Software for CI20 using "official" distros (aka Debian and Gentoo)
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Forrest Bushstone
Aug 27, 2023, 6:16:32 PM8/27/23
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I've had a CI20 since summer 2022, but I have been struggling to get any packages installed, especially on Debian. I don't think the repos for Debian 8 are maintained, so I've mostly been playing around with my CI20 on and off since then on Gentoo. Luckily, I am able to compile simple programs I wrote in assembly and browse the web (slowly :D) but I haven't been able to do some of the more heavy stuff like install OpenArena or write OpenGL programs.
Judging by the users here, it seems that the CI20 has somewhat of a cult following who manage to make it useful so there is likely some software out there. How does everyone use their CI20 nowadays when there is so little official support?
Arkadi Shishlov
Aug 28, 2023, 6:31:28 PM8/28/23
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On Monday, 28 August 2023 at 01:16:32 UTC+3 fbush...@gmail.com wrote:
Judging by the users here, it seems that the CI20 has somewhat of a cult following who manage to make it useful so there is likely some software out there. How does everyone use their CI20 nowadays when there is so little official support?
Playing with Buildroot and MIPS here. Yet it's limiting with the mainline kernel.
With kernel 3.18 and SGX OpenGL blobs it can run LZDoom at ~30 FPS in 720p.
Updated to Debian 10 keeping old kernel:
Too many new SBCs recently diverting attention... MQ-Pro, VisionFive 2, RK3588 :)
Forrest Bushstone
Aug 30, 2023, 1:53:34 PM8/30/23
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Sounds challenging, did a dist-upgrade work or were the steps you took more involved? It may end up being that Gentoo is the best setup to go with even if I have to compile everything from scratch.
Arkadi Shishlov
Aug 31, 2023, 4:16:37 AM8/31/23
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On Wednesday, 30 August 2023 at 20:53:34 UTC+3 fbush...@gmail.com wrote:
Sounds challenging, did a dist-upgrade work or were the steps you took more involved? It may end up being that Gentoo is the best setup to go with even if I have to compile everything from scratch.
I suppose it could, but I kept the 3.18 kernel and SGX xorg bits for SMP and OpenGL by (1) pinning packages (2) erasing some Wayland dependencies, and a few hours in Aptitude mostly waiting for slow MTD and old CPU.
Cross-compiled the kernel with GCC 7.5 with far less modules than of the stock CI20 kernel (DVB, for example).
Now it will be faster knowing what to do.
Forrest Bushstone
Sep 1, 2023, 12:09:50 PM9/1/23
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https://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-9/202308310820Z/evbmips-mipsel/installation/
NetBSD also seems to be available. That may be more interesting than Linux, and possibly more maintained (?).
NetBSD also seems to be available. That may be more interesting than Linux, and possibly more maintained (?).
Arkadi Shishlov
Sep 1, 2023, 2:05:30 PM9/1/23
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On Friday, 1 September 2023 at 19:09:50 UTC+3 fbush...@gmail.com wrote:
https://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-9/202308310820Z/evbmips-mipsel/installation/
NetBSD also seems to be available. That may be more interesting than Linux, and possibly more maintained (?).
People still contribute to CI20 and mipsel Bullseye will be there until 2026.
IIRC, WiFi and BT power setup needed work in 6.x indeed, and a different brcmfmac firmware than that of linux-firmware.
Last old new stock of CI20 dried up BTW.
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