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Getting the MIPI DBI screen for the Sipeed M1S dock to work on Linux

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Background What started out as an activity to clear out unused stuff from my cupboard led on to a small project to get Linux working with the MIPI DBI screen for the Sipeed M1S dock. I first got hold of the Sipeed M1S dock back in December 2022. What tempted me was the rich set of features it supports, all in a really small package -- NPU, WiFi/BT/Zigbee, 3 RISCV cores courtesy of the BL808 SoC from Bouffalo Labs. It was also touted as being able to run Linux owing to one of its RISCV cores having an MMU. Beyond playing around with the SDK and a few examples, I didn't venture further due to poor documentation. Quickly, it went back to a box I've conveniently dedicated for dev boards which were marketed to support all kinds of features but disappointingly lack good documentation and were thus chucked aside until I had more time to mess around. That time finally came, in a period when work has gotten mundane and I needed some mental stimulation. In the process of declutter
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Having fun with port mirroring, ntopng and traffic shaping

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Out of interest, I recently managed to set up a monitoring system for my home network. I have been meaning to do this for quite some time already, but never gotten the chance, due to many other commitments. So, here is just a personal note on how I have done so, while having some fun with port mirroring (using iptables/netfilter ), ntopng and traffic shaping (using tc ). First of all, my router (TP-Link TL-WR841N/ND v9) has been set up with OpenWrt, where scripts were written to monitor the relative bandwidth used by each housemate; rules for iptables were written to perform accounting of the cumulative number of bytes sent and received by each host in the network. Basing off wrtbwmon by Peter Bailey , the scripts were further modified to include rules for ip6tables , so that IPv6 traffic could be taken into account. I have also augmented the display of the network statistics using Google Charts API. The result is shown in Figure 1 . Figure 1. A breakdown of the bandwidt
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