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On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 3:56 PM, Luna Jernberg <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello! > > Just saw the BoF on the Debconf stream and has a small question: > > Anyone know hows the support for the Rock64 is? > https://www.pine64.org/?page_id=7147 Pines new Board > thinking > of maybe buying one? the main source of libre info about these will be #linux-rockchip on freenode. that's your "beeline" direct to people who *will* know what they're talking about. the RK3388 is pretty awesome, it's basically an upgrade to the RK3288, so a max of 4GB RAM. the RK3288 was used in a chromebook by Acer and google ABSOLUTELY INSISTED that rockchip make FULL SOURCE CODE AVAILABLE. that trend now seems to be continuing, as they move forward with near-identical SoCs that the engineering teams go, "huh. uhm.... our source code seems to be mainlined.. um.... well... we'd better base our new SoC off of that, then". [unlike allwinner's engineers who just.... fuck everybody off because they just don't care, their shares are about to vest in 6 months and they'll be millionaires...] anyway. TL's team managed to get the rock64's LPDDR3 RAM up to some ridiculous speed (1600mhz) - _way_ above what rockchip's own EVB team managed. they also managed to get the HDMI 2 interface correctly laid out so it'll do 4K HD. and it has one *full* USB3 Host interface. so no bullshit about "waaaa, waaaaa i want my SATA drives connected to a low-cost ultra-low-power ARM board but i don't want them limited to 480mbit/sec, waaaaaa" .... :) basically it's a deeply impressive bit of kit. l.
