[LAU] Google TV device w/ AV out

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For serial connection, look for square pad near a USB connector. That will be the ground for serial.

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"Jeremy Jongepier [via Linux Audio]" <ml-node+s4202n85669h79 at n7.nabble.com> wrote:

>	On 06/18/2013 11:14 AM, Dan MacDonald wrote: 
>> Thanks for sharing that Jeremy! 
>> 
>> What are you going to use your 3066 for? 
>> 
>
>Hi Dan, 
>
>I'd like to use it for doing real-time lo-latency audio. Basically the 
>same way I'm using my Raspberry Pi. 
>
>> What are your initial impressions and findings? 
>
>Ambivalent. It sure is faster than a Raspberry Pi but RK3066 based 
>devices have some drawbacks: 
>* No easy debugging access, I have yet to find the TXD pad on my RK3066. 
>* Fragmented development efforts. There are a gazillion git repositories 
>with all kinds of kernel sources, tools, etc. 
>* There are simply a lot of RK3066 based devices around and since 
>RockChip refuses to release their kernel source code people hacking on 
>the RK3066/RK3188 depend on third-party manufacturers that do understand 
>how GPL works and release parts of the code. Still there are things 
>missing, I'm now searching for a way to access the NAND from within 
>Linux but there is no source code anywhere for accessing the NAND on 
>RK3066 based devices. Yeah, there are pre-compiled kernel modules but 
>those don't work on my install. 
>* Closely related to the above bullet, yesterday I decided to flash the 
>kernel to the kernel partition only to realize later that now I can't 
>boot into anything else but Linux. And I can't flash anything either 
>because I can't boot in the bootloader. Apparently I can short two pads 
>and have the device boot into recovery but that won't help me either 
>because I've flashed the recovery partition with, you guessed it right, 
>a Linux kernel. 
>* JACK doesn't run on my device it with an external USB interface. It 
>starts and then the kernel crashes. 
>
>So I'm thinking about getting another TV stick but then a model that is 
>easier to debug and that has some more community support. 
>
>  It should perform notably 
>> faster than your Pi. 
>
>It does but development effort is far from finished so it doesn't work 
>as good as my Raspberry Pi. Well, at least WiFi works so I can just 
>power it up and SSH into it. 
>
>Regards, 
>
>Jeremy 
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