No.550456
Ayy where my ARM bros at?
ARM PC/Board specs?
ARM Smartphone specs?
What are you running on it?
What ARM SoCs are you looking foreword too?
Useful pages;
https://linux-sunxi.org/Main_Page -Info about Allwinner A10 boards and getting Linux on them
http://www.berryterminal.com/doku.php/berryboot -ARM OS bootloader targeting the Pi
http://www.berryterminal.com/doku.php/berryboot_a10 -Berryboot for Allwinner devices with Android NAND Recommended for beginners on Allwinner devices as it does most initial setup for you!
No.550458
>Smartphone specs
Snapdragon 410 SoC with ARM cortex-a53 cpu and Adreno 306 graphics, 2GB of RAM
Also Snapdragon 600 SoC with Kriat CPU, Adreno 320 graphics and 2GB of RAM
>PC/Board specs
Allwinner A10 SoC with ARM cortex a-8 cpu and Mali-400MP gpu, 1GB of RAM
>Running
Android on smartphone and Fedora 23 ARM on the board with LXDE
No.550496
>>550456
Is it possible to run Gentoo on those boards?
No.550505
>>550456
>smartphone specs
top kek. why would anyone kill his own privacy using mobile phones?
>SBC
Beaglebone Black: Texas Instruments AM335X SoC with an ARM, Cortex-A8 armv7h core, 512 MiB of RAM, a useless PowerVR GPU.
>looking forward
lowRISC/RISC-V or becoming rich to buy a Novena or a Novena 2 with a 64-bit CPU
>>550496
is that a rethorical meme question?
of course it's possible.
No.550535
>Phone
Snapdragon 801, krait 400 cpu with adreno 330 graphics. 3GB RAM. Runs BB10
>Server
Cubietruck: Allwinner A20, 2GB RAM. Runs Armbian, and is used to back up my data and access it with Samba and FTP. It also torrents things.
>Other SBCs
Olimex Lime 2: Allwinner A20, 1GB RAM
Olimex Lime: Allwinner A10, 512MB RAM
Cubieboard 2: Allwinner A20, 1GB RAM
RasPi B+: Can't remember the specs got it before they went full retard
Odroid C1+: Can't remember the specs
Other ones aren't being used for anything at the moment, but I'm planning on converting one of the Olimex boards to a Kodi box for a friend
>Looking forward to
When Hardkernel eventually announces the odroid XU5
Olimex Lime A64
Olimex's new metal cases
No.550538
So these things are totally open, down to the bootloader? No proprietary BIOS / UEFI / management engine that could contain backdoors?
Sign me up as long as pfsense has an ARM option and I can get a board with 2x Intel gigabit nics and 4+ gb of ram.
No.550540
>>550538
It depends, Allwinner devices use U-boot, which I believe is open source, although Allwinner has also been known to have violated the GPL in the past, I take this as their ignorance over them doing anything nefarious with their devices
No.550543
Anyone here got the graphics drivers properly working?
I compiled and installed the sunxi mali drivers, libump, libdri2, and fbturbo drivers from sunxi, as well as loaded the required kernel modules, and x is a lot faster now but not as fast as I'd hoped
There's also the xf86-video-armsoc driver, what the fuck is this one about and how come sunxi doesn't use this one instead of fbturbo?
No.550545
>>550538
Most ARM boards are fully open and well documented, just avoid the Pi, Snapdragon, Tegra, and Exynos boards since I don't think they're fully open apart from some chipset drivers, boards like Allwinners are generally well trusted
No.550546
>>550456
>ARM PC/Board specs
A20-OLinuXIno-LIME2:
-Allwinner A20 dual core Cortex-A7 processor, each core typically running at 1GHz and dual-core Mali 400 GPU
-1GB DDR3 RAM memory
-SATA connector with 5V SATA power jack
-Capable of FullHD (1080p) video playback
-HDMI connector
-2 x USB
-1000MBit native Ethernet
No.550547
No.550550
>>550496
http://distfiles.gentoo.org/releases/arm/autobuilds/current-stage3-armv7a_hardfp/
I personally only have experience either Allwinners, but basically you need to write the fs tarball to partition 2 of an SD card while partition 1 contains the necessary u-boot files and hardware profile files
If you don't want to find/build your own u-boot, then there is Berryboot which does all the hard parts for you, all you need is for your device to already be running Android, which most allwinners are, since the Berryboot installer runs on Android and writes to the SD card while taking hardware profile files from the Android install, you'll also need root.
