Firefly-RK3399 launched on Kickstarter: ARM Six-Core 64-bit Cortex-A72

psycmos · Posted at 12/7/2016 20:15:11

Yes isle !!!
Firefly team will never giveup.

But now, i will wait more time to see what's happen in Linux development and support.
While we not have system fully working so i decide not buy the Rk3399 now.

Best Regards, and good work ;)

kamikazer · Posted at 12/7/2016 23:20:17

isle Posted at 12/7/2016 09:48
hi psycmos
yes, we have supported 3D ,and video accelerate(only h264). But we know it not support ...

i think you will end up with a solution like in Raspberry Pi - they allow to add keys bought for codecs and then it works fine.

isle · Posted at 12/8/2016 14:18:02

kamikazer Posted at 12/7/2016 23:20
i think you will end up with a solution like in Raspberry Pi - they allow to add keys bought for c ...

hi kamikazer:
I don't really understand ,Could you please give us more information?

AlexN · Posted at 12/8/2016 18:55:55

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It is sad that there is not a good past record of proper Linux support.

I would support the Kickstarter campaign, but being the Linux support only promises for now I will have to wait and see if it becomes a reality.

Good luck with your Kickstarter campaing.

PS: Please keep in mind that if you are trying to market and open source board, the #1st thing you have to do, and you have to do it very well, Is to give a EXCELLENT AND COMPLETE upstream Linux support to every single device of your boards, including specifically the GPU and CPU parts and its APIs. But you have not been doing it well in the past. I would advise you to focus your efforts 100% of that subject, and then you will have lots of loyal customers.
The Firefly RK3399 is a good board, but without complete software support and dev tools it is of little use.

isle · Posted at 12/9/2016 09:34:22

Hi AlexN
Thanks for your supported.
about the linux support ,we are not alone， the ROCKCHIP  has started to support linux already, check this : http://rockchip.wikidot.com/
   our company has a deep relationship with ROCKCHIP, regularly they use our board for develop.
   so , with ROCKCHIP's help ,we can do much better.

KD0OHR · Posted at 3/5/2017 12:06:29

I see some OpenCV and OpenCL files in the BSP, will I be able to do any hardware accelerated video processing like stereoscopic disparity maps/depth with two cameras in realtime, face/object tracking etc even though there are some issues with hardware acceleration on the linux desktop environment? These functions are the sole reason I ordered the RK3399, and it would be a big letdown if the complexity to implement such things required arm assembler knowledge to implement,

isle · Posted at 3/8/2017 10:37:17

Hi
yes,there are some issues,we are still working on it.

KD0OHR · Posted at 3/13/2017 15:43:40

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Will the PCIe bus be usable for devices other than modems? I saw the M.2 had 4 pci lanes going to it, maybe with an adapter?

KD0OHR · Posted at 3/17/2017 14:01:14

The board arrived today, I have to say I am pleased overall, several things I did not expect to be finished on the Linux BSP were actually quite well polished, dragging windows, youtube, pandora worked great after an apt-get upgrade, to say the least, I had cross complied linux and android expecting it would be required to "test it out" and to my amazement a dual-boot configuration had already been installed! The board looks fantastic, high quality and was ready to go out of the box, not to mention I received my board no more than one day after the promised shipping date on kickstarter! This is a first for me with any project on kickstarter and I am impressed! Thanks Firefly!

daverand · Posted at 3/27/2017 22:02:03

I have a 256G SSD installed on my 3399 board, but it would appear that Ubuntu does not recognize it. No problem with the SD card, of course. Does anyone have a SSD working on this board under Ubuntu?