Tido

Just as a tipp
https://github.com/arne48/tinkerboard_io

Read what I wrote. Again.

To be clear I've gone through the heat rates and power losses through the electric vehicle power chain, and in a mountainous region using coal generation a Tesla gets 25 MPG.

Never forget that electrical generation is external combustion turbine, 40% efficiency. Then go through the grid, then the massive losses during charging, and the losses by simply sitting in the driveway in the cold. A new Toyota 4 cylinder gas engine can do that.

There is potential in electric vehicles, and I like the technology, but as an engineer with experience in energy storage and power distribution, it isn't mature enough to push yet, it very clearly causes as many problems as it solves, even in the most optimistic vision.

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still coming.. nice to see.  @jernej is also mentioned for his support on this journey
 
https://bootlin.com/blog/allwinner-vpu-campaign-one-year-anniversary/
 

- firmware to support Orangepi 3 https://github.com/armbian/firmware/commit/fe584970a1f8e718540a3cec4838e7a4cad5f263
- spelling and grammar in armbian-config  https://github.com/armbian/config/commit/92ad8e77eec2e71429d677852654cfeb1a0ea3f0

Release WIP and CSC images from their own page with very specific limitations, including, but not limited to: no kernel or u-boot updates, ideally with the kernel and u-boot package names modified with -unsupported-
 
Explain these are demo snapshot images, potentially even package a different wallpaper that has -unofficial- or something similar watermarked across it.  Maybe even use the default WM theme.

are you using https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis_CI   on Github?

?  Which problems?  I actually have more issues with my C2 and K2...  There is also the likelihood of that SoC (The S905) being EOL'd (if it hasn't already been)  Don't get me wrong, the C2 is a great board, but it is at best on equal support footing with the Le Potato.
 
The issues with the Rock64 are honestly more Rockchip issues, their support of that SoC hasn't really seemed to hit the level of the RK3288 or RK3399.  The RK3288 is still my favorite Rockchip for "normies" because it just works.  No games, no BS, it's about as close to plug and play as you're going to get.  Unfortunately it didn't fit enough buzzwords, so the only boards using it are the MiQi and Tinker Board, with a proper power supply the Tinker is a solid choice, and will run circles around a quad-core A53 in desktop use.  The only competitors so far desktop wise are the RK3399 (support isn't quite there yet) and the Odroid XU4.  (H6 is still pretty buggy I think)

Cleaned up the default kernel patches, clock frequencies for additional video modes, also /proc/board_info exists again (can tell if Tinker or S, might be used by some ASUS software)
 
Also if you build a dev image you have a working kernel 5.1
 

i made a patch from his tree and u-boot compiled.. I'll share an image and a WIP PR in a bit

I like some of it, but especially in this section I disagree https://docs.armbian.com/Quick_facts/#balancing-development-and-support  RPi, really??
I would rather read like: before you go and buy a device, read/search the forum for which device comes with good software/Linux mainline support und which are with less. So you prevent frustration after the purchase.
This could be supplemented with: As of today March 2019 these SoC manufacturer work on mainlinging some of their SoC, Rockchip, ...
These SBC manufacturer support improvement of mainline Linux Libre Computer,  Friendlyelec
 
and so on
 

Hi I wanted to pick back up on this thread as a whole.
 
Ask #1

I'd really like it if we could publish a list of maintainers for boards or board classes.     
If you all can help with that on the thread, I'll get it to the documentation, and then I'll proceed with some of the next phases of my communication strategy.

Since we list what needs maintainers here.....

Ask #2
I'd like some feedback about work categorization.

@chwe's post here had a really good breakdown of some of the types of work that needed to be done.   

Some of the themes I saw were:
* Platform Stability / Maintenance / Operations
* Code quality and Testing
* Features / Enhancements
* Documentation and UX

Do you think the above is flexible enough that most of our work could fall into one of those 4 buckets?

Donated about two days ago.  The community "vibe" was part of it, and also a a somewhat restrained anti-rpi kept to a minimum, prompted me.  (I'm a big "Pi-Core" / Dcore / Tinycore fan as well.  I don't run Raspbian much as PiCore fascinates me much more instead).
 
For me, it's just as much of a cool community helping each other out, as it is the hardware itself.  I see similarities between the vibe of Armbian, Tinycore, and even Busybox, fullfilling the small-ish group centric thing that our originators, Ken Thompson / Dennis Ritchie / Doug McIlroy / Brian Kernighan and the whole host of others who had the "drive" to do something unique and interesting and helpful for others....
 
Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but I can feel a common thread going waaay back.
 

Because the board is intended to work on any Pi-shaped board that can be powered via gpio, Like a Pi, Le Potato, etc. A lot of those don't pull as much as the ATB.

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PINE64 PINE-H64_lpddr3_v1_2-20181211.pdf
 
Here is the schematic plan.
 
Have fun

Another Tinker "case", this time one geared toward the developer who needs to access pins/jumpers: http://electricgraveyard.com/index.php/2019/03/07/asus-tinker-open-case-diy-kit/
 
Instead of flooding the forum with 100000 pictures, leave it over there.   The TL;DR is that it has a much nicer cooler included than the board gets initially, and the base itself is a nice stamping.

because it is an electron programm.
 

Interesting post, 4.20 is not supported, and I have a potato that I boot up periodically without issue, so perhaps this has to do with some additional hardware you have attached. 
 
You've been around long enough to know you need to provide an armbianmonitor -u link.

but it sounds like we have to look around the corner, something is coming
 
EFI Support
We are moving towards having standardize boot by supporting EFI.  However, the bootloading process is using the EFI facilities and you will now have a EFI-based GRUB GUI that lets you control boot parameters where as it was hard coded before.
https://libre.computer/
 

A little update on that topic, in c't Magazin I read about two others which are low in price and fast:
Kingston MobileLite G4 UHS-I
Hama USB 3.0 UHS-II
 

it depends on the angle you look at it, it shows whether this is the first time or a regular writer in the forum. How the individual takes its measure from this information is up to the individual and shouldn't be censored ((I have to smile while writing that) I know I can look it up in his profile, but I am lazy). Other forums have that too, so we shouldn't hide it, I think.
 
 

I would agree on that
 
Le Potato from Libre Computer,  is less expensive and will offer you better performance than RPi
https://libre.computer/products/boards/aml-s905x-cc/#tabs_desc_684_2
 
Allwinner H3 is also good supported, except for the shutdown part https://linux-sunxi.org/AR100  depending on your know-how you can fix it for you or help others as well.

Maximum Geek
 
Edit:
The Rock64 Revision 3 is the latest version of the company’s mini PC with a Rockchip RK3328  processor.
https://liliputing.com/2019/02/pine64s-single-board-computers-are-getting-2019-upgrades-prices-still-start-at-25.html
 

Hi all,
 
I wrote a blog post about some of the issues with the Raspberry Pi that you can find scattered around this and other forums. Hopefully it will save us time from repeating ourselves over and over again.
 
As we know, people don't read the forums until it's too late.

https://ownyourbits.com/2019/02/02/whats-wrong-with-the-raspberry-pi/
 
Thanks tkaiser, I took a sample output from your vcgencmd script.

Hi Pietro,
 
If your software is so good, that people are willing to pay money "if they rather use it than steal it", well done.
If you offer it to others who do not have the money but use it, test it and give you feedback and even help you to make it better - win - win.
This is how https://www.invoiceninja.com/  built a great company - listen to the podcast on https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly/episodes/506?autostart=false
 
so long