After that you have 2 options;
Download a distro from Berryboots OS browser (easiest)
Or make your own berryboot image, which just involves stripping an OS image of its kernel since Berryboot uses its own kernel
More info here;
http://www.berryterminal.com/doku.php/berryboot/adding_custom_distributions
I was able to successfully do with with an official Fedora ARM image, works like a charm
No.550574
You faggots better be ready to jump on the RISC-V bandwagon as soon as consumer boards arrive
No.550576
No.550587
>>550576
Is it an Intel Atom or some shitty chinese brand 8086 clone?
No.550589
>>550574
I'll be ready to get a RISC-V board as soon as they become low powered and cheap enough, which I don't see happening for a long time
RISC-V seems to target workstations and high-end smartphones, you're missing the point of ARM, and that's that it is cheap, low powered, and ubiquitous
No.550592
I want to learn ARM assembly. Mostly to fool around with my smartphone. I already know x86 assembly.
What's the recommended toolchain? Any good books on the subject?
No.550596
>>550592
Smartphones may be a bit complicated, since most smartphones use proprietary bootloaders, and use a nonstandard ARM implementation, granted, if you get past the bootloader part and work though the SoCs unique instructions for initializing code you can run simple apps maybe
No.550631
Using a Banana Pro mainly for a torrent/IPFS seedbox because my shitty router can't handle a lot of connections. I also use it for Samba filesharing from my external hard drive. I tried setting up Owncloud but it was not worth the effort.
No.550673
>>550543
Samefag here
Trying to get the openGLES test to run but I run into a DRI2 error saying it failed to authenticate
It's also using Mesa LibEGL.so.1
What I tried;
removing /usr/lib/libEGL.so.1 and creating a symbolic link from /usr/lib/libMali.so to libEGL.so.1
Got initiization error
Tried again but instead of libMali I linked libEGL.so.1.4 from the sunxi libs
Still init error
Finally just restored link with ldconfig now I don't know what to fucking do, and sometimes gdm just sits at a black screen indefinitely at boot until I force it off, but everything is significantly faster so I'm torn on what to do, I could just roll back to the official fbturbo driver from Fedora repos but this version isn't compiled with libump support so it only half-works really
Why are all Mali drivers such garbage on GNU?
Does anyone have experience with Lima drivers?
No.550729
No.550735
posting here too >>549579
No.550772
>Using linux on embedded/soc/arm
J U S T.
Save yourself the trouble and use NetBSD.
I got a BBB on it's way, as well as Cubieboard 2. Prob going to set up a tor relay on the BBB and a seedbox/ipfs/i2p/whatever on the cubieboard
No.550774
>>550589
>RISC-V seems to target workstations and high-end smartphones
You don't know shit m8
http://www.lowrisc.org/
No.550779
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>>550772
I attempted to get NetBSD going on a A13 -- but there's no A10-series interrupt support. (FreeBSD has got it, though.)
No.550781
>>550779
Also, NetBSD has bugger-all support for embedded operations or workflows. Enjoy your ffsv2 on flash.
No.550834
>>550772
>NetBSD
Call me when it has a modern filesystem. ZFS support work seems to be stalled.
No.551028
>>550772
>>Using linux on embedded/soc/arm
Actually yes? The most popular OS' in history is "linux on embedded/soc/arm"
I swear BSDCucks are retarded sometimes
No.551044
So the GPUs are useless in these things are useless because nodrivers right?
