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> Cortex-A73 at 2.4GHz That's indeed much faster than the Pi4. Do you know the state of kernel support for that board?

by my123 6y ago

rektide 6y ago
It uses an Amlogic S922X aka the G12B. Support is generally pretty good, there's a dedicated community that has been very active pushing upstream[1]. Except the ARM G51 Bifrost gpu, which has only recently started to see viability[2] thanks to one hacker's reverse engineering. If you want to read a lot of words, there's a status report from the libreeelec Kodi-based media player distribution distribution that's a year old, that lays out a lot of what needs be done, from a very video-intense perspective[3]; this is before recent reverse engineering efforts, & largely discusses uses closed proprietary blobs, but still interesting. Most recently & very interestingly, there are signs that ARM itself may be willing to start helping out the reverse engineered development[4], which would be a new potentially interesting state of affairs. [1] http://linux-meson.com/ http://linux-meson.com/ [2] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Bifrost-Gallium3D-Most-GLES-2.0 https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Bifrost-... [1] https://forum.libreelec.tv/thread/21134-what-aspects-of-hardware-is-supported-under-amlogic-mainline-at-the-moment/ https://forum.libreelec.tv/thread/21134-what-aspects-of-hard... [4] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Arm-Panfrost-Going-Official https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Arm-Panf...
squarefoot 6y ago
According to the Armbian (one distro to support them all:^) page, mainline kernel support is complete, although they say there still could be some network problems. From what I read on their forum, the Hardkernel Ubuntu-based image is currently more stable than the Armbian one. https://www.armbian.com/odroid-n2/ https://www.armbian.com/odroid-n2/ https://forum.armbian.com/search/?q=odroid%20n2%2B&fromCSE=1 https://forum.armbian.com/search/?q=odroid%20n2%2B&fromCSE=1 https://wiki.odroid.com/getting_started/os_installation_guide#operating_systems_we_re_providing https://wiki.odroid.com/getting_started/os_installation_guid... Dietpi also supports the N2, which is very similar to the N2+. https://dietpi.com/ https://dietpi.com/

> Cortex-A73 at 2.4GHz That's indeed much faster than the Pi4. Do you know the state of kernel support for that board?

by my123 6y ago

> Cortex-A73 at 2.4GHz That's indeed much faster than the Pi4. Do you know the state of kernel support for that board?

It uses an Amlogic S922X aka the G12B. Support is generally pretty good, there's a dedicated community that has been very active pushing upstream[1]. Except the ARM G51 Bifrost gpu, which has only recently started to see viability[2] thanks to one hacker's reverse engineering. If you want to read a lot of words, there's a status report from the libreeelec Kodi-based media player distribution distribution that's a year old, that lays out a lot of what needs be done, from a very video-intense perspective[3]; this is before recent reverse engineering efforts, & largely discusses uses closed proprietary blobs, but still interesting. Most recently & very interestingly, there are signs that ARM itself may be willing to start helping out the reverse engineered development[4], which would be a new potentially interesting state of affairs. [1] http://linux-meson.com/ http://linux-meson.com/ [2] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Bifrost-Gallium3D-Most-GLES-2.0 https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Bifrost-... [1] https://forum.libreelec.tv/thread/21134-what-aspects-of-hardware-is-supported-under-amlogic-mainline-at-the-moment/ https://forum.libreelec.tv/thread/21134-what-aspects-of-hard... [4] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Arm-Panfrost-Going-Official https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Arm-Panf...

squarefoot 6y ago

According to the Armbian (one distro to support them all:^) page, mainline kernel support is complete, although they say there still could be some network problems. From what I read on their forum, the Hardkernel Ubuntu-based image is currently more stable than the Armbian one. https://www.armbian.com/odroid-n2/ https://www.armbian.com/odroid-n2/ https://forum.armbian.com/search/?q=odroid%20n2%2B&fromCSE=1 https://forum.armbian.com/search/?q=odroid%20n2%2B&fromCSE=1 https://wiki.odroid.com/getting_started/os_installation_guide#operating_systems_we_re_providing https://wiki.odroid.com/getting_started/os_installation_guid... Dietpi also supports the N2, which is very similar to the N2+. https://dietpi.com/ https://dietpi.com/