Re: Quickie Report - Installing Fedora on BMAX Mini-PC

On 8/10/24 2:41 PM, rbowman wrote:

On Sat, 10 Aug 2024 04:51:37 -0400, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
 

    In any case, if you really don't need a PI and all the I/O pins then
    THESE seem to be THE way to go - compact,
    cheap, good performance. Anything you need for a very good price.

 I've been putting off getting a Pi 5. However I have a couple of Pico Ws
that have all the IO pins I need. The new Pico 2 in intriguing. The RP2350
ucintroller has 2 Cortex M0+ cores and two RISC-V cores. I know you can
selelct either the Arm or RISC-V set but I don't know if you can do 1 Arm
and one RISV-V. I wonder if the next gen Pi will be similar. There are
several distros that will run on RISC-V processors. Canonical has recently
been working with PIC to put it on their 64 bit development board.
 As far as I'm concerned small is beautiful.
 

   I bought a couple of P5's ... which is when I first
   encountered the numerous annoyances of WORM - the
   older Debs won't boot, you just get a nasty message.
   I think they CAN be good - seem at least half again
   as snappy as the P4's which is more than enough for
   a LOT of projects. Waiting on the compatible Fedora,
   but it looks like it'll be maybe the end of the year.
   NOT sure about running ARM and RISC at the same time.
   Arduino "Yun ?" has a uC and something that'll run
   Linux and in that case you CAN run 'em both. Not
   sure what happens when there's a contention for
   some device or I/O .....
   Long back they made a chip called a "Transputer".
   Each chip (this was 80s tech) communicated with
   a bunch of others via some ultraspeed serial-type
   links. This left each chip kinda independent,
   but not entirely isolated. Parallelism was the goal.
   Parallax has its "Propeller" multiprocessor chip as
   well that achieves sort of the same effect for those
   interested in multiprocessing solutions. In some
   respects the NVidia chips are the same idea,
   though each "processor" is kinda limited.
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transputer
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax_Propeller
   I wonder what could be done with a backplane holding
   64 CM4s ?  :-)