[Shield Android TV General] crnkoj:
to be perfectly honest, im not really thrilled to repartition the emmc... would kind of like to use normal android from the forums (zulu99 build) on it as well.

about the dtb, one can append it to the kernel https://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/petazzoni-device-tree-dummies.pdf like its outlined here. im just not sure can we do that since the dtb is already loaded by bootloader? about the size of the boot. img than, we dont need all the modules in the initramfs. we barely need the working minimum (base board functions, usb, ethernet), the rest can be just modules in the rootfs, hence the size of the initramfs would shrink.

Btw did you use the prebuilt initramfs or did oyu do it yourself. Lately i had some experience doing the initramfs for an atom tablet 2 in 1 on arch linux (took me some time to figure it out, but eventually i managed to do it with the mkinitcpio script). in all honesty i think easiest would be to just install arch linux 64 bit on it and natively compile all the kernels/initrams on it.

edit:

one more thing, when running the cuda testing, i see that the GPU frequency dinamically changes depending on the gpu usage, with higher usage the frequency goes down and vice versa. I guess it has some kind of TDP limit either in the kernel/drivers/dtb, which might be interesting to fiddle, as the thing certainly isnt thermally limited in the case.

For instance, using tegrastats:

RAM 1336/2807MB (lfb 63x4MB) SWAP 0/0MB (cached 0MB) cpu [0%,0%,0%,0%]@825 EMC 24%@1600 AVP 0%@80 VDE 0 GR3D 99%@921 EDP limit 2218
RAM 1336/2807MB (lfb 63x4MB) SWAP 0/0MB (cached 0MB) cpu [26%,24%,35%,25%]@825 EMC 24%@1600 AVP 0%@80 VDE 0 GR3D 91%@998 EDP limit 2218
RAM 1336/2807MB (lfb 63x4MB) SWAP 0/0MB (cached 0MB) cpu [30%,27%,43%,31%]@825 EMC 24%@1600 AVP 0%@80 VDE 0 GR3D 99%@921 EDP limit 2218
RAM 1335/2807MB (lfb 63x4MB) SWAP 0/0MB (cached 0MB) cpu [24%,27%,29%,29%]@921 EMC 24%@1600 AVP 0%@80 VDE 0 GR3D 99%@998 EDP limit 2218
RAM 1336/2807MB (lfb 63x4MB) SWAP 0/0MB (cached 0MB) cpu [28%,26%,41%,30%]@1530 EMC 24%@1600 AVP 0%@80 VDE 0 GR3D 0%@998 EDP limit 2218
RAM 1336/2807MB (lfb 63x4MB) SWAP 0/0MB (cached 0MB) cpu [27%,29%,30%,35%]@2014 EMC 24%@1600 AVP 0%@80 VDE 0 GR3D 99%@921 EDP limit 2218
RAM 1336/2807MB (lfb 63x4MB) SWAP 0/0MB (cached 0MB) cpu [25%,24%,32%,26%]@825 EMC 23%@1600 AVP 0%@80 VDE 0 GR3D 99%@921 EDP limit 2218
RAM 1336/2807MB (lfb 63x4MB) SWAP 0/0MB (cached 0MB) cpu [25%,26%,27%,32%]@825 EMC 23%@1600 AVP 0%@80 VDE 0 GR3D 99%@921 EDP limit 2218
RAM 1336/2807MB (lfb 63x4MB) SWAP 0/0MB (cached 0MB) cpu [23%,23%,39%,27%]@921 EMC 24%@1600 AVP 0%@80 VDE 0 GR3D 99%@998 EDP limit 2218
RAM 1336/2807MB (lfb 63x4MB) SWAP 0/0MB (cached 0MB) cpu [30%,28%,45%,28%]@825 EMC 24%@1600 AVP 0%@80 VDE 0 GR3D 99%@998 EDP limit 2218
RAM 1335/2807MB (lfb 63x4MB) SWAP 0/0MB (cached 0MB) cpu [27%,24%,38%,25%]@825 EMC 24%@1600 AVP 0%@80 VDE 0 GR3D 4%@998 EDP limit 2218
RAM 1335/2807MB (lfb 63x4MB) SWAP 0/0MB (cached 0MB) cpu [32%,27%,35%,38%]@2014 EMC 24%@1600 AVP 0%@80 VDE 0 GR3D 99%@921 EDP limit 2218
RAM 1335/2807MB (lfb 63x4MB) SWAP 0/0MB (cached 0MB) cpu [25%,25%,31%,29%]@825 EMC 23%@1600 AVP 0%@80 VDE 0 GR3D 99%@921 EDP limit 2218
RAM 1335/2807MB (lfb 63x4MB) SWAP 0/0MB (cached 0MB) cpu [22%,22%,27%,33%]@825 EMC 23%@1600 AVP 0%@80 VDE 0 GR3D 99%@921 EDP limit 2218
RAM 1335/2807MB (lfb 63x4MB) SWAP 0/0MB (cached 0MB) cpu [26%,33%,26%,30%]@921 EMC 24%@1600 AVP 0%@80 VDE 0 GR3D 99%@998 EDP limit 2218
RAM 1335/2807MB (lfb 63x4MB) SWAP 0/0MB (cached 0MB) cpu [29%,32%,28%,38%]@2014 EMC 24%@1600 AVP 0%@80 VDE 0 GR3D 0%@998 EDP limit 2218
RAM 1335/2807MB (lfb 63x4MB) SWAP 0/0MB (cached 0MB) cpu [27%,26%,41%,26%]@825 EMC 24%@1600 AVP 0%@80 VDE 0 GR3D 99%@921 EDP limit 2218

edit 2:

oh i just noticed the script here https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/...da-7-0-jetson-tx1-performance-and-benchmarks/ where you posted, does this script work on our shield as well?

edit3:

k used the script, now cpu is at 2014mhz constantly, emc 1600 mhz constantly and gpu at 998 mhz constantly, the temp did in fact increase rather much lol, had to set the fan to a bit more, but 255 is too loud ^ ^