not really a console but the exynos 5250 is in the wild


Any PC gamers here know if that would be any good for non - battlefield gaming ?
 
Totally blind-sided by this release. One hell of a nice looking laptop for the price, and finally something ARM that can offer competitive performance against Atom and probably even Bobcat netbooks.


Too bad it's held back by running Google Chrome :/
 
Battery life means typical power consumption is a little under 5W, if this number is accurate. That makes it similar to some of the heavier ARM tablets. Probably most of that is taken by the display.
 
Will this be the first device available to consumers powered by an Arm A15 Soc?

Exophase said:
Too bad it's held back by running Google Chrome :/
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Doubt it'll be too long before someone gets one of the popular linux distros up and running on this thing.
 
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Finally got one - not the one I ordered though, I think the seller completely dropped the ball on that one. It's running Ubuntu but it has some problems I didn't really anticipate.. aside from being stuck with Unity (blugh) I can't get libsdl-dev on it without causing some critical packages to be removed. May try building it myself later.
 
So, how well does it run? Does it have proper drivers with things like XVideo and GLES? Maybe you could try compiling PCSX ReARMed on that thing?


I'd like a CortexA15 machine too to use for development, so it doesn't have to be a netbook for me (a devboard would be fine), but I'd like it to have working drivers and not something barely hacked up like r-pi.
 
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notaz said:
So, how well does it run? Does it have proper drivers with things like XVideo and GLES? Maybe you could try compiling PCSX ReARMed on that thing?


I'd like a CortexA15 machine too to use for development, so it doesn't have to be a netbook for me (a devboard would be fine), but I'd like it to have working drivers and not something barely hacked up like r-pi.
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This is one of those Exynos 5 Dual Cortex-A15 + mali T-604 dev boards.


http://www.arndaleboard.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
 
There's no 3D acceleration for it right now, so all 3D stuff is really slow MesaGL. Someone said he got 3D working on a dev build of Ubuntu 13.04 but he hasn't put anything together (at least last I checked). Allegedly this version of Ubuntu brings in official support for Exynos 5 so I expect decent things. I tried upgrading to 12.10 but it completely broke things (couldn't get very far into boot without a fatal error) and I had to start over from scratch. This was with xubuntu-desktop; I can't stand Unity.


Other than that it's actually working pretty well. The only other big problem I have is that the screen won't turn back on if standby shuts it off, so I had to turn off standby. I'm not aware of any other driver problems.


Unless you're using it for hardware development or otherwise need to hack the interfaces and not just get access to the CPU I can't see a good reason to buy the Arndale board over the Chromebook. I mostly ssh into mine but it's still great to have a local screen (X forwarding graphics is ridiculously slow even on a local network) and it's nice being able to dev on it on the go. I compile it on it natively and the compilation speed is actually pretty good. You can get GCC 4.7 off apt if you add the normal Ubuntu PPA for it.


EDIT: Okay, looks like it has some real acceleration now: http://marcin.juszki...ort-for-ubuntu/ I'm going to go try it out.


EDIT2: Nevermind, it needs Ubuntu 12.10+.. hopefully someone posts something on how to do that..
 
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You did not answer about XVideo (it's overlay support, not 3D), just run 'xvinfo' to check that.


If you have that sdl-dev issue sorted, can you run commands below? Naturally I do this alot and this would give me good idea how fast it compiles things.



Code: 
git clone git://notaz.gp2x.de/~notaz/pcsx_rearmed.git

cd pcsx_rearmed

git submodule init && git submodule update

time sh -c './configure --enable-neon && make -j3'
 
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I currently don't have XVideo either, which should be no surprise, but here is what it says:

X-Video Extension version 2.2
screen #0


no adaptors present
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This is what is in the PPA: "xserver-xorg-video-armsoc == accelerated Xorg video driver." I don't know if that means XVideo or not, but I'd say there's at least a good chance.


I do have SDL installed and working now. Here's what I get from compiling PCSX ReARMed:

real 1m45.127s
user 2m55.695s


sys 0m6.360s
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This is with gcc/g++ 4.6.3 since I haven't reinstalled 4.7.2 yet (lost it when I had to reinstall the OS after I tried upgrading to 12.10)


I got these errors on some of the child makes:

make[1]: warning: jobserver unavailable: using -j1. Add `+' to parent make rule.
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Does that look familiar to you?


I thought I might try with -j4 too, this is what that gets:

real 1m40.083s
user 2m59.495s


sys 0m6.645s
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("real" seems to be correct here)
 
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