Rather than offload all the good stuff why isn't the kernel patching made easier. There was a BDI at one time. It wasn't a bdi. It took professional tweaking to make it run. Maybe a truly BDP for the kernel?
On Wed, Mar 27, 2019, 6:35 PM Alan Condit <condit.a...@gmail.com> wrote: > I pulled the trigger on a RockPro64 4gb this morning. The RockPro64 has > the Mali > T860 gpu (supports OpenGL 3.2). > > I have a Pine64 A64+ 2gb. Just a couple of days ago, I built a preempt_rt > kernel > for it running on armbian Stretch. > > I cloned the raspberrypi/linux repository (it had the latest good arm > sources). > I downloaded the source for 4.19.25, I downloaded the patches 4.19.25 from > kernel.org <http://kernel.org/>. > At that time the latest patches for 4.19.y was 4.19.27. and applied the > corresponding > preempt_rt patch for it. I used the make menuconfig option. > Now just a few days later the latest patches are for 4.19.31. They are > working very hard > to integrate preempt_rt into mainstream. > > Pine64’s A64+, Rock64 and RockPro64 are hardware options in the > menuconfig. So far, > I have had no problems that I can trace to the kernel. > > When my RockPro64 arrives I will try to build the preempt_rt kernel for it. > > Alan > > > From: TJoseph Powderly <tjt...@gmail.com> > > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Rock64 pre-orders on Banggood. > > Date: March 27, 2019 at 5:00:55 AM PDT > > To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" <emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > > > > > > > for those interested because of 2nd ethernet > > > > this maybe useful: > > > > a pinout of the header used > > and small discussion of the needed isolation trafo 'magjack' > > > > https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=4898 > > > > > > also, re rt-preempt 64 bit on it... > > i see dev 'schooner' has done this > > " |root@pine64:~# uname -a > > > > Linux pine64 4.9.6-rt4-p64-73261-g5fb7565 #2 SMP PREEMPT RT Wed Feb 8 > 07:45:02 UTC 2017 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux" > > > > see end of thread at > > https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=394&page=5| > > > > hth > > tomp > > > > i find it amusing that the header naming and advertising suggest this is > pi5 compatible > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Emc-users mailing list > > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
