Hacking and Bricking the EE Opsrey 2 Mini
I’ve mentioned in the past my twisted EE network setup from when I moved in to my current house. The 4GEE WiFi Mini (also known as the EE Osprey 2 Mini or the EE40VB, and actually a rebadged Alcatel Y853VB) has been sitting unused since then, so I figured I’d see about trying to get a shell on it.
TL;DR: Of course it’s running Linux, there’s a couple of test points internally which bring out the serial console, but after finding those and logging in I discovered it’s running ADB on port 5555 quite happily available without authentication both via wifi and the USB port. So if you have physical or local network access, instant root shell. Well done, folks. And then I bricked it before I could do anything more interesting.
There’s a lack of information about this device out there - most of the links I can find are around removing the SIM lock - so I thought I’d document the pieces I found just in case anyone else is trying to figure it out. It’s based around a Qualcomm MDM9607 SoC, paired with 64M RAM and 256M NAND flash. Wifi is via an RTL8192ES. Kernel is 3.18.20. Busybox is v1.23.1. It’s running dnsmasq but I didn’t grab the version. Of course there’s no source or offer of source provided.
Taking it apart is fairly easy. There’s a single screw to remove, just beside the SIM slot. The coloured rim can then be carefully pried away from the back, revealing the battery. There are then 4 screws in the corners which need removed in order to be able to lift out the actual PCB and gain access to the serial console test points.
My mistake was going poking around trying to figure out where the updates are downloaded from - I know I’m running a slightly older release than what’s current, and the device can do an automatic download + update. Top tip; don’t run Jrdrecovery. It’ll error on finding /cache/update.zip and wipe the main partition anyway. That’ll leave you in a boot loop where the device boots the recovery partition which tries to install /cache/update.zip which of course still doesn’t exist.
So. Where next? First, I need to get the device into a state where I can actually do something other than watch it boot into recovery, fail to flash and reboot. Best guess at present is to try and get it to enter the Qualcomm EDL (Emergency Download) mode. That might be possible with a custom USB cable that grounds D+ on boot. Alternatively I need to probe some of the other test points on the PCB and see if grounding any of those helps enter EDL mode. I then need a suitable “firehose” OEM-signed programmer image. And then I need to actually get hold of a proper EE40VB firmware image, either via one of the OTA update files or possibly via an Alcatel ADSU image (though no idea how to get hold of one, other than by posting to a random GSM device forum and hoping for the kindness of strangers). More updates if/when I make progress…
Qualcomm bootloader log
Format: Log Type - Time(microsec) - Message - Optional Info
Log Type: B - Since Boot(Power On Reset), D - Delta, S - Statistic
S - QC_IMAGE_VERSION_STRING=BOOT.BF.3.1.2-00053
S - IMAGE_VARIANT_STRING=LAATANAZA
S - OEM_IMAGE_VERSION_STRING=linux3
S - Boot Config, 0x000002e1
B - 105194 - SBL1, Start
D - 61885 - QSEE Image Loaded, Delta - (451964 Bytes)
D - 30286 - RPM Image Loaded, Delta - (151152 Bytes)
B - 459330 - Roger:boot_jrd_oem_main
B - 461526 - Welcome to key_check_poweron!!!
B - 466436 - REG0x00, rc=47
B - 469120 - REG0x01, rc=1f
B - 472018 - REG0x02, rc=1c
B - 474885 - REG0x03, rc=47
B - 477782 - REG0x04, rc=b2
B - 480558 - REG0x05, rc=
B - 483272 - REG0x06, rc=9e
B - 486139 - REG0x07, rc=
B - 488854 - REG0x08, rc=a4
B - 491721 - REG0x09, rc=80
B - 494130 - bq24295_probe: vflt/vsys/vprechg=0mV/0mV/0mV, tprechg/tfastchg=0Min/0Min, [0C, 0C]
B - 511546 - come to calculate vol and temperature!!
B - 511637 - ##############battery_core_convert_vntc: NTC_voltage=1785690
B - 517280 - battery_core_convert_vntc: <-44C, 1785690uV>, present=0
B - 529358 - bq24295_set_current_limit: setting=0mA, mode=-1, input/fastchg/prechg/termchg=-1mA/0mA/0mA/0mA
B - 534360 - bq24295_set_charge_current, rc=0,reg_val=0,i=0
B - 539636 - bq24295_enable_charge: setting=0, chg_enable=-1, otg_enable=0
B - 546072 - bq24295_enable_charging: enable_charging=0
B - 552172 - bq24295_set_current_limit: setting=0mA, mode=-1, input/fastchg/prechg/termchg=-1mA/0mA/0mA/0mA
B - 561566 - bq24295_set_charge_current, rc=0,reg_val=0,i=0
B - 567056 - bq24295_enable_charge: setting=0, chg_enable=0, otg_enable=0
B - 579286 - come to calculate vol and temperature!!
B - 579378 - ##############battery_core_convert_vntc: NTC_voltage=1785777
B - 585539 - battery_core_convert_vntc: <-44C, 1785777uV>, present=0
B - 597617 - charge_main: battery is plugout!!
B - 597678 - Welcome to pca955x_probe!!!
B - 601063 - pca955x_probe: PCA955X probed successfully!
D - 27511 - APPSBL Image Loaded, Delta - (179348 Bytes)
B - 633271 - QSEE Execution, Start
D - 213 - QSEE Execution, Delta
B - 638944 - >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Start writting JRD RECOVERY BOOT
B - 650107 - >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Start writting RECOVERY BOOT
B - 653218 - >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>read_buf[0] == 0
B - 659044 - SBL1, End
D - 556137 - SBL1, Delta
S - Throughput, 2000 KB/s (782884 Bytes, 278155 us)
S - DDR Frequency, 240 MHz
littlekernel aboot log
Android Bootloader - UART_DM Initialized!!!
[0] welcome to lk
[0] SCM call: 0x2000601 failed with :fffffffc
[0] Failed to initialize SCM
[10] platform_init()
[10] target_init()
[10] smem ptable found: ver: 4 len: 17
[10] ERROR: No devinfo partition found
[10] Neither 'config' nor 'frp' partition found
[30] voltage of NTC is 1789872!
[30] voltage of BAT is 3179553!
[30] usb present is 1!
[30] Loading (boot) image (4171776): start
[530] Loading (boot) image (4171776): done
[540] DTB Total entry: 25, DTB version: 3
[540] Using DTB entry 0x00000129/00010000/0x00000008/0 for device 0x00000129/00010000/0x00010008/0
[560] JRD_CHG_OFF_FEATURE!
[560] come to jrd_target_pause_for_battery_charge!
[570] power_on_status.hard_reset = 0x0
[570] power_on_status.smpl = 0x0
[570] power_on_status.rtc = 0x0
[580] power_on_status.dc_chg = 0x0
[580] power_on_status.usb_chg = 0x0
[580] power_on_status.pon1 = 0x1
[590] power_on_status.cblpwr = 0x0
[590] power_on_status.kpdpwr = 0x0
[590] power_on_status.bugflag = 0x0
[590] cmdline: noinitrd rw console=ttyHSL0,115200,n8 androidboot.hardware=qcom ehci-hcd.park=3 msm_rtb.filter=0x37 lpm_levels.sleep_disabled=1 earlycon=msm_hsl_uart,0x78b3000 androidboot.serialno=7e6ba58c androidboot.baseband=msm rootfstype=ubifs rootflags=b
[620] Updating device tree: start
[720] Updating device tree: done
[720] booting linux @ 0x80008000, ramdisk @ 0x80008000 (0), tags/device tree @ 0x81e00000
Linux kernel console boot log
[ 0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0
[ 0.000000] Linux version 3.18.20 (linux3@linux3) (gcc version 4.9.2 (GCC) ) #1 PREEMPT Thu Aug 10 11:57:07 CST 2017
[ 0.000000] CPU: ARMv7 Processor [410fc075] revision 5 (ARMv7), cr=10c53c7d
[ 0.000000] CPU: PIPT / VIPT nonaliasing data cache, VIPT aliasing instruction cache
[ 0.000000] Machine model: Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. MDM 9607 MTP
[ 0.000000] Early serial console at I/O port 0x0 (options '')
[ 0.000000] bootconsole [uart0] enabled
[ 0.000000] Reserved memory: reserved region for node 'modem_adsp_region@0': base 0x82a00000, size 56 MiB
[ 0.000000] Reserved memory: reserved region for node 'external_image_region@0': base 0x87c00000, size 4 MiB
[ 0.000000] Removed memory: created DMA memory pool at 0x82a00000, size 56 MiB
[ 0.000000] Reserved memory: initialized node modem_adsp_region@0, compatible id removed-dma-pool
[ 0.000000] Removed memory: created DMA memory pool at 0x87c00000, size 4 MiB
[ 0.000000] Reserved memory: initialized node external_image_region@0, compatible id removed-dma-pool
[ 0.000000] cma: Reserved 4 MiB at 0x87800000
[ 0.000000] Memory policy: Data cache writeback
[ 0.000000] CPU: All CPU(s) started in SVC mode.
[ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 17152
[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: noinitrd rw console=ttyHSL0,115200,n8 androidboot.hardware=qcom ehci-hcd.park=3 msm_rtb.filter=0x37 lpm_levels.sleep_disabled=1 earlycon=msm_hsl_uart,0x78b3000 androidboot.serialno=7e6ba58c androidboot.baseband=msm rootfstype=ubifs rootflags=bulk_read root=ubi0:rootfs ubi.mtd=16
[ 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 512 (order: -1, 2048 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Memory: 54792K/69632K available (5830K kernel code, 399K rwdata, 2228K rodata, 276K init, 830K bss, 14840K reserved)
[ 0.000000] Virtual kernel memory layout:
[ 0.000000] vector : 0xffff0000 - 0xffff1000 ( 4 kB)
[ 0.000000] fixmap : 0xffc00000 - 0xfff00000 (3072 kB)
[ 0.000000] vmalloc : 0xc8800000 - 0xff000000 ( 872 MB)
[ 0.000000] lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xc8000000 ( 128 MB)
[ 0.000000] modules : 0xbf000000 - 0xc0000000 ( 16 MB)
[ 0.000000] .text : 0xc0008000 - 0xc07e6c38 (8060 kB)
[ 0.000000] .init : 0xc07e7000 - 0xc082c000 ( 276 kB)
[ 0.000000] .data : 0xc082c000 - 0xc088fdc0 ( 400 kB)
[ 0.000000] .bss : 0xc088fe84 - 0xc095f798 ( 831 kB)
[ 0.000000] SLUB: HWalign=64, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
[ 0.000000] Preemptible hierarchical RCU implementation.
[ 0.000000] NR_IRQS:16 nr_irqs:16 16
[ 0.000000] GIC CPU mask not found - kernel will fail to boot.
[ 0.000000] GIC CPU mask not found - kernel will fail to boot.
[ 0.000000] mpm_init_irq_domain(): Cannot find irq controller for qcom,gpio-parent
[ 0.000000] MPM 1 irq mapping errored -517
[ 0.000000] Architected mmio timer(s) running at 19.20MHz (virt).
[ 0.000011] sched_clock: 56 bits at 19MHz, resolution 52ns, wraps every 3579139424256ns
[ 0.007975] Switching to timer-based delay loop, resolution 52ns
[ 0.013969] Switched to clocksource arch_mem_counter
[ 0.019687] Console: colour dummy device 80x30
[ 0.023344] Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer frequency.. 38.40 BogoMIPS (lpj=192000)
[ 0.033666] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
[ 0.038411] Mount-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.044902] Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.052445] CPU: Testing write buffer coherency: ok
[ 0.057057] Setting up static identity map for 0x8058aac8 - 0x8058ab20
[ 0.064242]
[ 0.064242] **********************************************************
[ 0.071251] ** NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE **
[ 0.077817] ** **
[ 0.084302] ** trace_printk() being used. Allocating extra memory. **
[ 0.090781] ** **
[ 0.097320] ** This means that this is a DEBUG kernel and it is **
[ 0.103802] ** unsafe for produciton use. **
[ 0.110339] ** **
[ 0.116850] ** If you see this message and you are not debugging **
[ 0.123333] ** the kernel, report this immediately to your vendor! **
[ 0.129870] ** **
[ 0.136380] ** NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE **
[ 0.142865] **********************************************************
[ 0.150225] MSM Memory Dump base table set up
[ 0.153739] MSM Memory Dump apps data table set up
[ 0.168125] VFP support v0.3: implementor 41 architecture 2 part 30 variant 7 rev 5
[ 0.176332] pinctrl core: initialized pinctrl subsystem
[ 0.180930] regulator-dummy: no parameters
[ 0.215338] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[ 0.220475] DMA: preallocated 256 KiB pool for atomic coherent allocations
[ 0.284034] cpuidle: using governor ladder
[ 0.314026] cpuidle: using governor menu
[ 0.344024] cpuidle: using governor qcom
[ 0.355452] msm_watchdog b017000.qcom,wdt: wdog absent resource not present
[ 0.361656] msm_watchdog b017000.qcom,wdt: MSM Watchdog Initialized
[ 0.371373] irq: no irq domain found for /soc/pinctrl@1000000 !
[ 0.381268] spmi_pmic_arb 200f000.qcom,spmi: PMIC Arb Version-2 0x20010000
[ 0.389733] platform 4080000.qcom,mss: assigned reserved memory node modem_adsp_region@0
[ 0.397409] mem_acc_corner: 0 <--> 0 mV
[ 0.401937] hw-breakpoint: found 5 (+1 reserved) breakpoint and 4 watchpoint registers.
[ 0.408966] hw-breakpoint: maximum watchpoint size is 8 bytes.
[ 0.416287] __of_mpm_init(): MPM driver mapping exists
[ 0.420940] msm_rpm_glink_dt_parse: qcom,rpm-glink compatible not matches
[ 0.427235] msm_rpm_dev_probe: APSS-RPM communication over SMD
[ 0.432977] smd_open() before smd_init()
[ 0.437544] msm_mpm_dev_probe(): Cannot get clk resource for XO: -517
[ 0.445730] smd_channel_probe_now: allocation table not initialized
[ 0.453100] mdm9607_s1: 1050 <--> 1350 mV at 1225 mV normal idle
[ 0.458566] spm_regulator_probe: name=mdm9607_s1, range=LV, voltage=1225000 uV, mode=AUTO, step rate=4800 uV/us
[ 0.468817] cpr_efuse_init: apc_corner: efuse_addr = 0x000a4000 (len=0x1000)
[ 0.475353] cpr_read_fuse_revision: apc_corner: fuse revision = 2
[ 0.481345] cpr_parse_speed_bin_fuse: apc_corner: [row: 37]: 0x79e8bd327e6ba58c, speed_bits = 4
[ 0.490124] cpr_pvs_init: apc_corner: pvs voltage: [1050000 1100000 1275000] uV
[ 0.497342] cpr_pvs_init: apc_corner: ceiling voltage: [1050000 1225000 1350000] uV
[ 0.504979] cpr_pvs_init: apc_corner: floor voltage: [1050000 1050000 1150000] uV
[ 0.513125] i2c-msm-v2 78b8000.i2c: probing driver i2c-msm-v2
[ 0.518335] i2c-msm-v2 78b8000.i2c: error on clk_get(core_clk):-517
[ 0.524478] i2c-msm-v2 78b8000.i2c: error probe() failed with err:-517
[ 0.531111] i2c-msm-v2 78b7000.i2c: probing driver i2c-msm-v2
[ 0.536788] i2c-msm-v2 78b7000.i2c: error on clk_get(core_clk):-517
[ 0.542886] i2c-msm-v2 78b7000.i2c: error probe() failed with err:-517
[ 0.549618] i2c-msm-v2 78b9000.i2c: probing driver i2c-msm-v2
[ 0.555202] i2c-msm-v2 78b9000.i2c: error on clk_get(core_clk):-517
[ 0.561374] i2c-msm-v2 78b9000.i2c: error probe() failed with err:-517
[ 0.570613] msm-thermal soc:qcom,msm-thermal: msm_thermal:Failed reading node=/soc/qcom,msm-thermal, key=qcom,core-limit-temp. err=-22. KTM continues
[ 0.583049] msm-thermal soc:qcom,msm-thermal: probe_therm_reset:Failed reading node=/soc/qcom,msm-thermal, key=qcom,therm-reset-temp err=-22. KTM continues
[ 0.596926] msm_thermal:msm_thermal_dev_probe Failed reading node=/soc/qcom,msm-thermal, key=qcom,online-hotplug-core. err:-517
[ 0.609370] sps:sps is ready.
[ 0.613137] msm_rpm_glink_dt_parse: qcom,rpm-glink compatible not matches
[ 0.619020] msm_rpm_dev_probe: APSS-RPM communication over SMD
[ 0.625773] mdm9607_s2: 750 <--> 1275 mV at 750 mV normal idle
[ 0.631584] mdm9607_s3_level: 0 <--> 0 mV at 0 mV normal idle
[ 0.637085] mdm9607_s3_level_ao: 0 <--> 0 mV at 0 mV normal idle
[ 0.643092] mdm9607_s3_floor_level: 0 <--> 0 mV at 0 mV normal idle
[ 0.649512] mdm9607_s3_level_so: 0 <--> 0 mV at 0 mV normal idle
[ 0.655750] mdm9607_s4: 1800 <--> 1950 mV at 1800 mV normal idle
[ 0.661791] mdm9607_l1: 1250 mV normal idle
[ 0.666090] mdm9607_l2: 1800 mV normal idle
[ 0.670276] mdm9607_l3: 1800 mV normal idle
[ 0.674541] mdm9607_l4: 3075 mV normal idle
[ 0.678743] mdm9607_l5: 1700 <--> 3050 mV at 1700 mV normal idle
[ 0.684904] mdm9607_l6: 1700 <--> 3050 mV at 1700 mV normal idle
[ 0.690892] mdm9607_l7: 1700 <--> 1900 mV at 1700 mV normal idle
[ 0.697036] mdm9607_l8: 1800 mV normal idle
[ 0.701238] mdm9607_l9: 1200 <--> 1250 mV at 1200 mV normal idle
[ 0.707367] mdm9607_l10: 1050 mV normal idle
[ 0.711662] mdm9607_l11: 1800 mV normal idle
[ 0.716089] mdm9607_l12_level: 0 <--> 0 mV at 0 mV normal idle
[ 0.721717] mdm9607_l12_level_ao: 0 <--> 0 mV at 0 mV normal idle
[ 0.727946] mdm9607_l12_level_so: 0 <--> 0 mV at 0 mV normal idle
[ 0.734099] mdm9607_l12_floor_lebel: 0 <--> 0 mV at 0 mV normal idle
[ 0.740706] mdm9607_l13: 1800 <--> 2850 mV at 2850 mV normal idle
[ 0.746883] mdm9607_l14: 2650 <--> 3000 mV at 2650 mV normal idle
[ 0.752515] msm_mpm_dev_probe(): Cannot get clk resource for XO: -517
[ 0.759036] cpr_efuse_init: apc_corner: efuse_addr = 0x000a4000 (len=0x1000)
[ 0.765807] cpr_read_fuse_revision: apc_corner: fuse revision = 2
[ 0.771809] cpr_parse_speed_bin_fuse: apc_corner: [row: 37]: 0x79e8bd327e6ba58c, speed_bits = 4
[ 0.780586] cpr_pvs_init: apc_corner: pvs voltage: [1050000 1100000 1275000] uV
[ 0.787808] cpr_pvs_init: apc_corner: ceiling voltage: [1050000 1225000 1350000] uV
[ 0.795443] cpr_pvs_init: apc_corner: floor voltage: [1050000 1050000 1150000] uV
[ 0.803094] cpr_init_cpr_parameters: apc_corner: up threshold = 2, down threshold = 3
[ 0.810752] cpr_init_cpr_parameters: apc_corner: CPR is enabled by default.
