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**no_spam_for_me** · 15 January 2015, 09:53

Samsung EVO vs. noname (like Samsung PRO)

I compared the '32GB Samsung EVO Class 10 UHS-I Micro SD' with a noname which was offered as use the Samsung chip and get nearly the same results at Windows with CrystalDiskMark (which tests I found at the i-net) like the 'Samsung PRO' (at netxeon pcb v2: 2/8GB AP6210 running 12.04 LTS)...

BTW: at 12.04 LTS the 'Suspend...' and 'System Settings...' works...

Because your default governor is 'ondemand' I used

Code:

sudo passwd root
su
echo performance > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor

EVO

Code:

dd of=/dev/null if=speedtest bs=1M count=1000 iflag=direct
1000+0 records in
1000+0 records out
1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 46.5529 s, [B]22.5 MB/s[/B]
dd if=/dev/zero of=speedtest bs=1M count=1000 oflag=direct conv=fdatasync
1000+0 records in
1000+0 records out
1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 123 s, [B]8.5 MB/s[/B]

noname

Code:

dd of=/dev/null if=speedtest bs=1M count=1000 iflag=direct
1000+0 records in
1000+0 records out
1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 51.4094 s, [B]20.4 MB/s[/B]
dd if=/dev/zero of=speedtest bs=1M count=1000 oflag=direct conv=fdatasync
1000+0 records in
1000+0 records out
1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 129.378 s, [B]8.1 MB/s[/B]

Using iozone

Iozone Filesystem Benchmark

http://www.iozone.org/

Filesystem benchmark freeware performance iozone disk IO solaris bsd freebsd netbsd bsdi hpux aix posix thread cluster file mmap async bsdi stream OSF Windows SCO read write NFS

=> Stable tarball
(http://www.iozone.org/docs/IOzone_msword_98.pdf)

compile

Code:

tar -xf iozone3_430.tar
cd iozone3_430/src/current
make linux-arm

execute

Code:

./iozone -e -I -a -s 50M -r 4k -r 512k -r 16M -i 0 -i 1 -i 2 -f iozone.dat

output

Code:

            Iozone: Performance Test of File I/O
                    Version $Revision: 3.430 $
                        Compiled for 32 bit mode.
                        Build: linux-arm 
 
            Contributors:William Norcott, Don Capps, Isom Crawford, Kirby Collins
                         Al Slater, Scott Rhine, Mike Wisner, Ken Goss
                         Steve Landherr, Brad Smith, Mark Kelly, Dr. Alain CYR,
                         Randy Dunlap, Mark Montague, Dan Million, Gavin Brebner,
                         Jean-Marc Zucconi, Jeff Blomberg, Benny Halevy, Dave Boone,
                         Erik Habbinga, Kris Strecker, Walter Wong, Joshua Root,
                         Fabrice Bacchella, Zhenghua Xue, Qin Li, Darren Sawyer,
                         Vangel Bojaxhi, Ben England, Vikentsi Lapa.
 
            Run began: Sat Jan  1 23:25:24 2011
 
            Include fsync in write timing
            O_DIRECT feature enabled
            Auto Mode
            [B]File[/B] size set to [B]51200 kB[/B]
            Record Size [B]4 kB[/B]
            Record Size [B]512 kB[/B]
            Record Size [B]16384 kB[/B]
            Command line used: ./iozone -e -I -a -s 50M -r 4k -r 512k -r 16M -i 0 -i 1 -i 2 -f iozone.dat
            Output is in kBytes/sec
            Time Resolution = 0.000001 seconds.
            Processor cache size set to 1024 kBytes.
            Processor cache line size set to 32 bytes.
            File stride size set to 17 * record size.

EVO

Code:

                                                              random    random
              kB  reclen    write  rewrite    read    reread    read     write
           51200       4     [B]3451     3426    10541    10572    10514     3520[/B]
           51200     512    [B]15129    15763[/B]    21890    21967    21963 [B]   15670[/B]
           51200   16384    [B]15946    16250[/B]    22505    22547    22547[B]    16349[/B]

noname

Code:

                                                              random    random
              kB  reclen    write  rewrite    read    reread    read     write
           51200       4     [B]1633     1633     5235     5387     4730     1179[/B]
           51200     512     [B]8387     7821[/B]    19968    20098    20073     [B]7559[/B]
           51200   16384     [B]8340     8216[/B]    20403    20487    20491     [B]9059[/B]

EDIT:
By coincidence I found out that you look at init at fist at the SDx if you will find 'linuxroot'

Here are the results of the EVO at a 'Transcend TS-RDF5K' at one of the USB-ports (the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS RFS at it):

Code:

dd of=/dev/null if=speedtest bs=1M count=1000 iflag=direct
1000+0 records in
1000+0 records out
1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 27.9733 s, [B]37.5 MB/s[/B]
dd if=/dev/zero of=speedtest bs=1M count=1000 oflag=direct conv=fdatasync
1000+0 records in
1000+0 records out
1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 49.3906 s, [B]21.2 MB/s[/B]
                                                              random    random
              kB  reclen    write  rewrite    read    reread    read     write
           51200       4     2817     2797     6067     6075     6070     2840
           51200     512    [B]28262    29449    38523    38707    37061    27595[/B]
           51200   16384    [B]31293    30974    40378    40593    40607    30867[/B]

It burns, burns, burns....

