brilliant chinese "ship an forget" engineering quality. Also, s905 is supposed to have a crypto engine as well according to hardkernel datasheet but without linux drivers it's pretty much useless. But it already performs more or less decently without crypto (openssl single thread, high speed openvpn context) so it's not as bad as with alwinner socs. Finally i wouldn't be surprised to see that s905x being cheaper (? was advertised that way at least) some boxes will have Gbe simply because it adds a feature at no additional compared to other boxes.. bottom line, it's really really hard to find a full featured cheap android box that will perform as advertised, and to some degree you'll be much safer getting a slightly more expensive board like odroid c2 (despite its usb2 hub) that will work great.
  5. @balbes150 i've tested your latest image on my a95x s905 box : Armbian_5.27_S9xxx_Ubuntu_xenial_3.14.29_server_20170316.img install.sh worked fine this time. i did not flash my recovery image before running install.sh again. so i forgot to add my compatible dtb.img in /BOOT/ before running install.sh. It was already flashed during the previous install.sh run, so the dtb was loaded from flash and sd card boot did not fail, so i forgot about the dtb.img.. Anyways it's very nice that this works, are there any things to check / test when running armbian from emmc ? I'll try your desktop image now to see how it runs, hw accel and so on.
  6. if you're only doing some pure nas stuff (no video) you should check that board first : Nanopi Neo2 it'll cost barely more than an Gbe ethernet adapter and you'll get full Gbe speed. The H5 is a quad core 64 bit arm, similar to the s905 but will run at much lower clock speeds, especially on that small board apparently. It's not nearly as powerful as your s905x box but should not break a sweat reading your NTFS drives at full USB2 speed (around 35MB/s). Well actually it will sweat a little so make sure you get the heatsink for a couple dollars more.
  7. 11 MB/s looks a lot like a max 100Mbps LAN speed. check your box specs but if it doesn't have Gigabit ethernet (Gbe, sometime called 1000M) you won't get faster network speeds. I don't remember if the s905x has better Gbe capabilities (MAC or PHY) than s905 but if it's not the case then those boxes will more likely have 10/100 and not Gbe LAN which will be available on some boxe and probably more on high end ones.. then you have too choices, get a Gbe box or board, or use an usb3.0 Gbe ethernet adapter (around 10e), but you won't get Gbe speeds with those adapters, usually 200-300Mbps and USB2.0 is limited to 480Mpbs (theorical) anyways.
  8. thx i'll test it again and please don't forget about adding my a95x dts
  9. after looking around i found this today : Chiptrip Q8 rk3288 2G/8G (38e free shipping gearbest sale) http://www.gearbest.com/tv-box-mini-pc/pp_346070.html?wid=21 Although it's listed as 10/100 LAN, other Q8 specs show that some have Gbe, also verified by looking at the onboard transceiver model. Of course i can't guarantee that that particular version will have Gbe, i will update when i receive mine. looking at forums i found a thread on 4pda "VSMART Q8 v10", discussing that tv box. The latest posts also claim that miqi / firefly ubuntu 16.04 firmwares are running on those "Q8" box. although i found more rk3288 tv boxes, most of them are no longer produced/sold and other are priced much higher 80-120e. i must say that if that Q8 box performs anywhere near the miqi level and even more if it has Gbe, i'll be very glad to have one of those.
  10. it's probably not the right time to order those boards. asus tinker board is not officially available yet and if price target holds then it's probable the miqi will have to drop price or disappear.. it's unfortunate that qmaker could not produce the 1G/8G version of the board at 35$ as initially announced. it's also not great that almost no tv boxes were produced using that soc, i could only find 3 on taobao and the cheapest one is probably a fake. i'm quite surprised by the heavy price of those rk3288 (2014) devices, is it because of the powerful Mali GPU and/or that it made it more difficult to produce that soc ?
  11. nice, works fine now. can you tell me what was wrong ?
  12. @balbes150 can you tell me how your /boot/linux.img (bootm image) is build and what's in it ? here's the "help bootm" from my device : seeing how different that uboot is from the general documentation, i imagine it could be necessary to tweak the bootm command for my specific device.