[ 0.817687] cpr_init_cpr_efuse: apc_corner: [row:65] = 0x15000277277383
[ 0.824272] cpr_init_cpr_efuse: apc_corner: CPR disable fuse = 0
[ 0.830225] cpr_init_cpr_efuse: apc_corner: Corner[1]: ro_sel = 0, target quot = 631
[ 0.837976] cpr_init_cpr_efuse: apc_corner: Corner[2]: ro_sel = 0, target quot = 631
[ 0.845703] cpr_init_cpr_efuse: apc_corner: Corner[3]: ro_sel = 0, target quot = 899
[ 0.853592] cpr_config: apc_corner: Timer count: 0x17700 (for 5000 us)
[ 0.860426] apc_corner: 0 <--> 0 mV
[ 0.864044] i2c-msm-v2 78b8000.i2c: probing driver i2c-msm-v2
[ 0.869261] i2c-msm-v2 78b8000.i2c: error on clk_get(core_clk):-517
[ 0.875492] i2c-msm-v2 78b8000.i2c: error probe() failed with err:-517
[ 0.882225] i2c-msm-v2 78b7000.i2c: probing driver i2c-msm-v2
[ 0.887775] i2c-msm-v2 78b7000.i2c: error on clk_get(core_clk):-517
[ 0.893941] i2c-msm-v2 78b7000.i2c: error probe() failed with err:-517
[ 0.900719] i2c-msm-v2 78b9000.i2c: probing driver i2c-msm-v2
[ 0.906256] i2c-msm-v2 78b9000.i2c: error on clk_get(core_clk):-517
[ 0.912430] i2c-msm-v2 78b9000.i2c: error probe() failed with err:-517
[ 0.919472] msm-thermal soc:qcom,msm-thermal: msm_thermal:Failed reading node=/soc/qcom,msm-thermal, key=qcom,core-limit-temp. err=-22. KTM continues
[ 0.932372] msm-thermal soc:qcom,msm-thermal: probe_therm_reset:Failed reading node=/soc/qcom,msm-thermal,
key=qcom,therm-reset-temp err=-22. KTM continues
[ 0.946361] msm_thermal:get_kernel_cluster_info CPU0 topology not initialized.
[ 0.953824] cpu cpu0: dev_pm_opp_get_opp_count: device OPP not found (-19)
[ 0.960300] msm_thermal:get_cpu_freq_plan_len Error reading CPU0 freq table len. error:-19
[ 0.968533] msm_thermal:vdd_restriction_reg_init Defer vdd rstr freq init.
[ 0.975846] cpu cpu0: dev_pm_opp_get_opp_count: device OPP not found (-19)
[ 0.982219] msm_thermal:get_cpu_freq_plan_len Error reading CPU0 freq table len. error:-19
[ 0.991378] cpu cpu0: dev_pm_opp_get_opp_count: device OPP not found (-19)
[ 0.997544] msm_thermal:get_cpu_freq_plan_len Error reading CPU0 freq table len. error:-19
[ 1.013642] qcom,gcc-mdm9607 1800000.qcom,gcc: Registered GCC clocks
[ 1.019451] clock-a7 b010008.qcom,clock-a7: Speed bin: 4 PVS Version: 0
[ 1.025693] a7ssmux: set OPP pair(400000000 Hz: 1 uV) on cpu0
[ 1.031314] a7ssmux: set OPP pair(1305600000 Hz: 7 uV) on cpu0
[ 1.038805] i2c-msm-v2 78b8000.i2c: probing driver i2c-msm-v2
[ 1.043587] AXI: msm_bus_scale_register_client(): msm_bus_scale_register_client: Bus driver not ready.
[ 1.052935] i2c-msm-v2 78b8000.i2c: msm_bus_scale_register_client(mstr-id:86):0 (not a problem)
[ 1.062006] irq: no irq domain found for /soc/wcd9xxx-irq !
[ 1.069884] i2c-msm-v2 78b7000.i2c: probing driver i2c-msm-v2
[ 1.074814] AXI: msm_bus_scale_register_client(): msm_bus_scale_register_client: Bus driver not ready.
[ 1.083716] i2c-msm-v2 78b7000.i2c: msm_bus_scale_register_client(mstr-id:86):0 (not a problem)
[ 1.093850] i2c-msm-v2 78b9000.i2c: probing driver i2c-msm-v2
[ 1.098889] AXI: msm_bus_scale_register_client(): msm_bus_scale_register_client: Bus driver not ready.
[ 1.107779] i2c-msm-v2 78b9000.i2c: msm_bus_scale_register_client(mstr-id:86):0 (not a problem)
[ 1.167871] KPI: Bootloader start count = 24097
[ 1.171364] KPI: Bootloader end count = 48481
[ 1.175855] KPI: Bootloader display count = 3884474147
[ 1.180825] KPI: Bootloader load kernel count = 16420
[ 1.185905] KPI: Kernel MPM timestamp = 105728
[ 1.190286] KPI: Kernel MPM Clock frequency = 32768
[ 1.195209] socinfo_print: v0.10, id=297, ver=1.0, raw_id=72, raw_ver=0, hw_plat=8, hw_plat_ver=65536
[ 1.195209] accessory_chip=0, hw_plat_subtype=0, pmic_model=65539, pmic_die_revision=131074 foundry_id=0 serial_number=2120983948
[ 1.216731] sdcard_ext_vreg: no parameters
[ 1.220555] rome_vreg: no parameters
[ 1.224133] emac_lan_vreg: no parameters
[ 1.228177] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[ 1.233156] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[ 1.238578] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[ 1.244507] cpufreq: driver msm up and running
[ 1.248425] ION heap system created
[ 1.251895] msm_bus_fabric_init_driver
[ 1.262563] qcom,qpnp-power-on qpnp-power-on-c7303800: PMIC@SID0 Power-on reason: Triggered from PON1 (secondary PMIC) and 'cold' boot
[ 1.273747] qcom,qpnp-power-on qpnp-power-on-c7303800: PMIC@SID0: Power-off reason: Triggered from UVLO (Under Voltage Lock Out)
[ 1.285430] input: qpnp_pon as /devices/virtual/input/input0
[ 1.291246] PMIC@SID0: PM8019 v2.2 options: 3, 2, 2, 2
[ 1.296706] Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Initialized.
[ 1.302493] Add group failed
[ 1.305291] cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
[ 1.311216] cfg80211: World regulatory domain updated:
[ 1.317109] Switched to clocksource arch_mem_counter
[ 1.334091] cfg80211: DFS Master region: unset
[ 1.337418] cfg80211: (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain, max_eirp), (dfs_cac_time)
[ 1.354087] cfg80211: (2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (N/A, 2000 mBm), (N/A)
[ 1.361055] cfg80211: (2457000 KHz - 2482000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (N/A, 2000 mBm), (N/A)
[ 1.370545] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[ 1.374082] cfg80211: (2474000 KHz - 2494000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (N/A, 2000 mBm), (N/A)
[ 1.381851] cfg80211: (5170000 KHz - 5250000 KHz @ 80000 KHz), (N/A, 2000 mBm), (N/A)
[ 1.389876] cfg80211: (5250000 KHz - 5330000 KHz @ 80000 KHz), (N/A, 2000 mBm), (N/A)
[ 1.397857] cfg80211: (5490000 KHz - 5710000 KHz @ 80000 KHz), (N/A, 2000 mBm), (N/A)
[ 1.405841] cfg80211: (5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 80000 KHz), (N/A, 2000 mBm), (N/A)
[ 1.413795] cfg80211: (57240000 KHz - 63720000 KHz @ 2160000 KHz), (N/A, 0 mBm), (N/A)
[ 1.422355] TCP established hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 1.428921] TCP bind hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 1.435192] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 1024 bind 1024)
[ 1.441528] TCP: reno registered
[ 1.444738] UDP hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 1.450521] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 1.456950] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[ 1.462779] futex hash table entries: 256 (order: -1, 3072 bytes)
[ 1.474555] msgmni has been set to 115
[ 1.478551] Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 251)
[ 1.485041] io scheduler noop registered
[ 1.488818] io scheduler deadline registered
[ 1.493200] io scheduler cfq registered (default)
[ 1.502142] msm_rpm_log_probe: OK
[ 1.506717] msm_serial_hs module loaded
[ 1.509803] msm_serial_hsl_probe: detected port #0 (ttyHSL0)
[ 1.515324] AXI: get_pdata(): Error: Client name not found
[ 1.520626] AXI: msm_bus_cl_get_pdata(): client has to provide missing entry for successful registration
[ 1.530171] msm_serial_hsl_probe: Bus scaling is disabled [ 1.074814] AXI: msm_bus_scale_register_client(): msm_bus_scale_register_client: Bus driver not ready.
[ 1.083716] i2c-msm-v2 78b7000.i2c: msm_bus_scale_register_client(mstr-id:86):0 (not a problem)
[ 1.093850] i2c-msm-v2 78b9000.i2c: probing driver i2c-msm-v2
[ 1.098889] AXI: msm_bus_scale_register_client(): msm_bus_scale_register_client: Bus driver not ready.