The internal SD reader is really bad

**no_spam_for_me** · 15 January 2015, 15:46

Another RFS

I tried your 'linuxium-ubuntu1304-lubuntu-desktop-rfs.img' (http://www.freaktab.com/showthread.p...roid-and-Linux) by

Code:

umount /dev/sdb1
sudo dd if=/media/ADATA_FAT32/Linuxium/linuxium-ubuntu1304-lubuntu-desktop-rfs.img of=/dev/sdb1

and every thing is fine...
BTW:
[Shutdown] shutdown
[Reboot] forces a shutdown
[Suspend] forces a reboot to Android at eMMC/NAND

[Switch User] system freezes after re-login

I also tried to use the Ugoos UM3 Linux RFS by

Code:

umount /dev/sdb1
sudo dd if=/media/ADATA_FAT32/UM3_xubuntu_v0.2.1/linuxroot.img of=/dev/sdb1
linuxroot

but it doesn't mount/start the RFS...
The label is 'linuxroot' and the FS is ext4

Code:

 /dev/sdb1 on /media/linuxroot type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks)

Because of that, I also tried to do a copy to the as know running ubuntu1304-lubuntu

Code:

mkdir ~/img
sudo mount -o loop /media/ADATA_FAT32/UM3_xubuntu_v0.2.1/linuxroot.img ~/img
sudo rm -r /media/linuxroot/*
sudo cp -r -a ~/img/* /media/linuxroot
sudo umount ~/img

with the same result...

At the RFS I found a 'firstboot' so maybe they do something at the first boot????

Because without a console (like the initramFS by mm123 at the RK3188) I'm unable to have a deeper look at it via e.g. dmesg (your Bootlogo is nice, but at these situations...), so maybe you would like to have a look at it?

Forums - FreakTab

http://www.freaktab.com/showthread.php?20117-UGOOS-UT3-UM3-official-linux-firmwaries-(v0-2-1-26-12-2014)

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You can download the RFS here:

File-Upload.net - Datei nicht gefunden

http://www.file-upload.net/download-10149716/UM3_xubuntu_v0.2.1_RFS.zip.html

Leider konnte Ihre hochgeladene Datei nicht gefunden werden. Laden Sie die Datei neu hoch.

And the kernel/initramFS here:

File-Upload.net - Datei nicht gefunden

http://www.file-upload.net/download-10149929/UM3_xubuntu_v0.2.1_initramFS-Kernel.zip.html

Leider konnte Ihre hochgeladene Datei nicht gefunden werden. Laden Sie die Datei neu hoch.

Please use the at the download link...

**cemento** · 17 January 2015, 21:12

Imposible

thanks, but no ethernet works in rikomagic 902II with either distribucioned linux . someone has made the work GROUNDED ethernet cable in the rikomagic 902II ? I'm already desperate will try and have given up ...

**KrissFR** · 21 January 2015, 07:58

freeze at login gui

Hello Linuxium,

First of all, thank you to provide linux images to the community.

I try to use your linux image with my TV01II without success.

The flash of the bootloader is OK, i can now boot from microSD card but your linux images don't work with my rk3288 box.

If i use the 14.10 image or the 12.04 LTS images, when the boot is complete the system freeze at the login gui (the prompt stop to blink in the login frame and i can't do anything mouse and keyboard don't work too).

without the sdcard, the box boot on the stock android and the system is working fine (mouse and keyboard too). i tryed 2 different microsd card ( noname 8 GB class 4, ans samsung evo 16 GB class 10 ) with no change.

Do you already had this kind of problem ?
What can i do to know why the linux freeze at login gui ?

thank you

**no_spam_for_me** · 22 January 2015, 10:35

Originally posted by raubtier View Post

Hello cemento, hello no_spam_for_me and maybe linuxium (aka Ian Morrisson)

@ no_spam_for_me

Which box do you have? I tried a lof of other android-images form other HTC-Board-Boxes
to get resource.img and kernel.img. But all these Images are freezing at boot.
I don't think you have HTC 3288 Device.

