On Sunday 27 August 2017 11:55:47 Alan Corey wrote: Back on the list Alan. Where it belongs.
> Hmm, interesting question. With the Pi being open source except > possibly the boot blob, somebody could make an enhanced version with > the aim of making it as compatible as possible. Not to say the rock64 > is, I don't know. > > Back in the 80s there was a clone of the Apple II called the > Pineapple. A professor at the college I was at bought one to save > money so I got to spend some time with it, it was pretty good. Ran > all the same software, used the same plugin boards. Of course Apple > eventually sued them and won. Then there's the IBM -> Compaq copyover > which legend says the BIOS was written very carefully to do exactly > the same thing as IBM's without looking at IBM's. Which got copied > all over the place to the point that hardly anybody buys IBM PCs > anymore. > > But taking the Pi as a standard which could legally be copied and > enhancing it, hmm. They've evidently replaced the SOC which is the > reason for the 1 gig RAM limit, it has no BIOS. It could become the > defacto Pi 4. Will it run Raspbian? I was looking for another Pi in > the next few months anyway. > The raspian question is one I've not yet found the answer to. If it will, the gate just opened and the race is off to a good start. Unforch, the next batch won't ship till the 6th of Sept. I must resemble a lab rat, I sure get used for one often enough. ;-) > On 8/27/17, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > What sort of problems due to internal architecture changes would I > > encounter? Currently using an rt-prempt version of 4.4.4 kernel > > labeled kernel7 since no later armhf/v7 kernel rt build has even > > usable keyboard/mouse support, with or without the extra usb2 hub > > for the dongles. This extra hub will be used in any event since the > > box its mounted in will eventually be buttoned up, severely > > restricting the range of the wireless dongles. > > > > This one is usable if rebooted repeatedly until it mostly works. But > > you've got to be chewing kentucky's finest twist and holding your > > mouth just so, otherwise it throws more keyboard/mouse events in the > > trash than it responds properly to. The potential for fixing this > > is the driver for switching to a rock64. > > > > Suggestions as to where to src a suitable image for the rock64, > > hopefully one compatible with the current rpspi.ko driver (available > > as part of any recent linuxcnc install from buildbot.linuxcnc.org > > for armhf's, since except for keyboard/mouse, video(hdmi,mali > > drivers a huge plus) and LAN net stuffs, all other i/o is thru the > > gpio for this application, will be investigated. > > > > Thank you. > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > -- > > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
