| 10:27 | vpeter> | What a nice looking: https://www.solid-run.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/CuBox-Pulse-1024x683.png |
| 10:31 | Ke> | sure |
| 10:31 | Ke> | how many cores? |
| 10:31 | Ke> | also, what peripherals |
| 10:37 | topi`> | jnettlet[m]: while you're close to the Arrow booth, try to get a Dragonboard 820 ;) |
| 10:37 | topi`> | I tried to buy from arrow's website, but nothing but a query form |
| 10:38 | topi`> | vaporware sucks |
| 10:51 | jnettlet[m]> | I have one already |
| 10:52 | topi`> | I want it for its pretty decent floating point perf |
| 10:52 | topi`> | unmatched by any other ARM boards |
| 10:53 | topi`> | well maybe the new Exynos chip will be better ;) |
| 10:53 | topi`> | Exynos hasn't actually been very linux-friendy |
| 10:53 | topi`> | even Hardkernel seems to have gone over to other vendors, like Amlogic |
| 10:54 | topi`> | Ke: the i.mx 8M parts are all quad core a53's |
| 10:54 | topi`> | which is just fine as long as the other parts are improved (i.e. bus bandwidth, DRAM, especially gigabit ethernet ;) |
| 10:55 | topi`> | also the GC2000 graphics is pretty long in the tooth |
| 10:56 | Ke> | I don't know that expression |
| 10:56 | Ke> | but I know people have been developing open source drivers here |
| 11:02 | topi`> | Lucas from Pengutronix is already working on GC7000 drm |
| 11:04 | Ke> | also, I'll be moving in 30.4. so mcbin should go to production before that |
| 11:04 | topi`> | are you moving abroad? |
| 11:05 | Ke> | no to lauttasaari |
| 11:05 | topi`> | short distance then :) |
| 11:05 | Ke> | yup |
| 11:05 | topi`> | my mcbin is situated in Nebula's server room |
| 11:05 | topi`> | but it needs a new kernel, badly |
| 11:05 | Ke> | heh, actually very close to that |
| 11:05 | Ke> | I can go poke it locally, if you want |
| 11:05 | topi`> | thanks :) |
| 11:06 | topi`> | yeah, sometimes it needs a reboot if a kernel update is botched |
| 11:06 | topi`> | I'd like to implement an altbootcmd mechamnism for uboot so that it can try to load the older kernel if watchdog bites |
| 11:06 | topi`> | otherwise I'll be blindly testing a new kernel ;) |
| 11:06 | topi`> | since I don't have another mcbin at my disposal :( |
| 11:07 | topi`> | SR should make an el-cheapo version of mcbin by changing to the 7040 SOC which has less interfaces, but similar characteristics overall and possibly the same motherboard layout |
| 11:08 | Ke> | I would just hope the default uart would be available as a ttl header |
| 11:08 | Ke> | though outside of the very early boot, you can modify the booloader |
| 11:13 | topi`> | the default uart comes via a usb bridge chip, which is nice. I can then hook a Raspberrypi to control mcbin's console |
| 11:14 | topi`> | add magic sysrq to the kernel and you can even boot mcbin via the uart |
| 11:14 | topi`> | I installed a Rpi next to mcbin, gave it a static IP, but now it no longer responds to that IP so I assume it is dead. I should have shipped an old Hummingboard instead. |
| 11:15 | topi`> | "hummingboards live forever" |
| 11:38 | wumpus> | yes :) |
| 11:45 | suihkulokki> | whee, i.mx8 materializing |
| 11:47 | Ke> | does it come with unsigned bootloader and moderately free ATF? |
| 11:48 | wumpus> | ATF? |
| 11:49 | suihkulokki> | arm-trusted-firmware |
| 12:03 | wumpus> | oh, wouldn't know about that one |