08-15-2018, 05:05 PM
(08-15-2018, 01:51 PM)heocb Wrote:Quote:"if i install (insert an exact name and version of your OS of choice preferably with a link to the download (FYI "debian free software system cf free software" is useless too)) will this (insert specific device name with this exact model (and this is the manufacturer webpage of that product)) work on it? out of the box or will i need some/plenty/a lot of tinkering?"
Maybe my question regarding devices was not clear and specific enough. At least I think
you misunderstood it.
On the rock64 is a number of devices. To list some. A card reader. An emmc port. An ethernet port.
A vpu. A gpu.
What I want to know is which of the rockchip64's devices are unable to work on free software?
I have been told all devices on the rock64 will run on free software. Except some graphics functions regarding
the vpu and gpu 3d hardware acceleration. Can you verify?
Replicant is free software.
https://www.replicant.us/
On
https://redmine.replicant.us/projects/re...plicant-60
replicant tells you what devices on various phones will not work on
free software.
It is the same thing I want to know about the rock64 computer.
You mean each internal device on the board then, AFAIK everything works, including VPU functions (librelec does very good use of the hardware acceleration for videos as example, even up to 4k@60) with the exeption of 3d hardware acceleration (even there i remember someone working on the armbian forum with some patches to use basic OpenGL but i cant find it atm) BUT AFAIK there is no single OS that have everything working at the same time...to put it in simple words, you need to choose the correct OS for the task...so im back again to my previous post with a slight modification, tell us what INTERNAL device/s do you need to use and on what OS and we can guide you to the best match...
