09-06-2022, 04:04 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-06-2022, 04:32 PM by TheOldPresbyope.
Edit Reason: added Le Potato to list of SBCs tested
)
The Le Potato has the physical form factor of the RPi3B/3B+ but it has no onboard WiFi/BT transceiver which may or may not be a deal breaker for some.
Yes, the result of LRP is a uSD card which will boot into moOde on either a Le Potato or an RPi (I've tested that the card I built boots on Le Potato, RPi3A, RPi3B, RPi4B).
Yes, an RPi running moOde is necessary to execute the LRP script as written. It would seem to me a comparable script could be written for another host---my Linux laptop, say---but I haven't worked out just what LRP does.
In crude benchmarking using linpack.py [1] running simultaneously with moOde I found the Le Potato to be comparable to the RPi3B, a tad slower than an RPi3A, and substantially slower than an RPi4B.
It seems the reason I can't mount an SMB share is that the kernel which was installed by LRP wasn't built with cifs support. I haven't traced yet where this kernel comes from or if this kernel is necessary to support the Amlogic S905X SoC on this board.
Remember, I said I like to tinker. Translation: this is an experiment!
Regards,
Kent
[1] Yeah, Linpack was developed for supercomputers back in the 70s, but I was an employee at Argonne National Laboratory back then who wrote a lot of scientific Fortran code to support my experiments, and I still have a fondness for it. It's principal developer, Jack Dongarra, has been awarded pretty much every accolade known in the computer science biz including the Turing Award in 2021. See linpack for easy to follow instructions for running it in Python.
Regards,
Kent
Yes, the result of LRP is a uSD card which will boot into moOde on either a Le Potato or an RPi (I've tested that the card I built boots on Le Potato, RPi3A, RPi3B, RPi4B).
Yes, an RPi running moOde is necessary to execute the LRP script as written. It would seem to me a comparable script could be written for another host---my Linux laptop, say---but I haven't worked out just what LRP does.
In crude benchmarking using linpack.py [1] running simultaneously with moOde I found the Le Potato to be comparable to the RPi3B, a tad slower than an RPi3A, and substantially slower than an RPi4B.
It seems the reason I can't mount an SMB share is that the kernel which was installed by LRP wasn't built with cifs support. I haven't traced yet where this kernel comes from or if this kernel is necessary to support the Amlogic S905X SoC on this board.
Remember, I said I like to tinker. Translation: this is an experiment!
Regards,
Kent
[1] Yeah, Linpack was developed for supercomputers back in the 70s, but I was an employee at Argonne National Laboratory back then who wrote a lot of scientific Fortran code to support my experiments, and I still have a fondness for it. It's principal developer, Jack Dongarra, has been awarded pretty much every accolade known in the computer science biz including the Turing Award in 2021. See linpack for easy to follow instructions for running it in Python.
Regards,
Kent
