TonyMac32

Right, or the Datsun/Nissan Hardbody vs the Frontier. Well partly, but it's also just a huge game of follow-the-leader in the industry right now. the Colorado at least has a work truck option, but (to risk stereotyping) the baby boomers are too concerned with how soft the seats are and the millenials on how many touchscreens it has. The reason my old one is still in my driveway is because it has 0 power accessories. It doesn't even have cruise control. The automatic transmission was a tradeoff I had to make because the M5OD-R1HD manual option was made of glass and couldn't tow as much. I did install a bluetooth stereo so I could handsfree when my wife inevitably called me during my 20 minute commute.

Very nice. My ranger is currently a slant-3. I could just unplug the injectors from bank 1 I guess...

Nice, I've helped a couple friendsout, one swapped a broken \6 out for a 318 in his Dodge Demon, the other swapped his 318 Duster with a 340. Yes, but the new platform isn't worthy of it in my honest opinion. The 2.7 EcoBoost is a FAR better engine than that 2.3L open-deck catastrophe in the normal ones though...

With the Explorer donor vehicle available, it's 100% bolt-in. I have to do some work in the cab because my ranger is too new for the explorer security immobilizer/key circuits. Might just swap the entire dash, also bolt-in. Lack of vision, or "we're selling enough of them anyway, who cares?" The Explorer 5.0 hah GT40p heads on it and the good intake, so with a cam (I mean, I basically have to), it should be snappy. It will have to be AWD for a while until I acquire a manual transfer case. The Ranger powertrain options should have been as follows: 2.3L (110 HP/no torque), 3.0L Duratec (210 HP/190 lb-ft), 5.0L V8 (250 HP/all-the-torque) The new Ranger quite literally looks like someone asked me what should be in a truck and made sure to do the exact opposite. Oh man, the leaning tower of power. I know someone with a turbocharged propane slant-six A-body. If you're in the mood for strange. Personally I prefer reliability over anything else, and the 318 is far more robust than the slant 6. Of course, with a cross-flow head I'd basically have a BMW, but without plastic cooling system components or the unbelievably high oil consumption indicative of the "Ultimate Driving Machine"... Comparing engines by company or country gets tough, example: Chrysler 3.6L "Pentastar": 295 HP Volkswagen 3.6L "VR6": 276 HP <---Might be unfair, that offset-inline rubbish was always a half-baked idea, and honestly those engines are still wayyy too wide. GM 3.6L LFX: 305 HP Ford 3.5L "Cyclone": 290 HP Honda 3.5L "J35Y6 VCM": 290 HP <--- Fuel economy of a dump truck going uphill towing a Civic for when you run out of gas.

I do as well. Violating the constitution is a serious problem, even if the government is 100% funded by theft, erm "taxes".

I think the only hope of that is to wait for preempt-rt to finalize 4.19 support, then patch that. You'll then have to look very carefully at what bugs are being fixed upstream and determine if any apply to what you're trying to do, then apply those patches after the fact.

Indeed. Had failure of idiotic plastic thermostat housing (replaced with Aluminum), then the timing chains flew out the side and bent a bunch of valves at 117k (miles). The shortest lived engine I've ever had in an American car (I had a Stratus, but I may have crashed it) To be fair to Cologne, the pushrod version of the engine was far better, but the weird fetish with overhead cams was it's undoing. I'm swapping in a 5.0L V8 from an Explorer, since they were the same vehicle from the drivers seat forward it will be extremely easy, the donor vehicle with the engine in it costs about as much as a new head for that V6... I agree the LS is solid, but the GM people are too insufferable, I can't do that to the Ford. If a Dodge 318 fit in there, I'd gladly do that, the community would give me a high five for something different...

Well, they doubled the thickness of the sheet metal, beefed up the suspension, never added any new features, so yeah, I can see it. I had a German designed engine in my Ford, it had all the inexcusable failures my friend's BMW had, and now the small truck sits in my driveway dead waiting on an American engine with almost twice the mileage to be swapped in... OK, end of #offtopic. For boards, honestly the rockchip boards should all be leaders, but their manufacturer seems to enjoy causing frustration. They have modified their behavior somewhat, and community members are stepping up on media, we will see. Amlogic performs pretty well, but again, some of the strangest decisions and a magic blob of doom that is impossible to control... and questionable advertising of capabilities (perhaps that's getting better). Allwinner is solid, but the processors are all quite old and some are apparently being EOL'd

Well, like I said, my point isn't about the blobs, that's fine. But don't bring my highly polished brass and sell it as gold. My entire issue is the whole truth in advertising bit. I'd take that over a Ferrari, TBH.

