06:55 <chewitt> Cheaterman: what issue does odroid-reboot actually solve for you?

06:56 <chewitt> because the maintainers have the general view that it's not required

06:56 <chewitt> and speaking for myself, I don't have any issues with rebooting any of my Amlogic odroid boards

07:03 <chewitt> nb: the fdtput to enable rtc isn't needed with the upstream dts https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/arm64/boot/dts/amlogic/meson-g12b-odroid-n2.dtsi#L531

08:22 <narmstrong> Cheaterman: in order to find the most acceptable solution to solve reboot issues (we already solved a bunch), we must first know the exact issues because it's highly unclear, and code doesn't help because they use a generic code for multiple board needing different actions

08:23 <narmstrong> Cheaterman: what's missing upstream to use the RTC wakeup ? the suspend/poweroff wakeup is handled by the Odroid BL301 they control

11:33 <Cheaterman> chewitt: from the limited sample size I get, it looks to me like it might indeed be useless ; I got a N2+ failing to reboot despite having enabled it, and I got N2+'s rebooting just fine without it

11:33 <Cheaterman> chewitt: darn about the upstream dts........ problem is, I'm fairly sure that one doesn't work as-is

11:33 <Cheaterman> as in, I can't just boot that on my N2+

11:34 <Cheaterman> but I sure would love to have that turned on by default, right now I disabled dtb upgrades entirely

11:35 <Cheaterman> narmstrong: I absolutely agree about the reboot :-( I wish I could be of more help.... all I can say is from a user standpoint _sometimes_ reboot acts like poweroff and just leaves red LED on while blue shuts down forever

11:35 <Cheaterman> And by _sometimes_ I truly mean "not that frequent" but.... I really need those machines to reboot reliably

11:36 <Cheaterman> narmstrong: It's not about RTC wakeup, it's about having the corresponding I2C bus enabled by default

11:36 <Cheaterman> Otherwise the RTC isn't detected _at all_, I only get /dev/rtc1 (meson_vrtc? from the name alone I assume it's a SoC-driven virtual RTC device that doesn't actually save time)

11:36 <Cheaterman> It's literally the page I linked: https://wiki.odroid.com/odroid-n2/application_note/rtc_wakeup_time#enable_hw_clock_component

11:37 <Cheaterman> Like the "ftdget" on my dtb (or the equivalent cat on the actual procfs file) does show the I2C bus as disabled by default

11:37 <Cheaterman> so I had to do the fdtput to make it "okay" instead

11:38 <Cheaterman> and next reboot I did get /dev/rtc0 and proper hwclock hctosys syncing

11:38 <Cheaterman> (and a noticeable increase in boot speed, because I set up my system in a way that it tries delaying app start for as long as possible to try to let NTP synchronize beforehand so that logs get accurate date)

11:39 <Cheaterman> (the delay is skipped if datetime "looks right")

11:51 <Cheaterman> narmstrong: Also FWIW I'm very committed to using the N2+ for work stuff so I'm more than happy to do experiments or submit patches or contribute in any other way

11:51 <Cheaterman> (we already bought 30 of them, and I'm in love with how powerful they are despite being fanless and staying pretty cool)

11:53 <Cheaterman> (and as you've probably seen me mention earlier, it's a very refreshing [pun intended] change from the hot, loud, and slow Pi's)

12:49 <narmstrong> Cheaterman: any upstream work is more than welcome, it's ok to push whatever you think is worth in order to have a better situation, and we will work with other reviewers & maintainers towards getting the work merged

12:50 <narmstrong> if the RTX is missin in the upstream dt, then it should definitely be added if it's on-board

12:51 <narmstrong> * RTC

14:28 <chewitt> narmstrong: I added rtc to the upstream n2 dtsi a while back

14:30 <chewitt> narmstrong I added rtc to the upstream n2 dtsi a while ago

14:30 <chewitt> narmstrong I added rtc to the upstream n2 dtsi a while ago

14:31 <chewitt> (sorry.. crap irc client)

14:32 <chewitt> even if you don't have the battery installed you get faster reboots as the clock is preserved over a warm boot