Re:Raspberry Pi 4 PCIe bridge “chip”
by megous on Thursday July 02, 2020 @06:35AM
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Seems a bit like self-inflicted wound though. If I look at the /boot dir on my Rpi2/Arch Linux ARM I don't recognize anything there. No u-boot, not boot.scr, nothing standard.
If I wanted to configure display, read thermals, cpufreq I had to use some rpi specific tools in /opt, intstead of using standard kernel interfaces.
Trying to add a TFT display to RPi involved googling and finding a bunch of outdated/contradictory advice and then still having to figure it out myself with experimentation.
Locally bought Rpi2 at the time was also 3x the price of the better specced Orange Pi PC. And if I wanted to use video decoding I had to pay even more.
I mean, it's great it works for you. My interest was in learning, and it felt like the things I would learn about Rpi would not help me that much with any other boards, due to quirkiness of Rpi's SoC design, and nonstandard OS interfaces. So I bailed early, and focused on something else. I also found the SoC to be rather closed.
If I wanted to configure display, read thermals, cpufreq I had to use some rpi specific tools in /opt, intstead of using standard kernel interfaces.
Trying to add a TFT display to RPi involved googling and finding a bunch of outdated/contradictory advice and then still having to figure it out myself with experimentation.
Locally bought Rpi2 at the time was also 3x the price of the better specced Orange Pi PC. And if I wanted to use video decoding I had to pay even more.
I mean, it's great it works for you. My interest was in learning, and it felt like the things I would learn about Rpi would not help me that much with any other boards, due to quirkiness of Rpi's SoC design, and nonstandard OS interfaces. So I bailed early, and focused on something else. I also found the SoC to be rather closed.