09-22-2020, 06:00 PM
Hey Brian,
Yeah, I can feel your pain. You have done a nice job of going through a good number of boards and have done what you could to point out the pros and cons. It certainly is a good reference.
Considering Eben and gang intended the Raspberry Pi as a Game dev system, it would seem a good bet to sick with that. The NVIDIA Jetson Nano is a nice board but more than double the price of the Pi; it seems worth it though. Plus, the Nano has Vulkan support and it seems the Pi will have it as well sometime in the near future. This seems to be the direction folks are moving in the Game and Graphics world.
I still have not bought the eMMC card for the ODROID C4 I have so it has sat collecting dust. This is sort of an issue I have with the ODROID boards, in that you need to buy extra stuff just to use it which drives up the cost of the board. Plus, as you mentioned, the XU4 seems to be one with the most support and is referenced, via the XU3, on the ARM Graphics and Gaming Development Development Platforms page. I guess outside of the $200++ boards like the HiKey boards, the Xu4 is a good option for ARM game dev.
The other board I have been playing with is the Beaglebone Black with a PowerVR GPU SGX530 but it only supports OpenGL ES 2.x; no 3.0. It does not have the support that the Pi has so there is a lot of manual stuff to do to get it to work properly.
I did get nice graphics results from following this page:
https://elinux.org/BeagleBoneBlack/SGX_%...%2B_Weston
Although shamefully I still have not completed your book, I look forward to your new examples.
Cheers.
Jon
Yeah, I can feel your pain. You have done a nice job of going through a good number of boards and have done what you could to point out the pros and cons. It certainly is a good reference.
Considering Eben and gang intended the Raspberry Pi as a Game dev system, it would seem a good bet to sick with that. The NVIDIA Jetson Nano is a nice board but more than double the price of the Pi; it seems worth it though. Plus, the Nano has Vulkan support and it seems the Pi will have it as well sometime in the near future. This seems to be the direction folks are moving in the Game and Graphics world.
I still have not bought the eMMC card for the ODROID C4 I have so it has sat collecting dust. This is sort of an issue I have with the ODROID boards, in that you need to buy extra stuff just to use it which drives up the cost of the board. Plus, as you mentioned, the XU4 seems to be one with the most support and is referenced, via the XU3, on the ARM Graphics and Gaming Development Development Platforms page. I guess outside of the $200++ boards like the HiKey boards, the Xu4 is a good option for ARM game dev.
The other board I have been playing with is the Beaglebone Black with a PowerVR GPU SGX530 but it only supports OpenGL ES 2.x; no 3.0. It does not have the support that the Pi has so there is a lot of manual stuff to do to get it to work properly.
I did get nice graphics results from following this page:
https://elinux.org/BeagleBoneBlack/SGX_%...%2B_Weston
Although shamefully I still have not completed your book, I look forward to your new examples.
Cheers.
Jon