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Boot from UART ? that's gonna take some time... Anyway it's wild that so many of those boards went thru so much effort to develop and produce it yet software i
by ilyt 3y ago
Boot from UART ? that's gonna take some time...
Anyway it's wild that so many of those boards went thru so much effort to develop and produce it yet software is at best provided in alpha state.
You'd think compared to developing SBC that should be small part of it and done and ready before chips/boards are made but even now even the most popular rPi still doesn't have fully upstreamed support and need patches.
Makes me miss the "bloated" BIOS and x86 architecture...
- snvzz 3y agoJH7110's upstreaming effort is actually doing well[0]. They've come this far since the first boards shipped in January. >but even now even the most popular rPi still doesn't have fully upstreamed support and need patches. Because they don't seem to care. the rPi also got a deeply bespoke boot process. This is in stark contrast to VisionFive2 / Star64, which has been working to get code upstreamed from the start. 0. https://rvspace.org/en/project/JH7110_Upstream_Plan https://rvspace.org/en/project/JH7110_Upstream_Plan
- ilyt 3y agoSo +/- a year and there is a chance for one that "just works" without fuckery? Nice, I might pick up one for some home automation. Specs wise it looks pretty interesting as it could be used as pretty much all in one (2x ethernet for router, PCIe for storage, even work as WiFi AP I'd assume) for what I currently have router and NAS for.
- snvzz 3y agoConsidering we already have EFI fw builds, I'd say it'll be all good out of the box with mainline kernels by fall. GPU acceleration would of course depend on Imatech. They have an ongoing mesa3d effort, but these things go slowly. Proprietary driver a shit. Of course, HDMI (outputting an unaccelerated fb) already got patches for Linux and u-boot, and will at some point have EFI driver too.