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Renegade 1.51Ghz instructions not working


jmandawg

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Hi, on the renegade page: https://www.armbian.com/renegade/

 

It says we can run this cpu at 1.51Ghz, but when i follow the instructions nothing happens, is there a step i'm missing?:

 

root@renegade:/mnt/config# sed -i "s/MAX_SPEED=.*/MAX_SPEED=1510000/" /etc/default/cpufrequtils 
root@renegade:/mnt/config# service cpufrequtils restart
root@renegade:/mnt/config# cpufreq-set -g performance
root@renegade:/mnt/config# armbianmonitor -m
Stop monitoring using [ctrl]-[c]
Time        CPU    load %cpu %sys %usr %nice %io %irq   CPU  C.St.

12:41:39: 1392MHz  1.37  17%   4%   7%   0%   3%   1% 65.4°C  0/6^C

Is there an updated dtb file or overlay somewhere?

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I guess it's not there yet, my dtb points to 4.4.155:

 

root@renegade:/boot# ls -al dtb
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Sep 15 16:24 dtb -> dtb-4.4.155-rockchip64/
root@renegade:/boot# lscpu
Architecture:          aarch64
Byte Order:            Little Endian
CPU(s):                4
On-line CPU(s) list:   0-3
Thread(s) per core:    1
Core(s) per socket:    4
Socket(s):             1
Model:                 4
CPU max MHz:           1392.0000
CPU min MHz:           408.0000
BogoMIPS:              48.00
Flags:                 fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32

 

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On 9/15/2018 at 6:42 PM, jmandawg said:

on the renegade page: https://www.armbian.com/renegade/

 

It says we can run this cpu at 1.51Ghz

 

Sorry, I was confused all the time. We only added the 1.4 GHz OPP back then: https://github.com/armbian/build/commit/a79d5932cf21c1c7221bfa6cd036a3f47e506318

 

And even more confusion since Igor added 1.5 GHz later: https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/master/patch/kernel/rockchip64-default/enable-1512mhz-opp.patch

 

Does it work now after updating to 5.60?

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Start-Date: 2018-09-21  17:34:12
Commandline: apt-get upgrade
Upgrade: armbian-firmware-full:arm64 (5.45, 5.60), linux-u-boot-renegade-default:arm64 (5.59.180915, 5.60), armbian-tools-stretch:arm64 (5.59.180915, 5.60), sunxi-tools:arm64 (1.4.2-2~armbian5.59.180915+1, 1.4.2-2~armbian5.60+1), linux-stretch-root-renegade:arm64 (5.59.180915, 5.60), armbian-config:arm64 (5.59.180915, 5.60), hostapd:arm64 (3:2.6-99~armbian5.59.180915+1, 3:2.6-99~armbian5.60+1)
End-Date: 2018-09-21  17:39:56

I updated and it's stll showing the same info after reboot no 1.51GHz:

 

root@renegade:~# uname -r
4.4.152-rk3328
root@renegade:~# lscpu
Architecture:          aarch64
Byte Order:            Little Endian
CPU(s):                4
On-line CPU(s) list:   0-3
Thread(s) per core:    1
Core(s) per socket:    4
Socket(s):             1
Model:                 4
CPU max MHz:           1392.0000
CPU min MHz:           408.0000
BogoMIPS:              48.00
Flags:                 fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32

root@renegade:~# ls -al /boot/dtb
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Sep 15 16:24 /boot/dtb -> dtb-4.4.155-rockchip64/

Do i need to switch to nightly development build?  

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4 hours ago, jmandawg said:

Do i need to switch to nightly development build?  


It should also be in a stable build. Since this feature is not really essential, I will not investigate at this moment why it is not there. We provide nightly builds and build tools. Use that first.

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I use this board as my primary personal desktop (!) so as you can imagine I really wanted to get it up to 1.51Ghz

If anyone has info on getting accelerated video/graphics with the Mali chipset on the Renegade board that would be awesome... haven't got it working yet myself.

Anyways there is a typo in the instructions to enable 1.51Ghz, it took me a while to figure it out.

In addition to being up to date as described in the thread above, you need to use a MAX_SPEED value of 1512000 not 1510000 before it will kick into the highest speed. I will leave it to others to figure out why the heck that is (no doubt it's obvious to someone), ie:

sed -i "s/MAX_SPEED=.*/MAX_SPEED=1512000/" /etc/default/cpufrequtils
service cpufrequtils restart

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21 hours ago, pokkecon said:

If anyone has info on getting accelerated video/graphics with the Mali chipset on the Renegade board that would be awesome... haven't got it working yet myself.

Voila:

 

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5 hours ago, pokkecon said:

Thanks!

BTW, since you are using the Renegade as desktop, I would very much appreciate your feedback about the desktop experience with the accelerated X server. I mean on regular tasks (reading mail, browsing, reading PDF, Libreoffice, etc).

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I just tried the script but I didn't see any significant difference afterwards. It is probably because I did not run it on a clean install as you instructed, rather on the install I have been tweaking quite a bit. I will try it again on a clean install but I am going to wait until I get a better power supply though (waiting for Amazon to deliver).

Switching to a shorter microUSB cable made a huge difference in fixing some of the video distortion and USB peripheral issues I was having, but I still need a better power supply as some of those issues continue to persist.

An eMMC would be nice too =D one step at a time, it is my primary desktop but it needs more tweaking, looking forward to seeing that 4K60 in action tho!

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This is my third post (I wrote a few things in the script thread as ell) but yes, reading mail, reading PDFs, LibreOffice all work more or less flawlessly for me, about as well as you could expect on a computer the size of a bar of soap. As mentioned in the other thread, Chromium does lock up but I think an eMMC might fix that problem.

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