| Netham46 | I've got an ARM box (First-gen CuBox), and the only ubuntu distro I can find is an ubuntu 12.10 image | 02:12 |
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| Netham46 | It looks like the package repos for it are down | 02:13 |
| Netham46 | Is there an alternate mirror for older ARM releases? | 02:13 |
| Netham46 | I'm looking to do a dist upgrade to bring it up to date, but I can't get it fully installed in the first place w/o the repos. | 02:13 |
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| Netham45 | Nevermind, found it at http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ . | 02:26 |
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| nikko_01 | hello. I have not used my pandaboard in a year and was wondering if anyone had an idea how it would perform with 14.04 | 05:14 |
| infinity | nikko_01: Headless or desktop? | 06:56 |
| infinity | nikko_01: As a headless machine, they still perform really well, and are quite handy. | 06:56 |
| infinity | nikko_01: For desktop/gui type use, the situation's a bit crap, cause TI dropped support on the floor for OMAP4 quite a long while back, which means no more sketchy binary drivers which means no more 3D drivers at all, since there isn't an open source powervr driver. | 06:57 |
| nikko_01 | infinity: so the situation has not changed. I did want to use it to build my UI as well as real-time embedded processor. | 06:58 |
| infinity | nikko_01: So, you can run a desktop that doesn't demand fancy 3D performance (xubuntu, lubuntu, etc), the 2D framebuffer performance isn't awful, but no 3D and, more importantly for some usecases (set top box?), no non-free video decode acceleration. | 06:58 |
| infinity | nikko_01: The situation isn't likely to improve ever, really. PowerVR doesn't play well with others. | 06:59 |
| nikko_01 | infinity: Got it. It's a shame . I have 2 of those boards. I assume the same is true with beagleboard Xm? | 07:01 |
| infinity | Not sure that video's on the XM, or the state thereof. | 07:01 |
| nikko_01 | I tink it is the same chip or earlier generation if I am not mistaken | 07:02 |
| infinity | But pretty much anything who's upstream status is "nothing but a non-free driver", we're not shipping any of those, and for most of them, it's because it's usually an unsupported non-free driver that only works with a kernel from 4 years ago. | 07:02 |
| nikko_01 | Infinity: Thanks for the info. Any arm board in those price ranges you know of? | 07:03 |
| infinity | Haven't kept track of the latest and greatest. | 07:04 |
| infinity | But free Mali drivers are starting to not suck, AFAIK, so in the future, I'd look for SoCs with Mali GPUs. | 07:04 |
| nikko_01 | ok. thanks for the info again. | 07:04 |
| infinity | Though, today, unless you're really into hacking together stuff and playing a LOT, pretty much everything sucks. | 07:05 |
| infinity | Except if you take a device that you know works with, say, Android or ChromeOS, and violently shoehorn their drivers and kernel into Ubuntu. | 07:05 |
| infinity | Which is actually a lot less fun than it sounds. | 07:05 |
| infinity | I don't recommend it. | 07:05 |
| nikko_01 | does not sound like fun | 07:06 |
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