  13. okay i think i understand. the final boot command is "storeboot" if nothing else is found : storeboot=if imgread kernel boot ${loadaddr}; then store dtb read $dtb_mem_addr; bootm ${loadaddr}; fi;run update; which loads your /boot/linux.img file that you have dd to /dev/boot in install.sh. then bootm which fails to run that linux.img.. (for some reason loading that image is okay ?) So as booti works fine, i was wondering if i could do something real ugly, which is : (assuming that there's no fat partition already available on the flash) format /dev/boot to fat32, copy uInitrd and zImage there, then change uboot env to run the fatload/booti sequence ? would that work ? i'm a bit scared to brick my device by formatting /dev/boot directly, a bit stupid since you already dd the same block. The idea is that since android is not present on the device anymore, it doesn't matter if storeboot is never reached or broken.. (which it is at the moment). As long as we keep the bootcmd=run start_autoscript / start_autoscript / start_mmc_autoscript / start_usb_autoscript sequence in uboot env, right ? -- edit -- correct me if i'm wrong but it looks like the emmc is not a regular mmc device so fatload can't be used to read form it ?? -- edit 2 -- i don't see how i can access a fat partition on my device emmc (it's supposed to work on some devices), so i'm back trying to use bootm with your linux kernel.
  14. unrelated to the internal emmc boot. running your Armbian_5.27_S9xxx_Ubuntu_xenial_3.14.29_server_20170314.img image, (on the internal emmc at the moment) i notice that the cpu temperature reported by armbianmonitor is much higher than on my other identical a95x running your Armbian_5.26_S9xxx_Ubuntu_xenial_3.14.29_server_20170302.img the two boxes are NOT in the same location but still the heatsink is much hotter than usual : root@amlogic-s905x:~# armbianmonitor -m Stop monitoring using [ctrl]-[c] Time CPU load %cpu %sys %usr %nice %io %irq CPU 16:24:19: 500MHz 0.38 4% 0% 0% 0% 2% 0% 61.0°C 16:24:25: 1000MHz 0.35 4% 0% 0% 0% 2% 0% 60.0°C 16:24:30: 500MHz 0.32 4% 0% 0% 0% 2% 0% 60.0°C 16:24:35: 250MHz 0.30 4% 0% 0% 0% 2% 0% 59.0°C 16:24:40: 100MHz 0.27 4% 0% 0% 0% 2% 0% 60.0°C 16:24:45: 500MHz 0.25 4% 0% 0% 0% 2% 0% 59.0°C 16:24:50: 250MHz 0.23 4% 0% 0% 0% 2% 0% 60.0°C 16:24:55: 100MHz 0.21 4% 0% 0% 0% 2% 0% 60.0°C 16:25:00: 1000MHz 0.20 4% 0% 0% 0% 2% 0% 60.0°C other box (5.26) : Time CPU load %cpu %sys %usr %nice %io %irq CPU 16:31:43: 1000MHz 1.10 7% 1% 3% 0% 1% 0% 45.0°C 16:31:48: 1296MHz 1.09 7% 1% 3% 0% 1% 0% 45.0°C 16:31:53: 1000MHz 1.00 7% 1% 3% 0% 1% 0% 44.0°C 16:31:58: 1000MHz 1.00 7% 1% 3% 0% 1% 0% 45.0°C 16:32:03: 500MHz 1.16 7% 1% 3% 0% 1% 0% 44.0°C 16:32:08: 1000MHz 1.06 7% 1% 3% 0% 1% 0% 45.0°C i will flash the same 5.26 image and run it on my "hot" box to see what happens. -- edit -- i could not reproduce that behavior when booting from the sd card (same 5.27 image), i'll see what happens when i try to boot from emmc again.
  15. here's the fw_printenv after ./install.sh && reboot (with sdcard of course) : http://termbin.com/cdot here's the serial output for the normal sd card boot : http://termbin.com/mpw9 one thing, there's a wireless "air keyboard+mouse" (one single device) plugged in the usb port if you see some usb devices in the logs. and i also always connect the lan cable. yes i know i can call dtb/kernel loading and boot from uboot serial prompt but i don't know too much about that so i'm searching at the moment. -- edit -- i don't quite understand what are the command to boot from emmc, it's quite simple with the fatload commands from external storage. Anyways i'm going to try loading from tftp, as i have a server running and that uboot seems to support tftp and using the emmc "/data" rootfs . -- edit 2 -- okay i can load uInitrd and zImage from my tftp server and then boot using the s905_autoscript booti command so the system is running from the internal emmc and mount shows : /dev/data on / type ext4 (rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro,data=writeback) let me know if you find what's wrong with the boot command, i've tried to look again but i'm not seeing much that i can recognize and uboot documentation is not helping me, many commands are missing. thx
  16. sorry missed your answer : what do you mean by "remove the output of fw_printenv after installation" ? here's what i did exactly : - run install.sh - do a "shutdown -h now" - unplug the power, remove the sd card - plug the power back in, see the boot loop. then i unplug power again, put the sd card back in and plug the power, then the system starts from the sdcard right away.
