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1. minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Nov-2024 19:31:23 JST minute

   do you want an RCM5 module (adapter) for MNT Reform family to support the Pi CM5 features?

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Nov-2024 19:34:19 JST minute

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     the rk3588 is more powerful than the pi5, so the interesting thing here is probably lower cost

   • Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide (infoseepage@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Nov-2024 19:39:49 JST Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide

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     @mntmn $75 is a LOT cheaper than the rk3588, but also limited to 8GB of ram.

   • Ryuka_Zou (ryukazou@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Nov-2024 19:40:34 JST Ryuka_Zou

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     @mntmn pi5 is more mainstream and have a lot more Linux distribution + *BSD variant supported, I think it would be good to have more options which mean wider market.

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Nov-2024 19:56:17 JST minute

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     @intrbiz oh i see! i have to say that rk3588 has been exceptionally stable here though, on the one hand the chip is just a lot better than older rockchips and there has been (and still is) significant work investment from @collabora et al in rk3588 linux support and panfrost/panvk (mesa opengl/vulkan)

   • Chris Ellis (intrbiz@bergamot.social)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Nov-2024 19:56:18 JST Chris Ellis

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     @mntmn MNT Reform has been very appealing to me and a RPI 5 edition might appeal more.

     Mostly because I've had such bad experiences of running Rockchip based boards. While they seem a bit better, upstream support still feels flaky compared to RPI.

   • hanno (hanno@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Nov-2024 20:03:51 JST hanno

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     @mntmn
     What would happen if one would drop in a CM5 module into the existing CM4 adapter board? Would that work at all?

     Reason I am asking: I would like to upgrade from the A311D in my Reform to something faster, though RAM limitations and USB2 are what I want to get away from the most. Reusing the adapter board would be a lovely option! I could live with some drawbacks eg
     CM5 exclusive features not exposed.

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Nov-2024 20:03:51 JST minute

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     • hanno

     @hanno it is advertised as a drop-in but someone has to test it first ^^

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Nov-2024 20:12:49 JST minute

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     @falken @intrbiz @collabora sorry, is there a transcript or links to a source? or a summary of what you mean? i can't follow right now

   • ⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ (falken@qoto.org)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Nov-2024 20:12:50 JST ⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️

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     @mntmn @intrbiz @collabora didn't Rockchip just fuckover their own FOSS support?

     https://hackaday.com/2024/11/20/floss-weekly-episode-810-a-rising-wallet-pays-for-all-boats/#more-734969 (video and transcript)

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Nov-2024 20:18:02 JST minute

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     @falken @intrbiz @collabora ok i found the transcript but it's really hard to parse this wall of text to find the bit you're referring to. something about rockchip not putting out their own ubuntu version anymore (?)

   • r... K... (klyk@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Nov-2024 20:36:29 JST r... K...

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     @mntmn i would prefer the CM5 over the RK3588 in the upcoming Reform Next

     however there is kind of a mismatch indeed. the Raspberry ecosystem is about cheap, plastic mass production components [think chassis, keyboard,…]

     MNT Reform features aluminium chassis and mechanical keyboard switches

     i would love to have a plastic 10“ to 11“ notebook with a simple keyboard.
     but that should come from Raspberry

   • r... K... (klyk@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Nov-2024 20:45:32 JST r... K...

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     @mntmn regarding Reform Next going more mainstream

     do you consider outsourcing assembly
     ?

     to non-profit social workshops in Berlin for example
     https://www.vfj-berlin.de/arbeit/bildung-und-arbeit/arbeitsbereich/?L=0

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Nov-2024 21:46:06 JST minute

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     @falken @intrbiz @collabora that's basically normal for most ARM soc vendors afaik. there are super old and weird vendor kernels and volunteers or organizations like collabora, baylibre, pengutronix etc do the cleanup and rework for mainline

   • ⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ (falken@qoto.org)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Nov-2024 21:46:07 JST ⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️

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     @mntmn @intrbiz @collabora try the long paragraph at "repackaging of Ubuntu."

     As I understand it, Rockchip boards offical kernel support is super old, never updated. Even though they have 3 kernel maintainers. So boards go obsolete too soon. The community stepped up, but after years of no/little help from Rockchip, they've given up

   • HOBORG (hoborg@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Nov-2024 23:47:56 JST HOBORG

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     @mntmn I've been hoping there'd be one - I would really enjoy a relatively affordable and well supported upgrade to my Pocket, as well as the potential to wire the composite video output to my 3.5mm jack for my oddball analog video projects

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-Nov-2024 00:13:41 JST minute

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     @HOBORG pi cm5 has composite?

   • HOBORG (hoborg@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-Nov-2024 00:17:56 JST HOBORG

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     @mntmn I am struggling to find explicit mention of it in the relevant blog posts/announcements/feature lists, but seeing as the CM4 had it and the Pi 5 also has it, I would be totally floored/disappointed if the CM5 did not

   • Matthias Geisler (matthiasgeisler@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-Nov-2024 16:16:44 JST Matthias Geisler

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     @mntmn Yes!