Post B98DJq6ekpZ3CQPvV2 by quad@akko.quad.moe
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(DIR) Post #B97x9URopMQVrcMJSS by quad@akko.quad.moe
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Apparently CIX P1 one boards can now run pretty damn well with open source drivers. Although most of them have yet to be upstreamed afaik.Now I kinda regret not buying a Radxa Orion O6 before computer prices went haywire
(DIR) Post #B97xSppLYyfhfnaX5s by quad@akko.quad.moe
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But my unstanding is that unless you want to use stuff like the NPU, GPU and Audio, you can basically just boot pretty much any distro on it with UEFI/ACPI and it would work perfectly fine for most things.If only I had bought one, it might've been a fantastic replacement for my weak server with an i3-9100f.
(DIR) Post #B98D2xDB5HfiJSPqnw by gorplop@pleroma.m68k.church
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@quad a while ago I bought Minisforum MS-R1 which is my workstation computer now, but I cannot get either NPU or GPU running on any kernel, so Im stuck with software rendering to a 1920x1080 uefi framebuffer. it works for programming tho, and youtube manages to play back smoothly.
(DIR) Post #B98D2xchYO5XacMEaW by quad@akko.quad.moe
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@gorplop While they use the same chip, the Radxa Orion O6 apparently has better support, because Radxa is putting effort into their platform unlike minisforum.And if that still isn't enough there are community UEFI firmwares for it as well: https://github.com/Neol00/edk2-cix-unlockedRegardless, I only need a headless server, so as long as the 5 Gbit Ethernet ports, CPU, PCI-E slot and USB works fine, I'd manage.
(DIR) Post #B98D9trnuzfRxyjMpM by quad@akko.quad.moe
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@gorplop Unfortunately that's classic Minisforum, they shit out good hardware, but then abandon it immediately.Radxa's Orion O6 wasn't any better at release afaik, difference is that Radxa has continued to build on it for the past year or more.
(DIR) Post #B98DJpsTbYDoURmbOi by gorplop@pleroma.m68k.church
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@quad yep, sadly I found out about it after I got mine. There supposedly is some image from Minisforum where everything works™ but I havent had the time to study what they changed or to even boot it up :(
(DIR) Post #B98DJq6ekpZ3CQPvV2 by quad@akko.quad.moe
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@gorplop Compare that to Radxa, who last released a firmware update only 3 weeks ago: https://github.com/radxa-pkg/edk2-cix/releases/tag/1.3.1
(DIR) Post #B98DYXWi7Ehnv2c65Y by quad@akko.quad.moe
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@gorplop However if you want to get your GPU working, I recommend trying the following to install the kernel/drivers from CIX directly:Update your UEFI firmwareSet the hardware description option to "ACPI"Install regular arm64 debian 13Add CIX's community repo, which they recommend doing like so:curl -fsSL https://archive.cixtech.com/cix-repo-community.sh | sudo sh(yes, i hate piping to sh as well, ew)The install script should ask you what type of driver you want to install (proprietary or open source), select one and reboot.If Minisforum haven't fucked up their CIX P1 platform horribly, this should work.
(DIR) Post #B98DzSG5oI6TOoftOy by gorplop@pleroma.m68k.church
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@quad I think I did that, I've got the cix kernel loaded from https://github.com/Sky1-Linux/linux-sky1?tab=readme-ov-file but it boots to a black screen. I think the ACPI tables are fucked in my machine, so updating the UEFI is a good call since other users reported that kernel works fine on their machines
(DIR) Post #B98DzSTuytA85h8vx2 by quad@akko.quad.moe
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@gorplop Yeah, if you run their kernel but it doesn't work then Minisforum must be the ones doing something wrong in UEFI.Apparently their official instructions for installing the newest UEFI firmware is here: https://github.com/minisforum-docs/MS-R1-Docs/blob/main/PlayBook/MS-R1-ARMSystemReady.mdWhich in classic Chinese jank fashion links to some random google drive, but the file does at least appear to be from this year