[ 1.107779] i2c-msm-v2 78b9000.i2c: msm_bus_scale_register_client(mstr-id:86):0 (not a problem)
[ 1.167871] KPI: Bootloader start count = 24097
[ 1.171364] KPI: Bootloader end count = 48481
[ 1.175855] KPI: Bootloader display count = 3884474147
[ 1.180825] KPI: Bootloader load kernel count = 16420
[ 1.185905] KPI: Kernel MPM timestamp = 105728
[ 1.190286] KPI: Kernel MPM Clock frequency = 32768
[ 1.195209] socinfo_print: v0.10, id=297, ver=1.0, raw_id=72, raw_ver=0, hw_plat=8, hw_plat_ver=65536
[ 1.195209] accessory_chip=0, hw_plat_subtype=0, pmic_model=65539, pmic_die_revision=131074 foundry_id=0 serial_number=2120983948
[ 1.216731] sdcard_ext_vreg: no parameters
[ 1.220555] rome_vreg: no parameters
[ 1.224133] emac_lan_vreg: no parameters
[ 1.228177] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[ 1.233156] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[ 1.238578] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[ 1.244507] cpufreq: driver msm up and running
[ 1.248425] ION heap system created
[ 1.251895] msm_bus_fabric_init_driver
[ 1.262563] qcom,qpnp-power-on qpnp-power-on-c7303800: PMIC@SID0 Power-on reason: Triggered from PON1 (secondary PMIC) and 'cold' boot
[ 1.273747] qcom,qpnp-power-on qpnp-power-on-c7303800: PMIC@SID0: Power-off reason: Triggered from UVLO (Under Voltage Lock Out)
[ 1.285430] input: qpnp_pon as /devices/virtual/input/input0
[ 1.291246] PMIC@SID0: PM8019 v2.2 options: 3, 2, 2, 2
[ 1.296706] Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Initialized.
[ 1.302493] Add group failed
[ 1.305291] cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
[ 1.311216] cfg80211: World regulatory domain updated:
[ 1.317109] Switched to clocksource arch_mem_counter
[ 1.334091] cfg80211: DFS Master region: unset
[ 1.337418] cfg80211: (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain, max_eirp), (dfs_cac_time)
[ 1.354087] cfg80211: (2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (N/A, 2000 mBm), (N/A)
[ 1.361055] cfg80211: (2457000 KHz - 2482000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (N/A, 2000 mBm), (N/A)
[ 1.370545] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[ 1.374082] cfg80211: (2474000 KHz - 2494000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (N/A, 2000 mBm), (N/A)
[ 1.381851] cfg80211: (5170000 KHz - 5250000 KHz @ 80000 KHz), (N/A, 2000 mBm), (N/A)
[ 1.389876] cfg80211: (5250000 KHz - 5330000 KHz @ 80000 KHz), (N/A, 2000 mBm), (N/A)
[ 1.397857] cfg80211: (5490000 KHz - 5710000 KHz @ 80000 KHz), (N/A, 2000 mBm), (N/A)
[ 1.405841] cfg80211: (5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 80000 KHz), (N/A, 2000 mBm), (N/A)
[ 1.413795] cfg80211: (57240000 KHz - 63720000 KHz @ 2160000 KHz), (N/A, 0 mBm), (N/A)
[ 1.422355] TCP established hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 1.428921] TCP bind hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 1.435192] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 1024 bind 1024)
[ 1.441528] TCP: reno registered
[ 1.444738] UDP hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 1.450521] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 1.456950] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[ 1.462779] futex hash table entries: 256 (order: -1, 3072 bytes)
[ 1.474555] msgmni has been set to 115
[ 1.478551] Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 251)
[ 1.485041] io scheduler noop registered
[ 1.488818] io scheduler deadline registered
[ 1.493200] io scheduler cfq registered (default)
[ 1.502142] msm_rpm_log_probe: OK
[ 1.506717] msm_serial_hs module loaded
[ 1.509803] msm_serial_hsl_probe: detected port #0 (ttyHSL0)
[ 1.515324] AXI: get_pdata(): Error: Client name not found
[ 1.520626] AXI: msm_bus_cl_get_pdata(): client has to provide missing entry for successful registration
[ 1.530171] msm_serial_hsl_probe: Bus scaling is disabled
[ 1.535696] 78b3000.serial: ttyHSL0 at MMIO 0x78b3000 (irq = 153, base_baud = 460800�[ 1.544155] msm_hsl_console_setup: console setup on port #0
[ 1.548727] console [ttyHSL0] enabled
[ 1.548727] console [ttyHSL0] enabled
[ 1.556014] bootconsole [uart0] disabled
[ 1.556014] bootconsole [uart0] disabled
[ 1.564212] msm_serial_hsl_init: driver initialized
[ 1.578450] brd: module loaded
[ 1.582920] loop: module loaded
[ 1.589183] sps: BAM device 0x07984000 is not registered yet.
[ 1.594234] sps:BAM 0x07984000 is registered.
[ 1.598072] msm_nand_bam_init: msm_nand_bam_init: BAM device registered: bam_handle 0xc69f6400
[ 1.607103] sps:BAM 0x07984000 (va:0xc89a0000) enabled: ver:0x18, number of pipes:7
[ 1.616588] msm_nand_parse_smem_ptable: Parsing partition table info from SMEM
[ 1.622805] msm_nand_parse_smem_ptable: SMEM partition table found: ver: 4 len: 17
[ 1.630391] msm_nand_version_check: nand_major:1, nand_minor:5, qpic_major:1, qpic_minor:5
[ 1.638642] msm_nand_scan: NAND Id: 0x1590aa98 Buswidth: 8Bits Density: 256 MByte
[ 1.646069] msm_nand_scan: pagesize: 2048 Erasesize: 131072 oobsize: 128 (in Bytes)
[ 1.653676] msm_nand_scan: BCH ECC: 8 Bit
[ 1.657710] msm_nand_scan: CFG0: 0x290408c0, CFG1: 0x0804715c
[ 1.657710] RAWCFG0: 0x2b8400c0, RAWCFG1: 0x0005055d
[ 1.657710] ECCBUFCFG: 0x00000203, ECCBCHCFG: 0x42040d10
[ 1.657710] RAWECCCFG: 0x42000d11, BAD BLOCK BYTE: 0x000001c5
[ 1.684101] Creating 17 MTD partitions on "7980000.nand":
[ 1.689447] 0x000000000000-0x000000140000 : "sbl"
[ 1.694867] 0x000000140000-0x000000280000 : "mibib"
[ 1.699560] 0x000000280000-0x000000e80000 : "efs2"
[ 1.704408] 0x000000e80000-0x000000f40000 : "tz"
[ 1.708934] 0x000000f40000-0x000000fa0000 : "rpm"
[ 1.713625] 0x000000fa0000-0x000001000000 : "aboot"
[ 1.718582] 0x000001000000-0x0000017e0000 : "boot"
[ 1.723281] 0x0000017e0000-0x000002820000 : "scrub"
[ 1.728174] 0x000002820000-0x000005020000 : "modem"
[ 1.732968] 0x000005020000-0x000005420000 : "rfbackup"
[ 1.738156] 0x000005420000-0x000005820000 : "oem"
[ 1.742770] 0x000005820000-0x000005f00000 : "recovery"
[ 1.747972] 0x000005f00000-0x000009100000 : "cache"
[ 1.752787] 0x000009100000-0x000009a40000 : "recoveryfs"
[ 1.758389] 0x000009a40000-0x00000aa40000 : "cdrom"
[ 1.762967] 0x00000aa40000-0x00000ba40000 : "jrdresource"
[ 1.768407] 0x00000ba40000-0x000010000000 : "system"
[ 1.773239] msm_nand_probe: NANDc phys addr 0x7980000, BAM phys addr 0x7984000, BAM IRQ 164
[ 1.781074] msm_nand_probe: Allocated DMA buffer at virt_addr 0xc7840000, phys_addr 0x87840000
[ 1.791872] PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
[ 1.801126] cnss_sdio 87a00000.qcom,cnss-sdio: CNSS SDIO Driver registered
[ 1.807554] msm_otg 78d9000.usb: msm_otg probe
[ 1.813333] msm_otg 78d9000.usb: OTG regs = c88f8000
[ 1.820702] gbridge_init: gbridge_init successs.
[ 1.826344] msm_otg 78d9000.usb: phy_reset: success
[ 1.830294] qcom,qpnp-rtc qpnp-rtc-c7307000: rtc core: registered qpnp_rtc as rtc0
[ 1.838474] i2c /dev entries driver
[ 1.842459] unable to find DT imem DLOAD mode node
[ 1.846588] unable to find DT imem EDLOAD mode node
[ 1.851332] unable to find DT imem dload-type node
[ 1.856921] bq24295-charger 4-006b: bq24295 probe enter
[ 1.861161] qcom,iterm-ma = 128
[ 1.864476] bq24295_otg_vreg: no parameters
[ 1.868502] charger_core_register: Charger Core Version 5.0.0(Built at 20151202-21:36)!
