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In the second part of MINIX NEO N42C-4 review (and on linuxium website), we looked at the device and the performance using Windows. In this third part, we will look at how to install and the performance of using Linux (Ubuntu). The BIOS does not include an option to select Linux as a boot OS and a standard Ubuntu ISO written to a USB will not boot. So to install Ubuntu to the eMMC as dual-boot first it was necessary to respin a standard Ubuntu ISO using my ‘isorespin.sh’ script with the ‘–apollo’ option, and which after creating a LiveUSB using the ‘dd’ command was used to boot and install Ubuntu. First let’s remind ourselves of the hardware configuration by running some standard Linux commands:

linuxium@N42C-4:~$ lsb_release -a
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 17.04
Release:	17.04
Codename:	zesty
linuxium@N42C-4:~$
linuxium@N42C-4:~$ uname -a
Linux N42C-4 4.10.0-19-generic #21-Ubuntu SMP Thu Apr 6 17:04:57 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
linuxium@N42C-4:~$
linuxium@N42C-4:~$ inxi -Fc0
System:    Host: N42C-4 Kernel: 4.10.0-19-generic x86_64 (64 bit)
           Desktop: N/A Distro: Ubuntu 17.04
Machine:   Device: desktop Mobo: MINIX model: N42C-4 v: Default string serial: Default string
           UEFI: American Megatrends v: 5.12 date: 11/14/2017
CPU:       Quad core Intel Pentium N4200 (-MCP-) cache: 1024 KB 
           clock speeds: max: 2500 MHz 1: 897 MHz 2: 2394 MHz 3: 1333 MHz
           4: 2319 MHz
Graphics:  Card: Intel Celeron N3350/Pentium N4200/Atom E3900 Series Integrated Graphics Controller
           Display Server: X.org 1.19.3 drivers: modesetting (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
           tty size: 204x62 Advanced Data: N/A for root
Audio:     Card Intel Celeron N3350/Pentium N4200/Atom E3900 Series Audio Cluster
           driver: snd_hda_intel
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.10.0-19-generic
Network:   Card-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
           driver: r8169
           IF: enp1s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full
           mac: a0:1e:0b:09:64:59
           Card-2: Intel Device 24fb driver: iwlwifi
           IF: wlp2s0 state: down mac: 5e:8e:91:6c:84:80
Drives:    HDD Total Size: NA (-)
           ID-1: /dev/mmcblk0 model: N/A size: 31.3GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 9.8G used: 5.8G (62%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/mmcblk0p5
RAID:      No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 47.0C mobo: N/A
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info:      Processes: 212 Uptime: 7 min Memory: 633.4/3796.5MB
           Client: Shell (review-tests.sh) inxi: 2.3.8
linuxium@N42C-4:~$
linuxium@N42C-4:~$ df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev            1.9G     0  1.9G   0% /dev
tmpfs           380M  6.3M  374M   2% /run
/dev/mmcblk0p5  9.8G  5.8G  3.6G  62% /
tmpfs           1.9G   12K  1.9G   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs           5.0M  4.0K  5.0M   1% /run/lock
tmpfs           1.9G     0  1.9G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/mmcblk0p2   96M   74M   23M  77% /boot/efi
tmpfs           380M  172K  380M   1% /run/user/1000
/dev/mmcblk0p4   19G   17G  2.1G  90% /media/linuxium/309476E59476ACCA
tmpfs           380M     0  380M   0% /run/user/0
linuxium@N42C-4:~$
linuxium@N42C-4:~$ lsblk -a
NAME         MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
loop0          7:0    0        0 loop 
loop1          7:1    0        0 loop 
loop2          7:2    0        0 loop 
loop3          7:3    0        0 loop 
loop4          7:4    0        0 loop 
loop5          7:5    0        0 loop 
loop6          7:6    0        0 loop 
loop7          7:7    0        0 loop 
mmcblk0      179:0    0 29.1G  0 disk 
├─mmcblk0p1  179:1    0  499M  0 part 
├─mmcblk0p2  179:2    0  100M  0 part /boot/efi
├─mmcblk0p3  179:3    0   16M  0 part 
├─mmcblk0p4  179:4    0 18.5G  0 part /media/linuxium/309476E59476ACCA
└─mmcblk0p5  179:5    0   10G  0 part /
mmcblk0boot0 179:8    0    4M  1 disk 
mmcblk0boot1 179:16   0    4M  1 disk 
mmcblk0rpmb  179:24   0    4M  0 disk 
linuxium@N42C-4:~$
linuxium@N42C-4:~$ sudo lshw -C cpu
  *-cpu
       description: CPU
       product: Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU N4200 @ 1.10GHz
       vendor: Intel Corp.
