S01E04: GPU-o-Rama
In the fourth episode of PineTalk, Ezra and Peter discuss some industry and community news, go through your favourite answers to their question and answer a few of your questions, some of them (spoiler!) GPU related.
What have we been up to lately?
- Ezra: Has been contemplating new videos that will appear on his YouTube and Odysee channels or his website: elatronion.com.
- Peter created a video about Sailfish OS 4.0.1.48, which you can find on YouTube, PeerTube and Odysee.
(Community) News
Matrix video calling on the PinePhone
- LinuxSmartphones: Now you can make video calls on a PinePhone (but it’s very much a work in progress)
- Original story: Pinephone: Breakthrou on Fedora Pinephones
MIPS joins RISC-V
- EEjournal.com: Wait, What? MIPS Becomes RISC-V
- Related Hacker News thread
- Wikipedia: MIPS architecture
- Wikipedia: Loongson
Connecting PineCone to a LoRaWAN transceiver
- LEE Lup Yuen: Connect PineCone to LoRaWan transceiver
- Wikipedia: LoRaWAN
Community engagement 😀
A question for the Community
We asked on Twitter: What device would you like to see @thepine64 make?
What device would you like to see @thepine64 make?
— PineTalkPodcast (@TalkPine) March 7, 2021
and many of you answered. Thank you!
Community Questions for us
- Will you guys ever talk about the PineTime?
- Just listened to the intro and was wondering if you are going to talk about the Pinebook Pro and various operating system such as twister is?
- Has the RISCV SBC an open source GPU?
- Would it be practical for Pine64 to make a FOSS GPU for the desktop, or a higher power GPU for your next laptop?
- Embedded.com: Open source GPU builds on RISC-V
Feedback welcome!
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