Today I would like to present you another Single Board Computer called Le Potato from Libre Computer.
I funded the project through Kickstarter with 35€ and 14€ shipping cost to Germany.
The board is based on the Amlogic S905X SoC with 4 ARM Cortex-A53 cores and an ARM Mali-450 grafic chip. It supports up to 2GB DDR3 SDRAM and HDMI 2.0. You can use 4 USB 2.0 Type A and 100 MB Fast Ethernet. Among the HDMI port there is the possibility to transmit sound through the 3.5mm TRRS AV Jack. Le Potato is powered through a mirco USB port. The OS can boot from an SD Card or eMMC. Both data carrier possiblities have to be bought additionally. For more information about additional connection options I recommend to visit their website.
The following images should give some impressions of the board.
At https://www.armbian.com/lepotato/ you can find diffrent Images for the board.
I used the armbian image with a GUI (Ubuntu_xenial_next_desktop.7z) .
After downloading I put the Images on my 8 GB micro SD card through the tool Etcher.
The first boot went well. It Needs some more time the first time and I got some curios green stripes on my Monitor before the login screen was shown.
Here you can see the desktop after the first boot.
After that I installed BOINC. The benchmark result is shown in the following picture.
More couldn't be tested until now, because of a lack of time.
Maybe anybody know how to run WUProp@Home on this Computer? I didn't get it running.
I would assume you will not be able to get it to run. I have a silver mac g5 tower , I compiled my boinc from source and had to make it a ps3 via an easy switch ./configure --with-boinc-platform=powerpc64-ps3-linux-gnu and I will assume you need to do something similar. Pre doing so I could not run anything as projects do not support the motorola 970fx and debian/ubuntu unless I identified it as a ps3 and then I was/am able to run yoyo@home and yes wuprop so since it is almost 2am and I am to tired I will look into your cpu but I would think that you need to make it so boinc will identify as an arm7 vs arm cortex if that is what it is doing , some projects strait just support raw arm6/arm7 some have specific flags and just needs to be specified and a custom compile. If you connect to it remote or from a local log what does it identify the CPU as such as " 11/2/2017 11:15:26 PM | | Processor: 4 ARM ARMv7 Processor rev 3 (v7l) @1300MHz " or " 11/2/2017 11:17:19 PM | | Processor: 2 ARM ARMv7 Processor rev 2 (v7l) @1512MHz " being 2 of my tablets for examples.
Hay , just an idea I could be far off as I have no idea what Boinc will ID your CPU as but this is one direction to look. :) Good luck and pretty PCB..!!!
you can get a nexbox a95x, do the same thing, cheaper, and more cute.
Would love to read something about the RAC you achieve with this board :)
When I run it 24h/7d, I will give you an update
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STOPthe white looks very sexy . i looking to buy one in europe , some links / addresses ?