Amlogic s905 vs allwinner a64 64 bits#
Amlogic s905 vs allwinner a64 android#

What scares me more is the next threat somewhere hidden in the text above: 'because this Banana Pi BPI is named after its 64-bit SoC. You can't trust a single word they tell, since you never know when it's just the usual wrong copy&paste result or real information.

No worries: Since the same insanely minded people are responsible in 'Team BPi' for 'documentation', the 'quality' is still the same. The specs are 'copy&paste gone wrong' from Pine64 (wrong clockspeeds), the M3 (the USB-to-SATA bridge that does not exist) and M2+ (count of leds for example): Wow, bascially no mistakes in the spec sheet - I was impressed. Staying with a 32-bit Raspbian on RPi 3 makes perfectly sense (since users are somewhat clueless anyway and compatibility remains the same) but on a new A64 board? It's just dumb as hell. And it's important to be able to use ARMv8 instruction set so think about twice if 'Team BPi' combines an ARMv6 userland with 64-bit kernel in their available OS images for the announced BPi M64 (that's the best way to destroy performance anyway). But then we're not talking about Cortex-A53 as with A64 but Cortex-A57 or A72 (A73 when thinking about new designs in 2017). They use a cluster of cheap Pine64+ utilizing KVM to test ARMv7 and ARMv8 images since this is magnitudes faster than using QEMU (IIRC he talked about 20 times faster running the stuff natively on A64).ДЄpart from that 64-bit ARM systems can be pretty fast. Is that possible anyway ?Д«TW: Simon (known as longsleep) started to investigate in improving Linux support for Pine64+ for exactly this reason.

Amlogic s905 vs allwinner a64 64 bits#

I'm not sure 64 bits systems are of any interest, and I dont feel like installing a virtualization system on a arm card. The vendor shows horrible support, just have a short look into their forums to get the idea what to expect: nothing (just one extreme example for an already existing board).It's again the usual 'copy&paste (gone wrong)' approach and you can't trust any information they provide (see the page title of their M64 page - still reads 'octa-core M3' - or the comments on CNX regarding camera stuff) The vendor doesn't give a shit as usual about correct information.The vendor still has no clue regarding software, at the moment all they have/use is longsleep's u-boot/kernel (containing Zador's/Armbian's kernel fixes also) for Pine64+ - since they combine this with an insanely slow ARMv6 distro (Raspbian Lite - WTF?!) you can be assured that this will be the slowest A64 board around (see the notes here).Only one USB host port from A64 is used (this SoC has only one and a multiplexed HSIC port so no great IO bandwidth anyway!) so the 2 USB ports have to share bandwidth.No heatsink means same problem as with BPi M3 or M2+ (no way to get the advertised CPU clockspeed over longer periods, their current settings limit maximum CPU clockspeed to 1152 MHz anyway, the '1.2 GHz' are just the usual 'copy&paste gone wrong' from Pine64).

Amlogic s905 vs allwinner a64 android#

It's just another A64 board so we already know what to expect (regarding Linux, RemixOS 3.0 and Android 5.x/6.0 - for the former linux-sunxi community being responsible, for the latter the RemixOS folks and Allwinner).

Some more information is already available: Well, given the real price later it might be pretty uninteresting (they're talking about $35 but if we keep in mind what they promised for BPi M2+ and how reality looks like then we already know that the board will be somewhat more expensive later).