The Y3506 family (V03/V04/V05 soysauce variants) ships without an
external speaker amplifier on the PCB; the rk817 SPKO line drives
the mono speaker directly. The vendor BSP 4.4 hides this with
hardcoded DAPM widgets and routes in rk817_codec.c, but mainline
ASoC respects the DT strictly, so the speaker stayed muted on every
Y3506 board even though the hardware path exists.
Changes:
config/archr-dts/rk3326-gameconsole-r36s.dts
Adds three pre-defined sound card variants with status=disabled:
rk817-sound-amplified (external amp gated by GPIO)
rk817-sound-simple (external amp on regulator, no GPIO gate)
rk817-sound-spko-direct (no external amp, SPKO straight to speaker)
The default rk817-sound stays active with the historic amp routing,
so any board the overlay generator cannot positively re-classify
keeps working as it did in v2.0-rc3.
config/mipi-generator/archr-dtbo.py
- Picks one of the three variants based on flags + vendor signals:
NAm flag -> spko-direct (Y3506 family)
spk-con-gpio / spk-ctl-gpios detected -> amplified
SRs flag without GPIO -> simple
otherwise -> keep base DTS default (amp routing)
- Accepts simple-audio-card,hp-det-gpio as a fallback to hp-det-gpio
so V05 boards that use the canonical mainline name are no longer
silently skipped by the audio block.
- Tolerates missing /pinctrl/headphone/hp-det in the vendor DTB
(some boards bind via the codec phandle only).
- Short-circuit branch (odroidgo3 + SDORIG) now still toggles the
sound card variant when NAm is set, so the six Soysauce batches
that go through that early return still get spko-direct.
- Fallback branch when the audio block crashes still applies
spko-direct when NAm is set (covers six Y3506 V03/V04 batches
where the vendor DTB omits hp-det-gpio entirely).
config/mipi-generator/generator.sh
- Appends NAm to every overlay generated under soysauce/, in
stable order with the existing SDORIG and variant flags.
Audit of all 44 vendor DTBs after the change:
18 clones -> default (amp routing preserved)
15 original -> default (amp routing preserved)
11 soysauce -> spko-direct (V03/V04/V05 all classes covered)
Reported by gemstoned via Discord: Soysauce V05 speaker would not
play under v2.0-rc3 even with HPi/SRs overlay flags toggled. Root
cause traced to (a) the variant nodes referenced by archr-dtbo.py
only existing in eeclone.dts and not in r36s.dts, and (b) the
vendor BSP rk817_codec.c hardcoded DAPM that mainline ASoC ignores.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The overlay generator now propagates board-specific hardware that the
previous version dropped on the floor:
- Amux selectors and per-button GPIO pin numbers (varies per subdevice:
clone uses 16/15/11, original 11/8/13, soysauce 13/12/17)
- button-adc tunings (deadzone/fuzz/flat) when vendor differs
- rumble-gpio (R36S V20 2025-05-18, GR36 — fixes "rumble stuck on")
- Panel status LEDs red/green/blue1/blue2 (8 soysauce V04+/V05 boards)
Adds an auto-discovery pass that propagates ANY remaining vendor
property not in our whitelist/blacklist, logging each propagation in
applied.txt so future board variants surface their quirks instead of
silently inheriting the original layout.
Blacklist preserves joypad-name/product/revision (ES gamecontrollerdb
match), per-button linux,code (vendor uses F-keys, ArchR uses standard
BTN_*) and PMIC regulator ranges (our base intentionally has expanded
ranges for the 1512MHz CPU OC).
- Introduced portmaster-compat-libs package to aggregate compatibility libraries.
- Added compat-codec2, compat-x264, and compat-x265 packages for multimedia support.
- Updated package.mk files to include new dependencies and improve installation scripts.
- Enhanced start_portmaster.sh to handle mod_ArchR.txt for modular support.
- Adjusted ffmpeg configuration to enable ffmpeg and ffprobe without ffplay.
- Bump Mesa version from 26.0.3 to 26.0.5 with updated SHA256 checksum.
- Modify RK3326 device tree to increase regulator max voltage for ARM.
- Update OPP settings in RK3326 DTS patch for improved performance.
- Add Python3 and xz to PortMaster dependencies.
