Re: Rock64

[Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net>]

On Friday 11 August 2017 10:56:11 Luna Jernberg wrote:

> Hello!
>
> Just saw the BoF on the Debconf stream and has a small question:
>
> Anyone know hows the support for the Rock64 is?
>                 https://www.pine64.org/?page_id=7147 Pines new Board
> thinking
>                 of maybe buying one?

I am considering the purchase of 2 to 5 of them, in hopes that the dismal 
local keyboard performance of the r-pi can be fixed. The r-pi has 
glacially slow video, 3 frames a second, and its architecture, forcing 
all the usual i/o thru a usb2 hub, means it misses  several percent of 
the keyboard events from its local keyboard. When running potentially 
lethal machinery, a missed key event can be both costly in broken tools, 
or injury to the operator.

The rock64 claims to have that pinhole blockage fixed. Now that its 
shipping, I'm monitoring the forum to see if there are any showstoppers 
for my use. If in the next 2 weeks I don't see any, I buy 2, and if the 
rpspi.ko module doesn't work, I'll donate one of them to the School 
Professor in Sweden that re-wrote that module and made it work on the pi 
I have.  Since they are claiming pi compatability on the gpio header, 
theres a good chance it will Just Work(TM). The application needs the 
spi bus to run at 25+ megabits. The pi does a wee bit better than that.

That machine however is in the middle of a job that I need to finish 
before I play with the rock64.

Never change horses mid stream.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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