Notices by Lucie / minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)

many RCOREs in the house!

exciting: first 10 production mainboards for MNT Reform Next came in!

@cwebber yay, thank you!

MNT Reform made it to the orange website somehow and some people are shitting on it saying it's ewaste. i guess the ability to upgrade it forever still doesn't get through to everyone https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47834689

@cwebber @jfred @dthompson big aw

do you make music on Linux, and what's your favorite software to work with? and what do you miss the most from Linux music/audio software that exists on other platforms?

but wait... does that mean MNT Pocket Reform can have 3 displays now (1 DP, 1 HDMI, 1 internal)? yes, yes it can!

hell yeah, got displayport alt mode over usb-c working on rk3588 pocket reform with mainboard 2.0!

in the end it was a DP lane polarity issue: USB3 allows lane polarity swap for better PCB routing, but DP doesn't. tricky when you need to reuse the same lanes for both.

MNT Station prelaunch page is finally online at @crowdsupply: https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt-research/mnt-station

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5x production tests of Pocket Reform mainboard 2.0 came in (board on the right). can you spot all the differences to 1.0 (on the left)?

"programming as theory building", peter naur, 1985

working prototype of MNT Reform Next with MNT Quasar 8550 processor module (based on Qualcomm QCS8550). speedy!

mnt pocket reform mainboard 2.0 fully routed, silkscreen cleanup time (and more checks tomorrow)

unexpectedly also got blender 5.0 with vulkan backend mostly working on rk3588 mnt pocket reform (custom build from git with very light patching, with current mesa compiled from git)

very nice: @cas was here today and got audio working on the MNT Quasar/QCS6490 powered Pocket Reform, as well as the GPU running in EL2. this means we can very soon reach the beta milestone of this @nlnet project.

additional note: the idle power consumption is so low that i have a hard time trusting the measurement :0

also thanks to @cas persistence this all runs in EL2, no hypervisor and no adsp needed, incl gpu and sound support. qemu-system-aarch64 with kvm works (tested it).

i really would like proper screensavers back. we can see in certain edge cases that burn-in is still a problem with TFTs (and i guess OLEDs), it's just not widely known anymore

cc @cwebber relevant to your interests

hot take but, this chip shines when not bogged down by android

finally i can play with blender at home aaah