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Do they even care about the drivers though? I bought their m.2 dual tpu and the drivers are in a really bad state They got in the linux kernel, staging, then
by Luker88 5y ago
Do they even care about the drivers though?
I bought their m.2 dual tpu and the drivers are in a really bad state
They got in the linux kernel, staging, then basically no work done. They continued the development off-tree, going out of sync with what the kernel had. Only 4.19 supported if I remember correctly.
Finally removed from the kernel in...5.13?
Driver wise I can't say that this company is trustworthy
- IshKebab 5y agoSoftware is always the biggest issue with these products. That's why nobody can dethrone Raspberry Pi.
- ajsnigrutin 5y agoYep, raspberrypi, arduino and in the last few years, esp* are defacto standards just because of the great software (and library) support. Yes, STM, XYZ, CabbgePi, etc., is better, faster, has sata, has emmc storage, has more pins, less power usage, has this and that, but if I can't program it now, because of software bugs, and won't be able to program in in 5 years, because the toolchain will be abandoned by now, I really don't need it. source: I have a bunch of microcontrollers and single-board computers, collecting dust in a drawer at work.
- jacquesm 5y agoSpot on, better a crappy hardware platform with excellent software than the other way around, even if in theory you can fix it all, if you value your time the decision is easy.
- pridkett 5y agoThis was the bane of my existence for a few months. Tried it on several different systems and the best I could ever do was getting a single TPU to show up. Eventually I just sold it, and back when you could buy them, picked up a couple more USB Corals. Works well enough, but it’s ugly.
- dekhn 5y agoit's a hobby project for a few folks with tenure at google. I've tried to buy a bunch of these over time and the few I was able to get were close to useless.