17 May
2013
17 May
'13
3:12 p.m.
Each of your observations are true.
Dan MacDonald-3 wrote
I looked into these devices a bit more last night. It
seems Picuntu (which
is based upon Ubuntu 12.10 and still in beta) currently only supports the
dual-core RK3066 devices and I failed to find any success stories of
people
having got Ubuntu (or any non-Android Linux) to install on the quad core
RK3188s.
Work is underway to remedy this.
Dan MacDonald-3 wrote
Picuntu doesn't yet include the Mali GPU drivers
but there are
instructions
available for installing the Mali drivers which apparently brings you
accelerated 2D and OGLES2 under xorg. However, its the VPU which handles
video playback accel and I'm not sure this is working yet for the RK3066.
For completeness, there is a sister project (home://io) which includes GPU
drivers. For our application, however, GPU drivers are not essential
currently.
Dan MacDonald-3 wrote
Another pitfall is the wifi/bt chipsets as, having a
read through forums
for these devices, it would seem not all the wifi chipsets are supported
by
Picuntu yet so thats another thing to look out for before anyone takes the
plunge and buys one.
Definitely true but improving. An accepted practice with such sticks is
currently to go out to a USB hub / Ethernet dongle.
As someone else indicated, these sticks generally have no dedicated audio in
or out. This may be mitigated by using USB based i/o.
Perry
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