No.551058
>>551028
BTRON/IITRON, actually. SoC Linux still needs another ~2 billion devices to catch up.
No.551072
>>551058
>Blatantly lying
>2016
No.551078
>>551058
You're pretending to be retarded right?
ITRON Isnt used in jack shit anymore, it used to be, but it's been overtaken by Linux-based RTOS' for nearly a decade, this is especially apparent with the fact Android is the most popular OS in history at this point in time, which is a Linux based OS, not to mention Linux in routers, cars and shit too
No.551081
No.551082
>>551078
>ITRON Isnt used in jack shit anymore
Oh shit 400 million washing machines just disappeared into thin air.
No.551762
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OH SHIT THE CRAZY MOTHERFUCKER ACTUALLY DID IT
No.551766
>>551762
Gentoo has official ARM support
No.551768
>>551766
Not all ARM-- I've got an armv4 box (without thumb, hence no EABI) that's SOOL.
No.551775
>>551762
OH SHIT THE CRAZY MOTHERFUCKER IS GONNA DO THE WHOLE THING ON A ONE GIGAHERTZ SINGLE-CORE CPU!
No.551778
>>551775
you better keep it cool or it'll overheat and die
No.551793
>>551762
An odd thing I've just noticed: that A13 Olimex board is unstable if the DC supply is over 4.9V (and tested it with several of my best regulated wallwarts) ... If I power it from the Vcc of the USB serial adaptor, it gets just 4.75V, and works fine...
No.552331
>>551775
fffffffffffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
No.552370
>>550592
>Look at what a dumbshit question I'm asking
>I already know x86 assembly
>dubious
No.552389
Is there an ARM laptop other than Pi-Top, Chromebook, Android? I just want Linux without x86 in a laptop.
The Pi-Top looks neat but they dropped the keyboard in the sequel, I suspect because it sucked. HP has a nice little Android laptop but eh Android. If you get beta access (requires google login) the Pixel C has multitasking capabilities, but they break it just enough for Youtube Red to make sense...
No.552411
>>552389
>I am 2 pleb to wipe the factory OS and install Gentoo
No.552508
>>552411
I do that all the time to windows. Have you actually done it with android or chromeos, and recommend the result?
No.552525
>>552508
Got a Samsung ARM Chromebook when they first came out, munged a stripped-down Ubuntu onto it, and it's been my traveller laptop ever since.
No.552570
>tfw your ARM board is a Chinese Roku box clone running Android that you got to boot Fedora because Allwinner A10 SoC
Based Allwinner
No.552578
>>550772
Because Fedora has an official ARM release
https://arm.fedoraproject.org
BSD doesn't
No.553789
any router software that comes close to pfSense's features that's compatible with ARM?
No.555317
No.555377
No.555381
I really want to get an SBC, and been looking at the Olinuxino Lime 2 since it has good connectivity and Olimex seem to be strong proponents for software/hardware freedom.
Would you recommend this board, or are there better options? I require USB, sata, gpio and ethernet as a minimum. I will not buy non-free products.
No.555401
>>555377
The company behind the Banana Pi, excluding the original and the pro, are a bunch of morons. They have horrible support for their boards, and I have 3 BPi M2s sitting here doing nothing because of it. The one you're looking at isn't even supported by Armbian, so you can't even get a simple fix from the community. No idea about other router devices though.
>>555381
The Lime 2 works fine, but the GPIOs are tiny as fuck. Haven't tested using it with SATA because I don't have the adapter.
I'd recommend the Cubieboard 3. It's by Cubietech, who claim that they do open source stuff. I'd like to give you evidence but they've tagged every post in their blog with "open source" so I can't find anything relevant. They've got kernel source and schematics at least.
It's huge and has a fuckton of features, and with an expansion board supports 3.5 inch hard drives. It's also got 2GB RAM. I'm using one as a server and it works great. It's got smaller GPIOs, but not as small as the Lime's.
