General SBC question and Linux
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(10-01-2016, 07:03 AM)jkmooney Wrote: So, following up on some of the list provided by dkryder, a few things come to light:

1)  Many of these have SATA:  That could be pretty handy for keeping files available across OS's
2)  Intel and AMD both have SBC option (nVidia, I'm looking over in your direction....)
3)  The Bannana Pi M3 Plus3E looks pretty interesting
4)  Orange Pi as well but, according to the website, still uses the Mali M400 GPU  (the list says otherwise)
5)  Good or bad, the Mali M400 seems to be pretty commonly used.  This tells me two things..
    a)  There's definitely value in getting a Linux driver for it
    b)  we can't possibly be the only one's who've tried.

So, If I wan't things like Kodi and Moonlight working on this, I'll need to know which boards have Linux distributions that support the onboard graphics and video acceleration.

Regarding your subpoints - a) and b) the answer is yes and yes. But as I understand it, a part of the problem is Pine's 64 bit architecture and most of the other boards use 32bit linux, and there have been opensource mali 32bit drivers available for years. But they dont work with the pine. As more 64bit SOCs enter the market with mali on SOC, the demand will surely grow. For now, the AW blob is there for those daring to use it ...
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Messages In This Thread
General SBC question and Linux - by jkmooney - 09-29-2016, 06:35 PM
RE: General SBC question and Linux - by dkryder - 09-29-2016, 07:39 PM
RE: General SBC question and Linux - by pfeerick - 09-29-2016, 09:21 PM
RE: General SBC question and Linux - by jkmooney - 09-30-2016, 06:29 AM
RE: General SBC question and Linux - by jkmooney - 10-01-2016, 07:03 AM
RE: General SBC question and Linux - by Luke - 10-01-2016, 07:35 AM
RE: General SBC question and Linux - by waldo - 10-01-2016, 07:51 AM
RE: General SBC question and Linux - by Luke - 10-01-2016, 09:29 AM
RE: General SBC question and Linux - by waldo - 10-01-2016, 12:37 PM
RE: General SBC question and Linux - by pfeerick - 10-02-2016, 05:03 AM
RE: General SBC question and Linux - by jkmooney - 10-01-2016, 10:36 AM
RE: General SBC question and Linux - by Luke - 10-01-2016, 10:39 AM
RE: General SBC question and Linux - by jkmooney - 10-01-2016, 01:19 PM
RE: General SBC question and Linux - by Luke - 10-01-2016, 01:22 PM

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