14 Feb 2018, 13:36
Just for information. Asus released a new model 
Tinker Board S with some goodies as eMMC, HDMI CEC etc
War is coming
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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
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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)
- 2 months later
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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
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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
- 24 days later
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@mach2k Challenge accepted, we (finally) got in touch with ASUS
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That will be fun
we should support it on recalbox 4.2 on 2019
- 5 months later
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Just for information. Asus released a new model
Tinker Board S with some goodies as eMMC, HDMI CEC etc -
@lackyluuk i havent eve' had time.yet to port to tkb ...
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@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
- 13 days later
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@Substring
@lackyluuk
One of the first videos from the S version appears
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@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 ...
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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... -
@dragu I know how flegmatic they can be, but still, when you're broadcasting, make an effort for your international audience
- 3 months later
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@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 ? -
@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
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one thing for sure if all wars were so slow to come, life would be better
