Any roadmap to when Firefly RK3368 RK3399 ?

sandrobilbeisi

Hello

I was wondering if and when FireFly will deploy models with RockChip RK3399 or RK3368

RK3368 has a PowerVR SGX6110  GPU with native OpenGL !
and is also Octa-core

RK3399 has asymmetric 2+4 cores and lots of nice features but no native OpenGL ....

dewet

Hi

There will only be am upgrade to RK3399 I presume.
Because RK3368 with PowerVR GPU is not open source and will cause problems with Linux support.
Mali released free Linux GPU drivers for Firefly RK3288 but Imagination Technologies(PowerVR) want several thousand, I estimate $50000-$100000 before they will even try to create a Linux driver for RK3368 as I heard from other companies.
RK3399 will be almost twice the performance of RK3368, so it is no use supporting a slower device when the flagship RK3399 device will be much faster and work with Mali GPU drivers that are much better supported.

sandrobilbeisi

with regard to RK3368 :
the official Linux driver is provided as binary
a group of volunteers has built the line driver for PowerVR
Rogue Embedded Systems DDK for Linux kernel.
https://github.com/geekboxzone/l ... x/drivers/gpu/rogue

dewet

sandrobilbeisi Posted at 5/6/2016 09:46
with regard to RK3368 :
the official Linux driver is provided as binary
a group of volunteers has  ...

I think it's only for Android kernel not Linux.
Otherwise lots of people would have build Linux firmware with PowerVR support for Geekbox.
The binary blob drivers are only for Android and there is also no X11 support on RK3368 for PowerVR 6110.

FesterBester38

I’d be very happy if Firefly provides an RK3399 board. The RK3399 contains 2 A72 and 4 A53 cores. The Cortex-A72 is currently the most powerful ARM core, it compares with Intel Core-M. I hope that we’ll have a linux kernel capable of managing this heterogenous configuration and schedule all the six cores at the same time if needed.

sandrobilbeisi

dewet Posted at 5/6/2016 11:02
I think it's only for Android kernel not Linux.
Otherwise lots of people would have build Linux f ...

I have received confirmation that it is indeed for the Linux Kernel !!!

xvision

Can you confirm when the new firefly rk3399 will be launched???

isle

the firefly-rk3399 will be launched on Kickstarter in the next month.

FesterBester38

isle Posted at 11/29/2016 09:13
the firefly-rk3399 will be launched on Kickstarter in the next month.

That’s a very good news Can you give some specs right now?
Thx

isle

http://developer.t-firefly.com/thread-11201-1-1.html