$50 Odroid-C4 Raspberry Pi 4 Competitor Combines Amlogic S905X3 SoC with 4GB RAM

Re:$50 Odroid-C4 Raspberry Pi 4 Competitor Combines Amlogic ... by chomp on Thursday April 23, 2020 @09:24AM (#22955643)

But does it run a mainline Linux kernel? I hate how a lot of Hardkernel’s stuff needs custom patches.

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Re:$50 Odroid-C4 Raspberry Pi 4 Competitor Combines Amlogic ... by mgulick on Thursday April 23, 2020 @09:35AM (#22955784)

My Odroid-C2 runs a mainline kernel. I use it headless, so I'm not sure about graphics support, but its been otherwise extremely stable. It did take a year or two after release to get full upstream support. I'd imagine this new board will follow a similar trajectory.

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Re:$50 Odroid-C4 Raspberry Pi 4 Competitor Combines Amlogic ... by robert_foss on Thursday April 23, 2020 @09:28AM (#22955691)

I don't think the RPi runs an entirely mainline kernel either.

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Re:$50 Odroid-C4 Raspberry Pi 4 Competitor Combines Amlogic ... by gjsman-1000 on Thursday April 23, 2020 @10:21AM (#22956276)

It doesn't AFAIK, but it's getting there.

https://github.com/lategoodbye/rpi-zero/issues/43

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Re:$50 Odroid-C4 Raspberry Pi 4 Competitor Combines Amlogic ... by ac29 on Thursday April 23, 2020 @05:57PM (#22962023)

The answer appears to be yes, with some exceptions like the integrated video encoder: http://linux-meson.com/doku.php

But, I dont have one to test - it certainly might ship with a weird hacked up bootloader or something. I do have a board based on an earlier generation Amlogic SoC that I'm quite happy with. Worked well out of the box and has continued to do so.

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Re:$50 Odroid-C4 Raspberry Pi 4 Competitor Combines Amlogic ... by cnxsoft on Thursday April 23, 2020 @10:18AM (#22956239)

Maybe not right now, but Baylibre is working on this: https://twitter.com/Superna9999/status/1253307218688081920

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