War is coming

[Substring]

@hannibal hi
tech docs from asus are not really available, porting anything to tinker board yet looks much more like some dirty hacking than some proper job. Some more skilled people than me tried to port arch linux, looks like a real mess for now as ASUS is hardly releasing any source code or technical info.

[hannibal]

@Substring well the offer still stands to you or to anyone else who might be able to port it over. I ran out and bought one the third day it was out, thinking this was going to replace my pi 3. 3 months later its still sitting in the box.

[redix]

Well...no USB3...what the hell?

Middle 2019: Raspberry Pi4 with new BCM4908 1.8Ghz, 2GB Ram and USB3 ports and new GPU...

[Substring]

@redix there is no use in having usb3 when the device can't even match a full usb2 speed the same goes with 100M vs 1G LAN

[RustyMG]

God, now there is yet another one!

http://www.techradar.com/news/rock64-is-a-powerful-raspberry-pi-rival-with-usb-30-and-4k-hdr-support

[Substring]

The problem with both tinker and rock64 are :

• kernel sources
• u-boot defconfig
• framebuffer GPU driver

I spent a few hours reading about the tinker board and which progress has been made for non TinkerOS builds : it's still a complicated thing, ASUS not being not really of a great help ...

Regarding the rock64 : this one looks like it's more "open", but yet too young to know how easy it is to port recalbox on it. But the specs are really promising : can be compared to a 32bit Odroid C2 (and the Odroid C2 is very good device regarding emulation performance. Just dreamcast can't run on it)

[FadaMatik]

I found this, can this help you?

Please read the whole topic, because they talk about the tinker board

http://www.bitkistl.com/2016/09/the-rockchip-toolbox.html?m=1

I hope this will help you

[Substring]

To port to the tinkerboard or rock64, I just miss the boards. It looks like their respective communities has done enough work so that we can get the most important parts : boot, kernel source, video drivers for framebuffer + EGL/GLES

[Substring]

@mach2k Challenge accepted, we (finally) got in touch with ASUS

[rockaddicted]

That will be fun
we should support it on recalbox 4.2 on 2019

[lackyluuk]

Just for information. Asus released a new model
Tinker Board S with some goodies as eMMC, HDMI CEC etc

https://www.asus.com/Single-Board-Computer/Tinker-Board-S/

[Substring]

@lackyluuk i havent eve' had time.yet to port to tkb ...

[lackyluuk]

@Substring NP, it was more a "nice to know" thing. I don't want to push something at all. You are doing a great job

[Dragu]

@Substring
@lackyluuk
One of the first videos from the S version appears
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP6OJ0JhMLU

[Substring]

@dragu The price is a mistake, i hope it'll drop fast to 60$. Onboard and eMMC are a good thing, with a great ease of use to flash the eMMC. But it sounds really like "tinkering" now lol

Watching EC channel is always a pain for me, i can't stand the guy as his tests are really too childish regarding such devices + he never smiles ...

[Dragu]

he never smiles ...
@Substring
Haha,
the smiling or laughing of an englishman can just be understood by another englishman. It's a little bit as if you crack nuts with your teeth...

[Substring]

@dragu I know how flegmatic they can be, but still, when you're broadcasting, make an effort for your international audience

[Dragu]

@Substring
Hi friend, as you know I would never push for something and anyway very happy with my 2 PI3, so just see it from curiosity point of view. Do you had already time and some result with your Tinkerboard ?

[Substring]

@dragu yeah, very disappointed. The kernel just sucks big b***s, can't launch psp or dreamcast because of GBM instead of FBDEV ... So still much work to go

[voljega]

one thing for sure if all wars were so slow to come, life would be better