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| 01:19.31 | dw_ | attempting to talk to it via adb results in what looks like a crash. any command i send results in maybe 1 or 2 lines of output followed by "device offline" when i try to run another command. sound familiar at all? |
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| 15:08.13 | d9500 | are the allwinner a20 based eoma68 boards shipping yet? |
| 15:16.17 | buZz | are any eoma68 boards? |
| 15:16.24 | buZz | because i couldnt find any info on that |
| 15:18.11 | d9500 | i read somewhere that the eoma68 card which is supposed to be used in the kde flying squirrel tablet when it's released is going to have a dual core processor--since the a20 and the a10 are pin-compatible, i'm assuming that it'll be the same card with an a20 in it instead of the originally planned a10...and therefore, the card itself should be available for purchase too |
| 15:20.02 | d9500 | personally, i'm wondering what the cost on a production run of boards with more powerful CPUs (rockhip rk3188 would be nice!) would be, or if that's even possible without reworking the entire board design |
| 15:21.25 | d9500 | a20's are weak stuff with only two cores at about 1 GHz, and a quad core cortex-a9 is really the minimum that should be considered for a modern computer, be it laptop, desktop, or tablet |
| 15:22.38 | buZz | i dont really agree, a20 can run chromium nice and fast |
| 15:22.43 | dw_ | if a more modern chip existed, you'd claim it was the minimum :) |
| 15:22.58 | buZz | provided it finally comes back to debian 7 armhf >_< |
| 15:23.38 | buZz | d9500: anyway most of the stuff you are asking is answered on rhombus's site |
| 15:23.46 | buZz | and afaik none of it is shipping |
| 15:24.01 | d9500 | vaporware? |
| 15:24.13 | d9500 | no insult meant, but it does seem like the lead time is long |
| 15:24.24 | buZz | lead time on new products is always long |
| 15:24.51 | buZz | especially when a small company is taking most initiative |
| 15:25.22 | d9500 | or perhaps i'm spoiled by the consumer market, where if it's advertised it's usually available (if not at the local big box store, someone on ebay has hardware they're willing to part with)..i've never bought a dev board before |
| 15:25.38 | buZz | i am using a EOMA68 alike solution |
| 15:25.55 | buZz | motorola lapdock with a cubieboard2 and cables between them :) |
| 15:27.15 | d9500 | i'm actually thinking of biting the bullet and buying one of those bsquare tablets with the qsd 800's in them..but yikes, $1099?? |
| 15:27.40 | buZz | i am waiting for hardkernel to make an odroid with a exynos 5 octa |
| 15:28.29 | d9500 | buZz, 5410? |
| 15:28.49 | buZz | yes |
| 15:29.02 | d9500 | hmmm..isn't the GPU on that going to be a problem? |
| 15:29.17 | buZz | dont really care, OpenGLES is a problem anyway |
| 15:29.30 | d9500 | oh..you don't need 3d for what you do? |
| 15:29.44 | buZz | i could use it, but not as OpenGLES |
| 15:29.57 | buZz | doesnt look like any ARM board will do OpenGL any time soon |
| 15:30.07 | penguin42 | how much?! |
| 15:30.19 | buZz | 843853748 euro! |
| 15:30.37 | d9500 | penguin42, http://store.bsquare.com/catalog/index.cfm?fuseaction=product&theParentId=160&id=2838 |
| 15:30.47 | d9500 | over 1000 us dollars |
| 15:30.52 | penguin42 | d9500: For that money I'd hope it comes with someone to do the work for me |
| 15:31.48 | d9500 | penguin42, yeah, i'm thinking perhaps wait for the sony xperia ZU or samsung galaxy note III and hope someone ports a real gnu/linux to it |
| 15:34.06 | d9500 | buZz, are the GPUs in ARM boards just not capable of full open GL? or is it more a driver issue? GLES is a subset of the functionality, in OpenGL, isn't it? What are SoC GPUs missing to be able to do full OpenGL? |
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| 15:34.52 | buZz | d9500: afaik OpenGL and OpenGLES are very close to what the GPUs are doing |
| 15:34.58 | buZz | so i doubt its a driver issue |
| 15:35.13 | buZz | there are some projects working on doing realtime translation of the two |
| 15:35.19 | penguin42 | buZz: I don't think that's quite true |
| 15:35.31 | buZz | there are also finished projects but they are patented/proprietary so meh |
| 15:35.48 | penguin42 | buZz: My understanding is that OpenGL has the possibility of storing more data on the card/driver side, where as OpenGLES is more based around the app pushing the data on each frame |
| 15:36.12 | penguin42 | buZz: and some hardware designs suite one more than the other |