[ 1.877007] i2c-msm-v2 78b8000.i2c: msm_bus_scale_register_client(mstr-id:86):0x3 (ok)
[ 1.885559] bq24295-charger 4-006b: bq24295_set_bhot_mode 3
[ 1.890150] bq24295-charger 4-006b: power_good is 1,vbus_stat is 2
[ 1.896588] bq24295-charger 4-006b: bq24295_set_thermal_threshold 100
[ 1.902952] bq24295-charger 4-006b: bq24295_set_sys_min 3700
[ 1.908639] bq24295-charger 4-006b: bq24295_set_max_target_voltage 4150
[ 1.915223] bq24295-charger 4-006b: bq24295_set_recharge_threshold 300
[ 1.922119] bq24295-charger 4-006b: bq24295_set_terminal_current_limit iterm_disabled=0, iterm_ma=128
[ 1.930917] bq24295-charger 4-006b: bq24295_set_precharge_current_limit bdi->prech_cur=128
[ 1.940038] bq24295-charger 4-006b: bq24295_set_safty_timer 0
[ 1.945088] bq24295-charger 4-006b: bq24295_set_input_voltage_limit 4520
[ 1.972949] sdhci: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver
[ 1.978151] sdhci: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman
[ 1.982441] sdhci-pltfm: SDHCI platform and OF driver helper
[ 1.989092] sdhci_msm 7824900.sdhci: sdhci_msm_probe: ICE device is not enabled
[ 1.995473] sdhci_msm 7824900.sdhci: No vreg data found for vdd
[ 2.001530] sdhci_msm 7824900.sdhci: sdhci_msm_pm_qos_parse_irq: error -22 reading irq cpu
[ 2.009809] sdhci_msm 7824900.sdhci: sdhci_msm_pm_qos_parse: PM QoS voting for IRQ will be disabled
[ 2.018600] sdhci_msm 7824900.sdhci: sdhci_msm_pm_qos_parse: PM QoS voting for cpu group will be disabled
[ 2.030541] sdhci_msm 7824900.sdhci: sdhci_msm_probe: sdiowakeup_irq = 353
[ 2.036867] sdhci_msm 7824900.sdhci: No vmmc regulator found
[ 2.042027] sdhci_msm 7824900.sdhci: No vqmmc regulator found
[ 2.048266] mmc0: SDHCI controller on 7824900.sdhci [7824900.sdhci] using 32-bit ADMA in legacy mode
[ 2.080401] Welcome to pca955x_probe!!
[ 2.084362] leds-pca955x 3-0020: leds-pca955x: Using pca9555 16-bit LED driver at slave address 0x20
[ 2.095400] sdhci_msm 7824900.sdhci: card claims to support voltages below defined range
[ 2.103125] i2c-msm-v2 78b7000.i2c: msm_bus_scale_register_client(mstr-id:86):0x5 (ok)
[ 2.114183] msm_otg 78d9000.usb: Avail curr from USB = 1500
[ 2.120251] come to USB_SDP_CHARGER!
[ 2.123215] Welcome to sn3199_probe!
[ 2.126718] leds-sn3199 5-0064: leds-sn3199: Using sn3199 9-bit LED driver at slave address 0x64
[ 2.136511] sn3199->led_en_gpio=21
[ 2.139143] i2c-msm-v2 78b9000.i2c: msm_bus_scale_register_client(mstr-id:86):0x6 (ok)
[ 2.150207] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
[ 2.154864] usbhid: USB HID core driver
[ 2.159825] sps:BAM 0x078c4000 is registered.
[ 2.163573] bimc-bwmon 408000.qcom,cpu-bwmon: BW HWmon governor registered.
[ 2.171080] devfreq soc:qcom,cpubw: Couldn't update frequency transition information.
[ 2.178513] coresight-fuse a601c.fuse: QPDI fuse not specified
[ 2.184242] coresight-fuse a601c.fuse: Fuse initialized
[ 2.192407] coresight-csr 6001000.csr: CSR initialized
[ 2.197263] coresight-tmc 6026000.tmc: Byte Counter feature enabled
[ 2.203204] sps:BAM 0x06084000 is registered.
[ 2.207301] coresight-tmc 6026000.tmc: TMC initialized
[ 2.212681] coresight-tmc 6025000.tmc: TMC initialized
[ 2.220071] nidnt boot config: 0
[ 2.224563] mmc0: new ultra high speed SDR50 SDIO card at address 0001
[ 2.231120] coresight-tpiu 6020000.tpiu: NIDnT on SDCARD only mode
[ 2.236440] coresight-tpiu 6020000.tpiu: TPIU initialized
[ 2.242808] coresight-replicator 6024000.replicator: REPLICATOR initialized
[ 2.249372] coresight-stm 6002000.stm: STM initialized
[ 2.255034] coresight-hwevent 606c000.hwevent: Hardware Event driver initialized
[ 2.262312] Netfilter messages via NETLINK v0.30.
[ 2.266306] nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (920 buckets, 3680 max)
[ 2.272312] ctnetlink v0.93: registering with nfnetlink.
[ 2.277565] ip_set: protocol 6
[ 2.280568] ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
[ 2.285723] arp_tables: (C) 2002 David S. Miller
[ 2.290146] TCP: cubic registered
[ 2.293915] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[ 2.298740] ip6_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
[ 2.303407] sit: IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
[ 2.308481] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[ 2.312340] bridge: automatic filtering via arp/ip/ip6tables has been deprecated. Update your scripts to load br_netfilter if you need this.
[ 2.325094] Bridge firewalling registered
[ 2.328930] Ebtables v2.0 registered
[ 2.333260] NET: Registered protocol family 27
[ 2.341362] battery_core_register: Battery Core Version 5.0.0(Built at 20151202-21:36)!
[ 2.348466] pmu_battery_probe: vbat_channel=21, tbat_channel=17
[ 2.420236] ubi0: attaching mtd16
[ 2.723941] ubi0: scanning is finished
[ 2.732997] ubi0: attached mtd16 (name "system", size 69 MiB)
[ 2.737783] ubi0: PEB size: 131072 bytes (128 KiB), LEB size: 126976 bytes
[ 2.744601] ubi0: min./max. I/O unit sizes: 2048/2048, sub-page size 2048
[ 2.751333] ubi0: VID header offset: 2048 (aligned 2048), data offset: 4096
[ 2.758540] ubi0: good PEBs: 556, bad PEBs: 2, corrupted PEBs: 0
[ 2.764305] ubi0: user volume: 3, internal volumes: 1, max. volumes count: 128
[ 2.771476] ubi0: max/mean erase counter: 192/64, WL threshold: 4096, image sequence number: 35657280
[ 2.780708] ubi0: available PEBs: 0, total reserved PEBs: 556, PEBs reserved for bad PEB handling: 38
[ 2.789921] ubi0: background thread "ubi_bgt0d" started, PID 96
[ 2.796395] android_bind cdev: 0xC6583E80, name: ci13xxx_msm
[ 2.801508] file system registered
[ 2.804974] mbim_init: initialize 1 instances
[ 2.809228] mbim_init: Initialized 1 ports
[ 2.815074] rndis_qc_init: initialize rndis QC instance
[ 2.819713] jrd device_desc.bcdDevice: [0x0242]
[ 2.823779] android_bind scheduled usb start work: name: ci13xxx_msm
[ 2.830230] android_usb gadget: android_usb ready
[ 2.834845] msm_hsusb msm_hsusb: [ci13xxx_start] hw_ep_max = 32
[ 2.840741] msm_hsusb msm_hsusb: CI13XXX_CONTROLLER_RESET_EVENT received
[ 2.847433] msm_hsusb msm_hsusb: CI13XXX_CONTROLLER_UDC_STARTED_EVENT received
[ 2.855851] input: gpio-keys as /devices/soc:gpio_keys/input/input1
[ 2.861452] qcom,qpnp-rtc qpnp-rtc-c7307000: setting system clock to 1970-01-01 06:36:41 UTC (23801)
[ 2.870315] open file error /usb_conf/usb_config.ini
[ 2.876412] jrd_usb_start_work open file erro /usb_conf/usb_config.ini, retry_count:0
[ 2.884324] parse_legacy_cluster_params(): Ignoring cluster params
[ 2.889468] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 2.894186] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at /home/linux3/jrd/yanping.an/ee40/0810/MDM9607.LE.1.0-00130/apps_proc/oe-core/build/tmp-glibc/work-shared/mdm9607/kernel-source/drivers/cpuidle/lpm-levels-of.c:739 parse_cluster+0xb50/0xcb4()
[ 2.914366] Modules linked in:
[ 2.917339] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper Not tainted 3.18.20 #1
[ 2.923171] [<c00132ac>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<c0011460>] (show_stack+0x10/0x14)
[ 2.931092] [<c0011460>] (show_stack) from [<c001c6ac>] (warn_slowpath_common+0x68/0x88)
[ 2.939175] [<c001c6ac>] (warn_slowpath_common) from [<c001c75c>] (warn_slowpath_null+0x18/0x20)
[ 2.947895] [<c001c75c>] (warn_slowpath_null) from [<c034e180>] (parse_cluster+0xb50/0xcb4)
[ 2.956189] [<c034e180>] (parse_cluster) from [<c034b6b4>] (lpm_probe+0xc/0x1d4)
[ 2.963527] [<c034b6b4>] (lpm_probe) from [<c024857c>] (platform_drv_probe+0x30/0x7c)
[ 2.971380] [<c024857c>] (platform_drv_probe) from [<c0246d54>] (driver_probe_device+0xb8/0x1e8)
[ 2.980118] [<c0246d54>] (driver_probe_device) from [<c0246f30>] (__driver_attach+0x68/0x8c)
[ 2.988467] [<c0246f30>] (__driver_attach) from [<c02455d0>] (bus_for_each_dev+0x6c/0x90)
[ 2.996626] [<c02455d0>] (bus_for_each_dev) from [<c02465a4>] (bus_add_driver+0xe0/0x1c8)
[ 3.004786] [<c02465a4>] (bus_add_driver) from [<c02477bc>] (driver_register+0x9c/0xe0)
[ 3.012739] [<c02477bc>] (driver_register) from [<c080c3d8>] (lpm_levels_module_init+0x14/0x38)
[ 3.021459] [<c080c3d8>] (lpm_levels_module_init) from [<c0008980>] (do_one_initcall+0xf8/0x1a0)
[ 3.030217] [<c0008980>] (do_one_initcall) from [<c07e7d4c>] (kernel_init_freeable+0xf0/0x1b0)
[ 3.038818] [<c07e7d4c>] (kernel_init_freeable) from [<c0582d48>] (kernel_init+0x8/0xe4)
[ 3.046888] [<c0582d48>] (kernel_init) from [<c000dda0>] (ret_from_fork+0x14/0x34)
[ 3.054432] ---[ end trace e9ec50b1ec4c8f73 ]---
[ 3.059012] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 3.063604] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at /home/linux3/jrd/yanping.an/ee40/0810/MDM9607.LE.1.0-00130/apps_proc/oe-core/build/tmp-glibc/work-shared/mdm9607/kernel-source/drivers/cpuidle/lpm-levels-of.c:739 parse_cluster+0xb50/0xcb4()
[ 3.083858] Modules linked in:
