Mike's Blog: April 2017

Sunday, April 30, 2017

For my MiQi Dev Board I needed to set my own MAC Address

I needed to set my own MAC address because for some reason it changed after each reboot.

vi /etc/network/interfaces

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
hwaddress ether 22:b9:4d:5d:77:94

Sunday, April 23, 2017

Install Ansible on Asus Tinker Board

I found these steps necessary to install ansible on the Linux dist provided by Asus for my Tinker Board (TinkerOS_Debian V1.8 beta version)

apt-get install python-pip python-dev build-essential python-wheel libffi-dev
pip install --upgrade pip
pip install --upgrade virtualenv
pip install --upgrade setuptools
pip install ansible

Remove desktop from Linux dist

Debian based this is the best I could put together.

apt-get purge libtheora0
apt-get purge libcairo2
apt-get purge lxlock
apt-get autoremove
apt-get purge libx11.* libqt.*

This worked with the Linux dist provided by Asus for the Tinker Board.

Enable NTP and set Eastern Time

Once in a while I need to fix ntp and the date/time on my machine.

rm /etc/localtime
ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/EST /etc/localtime
apt-get update && apt-get install ntp
systemctl enable ntp
systemctl stop ntp
ntpdate -sb time.nist.gov
systemctl start ntp
date

Saturday, April 22, 2017

Run Phoronix Test Suite on Asus Tinker Board

Do we have building tools

apt-get install -y build-essential
apt-get install -y automake make gcc patch unzip autoconf unzip apt-file

Necessary PHP dependencies

apt-get install -y php-cli php-xml php-gd php-posix php-sqlite3

Phoronix will try to install these anyhow, I found this process faster than if Phoronix installs them in the background, I would not know why

apt-get install -y zlib1g-dev libsdl1.2-dev libsdl-gfx1.2-dev libsdl-net1.2-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev libsdl-ttf2.0-dev libsdl-mixer1.2-dev yasm libpcre3-dev libboost-all-dev libasio-dev libboost-iostreams-dev libjpeg-dev libtiff5-dev libpng-dev gfortran libopenmpi-dev openmpi-bin libmpich-dev mesa-utils libssl-dev libtiff-dev

Install and run Phoronix CPU benchmark

wget http://www.phoronix-test-suite.com/download.php?file=phoronix-test-suite-7.0.1 -O phoronix-test-suite_7.0.1.tar.gz
tar xvf phoronix-test-suite_7.0.1.tar.gz
cd phoronix-test-suite/
./install-sh
phoronix-test-suite benchmark pts/cpu

Thursday, April 20, 2017

Inventory of my Development Boards

This is an inventory of my development boards.

4 x Raspberry Pi 3 Model B ($29)

quad core A53 64bit 1.2GHz (Broadcom BCM2837)
1GB Memory
100Mbit LAN

4 x Nanopi Neo 2 ($14.99)

quad core A53 64bit 1.2GHz (Allwinner H5)
512MB Memory
1Gbit LAN

4 x Orange Pi Zero H2+ ($8.90)

quad core A7 32bit 1.2GHz (Allwinner H2+)
512MB Memory
1Gbit LAN

2 x Orange Pi PC 2 ($19.98)

quad core A53 64bit 1.2GHz (Allwinner H5)
1GB Memory
1Gbit LAN

2 x pcDuino8 Uno ($39)

octa core A7 32bit 2.0GHz (Allwinner H8)
1GB Memory
100Mbit LAN

2 x Khadas Vim ($57.99)

quad core A53 64bit 2.0GHz (Amlogic S905X)
2GB Memory
16GB eMMC
100Mbit LAN

2 x Asus Tinker Board ($59.99)

quad core A17 32bit 1.8GHz (Rockchip RK3288)
2GB Memory
1Gbit LAN

1 x Orange Pi Prime ($29.90)

quad core A53 64bit 1.2GHz (Allwinner H5)
2GB Memory
1Gbit LAN

1 x MiQi ($89)

quad core A17 32bit 1.8GHz (Rockchip RK3288)
2GB Memory
32GB eMMC
1Gbit LAN

1 x Gizmo 2 ($89)

dual core G-Series 64bit 1.0GHz (AMD GX210HA)
1GB Memory
1Gbit LAN

1 x Rock64 ($44.95 + $21.95)

quad core
4GB Memory
32 GB eMMC (accounts for 1/3 of the total cost)
1Gbit LAN

1 x Parallella ($149.00)

dual core ARM
16 core RISC
1GB Memory
1Gi tLAN

Collection of Phoronix Benchmark Results

I have run the Phoronix Benchmark Suite on many of my SBCs. This isn't really a scientific comparison, just a collection of the links pointing to the raw results. It's not really useful yet for comparison since sometimes I used a heat sink, sometimes I didn't, different OS, kernel etc...

Orange Pi PC 2

http://openbenchmarking.org/result/1704046-RI-OPINODE1A74

Nano Pi Neo 2

http://openbenchmarking.org/result/1704134-RI-NANONODE148

Asus Tinker Board

Gizmo 2

Khadas Vim

http://openbenchmarking.org/result/1704081-RI-VIMNODE1181

Raspberry Pi 3

pcDuino8 Uno

http://openbenchmarking.org/result/1704233-RI-PD8NODE1708

MiQi

http://openbenchmarking.org/result/1704253-RI-MIQINODE139

Monday, April 17, 2017

Collection of Dev Board/Projects that really interested me

While looking for the latest and greatest dev boards I came across some really interesting "extensions", articles, projects and other sources.

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