Sunday 30 June 2019

Raspberry Pi 4

My Pi 4 is on the way ... 

Few thoughts 

I dropped Raspberry porting for QNX/WinCE for many reasons 

1.Lack of IO support ( UART/SPI/I2C)
2.Designware USB rather than having standard open host 
3.Ethernet on USB 

These concerns are addressed in the  Pi4 ..  

I dont have any plans to restart it , Lets see.. 

I am slowly moving in to AI ..  I know something is lacking on  the existing AI's ... I am coming there to fix it ..  

Sunday 13 January 2019

plans for 2019 - Chrome

have been going through the early development notes of chrome.. its a wonderful platform. chrome browser has its own OS.. its has its own rendering engine ... Node.JS is one of the finest product came out of chrome's blink browser engine .
Planning some development work on this platform. I know ,an army of ppl involved in this, will stay away from the crowed .

plans for 2019

'pkgsrc' supports around 20000 packages and a wide range of OS. it was Originally developed by NetBSD. its proven to work on self hosted QNX X86 machines ..attempting to check pkgsrc support on QNX ARM platforms ,Notable packages under pkgsrc are apache , mysql, PHP, python .

attempting linux port to esp32 , the one with SPI 4MB RAM. the most attractive part of esp32 module is , its cheap and hand solderable . its architecture(Xtensa) has got the mainline kernel support .. probably the drivers need to be added.

similar like esp32 , allwinner v3s board, 1GHz ,Cortex A7 , comeswith buildin 64MB RAM .. with this a single sided PCB can power ON the processor . no hectic impedance matching is required.. its very cheap (3$) and it comes with hand solderable lqfp package.