New Libre-Focused ARM Board Aims To Compete With Raspberry Pi 3, Offers 4K

[jernej]

lol. mali and libre can't co-exist in same sentence!

Maybe in (near?) future. There is an effort to implement mesa driver here: https://github.com/yuq?tab=repositories

"4K Ultra HD with HDR via HDMI 2.0" good luck with that on linux.

Which part do you find hard to believe? HDR?

[starshipeleven]

"64-bit ARM Cortex-A53" means nothing. what it is actualy. allwiner? amlogic?

In the kickstarter board image the board rendering has "AML-S905X" silkscreened, so it seems Amlogic. But it also might be anything else.

[starshipeleven]

How nice if all these minicomputer people found out that it would be simpler to make a cheap single board that can easily be expanded by plugging in whatever you need.
Just like in the old days when you had a free socket on your mainboard that could provide you with a FPU for example.

I agree, but I'm sorry to inform you that it is done like this because it is better for the manufacturer's usecase so it's not likely to happen.

[starshipeleven]

but you need gpu acceleration to display something useful on 2d framebuffer

Nope. 3D isn't required for most embedded projects.

[starshipeleven]

it is not ok to know that you are selling board without videocard and call it 4k

???

Mali is not "video card" it is "3D accelerator". Mali is 3D only, while 2D components and video decoding works through open drivers support as it is dealt by other parts. For embedded devices 3D can be sacrificed more easily than for a laptop.

[Piper]

Amlogic S905X using only 10/100 PHY and only micro-USB power (again). At 35USD for 2GB RAM version I don't see a good selling point over Odroid-C2 (maybe shipping costs).

[stefansaraev]

lol. mali and libre can't co-exist in same sentence!

"64-bit ARM Cortex-A53" means nothing. what it is actualy. allwiner? amlogic?

"4K Ultra HD with HDR via HDMI 2.0" good luck with that on linux.

[waxhead]

How nice if all these minicomputer people found out that it would be simpler to make a cheap single board that can easily be expanded by plugging in whatever you need.
Just like in the old days when you had a free socket on your mainboard that could provide you with a FPU for example.

[pal666]

Riiiiiight, a truly open platform but the open bootloader isn't there yet. For some odd reason, the bootloaders of the competing evil closed source (Allwinner) devices are open. Makes sense.

of course. nobody is giving a shit about bootloader, just as nobody giving a shit about closed cpu. sane people only care about things running inside their os. those fucking mali blobs, for example

[pal666]

There's bloatloads of free/open compilers for ARM and x86.

zero with free firmware or hardware