  17. here's the serial output : http://termbin.com/1ng2 you'll see a loop ending i believe with "Resetting CPU ..." then i halted by striking a key and added the output of "help" and "printenv" i've started reading it but i can't really find out what's wrong or what's going on with the loading process..
  18. @ fw_printenv before install.sh http://termbin.com/mohh fw_printenv after install.sh (running from the external sd) http://termbin.com/gwre i will try to solder serial later today or in the a few days.
  19. i'm not sure what you mean by "matching the size" but i guess that you have to make sure that the size of the data in your "ROOTFS" partition is less than the size of the emmc data size. in my case the xenial server is less than 2GB so i guess it's okay. Anyways i tried the install.sh script from your "5.27 (test 20170314)" xenial server image and it didn't work. the 5.27 image runs fine on my a95x with p201 dtb, haven't tested anything beside first boot and reboot. the install script runs ok, but then the box boots into a loop (display signal and eth link light loop, never reaches the nexbox logo). Is there a way to debug that in some logs somewhere or do i have to solder a serial. i can still boot from the sdcard so i'm currently also testing a restore with the latest xxx dd_backup script. -- edit -- restore from failed emmc install worked fine with xxx script
  20. i have attached the dmesg and dts files for my nexbox a95x s905 version. let me know if i can "safely" flash to internal emmc, i should be able to unbrick if necessary so don't worry too much about that. dmesg.txt.gz nexbox_a95x_s905.dts.gz
  21. @xXx or @balbes150 can you tell me if the current images "s9xxx" are safe to flash on the emmc (always on my a95x s905 1G/8G) ? i see it causes problems on some boxes but i can't quite figure out if there's a way to determine if your box is safe or not. i made a backup with xxx script juste in case. thx
  22. okay thx, have you shared that kernel build online ? having watched baylibre's conference on amlogic mainline support, i believe he did mention that hdmi support had not been submitted yet : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYvTatdgS_0&index=83&list=PLbzoR-pLrL6pSlkQDW7RpnNLuxPq6WVUR and also confirmed in this blog post : http://baylibre.com/elc-2017-3d-mainline/
  23. @balbes150 different question : did you test the latest 4.10 kernel with amlogic support (s905 and others) ? only for a server image i imagine as there's no mali driver yet.
  24. @balbes150 i'm testing your Armbian_5.26_S9xxx_Ubuntu_xenial_3.14.29_server_20170302.img image on my nexbox a95x (s905) i'm using the gxbb_p200.dtb it boots fine, everything looks okay but for some reason i can't get anything from the ethernet port, wlan0 was up and iwlist scanning is ok but i disabled it as i'm not using wifi. eth0 link is up, but dhcp won't work, my /etc/network/interfaces is set up and used at boot (i removed networking.manager) it's probably some xenial configuration i don't know about or missed but i'm wondering if it could be something wrong with that dtb file, i will test other dtbs later, but i'd like to use my original box dtb. I know you have to rebuild the dts file against the new kernel version but i can't try to do that at the moment. So i'd like to know if you could do it for me and which files you'd need (i think i have the boot block from android, the extracted dtb and decompiled dts, from previous experiments) thx -- edit -- networking works with gxbb_p201.dtb
  25. @@Igor thx for the benchmarks. those figures are quite impressive for a 32bit soc, it's about 20% higher than my s905 for aes-128 Could you also post the output of /proc/crypto to see if it uses an accelerated engine ? unfortunately i didn't realize that this rk3288 is not one of the cheap ones, so basically you're up for a 65$ board (+20$ shipping) or a 60e tv box.. the 60$+15$ xu4 looks like a better deal. @@tkaiser so igor's board was running at 1800MHz and watching the patch there's a claim it's stable at 1920MHz, but looking at the table i see that : static struct rockchip_cpuclk_rate_table rk3288_cpuclk_rates[] __initdata = { + RK3288_CPUCLK_RATE(2208000000, 1, 3, 1, 3, 3), so i would also run at 2208MHz ?? are those patches specific to the MiQi board, or to the current kernel code published ? (meaning it would apply to any rk3288 board) thx
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