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Honest question: Can somebody explain to me why I would want to get this instead of a Raspberry Pi or a Beagle Bone?
Honest question: Can somebody explain to me why I would want to get this instead of a Raspberry Pi or a Beagle Bone?
[1] http://stw.asus.com/download/download.aspx?product=1&model=T...
Honest question: Can somebody explain to me why I would want to get this instead of a Raspberry Pi or a Beagle Bone?
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I'd love to know of SoC vendor that does. Intel and Wolfson are the only chip vendor that delivers above and beyond for Linux drivers that come to mind. Everything else is hack city in proprietary kernel forks that never see the light of mainline.
Drivers != Linux drivers. Also, TI and Freescale are both good with providing official driver source code of decent quality. Even Broadcom contributed a lot of drivers upstream.
Rockchip has reputation for not following through with drivers for their ARM SoCs. I wonder if this will suffer the same fate or if perhaps ASUS will pick up the ball.
I discovered that drivers are nonexistent and although there was some talk of Mali drivers being released to Linux, I can't recall that happening.
The box I have runs Linux fine with an image provided by the manufacturer however beyond that there is no 3d acceleration support for X when I checked last.
The pi has better support but more importantly a stronger and closer relationship with broadcom.
All these SOCs including the Rockchip 3288 and the newer 3399 work perfectly on Android and Chrome seen in the Asus Flipbooks and the Samsung Chromebook Pros. So perfectly good drivers that work on Linux exist. Yet something goes missing between the cup and the sip. This is just selective self serving use of open source by Google and ARM.
OEMs cannot release drivers unless ARM and other hardware manufacturers let them, its like expecting Asus and MSI to release Intel or Nvidia drivers for Linux without Intel and Nvidia's support. Google has huge influnce in this ecosystem and can play a role in moving things along but they would rather these devices just work on Android and Chrome.
Rockchip has reputation for not following through with drivers for their ARM SoCs. I wonder if this will suffer the same fate or if perhaps ASUS will pick up the ball.
I can confirm this sadly. I started working with RC3288 a while ago (almost two years ago). I discovered that drivers are nonexistent and although there was some talk of Mali drivers being released to Linux, I can't recall that happening. The box I have runs Linux fine with an image provided by the manufacturer however beyond that there is no 3d acceleration support for X when I checked last. The pi has better suppor…
Honest question: Can somebody explain to me why I would want to get this instead of a Raspberry Pi or a Beagle Bone?
(Even though my home network is stuck in the dark ages and has a 100MBit switch only. I know GBE switches are dirt cheap, but this one has been with me for ~13 years now and has survived me losing consciousness and dropping my head on it, so I really want to find out how long it'll last.)
Honest question: Can somebody explain to me why I would want to get this instead of a Raspberry Pi or a Beagle Bone?
To try and help prevent one company having a monopoly on this space?
Release drivers, update images. That's all the Pi Foundation has done to ensure they're the best.