On Wed, June 19, 2013 8:08 am, Dan MacDonald wrote: > Hi Jeremy! > > Thanks for your report! Pretty much what I expected, unfortunately! > > > On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 10:48 AM, Jeremy Jongepier > <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > >> On 06/18/2013 11:14 AM, Dan MacDonald wrote: >> >>> Thanks for sharing that Jeremy! >>> >>> What are you going to use your 3066 for? >>> >>> >> Hi Dan, >> >> I'd like to use it for doing real-time lo-latency audio. Basically the >> same way I'm using my Raspberry Pi. >> >> >> What are your initial impressions and findings? >>> >> >> Ambivalent. It sure is faster than a Raspberry Pi but RK3066 based >> devices >> have some drawbacks: >> * No easy debugging access, I have yet to find the TXD pad on my RK3066. >> * Fragmented development efforts. There are a gazillion git repositories >> with all kinds of kernel sources, tools, etc. >> * There are simply a lot of RK3066 based devices around and since >> RockChip >> refuses to release their kernel source code people hacking on the >> RK3066/RK3188 depend on third-party manufacturers that do understand how >> GPL works and release parts of the code. Still there are things missing, >> I'm now searching for a way to access the NAND from within Linux but >> there >> is no source code anywhere for accessing the NAND on RK3066 based >> devices. >> Yeah, there are pre-compiled kernel modules but those don't work on my >> install. >> > > That would seem to be the biggest issue with these devices atm but one > that > should legally be resolved asap. > > Whether they 'get' FLOSS or not, either way they only stand to gain from > doing as they legally, morally should. > What's the legal aspect here? Are they using gpl code in their drivers but not releasing them? > >> * Closely related to the above bullet, yesterday I decided to flash the >> kernel to the kernel partition only to realize later that now I can't >> boot >> into anything else but Linux. And I can't flash anything either because >> I >> can't boot in the bootloader. Apparently I can short two pads and have >> the >> device boot into recovery but that won't help me either because I've >> flashed the recovery partition with, you guessed it right, a Linux >> kernel. >> * JACK doesn't run on my device it with an external USB interface. It >> starts and then the kernel crashes. >> > > That's what I expected, seeing how little success I've had on my > Pandaboard > with J2 git. Have you tried J1 too? > > Thanks J! > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user > -- Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
