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   Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 17:21:03 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
   VisionFive2 (riscv): Boots nicely with regular Alpine Linux
   
   RockPro64 (arm64), even after flashing Tow-Boot: Nope
   
   How come a much newer board on the rather experimental architecture that's riscv causes me less issues…
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 17:23:31 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     That said I think it's mostly that Starfive actively mainlined pretty everything already (hence why I bought it), while Pine64 well… not really.
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 19:09:12 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     Also probably have the computer with the worst analog audio output on a technical level:
     
     https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-riscv/patch/20230814080618.10036-2-hal.feng@starfivetech.com/
     +title: StarFive JH7110 PWM-DAC Controller
     +
     +description:
     + The PWM-DAC Controller uses PWM square wave generators plus RC filters to
     + form a DAC for audio play in StarFive JH7110 SoC. This audio play controller
     + supports 16 bit audio format, up to 48K sampling frequency, up to left and
     + right dual channels.
     
     Yet it's less noisy than my desktop soundcard (which is why I exclusively use spdif on my desktop), which has constant noise.
     While on that board it's pretty bad quality, like a badly adjusted FM radio where silence is silent but actual audio gets pretty crunchy.
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     benz (bentsukun@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 07:25:25 JST benz

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     @lanodan Let me introduce you to the way audio output works on the Raspberry Pi 3. Hint: if you configure a GPIO pin as using hardware PWM, the headphone output stops working.

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