[ 3.086870] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper Tainted: G W 3.18.20 #1
[ 3.093814] [<c00132ac>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<c0011460>] (show_stack+0x10/0x14)
[ 3.101575] [<c0011460>] (show_stack) from [<c001c6ac>] (warn_slowpath_common+0x68/0x88)
[ 3.109641] [<c001c6ac>] (warn_slowpath_common) from [<c001c75c>] (warn_slowpath_null+0x18/0x20)
[ 3.118412] [<c001c75c>] (warn_slowpath_null) from [<c034e180>] (parse_cluster+0xb50/0xcb4)
[ 3.126745] [<c034e180>] (parse_cluster) from [<c034b6b4>] (lpm_probe+0xc/0x1d4)
[ 3.134126] [<c034b6b4>] (lpm_probe) from [<c024857c>] (platform_drv_probe+0x30/0x7c)
[ 3.141906] [<c024857c>] (platform_drv_probe) from [<c0246d54>] (driver_probe_device+0xb8/0x1e8)
[ 3.150702] [<c0246d54>] (driver_probe_device) from [<c0246f30>] (__driver_attach+0x68/0x8c)
[ 3.159120] [<c0246f30>] (__driver_attach) from [<c02455d0>] (bus_for_each_dev+0x6c/0x90)
[ 3.167285] [<c02455d0>] (bus_for_each_dev) from [<c02465a4>] (bus_add_driver+0xe0/0x1c8)
[ 3.175444] [<c02465a4>] (bus_add_driver) from [<c02477bc>] (driver_register+0x9c/0xe0)
[ 3.183398] [<c02477bc>] (driver_register) from [<c080c3d8>] (lpm_levels_module_init+0x14/0x38)
[ 3.192107] [<c080c3d8>] (lpm_levels_module_init) from [<c0008980>] (do_one_initcall+0xf8/0x1a0)
[ 3.200877] [<c0008980>] (do_one_initcall) from [<c07e7d4c>] (kernel_init_freeable+0xf0/0x1b0)
[ 3.209475] [<c07e7d4c>] (kernel_init_freeable) from [<c0582d48>] (kernel_init+0x8/0xe4)
[ 3.217542] [<c0582d48>] (kernel_init) from [<c000dda0>] (ret_from_fork+0x14/0x34)
[ 3.225090] ---[ end trace e9ec50b1ec4c8f74 ]---
[ 3.229667] /soc/qcom,lpm-levels/qcom,pm-cluster@0: No CPU phandle, assuming single cluster
[ 3.239954] qcom,cc-debug-mdm9607 1800000.qcom,debug: Registered Debug Mux successfully
[ 3.247619] emac_lan_vreg: disabling
[ 3.250507] mem_acc_corner: disabling
[ 3.254196] clock_late_init: Removing enables held for handed-off clocks
[ 3.262690] ALSA device list:
[ 3.264732] No soundcard�[ 3.274083] UBIFS (ubi0:0): background thread "ubifs_bgt0_0" started, PID 102
[ 3.305224] UBIFS (ubi0:0): recovery needed
[ 3.466156] UBIFS (ubi0:0): recovery completed
[ 3.469627] UBIFS (ubi0:0): UBIFS: mounted UBI device 0, volume 0, name "rootfs"
[ 3.476987] UBIFS (ubi0:0): LEB size: 126976 bytes (124 KiB), min./max. I/O unit sizes: 2048 bytes/2048 bytes
[ 3.486876] UBIFS (ubi0:0): FS size: 45838336 bytes (43 MiB, 361 LEBs), journal size 9023488 bytes (8 MiB, 72 LEBs)
[ 3.497417] UBIFS (ubi0:0): reserved for root: 0 bytes (0 KiB)
[ 3.503078] UBIFS (ubi0:0): media format: w4/r0 (latest is w4/r0), UUID 4DBB2F12-34EB-43B6-839B-3BA930765BAE, small LPT model
[ 3.515582] VFS: Mounted root (ubifs filesystem) on device 0:12.
[ 3.520940] Freeing unused kernel memory: 276K (c07e7000 - c082c000)
INIT: version 2.88 booting
Working better with an online whiteboard
One of the challenges I find about being fully remote is that one of the ways I think while I explain things is I draw diagrams. I’m not artistic in any manner (my brothers got that skillset), but a set of boxes and lines and some text scribbled as I talk really helps. I do think even for myself, which is obviously as easy to replicate at home as in the office; I have plenty of paper and a whiteboard in my study. It’s not so easy when having a design discussion with someone remotely.
Doodling with a mouse doesn’t quite work; my art skills are bad enough without then factoring in the fact it’s not a pen-like device I’m using to do it. I’ve previously tried a proper graphics tablet, but there’s a disconnect between where you are writing and where the output appears. That makes doing things like labelling within a diagram, or going back to draw an update, quite difficult. Or it does if you’re me anyway.
The modern solution is probably a laptop with a stylus capable touchscreen, but I’ve shied away from such things because I don’t want fingerprints all over my screen and don’t want to pay extra for something I haven’t previously thought I’d use. An alternative is a tablet with a stylus capable screen, but those turn out to be premium models these days (remember when resistive was the cheap option because no one wanted to use the stylus?) and mine doesn’t support it. You can get capacitive styli (styluses?) but then when you lean on the tablet it all gets confused.
When I’m due a technology refresh of my laptop or tablet I’ll perhaps factor such things in, but what to do now, when I’m not entirely sure how much usage I’ll get out of such a device and thus can’t justify a major expense on it? Buy a random thing from the internet, of course!
It turns out there are a range of “LCD writing tablets” out there, which let you scribble on a screen and then erase it at the press of a button. An electronic etch-a-sketch, as it were. Most of them don’t count as “smart”, with power only needed for the erase, but there appears to have been a device called the “Boogie Board Sync” in the past which offered some ability to save things. Searching around I found the NEWYES 10” Bluetooth Archive Writing Tablet from BangGood. Which looked like it had enough smarts to be able to send the images over bluetooth and therefore might be hackable in some manner. At £45 it seemed a reasonable punt, so I ordered one.
It arrived within 2 weeks and I was surprised to find that when plugged in as a USB device it actually presented as a tablet. So much for a hackery requirement! It was detected by the kernel fine:
kernel dmesg output
usb 1-1.2: new full-speed USB device number 19 using xhci_hcd
usb 1-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=6161, idProduct=4d15, bcdDevice=30.00
usb 1-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=5, Product=6, SerialNumber=0
usb 1-1.2: Product: LetSketch
usb 1-1.2: Manufacturer: LetSketch
hid-generic 0003:6161:4D15.0010: hiddev0,hidraw4: USB HID v1.11 Device [LetSketch LetSketch] on usb-0000:00:14.0-1.2/input0
input: LetSketch LetSketch as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-1/1-1.2/1-1.2:1.1/0003:6161:4D15.0011/input/input35
hid-generic 0003:6161:4D15.0011: input,hidraw5: USB HID v1.11 Device [LetSketch LetSketch] on usb-0000:00:14.0-1.2/input1
lsusb output
Bus 001 Device 016: ID 6161:4d15
Device Descriptor:
bLength 18
bDescriptorType 1
bcdUSB 1.00
bDeviceClass 0
bDeviceSubClass 0
bDeviceProtocol 0
bMaxPacketSize0 64
idVendor 0x6161
idProduct 0x4d15
bcdDevice 30.00
iManufacturer 5 LetSketch
iProduct 6 LetSketch
iSerial 0
bNumConfigurations 1
Configuration Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 2
wTotalLength 0x003b
bNumInterfaces 2
bConfigurationValue 1
iConfiguration 0
bmAttributes 0xa0
(Bus Powered)
Remote Wakeup
MaxPower 480mA
Interface Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 4
bInterfaceNumber 0
bAlternateSetting 0
bNumEndpoints 1
bInterfaceClass 3 Human Interface Device
bInterfaceSubClass 1 Boot Interface Subclass
bInterfaceProtocol 2 Mouse
iInterface 0
HID Device Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 33
bcdHID 1.11
bCountryCode 0 Not supported
bNumDescriptors 1
bDescriptorType 34 Report
wDescriptorLength 18
Report Descriptors:
** UNAVAILABLE **
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 5
bEndpointAddress 0x81 EP 1 IN
bmAttributes 3
Transfer Type Interrupt
Synch Type None
Usage Type Data
wMaxPacketSize 0x0010 1x 16 bytes
bInterval 2
Interface Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 4
bInterfaceNumber 1
bAlternateSetting 0
bNumEndpoints 1
bInterfaceClass 3 Human Interface Device
bInterfaceSubClass 1 Boot Interface Subclass
bInterfaceProtocol 2 Mouse
iInterface 0
HID Device Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 33
bcdHID 1.11
bCountryCode 0 Not supported
bNumDescriptors 1
bDescriptorType 34 Report
wDescriptorLength 83
Report Descriptors:
** UNAVAILABLE **
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 5
bEndpointAddress 0x82 EP 2 IN
bmAttributes 3
Transfer Type Interrupt
Synch Type None
Usage Type Data
wMaxPacketSize 0x0010 1x 16 bytes
bInterval 2
Device Status: 0x0003
Self Powered
Remote Wakeup Enabled
Nice. X wasn’t happy though:
non-working Xorg log
(II) config/udev: Adding input device LetSketch LetSketch (/dev/input/event8)
(**) LetSketch LetSketch: Applying InputClass "libinput tablet catchall"
(II) Using input driver 'libinput' for 'LetSketch LetSketch'
(II) systemd-logind: got fd for /dev/input/event8 13:72 fd 34 paused 0
(**) LetSketch LetSketch: always reports core events
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/event8"
(**) Option "_source" "server/udev"
(II) event8 - LetSketch LetSketch: is tagged by udev as: Tablet
(EE) event8 - LetSketch LetSketch: libinput bug: missing tablet capabilities: resolution. Ignoring this device.
