Bump to the forgectrl revision whose startup pass reloads
regulatory.db (required while the flashed kernel still has built-in
cfg80211 - its boot-time load fails pre-mount and stays failed
without a reload), hints a region only when one is set (unset =
automatic: the AP's 802.11d country, else world; a 00 hint over the
kernel's own world default reports the confusing intersection alias
"country 98"), and pins wlan0 power save off.
BRINGUP.md: bench record for the wireless-regulatory diagnosis and
the live-verified wifi_country / power-save flow; the kernel-batch
note now carries CFG80211/MAC80211=m, DEFAULT_PS off, and the lm75
vs-supply.
Bump to the forgectrl revision that adds the wifi_country setting
(System-tab region picker); the daemon applies it with iw reg set at
startup and on change, so iw joins RDEPENDS. regulatory.db itself
ships via the glowforge-image base (wireless-regdb-static).
Before writing the target slot, the installer now shows what it holds
(factory firmware v<ver>, ForgeFIRM, an unrecognized filesystem, or
unknown/unreadable content). Factory images are archived as before;
anything else requires the operator to type ERASE, since it is
overwritten without a backup. The archive manifest now records the
semantic FIRMWARE_VERSION (ver=), which the update manager displays in
the restore list. Bump forgectrl to the matching GUI change.
/etc/forgefirm/keys ships the ForgeFIRM release-signing public key
and the Glowforge factory keyring (public keys only) - the update
manager verifies release downloads/uploads against the former and
factory archives against the latter. forgectrl SRCREV bumped to the
update-manager commit; runtime deps on ffboot, fwup, the keyring, and
curl made explicit.
The runbook no longer records the bench machine's fuse identity (a
fuse identity cannot be rotated, so a public document must never
carry it); the forgectrl pin follows that repo's history rewrite.
forgectrl ad0b441: OpenGlow branding, operational /status dashboard.
grblHAL-glowforge c472a13: position anchor at homing for the status
readers. Runbook updated.
Sources live at github.com/ScottW514/forgectrl (history extracted, layout src/ + init/); the recipe pins SRCREV and installs the init script from the repo. Adds the build-forgectrl.sh bench cross-compile script.
NEON kernel for the YUV420 superpixel convert (vld2q deinterleave, rounding-halving greens, mlal/rshrn luma, pairwise-add chroma block sums), bit-identical to the scalar path and proven so on a live frame via the FORGECTRL_NEON_CHECK one-shot memcmp. Convert 75 to 18 ms; the stream now runs at the OV5648 frame rate. Motion coexistence re-proven at 15 fps (clamped 0).
Demosaic the superpixels straight to planar YUV420 and encode on the CODA960 (mainline coda V4L2 mem2mem, node found by personality); libjpeg stays as the automatic fallback and the snapshot path. All camera paths now demosaic from a cached bounce copy of the frame: the V4L2 MMAP capture buffers are uncached, and reading them in-place costs ~340 ms/frame vs 43 ms memcpy + 75 ms cached convert. Per-frame stats logged every 100 frames; /cam/status reports the encoder.
A stream request for the other camera kicks current stream clients via a generation counter (their streams end cleanly; viewers freeze on the last frame) and switches. The index page retry consults /cam/status first so a preempted view does not steal the camera back.
Snapshots of the non-streaming camera no longer fail 409: the worker borrows the mux for one frame (stream viewers see a short freeze). Stream switches wait up to 3 s for the previous pin to drain. Arbitration compares the engine home camera, not the transiently borrowed pipeline camera. Index page: single toggled stream with retry plus a head-peek button.
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