| 15:36.13 | buZz | yeah and the state machine is a bit different i think |
| 15:43.33 | d9500 | ok, i'll admit some of that was a little over my head. honestly, for me it's more like--meh...you want my money, just give me a pocketable device with a quad-core or better SoC, 2 GB or more of RAM, a GPU that can do OpenGL 3.0 or GLES 3.0 or better with open drivers, and full (not Android only!) linux support, and i'll buy. |
| 15:43.40 | d9500 | heh..that's not asking a lot is it? |
| 15:44.06 | penguin42 | d9500: The only hard thing there is the open drivers for the graphics |
| 15:44.08 | buZz | i dont want your money |
| 15:44.35 | buZz | yeah do any open source arm video drivers even exist nowadays? that can do 3D? |
| 15:44.50 | penguin42 | what state is freedreeno in? |
| 15:45.02 | buZz | no idea, dont have such a devices |
| 15:45.03 | buZz | -s |
| 15:45.53 | buZz | ah seems to do hw 3d |
| 15:46.02 | d9500 | buZz, rob clark at redhat has gotten working 3d support (merged in mesa 9.2) for the adreno 2xx GPUs in some earlier snapdragons, and he's got working 3d on the adreno 320 in the google nexus 4 and inforce 6410 dev boards. |
| 15:46.21 | buZz | d9500: he probably is using http://freedreno.github.io/ |
| 15:46.28 | d9500 | with any luck, that'll be ready in time for mesa 9.2 as well. |
| 15:47.32 | penguin42 | not sure the Lima guys have got any closer to working on X? |
| 15:47.37 | d9500 | buZz, yeah, i check that site regularly. alas, i've no device to actually download and build the code on |
| 15:48.10 | buZz | dont think so penguin42, only thing i have seen is techdemos |
| 15:52.26 | d9500 | afaik, here's a summary: freedreno is the most feature-complete right now, lima is getting there, but nothing an end-user could reasonably be expected to utilize, and there's next to no work at all on anything powervr. i would say "moral of the story is vote wit your dollars or euros and by qualcomm hardware, but the freedreno driver is an independent project, so it's not like qualcomm really deserves your dollars anyway. |
| 15:53.09 | d9500 | personally, i'm going to snicker and say "i told you so" if intel comes in with bay trail and wipes the floor with these "we don't care about foss" ARM gpu vendors |
| 15:53.35 | penguin42 | d9500: Yeh it doesn't help them |
| 15:54.02 | penguin42 | d9500: But I'm not too sure whether Intel will use their normal graphics stuff on the low power stuff |
| 15:54.34 | d9500 | penguin42, bay trail will use a cut-down ivy bridge GPU integrated onto the chip |
| 15:55.13 | penguin42 | good - I hope so |
| 15:55.17 | d9500 | and intel's been pushing bay trail code into the kernel, libdrm, x driver, and mesa like it's going out of style. the support is already there |
| 15:56.42 | penguin42 | d9500: Problem is though it's only a tiny proportion of the buyers who care |
| 15:56.52 | buZz | < 0.1% |
| 15:57.12 | buZz | >50% of users are 'HOW DO I INSTALL XBMC' |
| 15:57.32 | buZz | 'you cant' 'THIS IS A HORRIBLE PRODUCT' |
| 15:57.55 | buZz | man, >50% doesnt even google wtf the hardware is before buying |
| 15:58.15 | d9500 | penguin42, only a tiny percentage who care about freedom..but there's a large percentage who care about performance. http://www.extremetech.com/computing/160320-intel-bay-trail-benchmark-appears-online-crushes-fastest-snapdragon-arm-soc-by-30 |
| 15:58.38 | penguin42 | d9500: Yeh but that's probably not got a vast degree to do with the opennesss |
| 16:00.45 | d9500 | no, the openness is just a side benefit for most, if they care at all. it does make things much easier for the vast ROMing community, though. no more copying over binary blobs for the vendor's image, no more using outdated kernels b/c the vendor only support 3.0.x (i'm looking at you, rockchip!) |
| 16:00.51 | d9500 | from the* |
| 16:07.04 | d9500 | anyway, bbl |
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| 17:19.26 | lkcl | penguin42: thanks. |
| 17:22.32 | rz2k | [19:29:56] <buZz> doesnt look like any ARM board will do OpenGL any time soon - Vivante cores do OpenGL on imx6 |
| 17:23.00 | rz2k | you can even find a video from jas-hacks running some simple opengl game on gk802 dongle |
| 17:25.52 | buZz | wow, they really do opengl? |
| 17:26.39 | penguin42 | seem to be a reverse eng attempt for that as well https://github.com/laanwj/etna_viv |
| 17:26.58 | buZz | all i see about vivante is opengles ... |
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