@cemento

I think your problem is similar to my problem with eth0. You and I can't really manage bigger network packages
with our devices.

@all

It would be fine to get eth0 full working, but my dream is to connect via wifi (ap6330=HTC-Boxes) to the web.

I'am very new to this little arm-tv-boxes and I'am very surprised about there performance. I bought my first box
last week. My first try with arm-boxes was the odroid-c1 at the beginning of this year, which I like very much.
But the perfomance of the rk3288 chip is incredible for the price (89 Euro). It would be very nice to get a functional
(w)lan linux, which fully works on the HTC-3288-devices. And I don't think, that it is a long way, because the wonderful work from linuxium is only one step away for these boxes.

I realized the firefly-developments, which ar a good starting point to get background about this topic. But I need a little
advice and a few good links to look inside the development-sources for rk3288-devices and the way to use them.
For example, I saw the sources for rk3188 from linuxium on git but not for rk3288. Maybe someone can show me
the link for the rk3288-sources from linuxium.

It looks like rikomagic builds his on linux-Version for this box (rkm 902iile), but I don't find a firmware in the net.
Maybe someone can help with such a firmware.

It would be nice to get help

Wolfgang

The device can you see at my sig

kernel
at dmesg:

Code:

[    0.000000] Linux version [B]3.10.0[/B] (root@LINUXIUMONE) (gcc version 4.6.x-google 20120106 (prerelease) (GCC) ) #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Dec 2 15:43:26 EST 2014

WiFi
at dmesg:

Code:

[    1.078666] [BT_RFKILL]: [B]ap6335[/B] device registered.

at my netxeon pcb which use the AP6210...
I know linuxium own an Orion Meta R28 which is the 2/16GB version of the netxeon pcb which use the AP6335...
So I think his kernel only supports AP6335...
Also at the 12.04 I only find older modules at
/lib/modules/
(also only 3.0.36+)

git
I have the same problem that I couldn't find the rk3288 kernel at linuxiums git, but I find

Forums - FreakTab

http://www.freaktab.com/showthread.php?12320-Updated-Linux-3-10-kernel-from-Rockchip-with-support-for-RK3188-and-RK3288

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and here some infos

Forums - FreakTab

http://www.freaktab.com/showthread.php?11043-quot-Dual-Multiboot-quot-Android-amp-Linux&p=157646&viewfull=1#post157646

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Of course you have to use another CMD...
At the SD you find at
x400000 (HEX)
the actual parameter

Code:

FIRMWARE_VER:1.0.0
#MACHINE_MODEL:rk30sdk
MACHINE_MODEL:linuxium-sdcard-parameter
MACHINE_ID:007
MANUFACTURER:RK30SDK
MAGIC: 0x5041524B
ATAG: 0x60000800
MACHINE: 3288
CHECK_MASK: 0x80
PWR_HLD: 0,0,A,0,1
#KERNEL_IMG: 0x62008000
#FDT_NAME: rk-kernel.dtb
#RECOVER_KEY: 1,1,0,20,0
#CMDLINE:console=tty0 init=/sbin/init initrd=0x62000000,0x00800000 mtdparts=rk29xxnand:0x00008000@0x00002000(resource),0x00008000@0x0000A000(kernel),0x00010000@0x00012000(boot)
CMDLINE:init=/sbin/init initrd=0x62000000,0x00800000 mtdparts=rk29xxnand:0x00008000@0x00002000(resource),0x00008000@0x0000A000(kernel),0x00010000@0x00012000(boot)

at
x1800000
the actual kernel bin
and at
x2800000
the actual initramFS
(btw: if loops to find a 'linuxroot')

I extracted the first 139265*512 byte of the image/SD to get a 'loader' for a SD so I can use the RFS at USB...
sudo dd if=/dev/mmcblk1 of=SD139265.img bs=512 count=139265

and create any partition after that (with fdisk)
First sector (2048-15431679, default 2048): 139265
(I use the rest as vfat so I can use the rest of the 8GB card which I use also at windows...)

**linuxium** · 27 January 2015, 14:56

Source and wifi configuration

I compiled the kernel directly from the Firefly source (as it stood back in October) configured for a AP6335 wifi. The one I included in the script had with sound as RK1000 (from memory) although I had another version with sound as RK-HDMI. It was meant as a generic RK3288 Linux kernel rather than targeting a specific device as it was included with scripts that allowed one to substitute their own kernel/resource image for their device. As the source and instructions were all available on the Firefly site and were being maintained, there was no reason to take a snapshot and put on my github. As Beelink, Tronsmart, Rikomagic, Ugoos et al were not releasing publicly their GPL licensed kernel I didn't make specific device images.

