Re: contemplating conversion of an r-pi3b based system to a rock64
On Sunday 27 August 2017 19:11:33 Alan Corey wrote:
> They claim Debian support, sort of, but then they don't speak English
> much either probably. They have forums at https://forum.pine64.org/
> maybe you could ask around there. They have a newly out Jessie
> mentioned at
> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=4849&pid=30643#pid30643
> but admit it has problems. Doesn't sound like a production machine
> for everyday use yet.
Needs lots more emphasis on the YET!! :)
By the time mine fall out of the mailbox, maybe things will have
improved, said the lab rat hopefully. That will be in the vicinity of 2
weeks, maybe more.
> They seem to focus on Android and Ubuntu.
> Sounds like fun, right up a lab rat's alley. You may not get much
> else done for a while.
There are priorities, like right now, my mower deck is laying on a work
table, trying to get the belt paths re-aligned so it doesn't throw the
belt everytime I disengage it. I still have to cut and drill for clips
to replace the welded on nuts that were the "pins" in the deck
suspension linkage. That made 2 hours worth of work twisting the nuts
to break the weld so I could actually drop the deck. Should have been
about a minute on each side. Once on the table it was hours with a 4 lb
hammer trying to reshape the deck to something it might have looked like
before 20 years worth of rust weakened it, make new means of anchoring
the posts that were supposed to keep the belt on the sheeves when
slackened to stop the blades. Some of that was very poorly executed by
John Deere a couple decades back up the log. Some bits of it had to have
failed on the trailer taking it home from the dealer with the green
paint still stinky from being newly applied in East Moline Ill.
The 1st priority is getting this jungle knocked down again.
Then 2nd, finding a load the new 6.5 CreedMoor barrel I just put in old
meat in the pot, likes well enough to shoot a 10 shot, 10mm group at 100
meters. I've a hankerin for fresh venison this season.
> On 8/27/17, Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> wrote:
> > On Sunday 27 August 2017 11:55:47 Alan Corey wrote:
> >
> > Back on the list Alan. Where it belongs.
> >
> >> Hmm, interesting question. With the Pi being open source except
> >> possibly the boot blob, somebody could make an enhanced version
> >> with the aim of making it as compatible as possible. Not to say
> >> the rock64 is, I don't know.
> >>
> >> Back in the 80s there was a clone of the Apple II called the
> >> Pineapple. A professor at the college I was at bought one to save
> >> money so I got to spend some time with it, it was pretty good. Ran
> >> all the same software, used the same plugin boards. Of course
> >> Apple eventually sued them and won. Then there's the IBM -> Compaq
> >> copyover which legend says the BIOS was written very carefully to
> >> do exactly the same thing as IBM's without looking at IBM's. Which
> >> got copied all over the place to the point that hardly anybody buys
> >> IBM PCs anymore.
> >>
> >> But taking the Pi as a standard which could legally be copied and
> >> enhancing it, hmm. They've evidently replaced the SOC which is the
> >> reason for the 1 gig RAM limit, it has no BIOS. It could become
> >> the defacto Pi 4. Will it run Raspbian? I was looking for another
> >> Pi in the next few months anyway.
> >
> > The raspian question is one I've not yet found the answer to. If it
> > will, the gate just opened and the race is off to a good start.
> > Unforch, the next batch won't ship till the 6th of Sept.
> >
> > I must resemble a lab rat, I sure get used for one often enough. ;-)
> >
> >> On 8/27/17, Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> wrote:
> >> > Greetings all;
> >> >
> >> > What sort of problems due to internal architecture changes would
> >> > I encounter? Currently using an rt-prempt version of 4.4.4 kernel
> >> > labeled kernel7 since no later armhf/v7 kernel rt build has even
> >> > usable keyboard/mouse support, with or without the extra usb2 hub
> >> > for the dongles. This extra hub will be used in any event since
> >> > the box its mounted in will eventually be buttoned up, severely
> >> > restricting the range of the wireless dongles.
> >> >
> >> > This one is usable if rebooted repeatedly until it mostly works.
> >> > But you've got to be chewing kentucky's finest twist and holding
> >> > your mouth just so, otherwise it throws more keyboard/mouse
> >> > events in the trash than it responds properly to. The potential
> >> > for fixing this is the driver for switching to a rock64.
> >> >
> >> > Suggestions as to where to src a suitable image for the rock64,
> >> > hopefully one compatible with the current rpspi.ko driver
> >> > (available as part of any recent linuxcnc install from
> >> > buildbot.linuxcnc.org for armhf's, since except for
> >> > keyboard/mouse, video(hdmi,mali drivers a huge plus) and LAN net
> >> > stuffs, all other i/o is thru the gpio for this application, will
> >> > be investigated.
> >> >
> >> > Thank you.
> >> >
> >> > Cheers, Gene Heskett
> >> > --
> >> > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
> >> > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
> >> > -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
> >> > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
> >
> > Cheers, Gene Heskett
> > --
> > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
> > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
> > -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
> > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
Cheers, Gene Heskett
--
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
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