- Enhance PortMaster startup script for better directory handling and cleanup.
- Implement HDMI resolution check with timeout in autostart script.
- Add turbo mode configuration to system settings.
- Refactor CPU frequency functions to utilize available frequencies more effectively.
- Update Dolphin emulator scripts to improve gptokeyb process handling.
- Introduce new systemd configuration for timesyncd to optimize polling intervals.
- Set uinput permissions in udev rules for better controller input handling.
- Adjust emulator package.mk to optimize performance for RK3326.
- Modify mkimage script to ensure proper FAT32 formatting and filesystem checks.
- Enhance benchmark script to auto-detect device-specific paths and improve logging.
- Enhanced `runemu.sh` to conditionally enable debug logging based on system log level, improving performance and debugging capabilities.
- Introduced functions to pause and resume background services during gameplay to optimize resource usage.
- Updated `retroarch.cfg` to disable frame delay and set video context driver to default, improving compatibility.
- Changed DuckStation's GPU renderer from OpenGL to Software for better performance on RK3326.
- Adjusted Flycast settings to lower resolution and optimize rendering settings for smoother gameplay.
- Modified MelonDS script to correctly handle internal resolution and screen orientation settings.
- Updated PPSSPP configuration to improve frame skipping behavior and adjusted CPU speed settings for better performance.
- Refined GPU driver scripts to handle panfrost availability and ensure proper driver binding, preventing graphical issues.
- Removed obsolete panfrost quirk file and migrated relevant settings to a new profile.d script for better management.
- Added service condition checks for various network daemons to ensure they only start if their configuration files exist.
- Adjusted systemd service configurations for network daemons to improve reliability and resource management.
- Updated sysctl settings to optimize memory management and reduce unnecessary RAM usage.
- Disabled debug shell service by default to enhance security and resource efficiency.
- Created necessary directories for mesa shader cache to ensure persistent shader caching across reboots.
- Added a new squashfs package for weston to support graphical environments.
The ROCKNIX fork includes all 3 patches we maintained separately:
- 000-dark-theme.patch
- 001-default-paths.patch
- 002-build-fix.patch
Switching to the fork removes the maintenance burden of patch rebasing.
Adapted from ROCKNIX dd10d27a84 to projects/ArchR/ path.
DEBUG_FS provides instrumentation needed by TODO items 1 and 6:
- /sys/kernel/debug/dri/*/name — GPU performance counters
- /sys/kernel/debug/cma/* — per-region CMA page accounting
- /sys/kernel/debug/block/* — I/O scheduler stats (BLK_DEBUG_FS)
- Detailed thermal zone introspection
Trade-off acknowledged: small runtime overhead from debugfs mount,
but the instrumentation granularity is essential while we're actively
benchmarking and tuning. Switch to DEBUG_FS=n or DISALLOW_MOUNT
for release-final builds once FASE 1-2 benchmarks are complete.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
With CONFIG_IKCONFIG=n (correct for production), /proc/config.gz is not
available. The script now reads /boot/config-$(uname -r) as primary
source and falls back to /proc/config.gz only if IKCONFIG is enabled.
Also removed FRAME_POINTER check (ARM64 forces it via Kconfig select,
checking if it's disabled always fails) — now shown as informational.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Flycast-SA:
- Restore -Ofast sed (was incorrectly replaced with CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release)
- -Ofast = -O3 + -ffast-math is INTENTIONAL for Flycast: the Dreamcast SH4
FPU doesn't use strict IEEE 754, and the hardware itself flushes denormals
- Validated by JELOS/AmberELEC/ROCKNIX upstream for years without issues
- On weak Cortex-A35, the extra optimization from -ffast-math is meaningful
Sysctl:
- vm.dirty_writeback_centisecs: 500→1500 (match ROCKNIX, reduce I/O wakeups
during gaming — read-heavy workload needs fewer writeback checks)
- vm.vfs_cache_pressure: 50→100 (restore kernel default — during gameplay
the same few files are reread (ROM, save, shader cache), so a large
inode/dentry cache provides no benefit on 1GB RAM. 50 is a desktop tuning
that favors metadata cache for build/compile workloads, not gaming.
Note: 200+ is what aggressively reclaims metadata; 100 is the neutral
kernel default, not an override.)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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