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Yeah but that's just a general offtopic about the news, while this is about the actual implications it'll have on the Pyra's future development. But I don't think there'll be very much to this one.

IMG barely has a presence anymore outside of Apple SoCs, which is why the Apple licensing issue is such a crippling blow to them. So odds are that a successor Pyra SoC wouldn't have used an IMG GPU anyway. But it doesn't really matter, for the most part the GPUs are interchangeable. Might be a...

I really doubt that 2GHz Cortex-A57 would beat 1.5GHz Cortex-A15 by only 28% unless there's some other major non-CPU bottleneck, or the former is using 64-bit mode in an application that heavily penalizes it. Without knowing that frequency doesn't go down with higher core usage and without...

I don't think the TX2 Jetson board will run anywhere close to 2GHz for all six processors at the same time. It'd be good to have some monitoring of this to get an idea, I guess? According to nVidia (https://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/jetson-tx2-delivers-twice-intelligence-edge/) if you...

I think most of this can be inferred from the pipeline stage descriptions in the TRM (DDI0344C section 16.6), although there may be some errors. In particular, some "preprocessing" operations (like vmovn) take inputs at N1 and produce outputs at N2, while normal ALU operations take inputs at N2...

Just so this is totally clear, if you use an LGPL library you don't have to distribute the source of your program (that links to the library), just the library itself - and that's only if you actually distribute its shared object files. You could skip the concern entirely by making the user...

I can see what I can do.

For a device like this there's no freedom to choose the GPU, instead you have to pick a single chip that contains the CPU, GPU and many other parts. Unfortunately, most of those chips are made with smart phones in mind, where they expect order quantities in the hundreds of thousands at least and...

I'll have to personally see if I can get a Windows build going myself, and if I need testing.

My mistake, I typed the wrong file extension. Updated now. At this point I think I'd like to just release a Windows version in a while. Lordus already had a build running on standard Windows desktops, and we were working on UWP but I don't know if I'll bother with that now. It's not as...

Stealth link to the RPi 2/3 build I gave out to testers if anyone wants to take a crack at it: http://drastic-ds.com/drastic_rpi.tar.bz2 Still not really an official first release, needs documentation and maybe some more tweaks. But it's probably not a huge problem posting a link here now...

EEE 901 needs some kind of award or something for being that awful netbook everyone owned. Too bad that generation of Atoms even happened. If only they could have kept using underclocked Core 2 based Celerons instead.

I just can't resist keeping this off-topic train going.. when the posts inevitably get moved somewhere else please remember this one too mods! I had one of those Eee 901s and did some of the early development of DraStic on it. This was the only computer I ever used to do development on while in...

For the current RPi port to be usable on Pyra it'd need OGL ES support. Is that currently implemented? Otherwise I was going to do a DRM backend for it. But I don't really know how to code this yet. I need a good reference.

Oops, thanks for the correction.

I'm gearing up for an RPi 2/3 release, hopefully: https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=78&t=170820 For those who are wondering - and the main reason I'm posting this here - I do intend on incorporating the controls configuration features into a Pandora version sometime relatively...

Nothing stands out to me from this code, since I can't see that it is doing any allocations directly. Maybe there's something happening in the functions it calls? Especially if they're being inlined. Could you post the complete output of the leak detection?

For anyone wondering how on earth this was accomplished: there's a second CPU in the cartridge. It's a microcontroller with a 48MHz Cortex-M0.

In my opinion, the lack of integrated storage makes this a non-starter for going up against other microcontrollers for most applications. The small amount of integrated SRAM and lack of external parallel memory interface makes things even worse. For many applicatoins you'll have a hard time...

Back in 1998 Majesco released a very cheap third model Genesis, there is a breakdown of the PCB here: http://segaretro.org/Mega_Drive_PCB_revisions You can see that they incorporated practically most of the chips: 68k, z80, VDP, and YM2612 are all on the same ASIC. The memories have also been...