(II) event8 - LetSketch LetSketch: device is a tablet
(II) event8 - failed to create input device '/dev/input/event8'.
(EE) libinput: LetSketch LetSketch: Failed to create a device for /dev/input/event8
(EE) PreInit returned 2 for "LetSketch LetSketch"
(II) UnloadModule: "libinput"
I ended up digging into the libinput source to figure out what was going on here, and it turned out to be the fact there was no report of the physical size of the tablet, so no indication of what the resolution was. That’s solvable with an entry in the udev hwdb for evdev devices, so I sent a patch upstream and with that applied (or just dropped into /etc/udev/hwdb.d/61-evdev-local.hwdb and then running systemd-hwdb update and replugging the device) everything looks much happier:
working Xorg log
(II) config/udev: Adding input device LetSketch LetSketch (/dev/input/event8)
(**) LetSketch LetSketch: Applying InputClass "libinput tablet catchall"
(II) Using input driver 'libinput' for 'LetSketch LetSketch'
(II) systemd-logind: got fd for /dev/input/event8 13:72 fd 86 paused 0
(**) LetSketch LetSketch: always reports core events
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/event8"
(**) Option "_source" "server/udev"
(II) event8 - LetSketch LetSketch: is tagged by udev as: Tablet
(II) event8 - LetSketch LetSketch: tablet 'LetSketch LetSketch' unknown to libwacom
(II) event8 - LetSketch LetSketch: device is a tablet
(II) event8 - LetSketch LetSketch: device removed
(**) Option "config_info" "udev:/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:08.1/0000:04:00.3/usb1/1-1/1-1.2/1-1.2:1.1/0003:6161:4D15.000A/input/input24/event8"
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "LetSketch LetSketch" (type: TABLET, id 20)
(II) event8 - LetSketch LetSketch: is tagged by udev as: Tablet
(II) event8 - LetSketch LetSketch: tablet 'LetSketch LetSketch' unknown to libwacom
(II) event8 - LetSketch LetSketch: device is a tablet
(II) libinput: LetSketch LetSketch: needs a virtual subdevice
(**) LetSketch LetSketch Pen (0): Applying InputClass "libinput tablet catchall"
(II) Using input driver 'libinput' for 'LetSketch LetSketch Pen (0)'
(II) systemd-logind: returning pre-existing fd for /dev/input/event8 13:72
(**) LetSketch LetSketch Pen (0): always reports core events
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/event8"
(**) Option "_source" "_driver/libinput"
(II) libinput: LetSketch LetSketch Pen (0): is a virtual subdevice
(**) Option "config_info" "udev:/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:08.1/0000:04:00.3/usb1/1-1/1-1.2/1-1.2:1.1/0003:6161:4D15.000A/input/input24/event8"
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "LetSketch LetSketch Pen (0)" (type: STYLUS, id 21)
(**) Option "AccelerationScheme" "none"
(**) LetSketch LetSketch Pen (0): (accel) selected scheme none/0
(**) LetSketch LetSketch Pen (0): (accel) acceleration factor: 2.000
(**) LetSketch LetSketch Pen (0): (accel) acceleration threshold: 4
The only additional piece I’ve done is tie the tablet to a single screen, so I can then full screen whichever “whiteboard” system I’m using on that screen and have it map to the tablet - haven’t worked out how to tie it to just the application window yet, but the fullscreen approach works fine, using my smaller laptop screen. To do that I use xinput list to figure out the ID of the tablet and then xinput map-to-output 23 eDP-1 to map it to the eDP-1 output (the internal laptop screen), assuming the ID that comes out of the list is 23.
But is it any good? Well, the quality of the screen isn’t fantastic - no fine art or anything here - but the tablet part seems fine (complete with some pressure sensitivity) and the fact I can see what I’ve drawn where I’m trying to draw something new makes it a lot more useful for me. I’ve had a play with just screen sharing the GIMP and doodling in that, but equally work has an O365 subscription and the Microsoft Whiteboard turns out to be pretty good without anyone I’m sharing with needing to install anything.
Of course my artistic skills are still dreadful, but I have actually managed to use it for drawing out a couple of things while discussing them, so I’m considering that a win.
Free Software Activities for 2020
As a reader of Planet Debian I see a bunch of updates at the start of each month about what people are up to in terms of their Free Software activities. I’m not generally active enough in the Free Software world to justify a monthly report, but I did a report of my Free Software Activities for 2019 and thought I’d do another for 2020. I ended up not doing as much as last year; I put a lot of that down to fatigue about the state of the world and generally not wanting to spend time on the computer at the end of the working day.
Conferences
2020 was unsurprisingly not a great year for conference attendance. I was fortunate enough to make it to FOSDEM and CopyleftConf 2020 - I didn’t speak at either, but had plenty of interesting hallway track conversations as well as seeing some good talks. I hadn’t been planning to attend DebConf20 due to time constraints, but its move to an entirely online conference meant I was able to attend a few talks at least. I have to say I don’t like virtual conferences as much as the real thing; it’s not as easy to have the casual chats at them, and it’s also harder to carve out the exclusive time when you’re at home. That said I spoke at NIDevConf this year, which was also fully virtual. It’s not a Free Software focussed conference, but there’s a lot of crossover in terms of technologies and I spoke on my experiences with Go, some of which are influenced by my packaging experiences within Debian.
Debian
Most of my contributions to Free software happen within Debian.
As part of the Data Protection Team I responded to various inbound queries to that team. Some of this involved chasing up other project teams who had been slow to respond - folks, if you’re running a service that stores personal data about people then you need to be responsive to requests about it.
The Debian Keyring was possibly my largest single point of contribution. We’re in a roughly 3 month rotation of who handles the keyring updates, and I handled 2020.02.02, 2020.03.24, 2020.06.24, 2020.09.24 + 2020.12.24
For Debian New Members I’m mostly inactive as an application manager - we generally seem to have enough available recently. If that changes I’ll look at stepping in to help, but I don’t see that happening. I continue to be involved in Front Desk, having various conversations throughout the year with the rest of the team, but there’s no doubt Mattia and Pierre-Elliott are the real doers at present.
In terms of package uploads I continued to work on gcc-xtensa-lx106, largely doing uploads to deal with updates to the GCC version or packaging (5, 6 + 7). sigrok had a few minor updates, libsigkrok 0.5.2-2, libsigrokdecode 0.5.3-2 as well as a new upstream release of Pulseview 0.4.2-1 and a fix to cope with change to QT 0.4.2-2. Due to the sigrok-firmware requirement on sdcc I also continued to help out there, updating to 4.0.0+dfsg-1 and doing some fixups in 4.0.0+dfsg-2.
Despite still not writing an VHDL these days I continue to try and make sure ghdl is ok, because I found it a useful tool in the past. In 2020 that meant a new upstream release, 0.37+dfsg-1 along with a couple of more minor updates (0.37+dfsg-2 + 0.37+dfsg-3.
libcli had a new upstream release, 1.10.4-1, and I did a long overdue update to sendip to the latest upstream release, 2.6-1 having been poked about an outstanding bug by the Reproducible Builds folk.
OpenOCD is coming up to 4 years since its last stable release, but I did a snapshot upload to Debian experimental (0.10.0+g20200530-1) and a subsequent one to unstable (0.10.0+g20200819-1). There are also moves to produce a 0.11.0 release and I uploaded 0.11.0~rc1-1 as a result. libjaylink got a bump as a result (0.2.0-1) after some discussion with upstream.
OpenOCD
On the subject of OpenOCD I’ve tried to be a bit more involved upstream. I’m not familiar enough with the intricacies of JTAG/SWD/the various architectures supported to contribute to the core, but I pushed the config for my HIE JTAG adapter upstream and try and review patches that don’t require in depth hardware knowledge.
Linux
I’ve been contributing to the Linux kernel for a number of years now, mostly just minor bits here and there for issues I hit. This year I spent a lot of time getting support for the MikoTik RB3011 router upstreamed. That included the basic DTS addition, fixing up QCA8K to support SGMII CPU connections, adding proper 802.1q VLAN support to QCA8K and cleaning up an existing QCOM ADM driver that’s required for the NAND. There were a number of associated bugfixes/minor changes found along the way too. It can be a little frustrating at times going round the review loop with submitting things upstream, but I do find it quite satisfying when it all comes together and I have no interest in weird vendor trees that just bitrot over time.
Software in the Public Interest
I haven’t sat on the board of SPI since 2015 but I was still acting as the primary maintainer of the membership website (with Martin Michlmayr as the other active contributor) and hosting it on my own machine. I managed to finally extricate myself from this role in August. I remain a contributing member.
Personal projects
2020 finally saw another release (0.6.0, followed swiftly by 0.6.1 to allow the upload of 0.6.1-1 to Debian) of onak. This release finally adds various improvements to deal with the hostility shown to the OpenPGP keyserver network in recent years, including full signature verification as an option.
I fixed an oversight in my Digoo/1-wire temperature decoder and a bug that turned up on ARM but not MIPS in my mqtt-arp code. I should probably package it for Debian (even if I don’t upload it), as I’m running it on my RB3011 now.
