06-24-2016, 03:00 AM
(06-24-2016, 12:27 AM)bonterra Wrote:(06-23-2016, 10:48 PM)MarkHaysHarris777 Wrote: ... The PI has only 1Gb of memory, ... and the hardware is a closed PITA.
And open source hardware and boot sequence, come on, are you going to start producing your own boards?
No, of course not. That's not the point. Folks are wanting to fix the boot-up on the PI (they can't). Some folks are trying to do bare-metal stuff on the PI (they can't). Most of us just want to view all of the Broadcom specs so that we can leverage the full hardware potential from the board (with our own open software) and you guessed it (we can't). You get the PI their way, or you don't get it at all (our way, or the highway).
The openness of the PineA64 is refreshing ! I can look into the specs myself ( I don't have to wait for experts to pipe up and answer our questions piece-meal sometimes with opinions, I can just go and look ).
Open hardware is NOT about building my own board, its about leveraging PineA64's board for my purposes and be relatively sure I know what I'm doing before I blow the board; open hardware is JUST as important as open software IMHO.
The PineA64 wiki page is fantastic ! --upfront, open, informative, relevant, engineering beauty !
(thank you)
