Although not perfect yet, this is a move in the right direction. Providing a 1.5 GB preinstalled image is still not the optimal solution, people should be allowed to choose what to install.
I tried a plain install with this image, and after removing a few hundred packages the unit seems to run fine with low load. However, I tried installing “powertop” and when starting that the unit froze (I had to unplug the power) after giving this output to the shell:
unknown op '{'
When you provide a newer kernel, please consider (modular?) support for I/O accounting. Currently, this is what happens when trying to run iotop:
root@bananapi:~# iotop
Could not run iotop as some of the requirements are not met:
- Linux >= 2.6.20 with
- I/O accounting support (CONFIG_TASKSTATS, CONFIG_TASK_DELAY_ACCT, CONFIG_TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING)
I see that there are several kernel module trees under /lib/modules:
root@bananapi:/lib/modules# ls
3.3.0-BPI-M2-Kernel 3.4.109-sunxi 3.4.39-02-lobo 3.4.39-BPI-M3-Kernel 4.2.6-sunxi
Does this mean that any of the other kernels will work? Can the M3 boot with a 4.2.6 kernel?
Does not work for me fluently, opengl slower than with ubuntu image from 4/25. Video playback sucks in browser. But okay with downloaded mp4 files in VLC or the like. Chrome with hardware accel.&webgl on is slow as hell, but can play some webgl demos from the web. No sound from audio jack. This is an issue since the beginning in December 15.
Managed to get the image to emmc, but it does not support apt-get update && upgrade.
Or rather it starts but then fails - dont use this immage for emmc. It will fit the 8GB but does not have room for updates or other extras.
Would it be too much to require a light build without extras down to a say +4 size or smaller. And maybe without desktop but with ssh running?