**no_spam_for_me** · 27 January 2015, 18:25

THX
Meanwhile I had read about your experiences in October using the firefly kernel (at your page) but found out that this kernel is different than the October-kernel (bin-compare)...

**no_spam_for_me** · 04 February 2015, 20:15

Inspired by your eMMC/NAND performance test (https://plus.google.com/+IanMORRISON/posts/MicuuyJdbak) I had done the same at my UBOX with 8GB chip...

Code:

iozone
                                                    random   random
   kB  reclen    write  rewrite    read    reread     read    write
51200       4     2802     2241     7863     7669     5166     2031
51200     512    11321     7389    34326    34687    34114     7489
51200   16384    [B]13594    12551[/B]    41565    42211    42215    13925
 
su
1.  First I set the governor to 'performance'
echo performance > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor
2.  For the write test I use the command 
dd if=/dev/zero of=speedtest bs=1M count=1000 oflag=direct conv=fdatasync
3.  For the read test I use 
dd of=/dev/null if=speedtest bs=1M count=1000 iflag=direct
 
write  3 times
  6.5 / 6.5 / 6.5
read  3 times
  42.5 / 42.6 / 42.9

especially the write/rewrite are not really nice so because of that the dd writes are also not really nice...

I also wanted to find out, which USB port maybe is the fastest using the same dd's...

Samsung EVO microSD 32GB at a 'Transcend TS-RDF5K'
Port 1

Code:

Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 1a40:0101 Terminus Technology Inc. 4-Port HUB
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 8564:4000
write 3 times
  17,2 / 15,4 / 16,2 MB/s
read 3 times
  37,4 / 35,9 / 35,6 MB/s

Port 2

Code:

Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 1a40:0101 Terminus Technology Inc. 4-Port HUB
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 8564:4000
write 3 times
  15,7 / 15,5 / 15,7 MB/s
read 3 times
  39,1 / 38,8 / 38,7 MB/s

Port 3 (OTG)

Code:

Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8564:4000
write 3 times
  16,3 / 16,0 / 16,6 MB/s
read 3 times
  41,0 / 41,3 / 41,0 MB/s

Port 4

Code:

Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 1a40:0101 Terminus Technology Inc. 4-Port HUB
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 8564:4000
write 3 times
  15,3 / 15,8 / 16,0 MB/s
read 3 times
  39,7 / 39,4 / 37,7 MB/s

I don't know, why there also exists
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
if they handle all the full size USB ports via the internal HUB and also why seems port 1 (the first at the side) not as stable as the other two full size USB-ports at this internal HUB...
But now I know why netxeon recommends to use the OTG if there are issues with the keyboard

**oman** · 05 February 2015, 02:48

Originally posted by linuxium View Post

I compiled the kernel directly from the Firefly source (as it stood back in October) configured for a AP6335 wifi. The one I included in the script had with sound as RK1000 (from memory) although I had another version with sound as RK-HDMI. It was meant as a generic RK3288 Linux kernel rather than targeting a specific device as it was included with scripts that allowed one to substitute their own kernel/resource image for their device. As the source and instructions were all available on the Firefly site and were being maintained, there was no reason to take a snapshot and put on my github. As Beelink, Tronsmart, Rikomagic, Ugoos et al were not releasing publicly their GPL licensed kernel I didn't make specific device images.

I can open the whole SDK for you,linuxium.

Write me an email with your id_rsa.pub,we have a private git repo.

**gffmac** · 20 February 2015, 12:00

Originally posted by oman View Post

I can open the whole SDK for you,linuxium.

Write me an email with your id_rsa.pub,we have a private git repo.

Hopefully linuxium got back to you, would be interesting to see what he come sup with SDK access.

**scooter2014** · 04 March 2015, 17:04

Having it boot up no issues for the mk902ii. I Tried both ver. the screen is off set in both any quick command to correct that? No network or wifi for either of these builds makes it useless. I know why Ricomagic not release is because they develop box for strickly Linux and sell that they feel loss those sales if they release. kinda making them fall behind the 8 ball on this for the mk902ii.hopefully I can find one that works with wifi and networking sounds like all of these still in build as video poor in even the ugoos ver.

**scooter2014** · 04 March 2015, 18:09

Interesting read.. On Mali drivers

404 Not Found

http://developer.t-firefly.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=321&sid=283d8136722ec1480f9f876f8684339f

**miskol** · 24 March 2015, 13:45

kernel modules

Anybody have kernel modules for kernel from this image ?
Or at lest kernel source codes so I can build them

**no_spam_for_me** · 24 March 2015, 22:28

Have a look at post #36

**miskol** · 24 March 2015, 23:37

Originally posted by no_spam_for_me View Post

Have a look at post #36

thx
And what about dts files?

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