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by mntmn 6y ago
In our case, I didn’t kick off the process because I would have to send a free laptop to the FSF and we can’t afford that yet. Maybe later. Also I’m not sure what the stance of RYF is regarding controller (non-CPU) firmware, as iMX8M needs
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by mntmn 6y ago
From my dogfooding experience, it really depends on what you need to run and what compromises you are willing to make. The biggest slowdowns I see with javascript-heavy web applications. Native applications like LibreOffice, GIMP, Inkscape,
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How to do etnaviv (open GPU driver for Vivante) reverse engineering(crowdsupply.com)
1 points by mntmn 6y ago|0 comments
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by mntmn 6y ago
You can write me an email after backing and I'll see what we can do! (Clicky switches do exist)
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by mntmn 6y ago
Thanks for your questions and encouragement. Answers: 1. ~1.9kg fully loaded with batteries, WiFi card and SSD. 2. Currently you need to rebuild the firmware, which is "make" and then "flash.sh", but it's absolutely
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by mntmn 6y ago
Don't tell me what to do.
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by mntmn 6y ago
That is incorrect. There is no updatable firmware blob in the chip that we use: http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/sllseh2b/sllseh2b.pdf?&ts=158895831...
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by mntmn 6y ago
OK, I’ll look into that. Is that a good benchmark? Are there other meaningful ones?
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by mntmn 6y ago
Thanks, I’m honored to get your feedback. And yes, we’ll offer all parts separately and I hope they’ll be cloned, too!
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by mntmn 6y ago
You’re funny.
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by mntmn 6y ago
Requires the same or similar controller blob (Xtensa) as HDMI on i.MX8M. Edit: To explain, the external DP/HDMI TX shares an IP block and even the signal lines. This is also a reason why we’re using a MIPI DSI->eDP converter chip fo
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by mntmn 6y ago
That’s OK. Tastes differ wildly.
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by mntmn 6y ago
Main link incl. video: https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/reform Also, AMA!
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by mntmn 7y ago
Yep I’d like to see an open SOM for Reform. If we are successful enough (re: cashflow/funding), it’s possible to do our own.
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by mntmn 7y ago
Yep, the original plan was to have an option with a Plastic Logic display. But the displays are expensive and an extra big project to get to work well for a general purpose computer. But an interesting option for later.
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by mntmn 7y ago
I imagine I could go to FOSDEM again yeah.
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by mntmn 7y ago
Yep, I believe that indie/boutique hardware that gives you some independence from the big corporate gardens will be an important thing.
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by mntmn 7y ago
BTW don’t panic, there’s also a trackpad option if you don’t want the ball.
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by mntmn 7y ago
Yeah, nowadays I wouldn't include that anymore.
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by mntmn 7y ago
My target price is around 900 EUR.
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by mntmn 7y ago
SATA got eliminated for M.2 M-keyed (for NVMe SSD) in the redesign, see my other comment. mPCIe is still useful, because there are a lot of WiFi cards available in that formfactor that don't require firmware, for example.
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by mntmn 7y ago
Hi, this is where I regret not having updated that particular page in a longer time. While the goals remain the same, we have almost finished a complete redesign of the project. Here are some updates: https://mntre.com/media
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by mntmn 7y ago
You might run into address space issues. I haven’t checked Broadcom PCIe documentation for RPi4 (is there any?), but I tried a very similar hack with i.MX6 and older AMD and nVidia cards. They get recognized fine, but BARs cannot be mapped
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Re-Introducing MNT Reform (Libre ARM Laptop)(crowdsupply.com)
2 points by mntmn 7y ago|0 comments
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by mntmn 7y ago
It’s amazing to see this and the similarities to my Amiga VA2000 graphics card that I did many years later, but I swear I didn’t see this before. VA2000 did HDMI output and some very basic 2D acceleration. It’s now sold out. I just complete
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by mntmn 8y ago
Anyone know about the binary blob / firmware situation on this one? Will it run mainline Linux?
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by mntmn 8y ago
This is strange. While MNT Reform still uses the i.MX6QP which is much older, I haven't seen such bad UI performance on it. I've seen consistently better perf from Qt apps or SDL/GL stuff than Gnome on this platform, so I hop
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by mntmn 8y ago
I love stuff like this. We made a whole laptop in this spirit, with a custom USB keyboard, optical trackball, motherboard and 3d printed/cnc milled case, also with KiCAD: https://mntmn.com/media/news_md/2019-0
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by mntmn 8y ago
Fixed the video now so it should work on iPhone / Safari.
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by mntmn 8y ago
Oh man, very true.

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