I can't help but think this will be a cyclical issue for that community then, he is far too sentimental (tunnel vision perhaps), and the platform is far too closed hardware wise. Typical market forces will render them noncompetitive over and over as they cling to the familiar. As always, the "open source platform" would be on a non-distributor SoC with a most likely closed source VC5, with all the typical paywalls up to be "permitted" to use the HEVC/etc. Since Eben was willing to hide his camera tuning behind DRM on the VC4 devices, I can only imagine the uses for the improved security core... Again, not a problem, except they sit their in their tiny little hardware sandcastle with the tide coming in and claim to build unquestionably superior supercomputers. I was a lot less sarcastic on this topic before I started reading their forums and seeing the excuses they give for basic lacking functionality, the technical 1/4 truths, some outright deception, hiding behind "millions sold" numbers instead of engaging technical questions... The GbE one was too much, their assertion was that achieving 30% Gb throughput was irrelevant since it was attached to the network at GbE bit rates. That's like me putting 300 kph rated tires on a Lada Riva and claiming to compete with Ferrari because the physical contact between the car and the street was capable of high speed operation... (to be fair, the Lada may be more reliable than a Ferrari... )

The board certainly is, but the 4.20 kernel is not. I have tested images now with my board, no issues seen. I really don't know what could be causing this error on your side, however it does not appear to be kernel related, perhaps hardware or some attached device/user software config.

Yes. Best wishes from my side as well. Sent from my Pixel using Tapatalk

@João Cravo I need some more info, as described in our documentation and all over the forums, namely the output of armbianmonitor -u

Ja/Si/Da/Oui/Yes. I agree. Sent from my Pixel using Tapatalk

He also hung a lantern on it, so to speak:. "silly kitchen sink benchmarking". He's illustrating how numbers can be used to selectively represent reality. Sent from my Pixel using Tapatalk

Not much of a tutorial, but it is something that often needs some googling and head scratching. This is how I got my particular modem working, your mileage may vary. Step 1) Get a modem that will work. I got a Huawei E397u LTE/UMTS/GSM modem. It's Cricket branded, but I'm on Google Fi, it will work with my data SIM. Step 2) Plug it in and see that it doesn't work. Step 3a) apt update Step 3b) apt upgrade Step 4) Install usb-modeswitcher Step 4, optional part 2) install modem-manager, modem-manager-gui (for general playing around) Step 5) unplug/replug the USB modem, see that it should magically have a different VID:PID when you type lsusb. You should also have some ttyUSB's, and you can check out modem details in the modem-manager-gui Step 6) set up network connection via the network dropdown at the top right of the desktop. You will need APN information for your carrier. I put in modem-manager so I could debug. It will cause issues if you do certain things with it while connected. My modem was $15, Ebay has them. https://www.ebay.com/itm/BRAND-NEW-Unlocked-Cricket-Huawei-E397-E397u-53-4G-LTE-Mobile-Broadband-Modem/262898110276 So does amazon.

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.

I'm still not completely clear on your goal, I've done 2 touchscreens at one time with the Tinker, one on DSI (RPi screen), and a Waveshare 7" HDMI. Now, I won't pretend to know all of the I/O on the Tinker 100%, but where are you physically accessing the LVDS?

Kernels involved?

Unknown, that is a different distribution. Have you run the rk3288 media script created by@jmcc? Without it you don't have the Mali drivers , etc. Sent from my Pixel using Tapatalk

There is a difficulty here, because we do not host the kernel sources. Updates to kernel sources often break the configs/patchsets. If you wish to continue an EOS board it would be recommended to clone the kernel, u-boot, and Armbian buildscript at the point of eos. I agree money isn't the best discussion, I also see, however, a constant demand for professional-level support with no hint or interest of contribution of even time. That is just as ugly, but hard to point to as easily. There is a reasonable technical answer with some supporting information: - We have no requirement to support any board. If it is not in our personal interest or benefit it simply won't happen. I think some of the "regular devs" feel pressure and get frustrated that they can't satisfy the whims of the general public. - We have too small of a team to deal with demands and general Linux questions. - the code is all public and opensource, anyone can contribute/fork to do whatever they like board support wise. My personal action in this has been that I don't answer any general questions I don't have an immediate answer for. If no one else does either I can't help that. I think it works out in the end.

One of the more honest Raspberry Pi ... today I think the RPi 3A+ is more decent, honest and humble with the user.  I agree. The 2B is the one I use when I have to, the 3A+ at least represents the SoC's physical reality.

USB3 micro B.... I've never seen anything so unbelievably badly thought out, that said, cheap is cheap...

Are you certain this is due only to the patchlevel? We use Ayufan's kernel, which is a moderately heavily patched Rockchip kernel, which has very little in common with a "Vanilla" 4.4 at this point...

If you saw the number of boards I have you'd either be excited or dismayed. The rev 1 to rev 2 changes weren't so big, so I didn't bother trying to get another. :-) Their team is very supportive of the community of developers. As for me, I've had a minor role, many others here have done as much or more, the distro around the board support is where all the really important stuff happens. Thank you for the praise regardless!