First post from Tinker Board (RK3288)

Worth a separate post!
Posting with NetSurf from my new port! :)

http://www.update.uu.se/~micken/rkhellow.jpg

Congratulations on a splendid piece of work, Michael!

Well done! I’m tempted… 8~) …but really, my Pi3B is doing everything I need, faster than I can think, anyway…for now…

Big thanks to Jeffrey , JB, and everyone else who helped me on the way. Couldn’t have gone this far without you.

Native Gigabit Ethernet, HQ sound, intégrated (fast?) eMMC. And twice the power of a Pi3. Very promising… but still a lot of work for you Michael :)

Just a stupid idea: try to concentrate on the source code of RISC OS 5.24 (when available). So you’ll be able to propose something very closed to the official system.

Native Gigabit Ethernet, HQ sound, intégrated (fast?) eMMC. And twice the power of a Pi3. Very promising… but still a lot of work for you Michael :)

Yea a lot of work remains. I think ethernet is next on my list.

One more: now that you do not use serial transfers any more, can you post a new score for RISCOSmark (latest version is 2.06)?

With overclock up to 2.18 GHz (needs a fan and a 3 amp PSU), the TinkerBoard will be probably the fastest RISC OS offer on earth.

One more: now that you do not use serial transfers any more, can you post a new score for RISCOSmark (latest version is 2.06)?

It would be boring results as the system is not up to full speed.

Perhaps, but I bet it’ll be better than before :)

RISCOSmark 2.04 (30-Dec-2015) by Richard Spencer 2003
Comparison with RiscPC SA 202MHz running RISC OS 4.02 800×600,256
(HD benchmarks are in kilobytes/sec)

MOS Utilities 5.23 (11 Feb 2018)
FileSwitch 2.86 (03 Sep 2017)
C Library 5.94 (29 Oct 2017)
USBDriver 0.69 (01 Jun 2014)
FileCore 3.75 (06 Jul 2017)
SCSIFS 1.32 (09 Sep 2017)
Shared Sound 1.20 (18 Jun 2016)
LanManFS 2.61 (03 Jan 2018)
ShareFS 3.59 (11 Sep 2016) Access+
HAL-based system (RK3288 video controller) tested at Fri,02 Jan 1970.00:05:46
Filing system: SCSI – CSD not set
Graphics Resoloution: 800×600, 16M colours

Test Benchmark
Processor – Looped instructions (cache) 995655 559%
Memory – Multiple register transfer 5367 3312%
Rectangle Copy – Graphics acceleration test 420 173%
Icon Plotting – 16 colour sprite with mask 19549 977%
Draw Path – Stroke narrow line 6258 401%
Draw Fill – Plot filled shape 5409 370%
Draw Render – Render draw file 7868 868%
HD Read – Block load 8MB file 13320 446%
HD Write – Block save 8MB file 6450 212%
FS Read – Byte stream file in 8 3%
FS Write – Byte stream file out 21 10%

There is no accelerated rect copy right now.
I don’t know about the cpu, but it feels a bit slugish. I will try to investigate that at some point.

Thanks.
Very promising. Already better than OMAP3 :)

Nota: I suspect you’re sticked on slowest speed:
https://tinkerboarding.co.uk/forum/archive/index.php/thread-654.html

It was nice to see all the graphics :)

First board running RISC OS with a Rockchip CPU/SoC. First board running RISC OS with a Mali GPU. Impressive. And now go for the finetuning – how about hardware-based UHD H.265 playback :-)

And now go for the finetuning – how about hardware-based UHD H.265 playback :-)

Dream on.

Congratulations, you deserve a beer or six.

This is excellent news, well done Michael!

Thanks and thanks. I could definitely do with a beer och two :)

how about hardware-based UHD H.265 playback :-)

Full speed, full GFX, native Ethernet, native audio, microSD support… and eMMC?

And of course a kit from CJE/RComp to get max speed (silent fan, a specific 3A PSU connected to GPIO pins, and a case).

Thanks and thanks. I could definitely do with a beer och two

You’ll need more :)

Full speed, full GFX, native Ethernet, native audio, microSD support… and eMMC?

Well

Ethernet is in making.
I will probably implement upclocking in u-boot ( I can use source from linux to do so). I want to make sure that it gets right done. The ARM-PLL runs in 1Ghz now so that is what the cpu is in.
Native audio? THere is usbaudio on the ehci controller, dunno what else.
GFX well… we will see.
microSD , will be made
eMMC maybe not.

Well done! :)

#Applause

Very nicely done!

Hi Michael, great work. I do happen to have a Tinkerboard that I was planning to use for something else as I didn’t realise I could use it for RISC OS! I just found your thread here and wondered if you’re going to release or make available an SD Card image etc so anyone with a Tinker can get the OS installed?

I’m not sure what the most powerful board is for Risc OS at the moment, everything I’ve read steers towards the Titanium but when comparing the Asus Tinkerboard to the Beagleboard X-15 it seems almost as good for a lot cheaper price?

:)

I just found your thread here and wondered if you’re going to release or make available an SD Card image etc so anyone with a Tinker can get the OS installed?

I am not sure what to do. The status is somewhat unfinished and it is still very slow.
The fact that it is hard to find real hw with rk3288 also demotivates me.

We will see!

I started another porting effort yesterday.