Mainboard VS nixos

[2] https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/Mainboard/tree/main/Mec...

For what it's worth, it is possible to desolder the old connector and solder on a new one. Per Framework's documentation, the connector is a AUSB0534-P203A61. While I was able to find the part on the manufacturer's website, I'm not sure of a way to order it as an individual (I couldn't find it on Digi-Key or Mouser for example).

Maybe in their repo you will find useful numbers: https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/Mainboard

Might be on the pricier side, but the Framework laptop mainboard is available separately starting at $350 https://frame.work/products/mainboard as well as the battery https://frame.work/products/battery, and there's documentation with suggestions/designs on how to built around it for projects like this https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/Mainboard. Should have plenty of power for emulation and light pc gaming, as well as thunderbolt support for an egpu.

Look like trackpad (TP?) is just IIC. https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/Mainboard/blob/main/Electrical/Mainboard_Interfaces_Schematic_11th_Gen.pdf

We released a 3D printable Mainboard Case, and open sourced our Mainboard drawings and electrical documentation in a Github repository.

The block diagram for the Tiger Lake mainboards says that the current displays and motherboards communicate over eDP 1.2 (is Alder Lake-P the same?), so I started by looking for 17.3" screens that communicate with eDP 1.2.

One thing worth noting is that basically, even now (almost 10 months post announcement), almost no one has a 6000U laptop outs (a search on Amazon and Best Buy shows two 6800U laptop models total, one Asus and one Lenovo). Two niche vendors, XMG and Star Labs, have both publicly stated that they would have loved to have offered Ryzen 6000 laptops, but couldn't get any allotments. There are were also well documented chipset issues - even into the summer Lenovo and Asus talked about requiring firmware updates to enable their USB4 ports.

That being said, starting w/ Rembrandt, AMD now has full 40Gbps USB4 controllers built on-chip. I'm really looking forward to Ryzen 7040 because Phoenix looks great (Zen4 + RDNA3 on TSMC N4 - yes please) and hopefully USB4 support has matured enough on the AMD side that Framework is able to release something.

My understanding is that the I/O limitation is in the re-timers - currently the Framework uses 4X JHL8040R's (labeled as Burnside Bridge) directly connected to the iTBT: https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/Mainboard/blob/main/Ele... Apple used these for their first M1 MBAs as well: https://github.com/ThomasKaiser/Knowledge/blob/master/articl...

But both Apple and AMD are now using Kandou retimers:

* https://www.gizchina.com/2022/07/25/apple-completely-got-rid...

* https://kandou.com/matterhorn.html

* https://kandou.com/assets/downloads/product-briefs/KB8001-Pr...

This mostly minimal example seems legit, but I can't get it working.

https://github.com/Lillecarl/nixos/blob/master/shitbox/disko.nix https://github.com/Lillecarl/nixos/blob/master/shitbox/default.nix#L10

https://github.com/Lillecarl/nixos/blob/master/shitbox/disko... this is my declarative partitioning scheme, I use mdraid, LUKS, LVM and btrfs. I also mirror my bootloader so if one drive dies I can still boot :)

Hardware raid is legacy :)

https://github.com/Lillecarl/nixos here's my configuration. I'm moving a lot of packages from my system config to my home config instead still. There's also something called devshells you can use with flakes, that'll give you packages in a one time disposable shell, which is quite great.

Zellij instead of tmux (not necessarily better, but it's easier to use)

Xonsh instead of bash (because you already know Python, why learn a new horrible language?)

bat instead of cat (syntax highlights and other nice things)

exa instead of ls (just nicer)

neovim instead of vim (just better)

helix instead of neovim (just tested it, seems promising though)

nix instead of your normal package manager (it works on Mac, and essentially every Linux dist. And it's got superpowers with devshells and home-manager to bring your configuration with you everywhere)

rmtrash instead of rm (because you haven't configured btrfs snapshots yet)

starship instead of your current prompt (is fast and displays a lot of useful information in a compact way, very customizable)

mcfly instead of your current ctrl+r (search history in a nice ncurses tui)

dogdns instead of dig (nicer colors, doesn't display useless information)

amp, kakoune (more alternative text editors)

ripgrep instead of grep (it's just better yo)

htop instead of top (displays stuff nicer)

gitui/lazygit instead of git cli (at least for staging, nice with file, hunk and line staging when you have ADHD)

gron + ripgrep instead of jq when searching through JSON in the shell (so much easier)

keychain instead of ssh-agent (better cli imo)

Wrote this on the train with my phone by checking https://github.com/Lillecarl/nixos/blob/master/common/defaul... for which packages I have installed myself :)

https://github.com/Lillecarl/nixos/blob/1c76775bbed80057cf54...

This is my pipewire config, does the job perfectly for me, tracking unstable.