Re: Why so little info on the Pocket Beagle?
Oh, STMPE is on the Adafruit board. I thought it was part of X I
wasn't familiar with.
https://learn.adafruit.com/assets/37557 see stmpe610
On 10/9/17, Alan Corey <alan01346@gmail.com> wrote:
> You mean like
> https://community.imgtec.com/downloads/powervr-instruction-set-reference/
> ? Or in wget form
> http://cdn.imgtec.com/sdk-documentation/PowerVR+Instruction+Set+Reference.pdf
>
> Maybe they didn't want to be outdone by Broadcom. I don't know, so
> far I like the ZeroW better. I bought a PocketBeagle mostly because
> of the A/D converter with multiplexer. But it turns out that what
> they're meant for is mostly reading resistive touchpad inputs. Which
> the Zero (and Pi) can also do but there's no obvious mention of an A/D
> (probably no extras). It's done through stmpe, at least on the
> Adafruit PiTFT touchscreen display I've got.
>
> Anyway the PocketBeagle idles at about 0.1 amps, half a watt. With a
> load it went to 0.24 amps, 1.1 watts. 995 BogoMIPS. The only physical
> video output connector is SPI. Which is in the 2 GPIO headers, I
> don't have a connection yet. You can connect the microusb to a
> full-blown computer and get in by ssh over urndis. Plugged into a
> powered hub with a working rtl8192 wifi adapter, it doesn't recognize
> it (yet). So mine's had no connection to the internet to install
> software. I need to get some GPIO connectors ordered.
>
> On 10/8/17, Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> wrote:
>> On Sun, Oct 8, 2017 at 3:39 AM, Alan Corey wrote:
>>
>>> it's an SGX530 GPU.
>>
>> That is PowerVR, I doubt Debian will ever be able to support this GPU.
>> Maybe if IMGTEC changes their mind about supporting open source
>> drivers and releases documentation and code for their GPUs.
>>
>> --
>> bye,
>> pabs
>>
>> https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
>>
>>
>
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