petatester Posted January 3, 2019 Posted January 3, 2019 I had boards like Asus TinkerBoard or others with AMLogic chips that have the hardware support but lack the software part. Does Armbian have support for some SBCs with "true" video acceleration for linux? (aka vendor is not an asshole that doesn't share the required drivers to use the features it sells?).
Igor Posted January 4, 2019 Posted January 4, 2019 On 1/3/2019 at 3:56 PM, petatester said: with "true" video acceleration for linux Expand Currently, out of the box, it works on all Allwinner A10, A20, A64, H3 with legacy kernel and pre-installed mpv player. Ancient Cubietruck, 1st supported board, can easily handle 1080p ... for other platforms and modern kernel its somewhere between OOB and non existing ... It's some work while our resources are tiny.
petatester Posted January 4, 2019 Author Posted January 4, 2019 On 1/4/2019 at 7:38 AM, Igor said: Currently, out of the box, it works on all Allwinner A10, A20, A64, H3 with legacy kernel and pre-installed mpv player. Ancient Cubietruck, 1st supported board, can easily handle 1080p ... for other platforms and modern kernel its somewhere between OOB and non existing ... It's some work while our resources are tiny. Expand Ty for replying. Of course i understand that it's not an easy task, what i don't understand is why vendors themselves don't provide the required software. If people can use your board to do what they want easily, they will buy it before any other alternative :S I guess they expect the community to get the work done for free.
Igor Posted January 4, 2019 Posted January 4, 2019 On 1/4/2019 at 8:35 AM, petatester said: why vendors themselves don't provide the required software. Expand Because software development and item support is expensive and they have a limited amount that can be blasted on this. They still have to make a profit. On 1/4/2019 at 8:35 AM, petatester said: I guess they expect the community to get the work done for free. Expand Some help more, some nothing, but majority is done for free by the community. Linux is a community project per see and if you want a quality Linux, you have to do something about. Our capitalistic world function on the principle that winner takes it all - if you get a huge popularity and related big sales numbers, you don't need to give not a single dollar back to the community, while on the other hand, you have. 1
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