[Chester LUG] Banana Pi review for those interested.

[Michael Crilly]

If you emulate it in software, there doesn’t need to be a VT flag in hardware. That’s what I’m asking: can the VT functionality be emulated in the kernel, via software? It would be slower, a lot slower, but you would be able to test out Vagrant :)


> On 28 Nov 2014, at 14:44, Stuart Burns <stuart.james.burns at gmail.com> wrote:
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> But ARM has no concept of VT as far as I know.
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> On 28 November 2014 at 14:41, Michael Crilly <michael at mcrilly.me <mailto:michael at mcrilly.me>> wrote:
> So software VT emulation should work.
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>> On 28 Nov 2014, at 14:02, Stuart Burns <stuart.james.burns at gmail.com <mailto:stuart.james.burns at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>> I could always try Vagrant on it ;)
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>> On 28 November 2014 at 13:25, Michael Crilly <michael at mcrilly.me <mailto:michael at mcrilly.me>> wrote:
>> Oh dear. I think the RPi is winning then in my opinion. That’s a big thing for some people.
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>>> On 28 Nov 2014, at 13:24, Stuart Burns <stuart.james.burns at gmail.com <mailto:stuart.james.burns at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>>> Thats the issue. The GPU is not the same as the Pi and no one has optimised it. No hardware accelleration atm.
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>>> On 28 November 2014 at 13:23, Michael Crilly <michael at mcrilly.me <mailto:michael at mcrilly.me>> wrote:
>>> It shouldn’t suck as XBMC. The RaspberryPi can handle 1080p via XBMC just fine - given the specs of the BI, it should be able to handle it fine, right? Is hardware encoding supported and is there a hardware encoder plugin/software provided?
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>>>> On 28 Nov 2014, at 13:20, Stuart Burns <stuart.james.burns at gmail.com <mailto:stuart.james.burns at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>>>> What SD card ? ;) I need to buy one actually. 
>>>> 
>>>> Apart from that, I dunno what to use it for really. I was thinking XBMC front end but it sucks at XBMC. My mate wanted to try it to test it as XMBC but it looks like its a none starter.
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>>>> On 28 November 2014 at 13:16, Michael Crilly <michael at mcrilly.me <mailto:michael at mcrilly.me>> wrote:
>>>> That's one use for it! Just keep in mind that's my SD card ;-)
>>>> 
>>>> Are you going to plug a USB/SATA drive into it? 
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>>>> On 28 November 2014 13:08:59 GMT+00:00, Stuart Burns <stuart.james.burns at gmail.com <mailto:stuart.james.burns at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>> Yeah. I am now going to turn it into an apple time machine backup thing
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>>>> On 28 November 2014 at 13:07, Michael Crilly <michael at mcrilly.me <mailto:michael at mcrilly.me>> wrote:
>>>> Good stuff mate. Glad it's working for you in the end :-) 
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>>>> On 28 November 2014 13:05:30 GMT+00:00, Stuart Burns <stuart.james.burns at gmail.com <mailto:stuart.james.burns at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>> I tried it when I got home last night, no issues with HDMI in the end. It was a late night so excuse any mistakes!
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>>>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/11/28/banana_pi_review/ <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/11/28/banana_pi_review/>
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