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   aeva (aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 16:08:17 JST aeva

   My riscv beaglebone arrived tonight! I'm probably not going to do much with it right away, but I'm browsing the docs for it rn and

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   it uses android????????

   EDIT: apparently this is just the normal way to flash stuff these days

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     ROTOPE~1 :yell: (rotopenguin@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jul-2023 13:11:17 JST ROTOPE~1 :yell:

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     @aeva I don't understand how someone can come up short on power bricks? At this point in life you should have a bucket of em.

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     aeva (aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jul-2023 13:11:18 JST aeva

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     ok the power supply for the riscv beaglebone arrived, and it appears I ordered the correct one too! this is the one I bought should anyone else be interested in joining me on this journey: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/15312

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     aeva (aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jul-2023 13:11:20 JST aeva

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     I'm guessing I can probably just power it over USB and SSH to it in the mean time, but I've yet to confirm this.

     I'm a bit miffed that if you buy a BeagleV-Ahead with the intent of using it like a normal computer, you also need to buy another thing that you most likely don't have on hand, and it's only like half documented.

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     aeva (aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jul-2023 13:11:21 JST aeva

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     a small update: I have ordered a power supply for the device, which will probably get here sometime next week. I am baffled as to why they didn't just put more USB ports on it like they did with the beaglebone black, but I'm sure there was probably a good reason for it maybe. What's really cool is the docs don't actually say what power supply you need, but I'm pretty sure it's the same as with beaglebone black.

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     aeva (aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jul-2023 13:11:22 JST aeva

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     I will now stuff the BeagleV-Ahead into my BeagleV-Drawr until I acquire a proper power supply for it, upon which I will resume my BeagleV-Experiments.

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     aeva (aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jul-2023 13:11:23 JST aeva

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     imo they should have tarted up the default theme a little so you could pretend it was special for having a different ISA

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     aeva (aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jul-2023 13:11:24 JST aeva

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     There it is, Linux running on a "risky" processor. This thing has one USB port, and I'm currently using it to power the thing instead of the barrel jack (as apposed to using the USB port to attach a mouse and keyboard), so there's not much else I can do with it at the moment. Still kind of neat, just think of all the risky things I'll be able to do. Which are normal things, I guess, but riskier.

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     aeva (aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jul-2023 13:11:25 JST aeva

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     product page for the beaglebone says "50GFLOPS, 3Mpixel/s Imagination BXM-4-64" about the gpu.

     product page for the gpu says this about its perf:

     256 FP32 FLOPs/Clock
     512 FP16 FLOPs/Clock

     Pixels per Clock: 16ppc

     someone who has enough blood sugar to do basic arithmetic help me guess the GPU clock rate

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     aeva (aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jul-2023 13:11:26 JST aeva

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     the box made mention of a "3D GPU", something I didn't think to check before buying, so I was trying to figure out what kind it was, and it's something I've never heard of before:

     https://www.imaginationtech.com/product/img-bxm-4-64-mc4/

     I'm sure I can work with it tho, I'm just gonna be ramming triangles through it, nothing fancy anyway.

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     aeva (aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jul-2023 13:11:27 JST aeva

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     now I see why the customs return form says it has "no commercial value" 😏 i thought that was just a dig at riscv 😏😏

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     aeva (aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jul-2023 13:11:33 JST aeva

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     @rotopenguin I have a bunch of them, just none of them were the right one

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