This thing is pretty bloody cool (anbernic rg35xxsp).

Pity the kernel is ancient though :(

@ljs but haven't you got the memo? you MUST UPGRADE to the latest stable

@ljs Careful, anbernic hacking is a deep rabbit hole. ;) Fun, though. Such neat little devices.

@lkundrak no I want a stable system so I don't use stable

@Wildbill yeah I can already see that haha.

Annoying audio issues on this also

ok for anyone using muOS (refried beans) on the anbernic rg35xxsp, I found a fix for audio crackling, go to applications/retroarch/settings/Video/Synchronization and turn VSync and Hard GPU Sync off.

Then go to Configuration File in top menu and 'Save Current Configuration' before quitting out.

@ljs Those specs are wild. 4000x the RAM of the original GBA.

@ljs no sched_ext :(

@vbabka @ljs I still don't get why on Earth we need this ext thing and how come it gets merged.

@oleksandr @vbabka @ljs Oh, it's a good thing. For any specific workload, you can always make a better scheduler than a generic one, because yours can make a lot of assumptions that a generic scheduler should not.

@ptesarik @vbabka @ljs Now imagine having 100 schedulers in the system. The three-body problem is a joke comparing to this.

@oleksandr @vbabka @ljs Meh. Some VM hosts probably run more than 100 different schedulers today already…

@ptesarik @vbabka @ljs VM scheduling is another can of worm, but I remember there was some recent (within the last year) discussion on this topic (with both host and guest being Linux, of course) on the LKML.

@ljs Unfortunately, par for the course for ARM devices.

If you ever want to see something scary, look at the kernel version of recent phones =P

@ljs that is wild. No way in hell a GBA has a full gig of ram though lol. Did you mod it somehow? Seems like a silly question, of course you modded it it's running Linux lmao

@taimaninuehararin ah even though the form factor is SUPER close this isn't a GBA haha it's just (yet another) retro device, the anbernic rg35xxsp (what a great name...)

@taimaninuehararin @ljs It's an Anbernic RG35XX SP, not a GBA. You can run an GBA emulator on it, but it's primarily an ARM Linux device. Open source drivers are not yet available, unfortunately and we're stuck with whatever binaries Allwinner decides to publish.

@leroycep @taimaninuehararin that sucks about binary blobs.

Still, mario has my soul so I live with it

@ljs Retrocomputing all the way down!

@vbabka @ljs still has slab

@a1ba @vbabka slob you mean?

I mean it had it all. Vintage years.

@ljs @vbabka times when features weren't deleted from software

@a1ba @vbabka yes and we all know who likes to do that...

@a1ba @ljs that's another downside, yeah. Hopefully not enabled at least.