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Raspberry pi killer? ASUS - 90MB0QY1-M0EAY0

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ASUS  90MB0QY1-M0EAY0  Tinker Board

 

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image source: Asus Tinker Board is designed to trump the Raspberry Pi 3 - Gadgets - News - HEXUS.net

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  • As much as I like the Raspberry Pi (no, I really do!), the graphical chip on this can only be better than the NDA nightmare of the RPi. It hasn't impacted me personally, but a few friends who are using it for specific use cases have had the problem when designing their own bootloader. Interested in getting my hands on one, but now all I need is time...

  • in reply to jlangbridge

    The Raspberry Pi is the ONLY ARM based SOC that has fully documented the "graphical chip", there is no NDA ! I have no idea why you think there is.

    The RPI GPU has a disassembler that can be used to on the "proprietary" boot loader (not very proprietary when you can disassemble it) to see exactly

    what is needed to build your own.

  • in reply to gdstew

    I've dug a little bit, and it looks like I'm a bit late. Broadcom did indeed give the keys to developers for the VideoCore IV, and a while ago. Yes, I haven't worked on RPi for some time. Previous to this, we had no idea how the chip worked, and we relied solely on a blob. So I stand corrected, things have indeed changed since my time. Thankfully! My bad.

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  • in reply to gdstew

    I've dug a little bit, and it looks like I'm a bit late. Broadcom did indeed give the keys to developers for the VideoCore IV, and a while ago. Yes, I haven't worked on RPi for some time. Previous to this, we had no idea how the chip worked, and we relied solely on a blob. So I stand corrected, things have indeed changed since my time. Thankfully! My bad.

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