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Deprecate Xiongmai chips support #318

Open widgetii opened 1 year ago

widgetii commented 1 year ago

Due to lack of testers for XM platform (and nobody is willing to fix osmem issue discussed in Majestic Telegram group) I suggest dropping XM support from the project by end of 2022

dimerr commented 1 year ago

I would extend this to anyka and mstar chips mstar needs userspace tools from android and uclibc - highly unlikely to happen anyka is a living antipattern of how to do things, tonns of hardcode in kernel, including hardcoded gpios ann muxctls, lack of uboot sources, non working sdk's...

ZigFisher commented 1 year ago

Gentlemen, you forgot to mention in the removal list the GrandMedia processors that are no longer produced, Ambarella which is too expensive, Rockchip which is too complicated to understand. The list can be expanded...

widgetii commented 1 year ago

I'd take Rockchip support using freed time from outdated platforms

schneemaier commented 1 year ago

This will be a sad day for my xm510 camera... What do you need on testing side? I can look into functionalities on my camera and fill issues like https://github.com/OpenIPC/firmware/issues/248 (where the issue is somewhere between majestic and the overlay fs).

I would be also happy to test the GPIO for the XM510, but was unable to find any documentation, how to.

Thanks

widgetii commented 1 year ago

There is no documentation for XM chips, everything should be obtained from reverse engineering (like digging a lot in IDA)

For XM510, fixing overlayfs would be a good starting point

schneemaier commented 1 year ago

I played around with the overlayfs settings and I think this is a bug in the overlayfs implementation with 3.0.101 kernel. Based on the patch for xm510 the overlayfs version is v11, but what is the origin code for that patch?

HakGit commented 1 year ago

Sad to see this, just got 40 XM530_80X30T_8M camera's and found out about this project. What can I do to help testing? I'm no programmer, just a little handy.

widgetii commented 1 year ago

The best thing you can do - find developers who would be interested in Xiongmai platform

schneemaier commented 1 year ago

Created a pull request to fix an issue with overlayFS https://github.com/OpenIPC/microbe-web/pull/116