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Originally posted by jntesteves View Post
Where is written "less powerful" should read "more power efficient". Come on, less than what, specifically? These A53 cores extract as much performance from a Watt as is physically possible currently. Lesser performance per Hertz, greater performance per Watt. You choose your priorities.
Not agree RISK V is the real ISA arm will be dead !
It is real open ISA
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Originally posted by jntesteves View Post
Where is written "less powerful" should read "more power efficient". Come on, less than what, specifically? These A53 cores extract as much performance from a Watt as is physically possible currently. Lesser performance per Hertz, greater performance per Watt. You choose your priorities.
Your statement is also only relevant when comparing it to other arm64 chips, not against 32bit chips, most particularly like Krait. Krait is both more ENERGY efficient AND more PERFORMANT than A53. But alas, Krait is just 32bit.
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Originally posted by darkblu View PostI've been considering one of those for some time now. How's the GPU support on the 410? And how's the temperature control - much throttling? And what's the shutdown temp of the SoC, and does it get anywhere near it under stress?
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Originally posted by caligula View Post
Orange Pi PC is $15.
So yes, Orange Pi PC is $30 if you include SD cards, charger, usb cables, hdmi cables, wifi dongle, bt dongle, UART TTL dongle, few leds
Raspberry Pi is $30, the board.
Could you link Orange for $15? I bough one from Alien Express only with case and 1 dolar cable, without charger, card and heatsinks etc.. for $28 buck month ago.
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Originally posted by droidhacker View Post
I need mine for running Android, but the boards work well with Freedreno. Throttling is not apparent, but I haven't paid any attention to it, nor do I care. You'll never get it to the shutdown temperature without blasting the soc with a torch -- reason why it throttles; get (and keep) the chip down at a workload where it can't reach the shutdown temperature. ARM SBC's really aren't a workhorse, if you're putting it under continual stress such that it builds a lot of heat, then you're probably using the wrong equipment. Consider something with active cooling, or add active cooling to the SBC.
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Originally posted by lilos View Post
Not agree RISK V is the real ISA arm will be dead !
It is real open ISA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD-njD2QKN0
Good artists innovate. Great artists ship.
As long as there isn't even a single reference board available or any non-academic institution behind it, it's essentially vapourware.
Doesn't matter how more efficient it is or whether it's the "real deal", when people can't buy it they'll pick the alternatives instead.
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I can also admit Olimex is developing open hardware board based on this CPU. And best of all: they do it in opensource KiCad CAD program, so you no longer have to pay for wunduz-only CAD stuff to join the fun - now you can use any OS where KiCad runs to do it (though recent versions of KICad require at least some OpenGL for full experience, else their brand new PCB router would not work for you). Finally open hardware made with open software. That's how it supposed to be . Yepp, that's a hint to various half-proprietary Raspberry Pi and somesuch.
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Originally posted by unixfan2001 View PostAs long as there isn't even a single reference board available or any non-academic institution behind it,
And if ARM would continue to be bitches like they are (uhm, yeah, I'm about GPUs, etc) - they can count there will be more and more of demand on solutions without bitching vendors attached. ARM haves good CPU cores. But they are so proprietary minded dealing with them is just a PITA. And it is especially shameful since most of ARM designs are running Linux, so there is simply no excuse for being such an awful proprietary bitches. Speaking for myself, I would gladly switch to something like OpenRISC in my hardware, should there appear some good options. Whatever, I had enough of roadblocks from ARM in regards of 3D graphics in Linux systems and I'm really not fond of it. So if someone wants to displace ARM from their warm place and can provide better terms - they are warmly welcome.Last edited by SystemCrasher; 24 December 2015, 02:22 AM.
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Originally posted by droidhacker View PostARM SBC's really aren't a workhorse, if you're putting it under continual stress such that it builds a lot of heat, then you're probably using the wrong equipment. Consider something with active cooling, or add active cooling to the SBC.
And I do not get what's your trouble. If you want android, there're plenty of tablets or tv boxes running it already. Sure, they are not very customizable. But Android is a platform for consumers, it isn't geat for anything else anyway. It usually runs very crippled Linux kernel, its libc is a crap, there is almost no advanced tools and overall it dumbed down quite a lot. If that's not what you want, it is very likely you want to take a look on real Linux instead. Sure, it haves own shortcomings, but at least it does not considers users are idots. Even if your users aren't exactly smart, such approach makes system customization pain in the rear. It's not hard to dumb things down, but really hard to do the opposite thing.
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