Re: [Arm-netbook] Libre RISC-V SoC

2018-01-23 Thread Lauri Kasanen
On Tue, 23 Jan 2018 20:48:13 -0500 Christopher Havel wrote: > I have a thin client with a 366MHz AMD Geode. YouTube anything (even @ > 240p) almost literally sets it on fire, even with an extremely lightweight > Linux distro on it. It doesn't so much skip frames as it does entire 10+sec > chunks.

Re: [Arm-netbook] pyra computer

2018-01-23 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 9:46 PM, wrote: > https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/threads/getting-closer.82436/ > > I cannot remember if I previously have posted about the pyra computer. > You can notice some of the same problems you see about > the pc card. > > It seems the pyra's cabinet has been mad

Re: [Arm-netbook] Libre RISC-V SoC

2018-01-23 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 1:48 AM, Christopher Havel wrote: > I have a thin client with a 366MHz AMD Geode. YouTube anything (even @ > 240p) almost literally sets it on fire, you need to find and compile up the accelerated video extension. last time i did that was 10 years ago. without it the pr

Re: [Arm-netbook] Libre RISC-V SoC

2018-01-23 Thread Christopher Havel
I have a thin client with a 366MHz AMD Geode. YouTube anything (even @ 240p) almost literally sets it on fire, even with an extremely lightweight Linux distro on it. It doesn't so much skip frames as it does entire 10+sec chunks... and that's with 512MB RAM. I can put a gig in there, sort of... sys

Re: [Arm-netbook] Libre RISC-V SoC

2018-01-23 Thread Bill Kontos
On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 2:45 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > do you happen to know if the building blocks - the key high-cpu-load > parts - of HEVC (aka H.265) _happen_ to be the same or near-identical > to MPEG or H.264 and so on? > I don't know. But youtube is pushing vp9 and it's

[Arm-netbook] pyra computer

2018-01-23 Thread ronwirring
https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/threads/getting-closer.82436/ I cannot remember if I previously have posted about the pyra computer. You can notice some of the same problems you see about the pc card. It seems the pyra's cabinet has been made. The cabinet has no pc card port. Has lkcl been in c

[Arm-netbook] the potato mainboard

2018-01-23 Thread ronwirring
https://www.heise.de/make/meldung/Nicht-ganz-frei-Libre-Computer-3946967.html ___ arm-netbook mailing list arm-netbook@lists.phcomp.co.uk http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to arm-netb...@files.phcomp.co.uk

Re: [Arm-netbook] RK3399

2018-01-23 Thread ronwirring
> Pičugins Arsenijs Thank you for your email. > computer card or a RK3399 mainboard If the pc card gets shipped, then I got one. I want to frame this enterprise a bit more. It must be a hobby thing. You are not obliged to anything and you can skip any time you want. I will not hold it against

Re: [Arm-netbook] RK3399

2018-01-23 Thread Pičugins Arsenijs
First of all, sorry for the wrong "Subject" of the last email! I'm guessing I should switch off "digest mode" on this ML =) > I wanted a small eoma pc card notebook. That is > why I obtained the asus 7inch eee pc 4g. > When I got the notebook, I took out the > mainboard because I wanted to see how

Re: [Arm-netbook] arm-netbook Digest, Vol 90, Issue 26

2018-01-23 Thread Pičugins Arsenijs
>  you will learn a lot from the task that you envision, arsenijs: if > the reverse-engineering of the eeepc is that far along it takes care > of many of the tasks on the list and yes, 6 months would not be an > unreasonable estimate for the remainder. > >  please however be under no illusion that,

Re: [Arm-netbook] RK3399

2018-01-23 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
--- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 12:26 PM, Bill Kontos wrote: > I think you misunderstand the use case here. It's a personal project. i do get it. i get that it means that people learn. i'm inviting them to think beyond tha

Re: [Arm-netbook] Libre RISC-V SoC

2018-01-23 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 12:23 PM, Bill Kontos wrote: > On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 11:12 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton > wrote: > >> ... you mean like this? >> https://opencores.org/project,video_systems >> > > Yes, maybe with the adition of hevc. That would be ideal. do you happen to know if

Re: [Arm-netbook] RK3399

2018-01-23 Thread Bill Kontos
On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 11:21 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > in other words: when you add up the amount of time and effort > proposed to be spent, and convert it to an actual dollar amount, i > estimate that it would come to an amount that would EASILY fund the > development of an ent

Re: [Arm-netbook] Libre RISC-V SoC

2018-01-23 Thread Bill Kontos
On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 11:12 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > ... you mean like this? > https://opencores.org/project,video_systems > Yes, maybe with the adition of hevc. That would be ideal. ___ arm-netbook mailing list arm-netbook@lists.

Re: [Arm-netbook] Testing: GPIO

2018-01-23 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 11:23 AM, Richard Wilbur wrote: > By the way, do you happen to know in what language ikiwiki is written? perl. *gibber, shake*. luckily it was written by an absolute genius who actually cares and is like... really responsible. otherwise ikiwiki would be a dog's dinner

Re: [Arm-netbook] Testing: GPIO

2018-01-23 Thread Richard Wilbur
On Jan 23, 2018, at 03:43, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > if it happens again please take a screenshot, it's important as it > means there's a bug in ikiwiki that is essential to report and get > fixed. I will do so. Thank you for helping sort this out. By the way, do you happen to know

Re: [Arm-netbook] Testing: GPIO

2018-01-23 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
--- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 10:40 AM, Richard Wilbur wrote: > I got an error message that said there had been a failure of the CGI > script--I don't remember the exact wording. If I did interrupt something I'm > not sure

Re: [Arm-netbook] Testing: GPIO

2018-01-23 Thread Richard Wilbur
On Jan 23, 2018, at 02:08, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 7:40 AM, Richard Wilbur > wrote: […] > git log compared to "Recent Changes" showed that there were 4 > revisions that hadn't been applied. That may explain why the displayed version of the page didn't change

Re: [Arm-netbook] SoC + external graphics

2018-01-23 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 3:55 AM, Bluey wrote: > Hi Luke, > > Forgive me if this has been discussed before but has the possibility of > supporting a model where by a dedicated GPU could be installed in a second > slot in order to work in concert with an EOMA SoC? not a snowball / cat in hell's

Re: [Arm-netbook] Testing: GPIO

2018-01-23 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
--- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 7:40 AM, Richard Wilbur wrote: > On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 12:01 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton > wrote: >> anyway it's meant that i've had to ignore the pin numbers in the >> schematic and go by