do you want an RCM5 module (adapter) for MNT Reform family to support the Pi CM5 features?
the rk3588 is more powerful than the pi5, so the interesting thing here is probably lower cost
@mntmn MNT Reform has been very appealing to me and a RPI 5 edition might appeal more.
Mostly because I've had such bad experiences of running Rockchip based boards. While they seem a bit better, upstream support still feels flaky compared to RPI.
@intrbiz oh i see! i have to say that rk3588 has been exceptionally stable here though, on the one hand the chip is just a lot better than older rockchips and there has been (and still is) significant work investment from @collabora et al in rk3588 linux support and panfrost/panvk (mesa opengl/vulkan)
@mntmn @intrbiz @collabora didn't Rockchip just fuckover their own FOSS support?
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/20/floss-weekly-episode-810-a-rising-wallet-pays-for-all-boats/#more-734969 (video and transcript)
@falken @intrbiz @collabora sorry, is there a transcript or links to a source? or a summary of what you mean? i can't follow right now
@falken @intrbiz @collabora ok i found the transcript but it's really hard to parse this wall of text to find the bit you're referring to. something about rockchip not putting out their own ubuntu version anymore (?)
@mntmn @intrbiz @collabora try the long paragraph at "repackaging of Ubuntu."
As I understand it, Rockchip boards offical kernel support is super old, never updated. Even though they have 3 kernel maintainers. So boards go obsolete too soon. The community stepped up, but after years of no/little help from Rockchip, they've given up
@falken @intrbiz @collabora that's basically normal for most ARM soc vendors afaik. there are super old and weird vendor kernels and volunteers or organizations like collabora, baylibre, pengutronix etc do the cleanup and rework for mainline