Rooting the Tesco Hudl
I have an original Tesco Hudl - a Rockchip RK3188 based Android tablet. It’s somewhat long in the tooth and mine is running Android 4.2.2 (Jelly Bean). As a first step in trying to get it updated a bit I decided to root it and have a poke about. There are plenty of guides for this, but they mostly involve downloading Android apps that look dodgy or don’t exist any more. Thankfully the bootloader is unlocked, so I did it the hard (manual) way from a Debian 10 (Buster) box. I doubt this is useful to many folk, but I thought I’d write it up. As you’d expect follow this at your own risk; there is the potential to brick the Hudl.
First, enable developer mode on the Hudl (so we can adb in). Open the Settings app, scroll down to the bottom and click “About Tablet”, scroll down to the bottom and tap “Build number” 7 times, at which point it will tell you “You are now a developer!”. Go back to the main settings menu and just above “About Tablet” there will now be a “Developer options” entry. Click it, then make sure the box beside “USB debugging” is ticked.
Now you need to install the appropriate tools on your Debian box. That should be:
$ sudo apt install adb rkflashtool
We also need to download a suitable su tool. I lazily went for the prebuilt SuperSU Root:
$ mkdir hudl-root
$ cd hudl-root
$ wget https://supersuroot.org/downloads/SuperSU-v2.79-201612051815.zip
$ unzip SuperSU-v2.79-201612051815.zip
2.82 is the latest version but has problems on Jelly Bean; the device will end up not properly booting.
Hook the Hudl up to your machine with a suitable USB cable and you’ll now be able to get a shell on it:
$ adb shell
* daemon not running; starting now at tcp:5037
* daemon started successfully
shell@android:/ $
Ctrl-D will quit the shell and return you back to the local prompt. Next step is to reboot into the Rockchip bootloader, and use that to download the system partition (just over 1G in size)
$ adb reboot bootloader
$ sudo rkflashtool r system > system.img
rkflashtool: info: rkflashtool v5.2
rkflashtool: info: Detected RK3188...
rkflashtool: info: interface claimed
rkflashtool: info: working with partition: system
rkflashtool: info: found offset: 0x00142000
rkflashtool: info: found size: 0x00200000
rkflashtool: info: reading flash memory at offset 0x00341fe0... Done!
We now have a system.img file which represents the system partition of the device. We can mount that and copy over the su binary and SuperSU apk.
$ sudo mount -o loop system.img /mnt
$ sudo cp common/Superuser.apk /mnt/app/
$ sudo cp armv7/su /mnt/xbin/
$ sudo chmod +sx /mnt/xbin/su
$ sudo umount /mnt
Finally we can write this image back to the device, reboot and once the reboot has completed use adb to connect and su to root. SuperSU might pop up a dialog on the tablet asking you to ok the action (and possibly indicate it needs to do a fixup of the installation):
$ sudo rkflashtool w system < system.img
$ sudo rkflashtool b
$ adb shell
shell@android:/ $ su -
root@android:/ #
DeskPi Pro + 8GB Pi 4
Despite having worked on a number of ARM platforms I’ve never actually had an ARM based development box at home. I have a Raspberry Pi B Classic (the original 256MB rev 0002 variant) a coworker gave me some years ago, but it’s not what you’d choose for a build machine and generally gets used as a self contained TFTP/console server for hooking up to devices under test. Mostly I’ve been able to do kernel development with the cross compilers already built as part of Debian, and either use pre-built images or Debian directly when I need userland pieces. At a previous job I had a Marvell MACCHIATObin available to me, which works out as a nice platform - quad core A72 @ 2GHz with 16GB RAM, proper SATA and a PCIe slot. However they’re still a bit pricey for a casual home machine. I really like the look of the HoneyComb LX2 - 16 A72 cores, up to 64GB RAM - but it’s even more expensive.
So when I saw the existence of the 8GB Raspberry Pi 4 I was interested. Firstly, the Pi 4 is a proper 64 bit device (my existing Pi B is ARMv6 which means it needs to run Raspbian instead of native Debian armhf), capable of running an upstream kernel and unmodified Debian userspace. Secondly the Pi 4 has a USB 3 controller sitting on a PCIe bus rather than just the limited SoC USB 2 controller. It’s not SATA, but it’s still a fairly decent method of attaching some storage that’s faster/more reliable than an SD card. Finally 8GB RAM is starting to get to a decent amount - for a headless build box 4GB is probably generally enough, but I wanted some headroom.
The Pi comes as a bare board, so I needed a case. Ideally I wanted something self contained that could take the Pi, provide a USB/SATA adaptor and take the drive too. I came across the pre-order for the DeskPi Pro, decided it was the sort of thing I was after, and ordered one towards the end of September. It finally arrived at the start of December, at which point I got round to ordering a Pi 4 from CPC.
Total cost ~ £120 for the case + Pi.
The Bad
First, let’s get the bad parts out of the way.
I managed to break a USB port on the Desk Pi. It has a pair of forward facing ports, I plugged my wireless keyboard dongle into it and when trying to remove it the solid spacer bit in the socket broke off. I’ve never had this happen to me before and I’ve been using USB devices for 20 years, so I’m putting the blame on a shoddy socket.
The first drive I tried was an old Crucial M500 mSATA device. I have an adaptor that makes it look like a normal 2.5” drive so I used that. Unfortunately it resulted in a boot loop; the Pi would boot its initial firmware, try to talk to the drive and then reboot before even loading Linux. The DeskPi Pro comes with an m2 adaptor and I had a spare m2 drive, so I tried that and it all worked fine. This might just be power issues, but it was an unfortunate experience especially after the USB port had broken off.
(Given I ended up using an M.2 drive another case option would have been the Argon ONE M.2, which is a bit more compact.)
The Annoying
The case is a little snug; I was worried I was going to damage things as I slid it in. Additionally the construction process is a little involved. There’s a good set of instructions, but there are a lot of pieces and screws involved. This includes a couple of FFC cables to join things up. I think this is because they’ve attempted to make a compact case rather than allowing a little extra room, and it does have the advantage that once assembled it feels robust without anything loose in it.
I hate the need for an external USB3 dongle to bridge from the Pi to the USB/SATA adaptor. All the cases I’ve seen with an internal drive bay have to do this, because the USB3 isn’t brought out internally by the Pi, but it just looks ugly to me. It’s hidden at the back, but meh.
Fan control is via a USB/serial device, which is fine, but it attaches to the USB C power port which defaults to being a USB peripheral. Raspbian based kernels support device tree overlays which allows easy reconfiguration to host mode, but for a Debian based system I ended up rolling my own dtb file. I changed
#include "bcm283x-rpi-usb-peripheral.dtsi"
to
#include "bcm283x-rpi-usb-host.dtsi"
in arch/arm/boot/dts/bcm2711-rpi-4-b.dts and then I did:
cpp -nostdinc -I include -I arch -undef -x assembler-with-cpp \
arch/arm/boot/dts/bcm2711-rpi-4-b.dts > rpi4.preprocessed
dtc -I dts -O dtb rpi4.preprocessed -o bcm2711-rpi-4-b.dtb
and the resulting bcm2711-rpi-4-b.dtb file replaced the one in /boot/firmware. This isn’t a necessary step if you don’t want to use the cooling fan in the case, or the front USB ports, and it’s not really anyone’s fault, but it was an annoying extra step to have to figure out.
The DeskPi came with a microSD card that was supposed to have RaspiOS already on it. It didn’t, it was blank. In my case that was fine, because I wanted to use Debian, but it was a minor niggle.
The Good
I used Gunnar’s pre-built Pi Debian image and it Just Worked; I dd’d it to the microSD as instructed and the Pi 4 came up with working wifi, video and USB enabling me to get it configured for my network. I did an apt upgrade and got updated to the Buster 10.7 release, as well as the latest 5.9 backport kernel, and everything came back without effort after a reboot. It’s lovely to be able to run Debian on this device without having to futz around with self-compiled kernels.
The DeskPi makes a lot of effort to route things externally. The SD slot is brought out to the front, making it easy to fiddle with the card contents without having to open the case to replace it. All the important ports are brought out to the back either through orientation of the Pi, or extenders in the case. That means the built in Pi USB ports, the HDMI sockets (conveniently converted to full size internally), an audio jack and a USB-C power port. The aforementioned USB3 dongle for the bridge to the drive is the only external thing that’s annoying.
Thermally things seem good too. I haven’t done a full torture test yet, but with the fan off the system is sitting at about 40°C while fairly idle. Some loops in bash that push load up to above 2 get the temperature up to 46°C or so, and turning the fan on brings it down to 40°C again. It’s audible, but quieter than my laptop and not annoying.
I liked the way the case came with everything I needed other than the Pi 4 and a suitable disk drive. There was an included PSU (a proper USB-C PD device, UK plug), the heatsink/fan is there, the USB/SATA converter is there and even an SD card is provided (though that’s just because I had a pre-order).
Speaking of the SD, I only needed it for initial setup. Recent Pi 4 bootloaders are capable of booting directly from USB mass storage devices. So I upgraded using the RPi EEPROM Recovery image (which just needs extracted to the SD FAT partition, no need for anything complicated - boot with it and the screen goes all green and you know it’s ok), then created a FAT partition at the start of the drive for the kernel / bootloader config and a regular EXT4 partition for root. Copies everything over, updated paths, took out the SD and it all just works happily.
Summary
My main complaint is the broken USB port, which feels like the result of a cheap connector. For a front facing port expected to see more use than the rear ports I think there’s a reasonable expectation of robustness. However I’m an early adopter and maybe future runs will be better.
Other than that I’m pretty happy. The case is exactly the sort of thing I wanted; I was looking for something that would turn the Pi into a box that can sit on my desk on the network and that I don’t have to worry about knocking wires out of or lots of cables hooking bits up. Everything being included made it very convenient to get up and running. I still haven’t poked the Pi that hard, but first impressions are looking good for it being a trouble free ARM64 dev box in the corner, until I can justify a HoneyComb.
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