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1. minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Mar-2024 07:23:34 JST minute

   the RK3588 module is now in good enough shape that i swapped it into my personal MNT Reform laptop today and took it home. it is a bit more power hungry but it delivers a lot of performance and i finally have dual displays, dual pcie ports and 3x USB3 ports again, and 16GB RAM. it's the first module that can match all the features of the original Reform with i.MX8MQ. are you looking forward to get one?

   • Marcin Cieślak (saper@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Mar-2024 07:26:23 JST Marcin Cieślak

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     @mntmn I find Rockchip documentation ugly and limited, especially compared to NXP.

     How hard was it for you guys?

   • abortretryfail (abortretryfail@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Mar-2024 07:52:04 JST abortretryfail

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     @mntmn
     The power consumption might still be a win over the older module if drivers are in better shape for power management.

   • Zach (hardcoreufo@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Mar-2024 08:38:35 JST Zach

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     @mntmn Very much so. I'm looking forward to my 3rd CPU module.

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Mar-2024 08:42:07 JST minute

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     • Marcin Cieślak

     @saper i was afraid of that but it turned out not to be an issue, it was surprisingly straightforward. but i'm standing on the shoulders of giants (the collabora et al engineers who did all the mainlining work and who wrote the gpu drivers). i had to patch almost nothing this time, only had to do a bit of electronics glue and devicetree writing