10-15-2017, 04:30 AM
(10-15-2017, 03:12 AM)AndyK Wrote:(10-14-2017, 11:31 PM)elatllat Wrote: I wonder if the rock64 could be made to work with the 1080p pi-top
Interesting thought but I guess that all the bits and pieces like power and battery management, display brightness, sound etc are hardware specific and tie in with Pi Top's own OS and unlikely to work with the OS images for Rock 64 without some hackery?
(10-15-2017, 03:01 AM)stuartiannaylor Wrote: But its just opinion and for me RK3328 = device, RK3399 = netbook and its sort of what the Rockchip engineers designed for.
Roadmaps and product planning are (for me) all about working out how you can leverage the most out of a platform. Pinebook leverages on Pine64 and Sopine. Bit of a shame that Rock64 is one of the cul-de-sacs you mention.
For my day-job, I've been looking at lower end ARM MCUs from the likes of TI, NXP, ST Micro, etc. There's some interesting silicon out there but what makes or breaks the deal isn't the chip - its the software, driver and BSP support. If its not there, or flaky/unfinished, then the hours of development needed can make a chip non-viable. Some vendors get this and some don't. I guess it's a similar problem.
I think rockchip do or at least there collaboration with google on the RK3399 is forcing them to.
Its not just rockchip as in latter kernel releases there has been a rake of Arm patches an absolute plethora in 4.14 alone and many before.
It looking like the rk33xx series apart from vendor deviation will have default support but problem is early adoption.
If you look on github there are new fixes patches and dev almost everyday, practically every day, so its time.
4.14 is in November and Ubuntu 17.10 days to go and 18.04 is April which is that balance between product lifetime and early adoption.