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Been keeping a casual eye on Pine64 updates over the past year and this is is the most impressive so far IMO. The new RK3566 SoC looks really promising - once

by 3np 6y ago

Been keeping a casual eye on Pine64 updates over the past year and this is is the most impressive so far IMO. The new RK3566 SoC looks really promising - once it eventually makes it into the next generation PinePhone, it's going to make it very attractive as a daily driver. Their involvement with the larger community is great; collaboration with KDE, donating to pmOS, incentivizing contributors to make truly open wifi and bt a reality. Pinephone state and ecosystem seems to be continuously improving. And at long last some news on the SOEdge module. I kind of wish I could buy shares in this company :P Keep up the great work!

megous 6y ago
> The new RK3566 SoC looks really promising - once it eventually makes it into the next generation PinePhone, it's going to make it very attractive as a daily driver. I'm not looking forward to that. For example, mainline lowlevel software stack for RK3399 used in Pinebook Pro still doesn't support suspend to RAM, and RK3399 is quite popular, with many devices based on it. There's barely any recognizable community around RK SoCs.
- entropicdrifter 6y ago
  Just as a mild counterpoint, it's nice to see the Panfrost team getting official support from ARM. They've been able to make some really rapid progress on bug fixes and efficiency improvements just by re-designing based on the official design docs instead of relying on reverse engineering.
- oAlbe 6y ago
  Your argument sounds a lot like "This COVID vaccine has been in development for 9 months and still does not support being stored at room temperature for more than six weeks. I'm not looking forward to it".
  - megous 6y ago
    So? I'm not looking forward to Rockchip SoC based Pinephone. Hopefully Allwinner will get its act together and create some higher performing A* series SoC based on some better performing mali GPU. That would be a win for Pinephone.
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by 3np 6y ago

megous 6y ago

> The new RK3566 SoC looks really promising - once it eventually makes it into the next generation PinePhone, it's going to make it very attractive as a daily driver. I'm not looking forward to that. For example, mainline lowlevel software stack for RK3399 used in Pinebook Pro still doesn't support suspend to RAM, and RK3399 is quite popular, with many devices based on it. There's barely any recognizable community around RK SoCs.

entropicdrifter 6y ago
Just as a mild counterpoint, it's nice to see the Panfrost team getting official support from ARM. They've been able to make some really rapid progress on bug fixes and efficiency improvements just by re-designing based on the official design docs instead of relying on reverse engineering.
oAlbe 6y ago
Your argument sounds a lot like "This COVID vaccine has been in development for 9 months and still does not support being stored at room temperature for more than six weeks. I'm not looking forward to it".
- megous 6y ago
  So? I'm not looking forward to Rockchip SoC based Pinephone. Hopefully Allwinner will get its act together and create some higher performing A* series SoC based on some better performing mali GPU. That would be a win for Pinephone.

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