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2024/04/15

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se6astian
MEETING TIME, who is here?
17:00
Bertl
is here
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se6astian
any news to report Bertl?
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Bertl
not much, spent most of my time investigating the HDMI MIPI bridge setup further
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Bertl
preparing for a suitable plugin board but still missing manufacturer data
17:03
se6astian
great
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Bertl
some test showed that we can probably get away with a very reduced component count
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Bertl
without sacrificing quality that is
17:06
se6astian
anuejn and me had a work session last thursday and made lots of progress with firmware upgrades and additions, still some things left to complete though
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se6astian
anuejn also expressed interest in evaluating the rockpi5 instead of the raspberry pi5
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se6astian
as it has hdmi in built in already IIRC
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se6astian
for the axiom recorder
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se6astian
you have one Bertl right?
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Bertl
yeah, I have one
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se6astian
do I remember correctly that the hdmi in was already tested but showed no signal from the beta at the time?
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Bertl
I didn't do the testing back then IIRC
17:07
se6astian
maybe anuejn did it
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Bertl
but I certainly can test it with the new firmware
17:08
se6astian
would be interesting to try again now with the hdmi fixes
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se6astian
if hdmi works
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Bertl
yes, but I do not see that it could be a real competition for the rpi5
17:08
se6astian
yes please hook it up if you have time
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Bertl
costs way more, only has one HDMI input, etc
17:09
se6astian
what are the pros/cons? not needing additional PCBs for mipi/hdmi input is a plus
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se6astian
and the nmve ssd is also built in already IIRC
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se6astian
the slot I mean
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Bertl
we won't need additional PCBs, we will have direct MIPI out on the upcoming plugin
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Bertl
two MIPI channels and one HDMI
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Bertl
but MIPI might work with the rockpi as well
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se6astian
well, we dont even know if we will get chips from toshiba no?
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Bertl
but the rock-pi 5 with cooler comes about 2-3x the price of the rpi5
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Bertl
we definitely should do a feature comparison
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Bertl
(recorder specific that is)
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se6astian
its also slightly bigger (100x72mm) than the rp5 (85x56mm)
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se6astian
yes a good overview table would be great
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se6astian
anuejn: size you brought that choice up would you dive into this?
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se6astian
*since
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se6astian
ok, anyone else who wants to share?
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se6astian
BAndiT1983 made some progress with the asciidocs auto generated documentation IIRC?
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BAndiT1983
a bit, will adjust the pipeline
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BAndiT1983
so we can get proper theming and additional diagrams via kroki etc.
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se6astian
great, anything else?
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BAndiT1983
nope, not yet, but will try to resume other things soon
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se6astian
good good
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se6astian
ok then thanks everyone! MEETING CONCLUDED
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Bertl
thanks for the moderation!
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anuejn
se6astian: I can try
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anuejn
but i dont really think we should do a pro con session but rather discuss the points
20:39
anuejn
since bertl has strong feelings for the rpi and I have feelings for the rockchip, we should probably just have a chat
20:42
anuejn
so here is my argumentation for the rockpi:
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anuejn
I believe, that it is hardware-wise a bit easier since we do not need to develop anything new (can use the existing plugin modules)
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anuejn
In addition to that, the rockpi offers a solution for fast storage that has loads of headroom (pcie 3x4)
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anuejn
these are my main points
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anuejn
the raspi is cheaper
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anuejn
and with some work we can probably get some more input bandwith (via 2x mipi with 4 lanes)
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anuejn
but it has a lot less output bandwidth
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anuejn
on the upside it has a working vulkan driver (which the rockpi lacks)
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anuejn
the RK3588 is roughly twice as fast as the BCM2712
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anuejn
(cpu performance)
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anuejn
(multicore; single core seems roughly the same)
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anuejn
gpu performance we cannot really compare since the axiom recorder cannot currently utilize the rockchip gpu due to no existing driver
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anuejn
I have the feeling that the rockpi _should_ be more or less just a matter of plugging it in, now that the HDMI is working
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anuejn
but it would be nice to test that
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anuejn
(and some tweaks on the axiom recorder to fix the so far untested cpu-only mode)
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anuejn
the pi is also fine, if we get write performance sorted out
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anuejn
any more thoughts, Bertl?
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anuejn
ah: the RK3588 has probably a bit more headroom to do image compression in software
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anuejn
but unclear if that benefits us much because we have a hard time getting the data into the soc
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se6astian
do we benefit from the increased write performance to SSD via pcie if the input is 1080p60 max anyways?
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anuejn
no.
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anuejn
the maximum datarate we can shove over the hdmi is below 3.96 gigabit / second (495 megabyte / second)
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anuejn
so more than that we will also not write
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Bertl
anuejn: write performance on the rpi5 is fine for the PCIe NVMe
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Bertl
what we investigated recently is mostly alternatives over USB3
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anuejn
ah, i see
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anuejn
then it does not really matter
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anuejn
that is nice
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Bertl
we should also look at size/volume as se6astian already hinted and we should probably check power consumptuon
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Bertl
*consumption
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anuejn
the rockchip is probably a bit more power efficient (newer process node)
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Bertl
all in all, a comparison table (of all the devices) would be interesting
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anuejn
but I expect that both do not burn _crazy_ amounts of power
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