On 6/11/23 15:22, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
For future readers of the list: I had to search for the meaning of an
NPU and found this reference helpful -
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/ai-101-gpu-vs-tpu-vs-npu/ - no further
opinions as to the company behind it. NPU - Neural Processing Unit -
c
On Mon, Nov 06, 2023 at 09:32:05AM +0800, jeremy ardley wrote:
>
> On 6/11/23 06:26, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> > I think you've hit the curse of almost all ARM single board computers.
> > Almost all are small production runs / out of East Asia somewhere as
> > "prototypes"** with a board support
On Sun, Nov 05, 2023 at 06:39:46PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > The way round this is to build u-boot or reverse-enginer the settings then
> > do the same for a kernel, dtb and then debootstrap Debian yourself
> > - that's exactly the sort of thing that folk do to get their boards
> > "suppor
On 6/11/23 06:26, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
I think you've hit the curse of almost all ARM single board computers.
Almost all are small production runs / out of East Asia somewhere as
"prototypes"** with a board support package (BSP) that's probably just
the manufacturer's kernel, u-boot and d
On 11/5/23 17:26, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
On Fri, Nov 03, 2023 at 12:22:36PM -0400, Daniel Gnoutcheff wrote:
The best answer is if the board has been supported for a while by
Armbian then that is probably a better choice than a less well
supported/documented manufacturer specific build of Debia
> The way round this is to build u-boot or reverse-enginer the settings then
> do the same for a kernel, dtb and then debootstrap Debian yourself
> - that's exactly the sort of thing that folk do to get their boards
> "supported in Debian" - folk like vagrantc and gwolf.
> Painful isn't in it - t
On Fri, Nov 03, 2023 at 12:22:36PM -0400, Daniel Gnoutcheff wrote:
> > The best answer is if the board has been supported for a while by
> > Armbian then that is probably a better choice than a less well
> > supported/documented manufacturer specific build of Debian.
>
> Oh, I should clarify. By
jeremy ardley (12023-11-04):
> The problem with pure Debian is it will likely not ever support the extra
> goodies on some SBC.
Indeed, running Debian on this kind of device is not perfect.
But there are problems with running a niche distro too. It would be
idiotic to suggest there is a perfect s
> The problem with pure Debian is it will likely not ever support the extra
> goodies on some SBC. In my case the NPU and GPU which are
> manufacturer specific.
AFAIK for the GPU the situation is usually not that bad (many/most ARM
SoCs use Mali GPUs nowadays and these are fairly well supported un
On 4/11/23 00:22, Daniel Gnoutcheff wrote:
The best answer is if the board has been supported for a while by
Armbian then that is probably a better choice than a less well
supported/documented manufacturer specific build of Debian.
Oh, I should clarify. By "official Debian binaries and image
> Oh, I should clarify. By "official Debian binaries and images" I meant
> to say "pure" or "mainline" Debian as distributed from *.debian.org. Yes,
> a bespoke "Debian" image from the hardware vendor is, indeed, out of the
> question. ARMbian is better, but I know and deeply trust the Debian pro
The best answer is if the board has been supported for a while by
Armbian then that is probably a better choice than a less well
supported/documented manufacturer specific build of Debian.
Oh, I should clarify. By "official Debian binaries and images" I meant
to say "pure" or "mainline" Debian
y...@vienna.at (12023-11-02):
> > I ear with ARMbian you have to use Docker to build a kernel. That makes
> > a pretty strong “why not ARMbian”.
> No
No what? No Docker is not necessary or no it is not a reason to ditch
armbian?
--
Nicolas George
On Thu, 2 Nov 2023 08:44:31 +0100
Nicolas George wrote:
y...@vienna.at (12023-11-02):
Why not try ARMbian?
I ear with ARMbian you have to use Docker to build a kernel. That
makes
a pretty strong “why not ARMbian”.
Regards,
--
Nicolas George
No
y...@vienna.at (12023-11-02):
> Why not try ARMbian?
I ear with ARMbian you have to use Docker to build a kernel. That makes
a pretty strong “why not ARMbian”.
Regards,
--
Nicolas George
On 2/11/23 08:01, y...@vienna.at wrote:
On Wed, 1 Nov 2023 18:17:24 -0400
Daniel Gnoutcheff wrote:
I have a Radxa Rock Pi 4B (an arm64 single-board computer) with a
(removable) eMMC module. I'd like to install Debian stable on it,
and would strongly prefer to use official Debian binaries a
On Wed, 1 Nov 2023 18:17:24 -0400
Daniel Gnoutcheff wrote:
I have a Radxa Rock Pi 4B (an arm64 single-board computer) with a
(removable) eMMC module. I'd like to install Debian stable on it,
and would strongly prefer to use official Debian binaries and images.
I successfully booted debian-i
I have a Radxa Rock Pi 4B (an arm64 single-board computer) with a
(removable) eMMC module. I'd like to install Debian stable on it, and
would strongly prefer to use official Debian binaries and images.
I successfully booted debian-installer from eMMC after flashing the
rock-pi-4-rk3999 SD car
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