First of all, congrats for a very interesting product. 

THe board looks very good from a specs. point of view, but what about the power consumption?
How much power does it need in idle and how much power does consume under full load?

Is there a way, or a prebuilt component I can buy to connect my SBC to SSD using SATA? (not USB to SATA).
Thanks

Hi guys,


i require your helps and ideas.

i run openssl speed rsa to evaluate the power of my PINE64+ board (i am a crypto guy).



i was a litle bit surprised to see big difference using different distribs :

 - the Debian Jessie with Mate DE [3.10.102 BSP 2] by Lenny Raposo    show me a nice 9.6 4096bits Private RSA / sec



while other dietPI and armbian get stuck to 6.4 4096bits Private RSA / sec.



So i decide to upgrade both the Debian Jessie Mate and dietPI to the latest kernel 3.10.105, run package update, then i force the CPU setting got from the debian to the dietPI :

sampling_down_factor = 1

sampling_rate = 2000000

sampling_rate_min=40000

up_threshold = 95



but got same result dietPI still show me  6.4 4096bits Private RSA / sec.

What do i miss ?


Any helps appreciate, thanks a lot

I have just got around to installing the touch sreen. I have the Debian image. 

When I boot up the screen does not come on. Is this because I have the wrong image?

Alpine Linux has aarch64 on Downloads section:

https://alpinelinux.org/downloads/

Anyone using? (It is possible to use?)

When will the pinebook get an upgrade to the ROCK64 and >= FHD display (like the manga screen 2)?
I know it's early days for this SBC but the potential is so exciting I had to ask.

If you have a ROCK64 already please share the output of

How many outputs can a GPIO drive?

I have several ADC's I want to send a clock signal too all at the same time, is there a general rule of tumb of how many devices a pine output can drive at once? 
Thanks!

For release notes, please visit Armbian Website.

Armbian - Xenial Desktop (Pinebook SDCard) 5.32
- THIS IS FOR SDCard BOOT!!!
- MD5 (XZ file): 4d5446a705aa40aeaee03d14971b32ca

Xenial Minimal Image (PINE A64(+)) 0.6.2-77