peanutbox

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   by peanutbox 4y ago

   Tow-Boot is great, and slowly being adopted by distributions (typically mobile distributions) as the way to do firmware/booting on aarch64.
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   by peanutbox 4y ago

   > You sure it's not booting kernel from eMMC, and the rest of the userland stored on NVMe? I'm sure, since my RockPro64 has no eMMC (I didn't order one, and I just checked that my eMMC slot is empty). I have Tow-Boot insta
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   by peanutbox 4y ago

   Would it be useful to have a site https://use-rss.example.com/?feed=https://thepcspy.com/feeds... which explained what RSS/Atom is, and suggested decent feed readers with instructions on how to set them
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   by peanutbox 4y ago

   > It's quite a shame how much better their hardware could be if they hired someone to do the in-house work for stable OS support on any of their devices. Perhaps, but is there any company doing that for aarch64 devices? The Pine64 d
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   by peanutbox 4y ago

   I like it because it's dev hardware. They publish schematics, and their stuff is cheap enough to buy on a whim. There's an active community to get involved with on hardware hacking. > And they even sell dead and irrecoverable (
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   by peanutbox 4y ago

   "It cannot boot directly from the NVMe port, however." My RockPro64 boots directly from NVMe. I use Tow-Boot, and my initrd has the modules needed to boot NVMe.