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Or is it the other way around?

I've gotten my Station P1. 
It looks great. I love the metal case. 
There seems to be PCIe GPIO's. Also RTC battery. 

It is sweet. Thank you for informing me about this. 

 

Or is it the other way around?

Or is it the other way around?

Or is it the other way around?

Or is it the other way around?

Lots of board have similar issues. Debt of compactness. Thankfully you can get adapters for cheap.

Armbian is based on open source software which is IMO the only warranty for our bright future and where its worth investing our precious time into. Everything else (Android, closed 3D drivers, Rpi, ... ) is fully dependent on corporations who owns closed libraries, licences, patents and which can and do decide how and when "open source software" will work or stop working.

Most if not all Androids are running private Linux forks interacting with lots of closed libraries for this and that - those libraries are usually locked to one kernel and can't be reused elsewhere. You can't upgrade anything. FOSS - on the other side - has to reverse engineer those libraries which interact with hardware or write them from scratch. Running pure and true open source Linux is a rare luxury. Especially in ARM world. Running it with open 3D drivers and open video accelerating routines is expensive / luxury ... but we are getting there.

Hardware interface, kernel and special hw dependent libraries, the expensive thing is responsible for that. Usually there are two kernels - one where lots of things works, but its old, not supported by community and incomplete modern one supported by community. OS / cheap component / user land usually does not matter.
 
 
Anything you asks from Armbian is too much. Yearly budget for R&D from public side is 0 since your donations only covers running electricity / bandwidth costs, help with infrastructure upgrades. Whatever you get from this project is already a gift. I understand your frustration, but "simple" things you want, are / can be expensive projects which are far out of our reach to finance (we can only abuse our private cash which we already do).  However, our main focus is to secure a base, not high level stuff like you want. You don't want to have yet another rotten system that looks nice from a surface (video playing inside the browser), but everything else sucks and you can't even change that browser without breaking video playing feature. That is how Android / legacy kernel based OSes looks like. When you look behind the curtains. When you start to use them.
 

They are present but GPU is not responsible for playing video. GPU (mali,panfrost,bigtrost, ...) only know how to deal with 3D / for games, for KODI UI. Video acceleration is a method of bypassing standard implementation. Different for each version of hardware / chip (family). The expensive stuff! We don't even pay attention to the status of development since already keping things up2date is a cost we need to cover from private pockets. Once POC - to play video within video player - is done is just a first step. If you want to get that to the browser is yet another complicated problems. And with Chromium is not the same as with Firefox. Ofc you want to have both and also on some exotic? Yes, some standards exits, but dealing with this exceeds Armbian doers for several ten times. And it is "just" for playing bypassed video inside a browser. Workarounds exists but they are usually on the "not acceptable" levels. 

Do some research on this forum. I think there is also some video from Fosdem about this problematic. Problem is not related to this board or this chip only.

Hello guys,
 
Please I want to ask you who already own the Opi 4 a few questions
 
1) Can you please test screen tearing? In desktop Armbian (Which desktop?)
2) What about GPU drivers in Armbian? So youtube and etc, is encoded via CPU? But running well in 720/1080p 60fps?
 
THANKS
 
Because I bought rpi4, and i am dissappointed... I have tried many linux OS´s , different settings, drivers, etc, but in every desktop OS i see screen tearing in 1080p 60Hz. I don´t think I want too much, i only need smooth scroll and smooth desktop experience...
 

Wow that was quick!  I didn't even have a chance to kick in....so what's next ?

If you have money to donate simple increase your subscription
 
We need to make sure to use our funds wisely so the process of tinkering how to so takes quite some time.
There will be fundraising campains in the future as soon as we have a solid idea about what we need.

I am also very pleasantly surprised at the support.  That was a decent figure, and we hit it pretty quickly.  There must be more people out there who appreciate Armbian than I realized.  A silent majority, if you will.
 
The donations are greatly appreciated.  Thanks to everyone who pitched in!
 
I also view this as an indicator, a validation of everyone's efforts who contribute and are involved in this project in one way or another.  FeelsGoodMan.jpg
 
Cheers, mates!
 
   

I am also very happy that we manage to cover this purchase together in so little no time. This was also a live test of our crowdfunding system. It works surprisingly well and we will certainly use it for our other projects in the future.
 
As you already noticed, server was already purchased and is currently under evaluation. This upcoming release will already be build on it. We already built few nightly builds and speed bump from aging dual xeon is hard to describe  
 
Thank you all for showing us support!
 

Paypal donations and forum donations are not synchronised even paypal user would be the same  Sorting those things is yet another project, but at the project location it will remain at sight who supported server purchase. 

certainly', this due @Igorwaving is magic wand :-)

It is there for me?
 
Anyway.
This community is crazy. Not that we made it through the crowdfunding but we made it through in less than half of the time it was public. This is insane. Not much to say but THANK YOU ALL WHO DONATED!

Great news, delighted to see it is appreciated and people do care about your great work! 
P.s: I wonder why I lost "donator' status ?
 

Donations reached the goal. 
To everybody who helped. Big thank you. This will be well used. I've seen the server and it's a monster.

Next goal maybe different desktop implementations, with GPU and maybe VPU if possible. Who could we hire? What cost?
 
But before that there's already enough new things coming soon. And the server will be in good use or that.

From the whole team. Thank you.
NicoD

Any luck of installing TensorFlow on the board? I need it for my project so it will be a deal breaker if I can't get TF installed and running on it.
 
Thanks!
 
Richard

As far as I understand, both options (kvim1\kvim2) require complete removal of the regular u-boot-2015 from eMMC to run. This is a dangerous approach with serious problems for users. U-boot-2015 AML has a serious difference from RK\AW - it uses a specific solution for writing \ updating firmware in eMMC, which is only available in u-boot-2015. This is the main way to work with firmware on AML. Its absence will cause a flurry of complaints and tantrums from users when they encounter serious problems and start blaming Armbian.

Hopefully it gets into better shape once Armbian starts tinkering with it

I have this board. software is in very bad shape. No hardware acceleration  video or graphics.

Maybe partially helpful:
 

Woohoo. Joined the fundraiser club