War is coming

[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