Also don't get the Cubieboard 4 or 5. They're technically good but Allwinner are shit at making drivers, so the boards have pretty much no support. They haven't added anything substantial anyway, so there's no point getting anything more than a 3.
If you're willing to compromise the Odroid C1+ is pretty good. No SATA, and they don't label it as open source, but it's a better RasPi than the RasPi.
No.555556
No.556692
>>555401
>The company behind the Banana Pi, excluding the original and the pro, are a bunch of morons. They have horrible support for their boards, and I have 3 BPi M2s sitting here doing nothing because of it.
Damn, and it looked like a good board.
No.556717
>>555556
wait, who the fuck got...
>>555555
No.556755
>using an orange pi as a home server
>the power adapter dies
>order a new one
>it's been over two weeks
>still not here
>not sure if I should order another one or wait
>the pi just sits here doing nothing
>tfw
No.556818
>>551762
Are you that motherfucker from /gentoo/?
No.557063
No.558885
>>556755
just rig a USB plug to it, the Orange Pi runs on 5v 2A no? Its not even that hard since its all color coded for you and you're not exactly working with dangerous voltages here, I did this shit when I was fucking 12, if you're too pussy for a solder gun just get some electrical tape
No.558888
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No.558890
>>558888
kek, I'd hate to be the guy I stole those 8s from
No.558903
>>558888
lol wtf do we really have "world famous penis pump" ads on /tech/?
i have that pesky ad-block on, that's hilarious.
No.558909
>>558903
the funniest part is 8chan doesn't use a third party ad provider, that means LA Pump had to contact Jim Watkins to get that ad there, probably figuring most 8chan users have microdicks, I bet business is booming for them now kek...
No.558913
>>558909
rolling in the penis-pump shekels
No.559453
>>556755
>i can't figure this out
>b-but buying a Linux SBC was supposed to make me smarter!
>wuts a DC?
No.559466
Anyone managed to install something else than the image files provided by the manufacturer on the Beaglebone Back, these pieces of shit come with more bloat than my desktop PC.
I tried the Void Linux guide for the BBB, but it fails miserably. The D2 user led is stuck in a perpetual heartbeat pattern which indicates that the device is still booting. No SSH access. It's the BBB rev. C if that matters.
No.559506
>>559466
I don't have a BBB, but if you can get Android for it, you can always use Android to write Berryboot to another SDCard and either download a Berryboot provided image or create your own Berryboot compatible image
No.560351
>>559466
I strongly recommend you pick up an appropriate connector to access the serial console, it'll provide output for pretty much everything including the bootloader.
http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBone_Black_Serial
As for third-party distros, there's a Debian Jessie image somewhere that I think comes with less bloat. FreeBSD and OpenBSD also have installers but I remember those having issues, might be fixed now.
No.560480
>there is no proper Mali-400 drivers
>The closest thing we have is fbturbo which is much faster and optimized for ARM but still has to use Mesa for 3D rendering
>once in awhile at boot x11 fails to start and system crashes because fbturbo takes a shit but is stable after everything is loaded
>tfw
No.560940
>>560351
>>559466
Fedora has official ARM filesystem images and an official ARM Installer to configure it for the BBB
https://arm.fedoraproject.org/
more info about installing:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/F23/Installation
My main ARM OS besides Android is Fedora since it gets fantastic official support
No.561016
>>551762
THE
ABSOLUTE
MADMAN
No.561171
>>551762
meh, Gentoo runs on pretty much everything, I remember installing Gentoo on my Wii
No.563514
No.570882
Just got an Olimex Micro A20 for cheap, anyone have experience using their UEXT interface? Is there a place I can get UEXT using devices without paying twice the price for shipping and taxes?
No.571830
>>570882
>UEXT is a connector layout which includes power and three serial buses: Asynchronous, I2C, and SPI.
What's the benefit of having all of them in one connector?