On Mon, Nov 06, 2023 at 09:32:05AM +0800, jeremy ardley wrote: > > On 6/11/23 06:26, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > I think you've hit the curse of almost all ARM single board computers. > > Almost all are small production runs / out of East Asia somewhere as > > "prototypes"** with a board support package (BSP) that's probably just > > the manufacturer's kernel, u-boot and dtbs. > > > If that was all it was at, it would be livable. > > But the new series of boards are coming with NPU processors and this > necessitates using closed source driver component (some parts are open but > not all) >
For future readers of the list: I had to search for the meaning of an NPU and found this reference helpful - https://www.backblaze.com/blog/ai-101-gpu-vs-tpu-vs-npu/ - no further opinions as to the company behind it. NPU - Neural Processing Unit - chip designed for AI use. > As a corollary many packages have been tweaked to use the proprietary GPU > and NPU stuff. As a consequence, in my case with a NanoPC-T6, I get on apt > upgrade > > The following packages have been kept back: > ffmpeg ffmpeg-doc ir-keytable libavcodec-dev libavcodec58 libavdevice-dev > libavdevice58 libavfilter-dev > libavfilter7 libavformat-dev libavformat58 libavresample-dev > libavresample4 libavutil-dev libavutil56 > libdrm-dev libdvbv5-doc libpostproc-dev libpostproc55 libswresample-dev > libswresample3 libswscale-dev > libswscale5 libv4l-0 libv4l-dev qv4l2 v4l-utils xserver-common > xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-dev > xserver-xorg-legacy > I'm unsure what can be done - most of those are audio/video coding programs and camera support. It might be that the move to Wayland compositing *might* help with the xorg - or maybe that you don't run X The problems continue ... All the very best, as ever, Andy >
