The $8 Linux Computer

Re:The $8 Linux Computer by moffkalast on Saturday December 17, 2022 @08:15AM (#34027486)

And didn't require a PhD in UART to get an OS running on it. Seriously, who the hell thought the process described in that blog makes any kind of practical sense at all.

I mean the thing has two USB ports, TWO! And you can't use either, hahaha!

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Re:The $8 Linux Computer by aswanson on Saturday December 17, 2022 @08:44AM (#34027674)

PhD in uart. Loled on that one. Thanks.

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Re:The $8 Linux Computer by stefan_ on Saturday December 17, 2022 @10:50AM (#34028763)

But don't worry, instead they connected the MIPI CSI to.. the USB-C connector?

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Re:The $8 Linux Computer by stolk on Saturday December 17, 2022 @01:55PM (#34030904)

OP here...it got a little better with a patched picoprobe.

I wrote up part 2 here: http://thelittleengineerthatcould.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-8...

But yeah, not plug-n-play. I still have to find out how to get network or SD-Card.

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Re:The $8 Linux Computer by moffkalast on Saturday December 17, 2022 @02:32PM (#34031273)

it is quite interesting that it actually has an sdcard slot but doesn't use it as a boot device? Like wtf? With only 128 MB of flash what kind of OS can one even fit on that...

Nothing about this board makes any sense lol.

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Re:The $8 Linux Computer by teleforce on Monday December 19, 2022 @09:46AM (#34052615)

Stay tuned, according to the Bouffalo Lab BL808 SoC datasheet (page 90) series numbering system that the board is based on, they will probably have more RAM and ROM capacity in the later versions of the SoC:

https://github.com/bouffalolab/bl_docs/blob/main/BL808_DS/en...

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Re:The $8 Linux Computer by monocasa on Saturday December 17, 2022 @02:35PM (#34031324)

The first batch had a bug in the USB serial. Supposedly it's already fixed in boards you can buy now.

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