       physical id: 34
       bus info: cpu@0
       version: Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU N4200 @ 1.10GHz
       slot: SOCKET 0
       size: 2399MHz
       capacity: 2500MHz
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 100MHz
       capabilities: x86-64 fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp constant_tsc art arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology tsc_reliable nonstop_tsc aperfmperf tsc_known_freq pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 sdbg cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave rdrand lahf_lm 3dnowprefetch cat_l2 intel_pt tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid fsgsbase tsc_adjust smep erms mpx rdt_a rdseed smap clflushopt sha_ni xsaveopt xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves dtherm ida arat pln pts cpufreq
       configuration: cores=4 enabledcores=4 threads=4
linuxium@N42C-4:~$
linuxium@N42C-4:~$ sudo lshw -C memory
  *-firmware
       description: BIOS
       vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
       physical id: 0
       version: 5.12
       date: 11/14/2017
       size: 64KiB
       capacity: 5056KiB
       capabilities: pci upgrade shadowing cdboot bootselect socketedrom edd int13floppy1200 int13floppy720 int13floppy2880 int5printscreen int9keyboard int14serial int17printer acpi usb biosbootspecification uefi
  *-memory
       description: System Memory
       physical id: 2e
       slot: System board or motherboard
       size: 4GiB
     *-bank:0
          description: SODIMM DDR3 Synchronous 1600 MHz (0.6 ns)
          product: M471B5173EB0-YK0
          vendor: Samsung
          physical id: 0
          serial: 96537C8F
          slot: ChannelA-DIMM0
          size: 4GiB
          width: 64 bits
          clock: 1600MHz (0.6ns)
     *-bank:1
          description: DIMMProject-Id-Version: lshwReport-Msgid-Bugs-To: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>POT-Creation-Date: 2009-10-08 14:02+0200PO-Revision-Date: 2012-02-02 13:04+0000Last-Translator: Joel Addison <jaddi27@gmail.com>Language-Team: English (Australia) <en_AU@li.org>MIME-Version: 1.0Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bitX-Launchpad-Export-Date: 2017-04-04 11:54+0000X-Generator: Launchpad (build 18335) [empty]
          physical id: 1
          slot: ChannelB-DIMM0
  *-cache:0
       description: L1 cache
       physical id: 32
       slot: CPU Internal L1
       size: 224KiB
       capacity: 224KiB
       capabilities: synchronous internal write-back
       configuration: level=1
  *-cache:1
       description: L2 cache
       physical id: 33
       slot: CPU Internal L2
       size: 2MiB
       capacity: 2MiB
       capabilities: synchronous internal write-back unified
       configuration: level=2
linuxium@N42C-4:~$
linuxium@N42C-4:~$ free -mh
              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:           3.7G        573M        2.4G        158M        744M        2.8G
Swap:          472M          0B        472M
linuxium@N42C-4:~$
linuxium@N42C-4:~$ sudo lshw -C network
  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       logical name: enp1s0
       version: 07
       serial: a0:1e:0b:09:64:59
       size: 1Gbit/s
       capacity: 1Gbit/s
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=full firmware=rtl8168e-3_0.0.4 03/27/12 ip=XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=MII speed=1Gbit/s
       resources: irq:369 ioport:e000(size=256) memory:a1200000-a1200fff memory:c0000000-c0003fff
  *-network
       description: Wireless interface
       product: Intel Corporation
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
       logical name: wlp2s0
       version: 10
       serial: 5e:8e:91:6c:84:80
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlwifi driverversion=4.10.0-19-generic firmware=22.361476.0 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11
       resources: irq:373 memory:a1100000-a1101fff
linuxium@N42C-4:~$
linuxium@N42C-4:~$ dmesg | grep "MMC card"
[    2.456272] mmc0: new HS400 MMC card at address 0001
linuxium@N42C-4:~$
linuxium@N42C-4:~$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 8087:0aa7 Intel Corp. 
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 046d:c52b Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 10d5:55a4 Uni Class Technology Co., Ltd 
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 1a40:0101 Terminus Technology Inc. Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
linuxium@N42C-4:~$
linuxium@N42C-4:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Celeron N3350/Pentium N4200/Atom E3900 Series Host Bridge (rev 0b)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Celeron N3350/Pentium N4200/Atom E3900 Series Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0b)
00:0e.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Celeron N3350/Pentium N4200/Atom E3900 Series Audio Cluster (rev 0b)
00:0f.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Celeron N3350/Pentium N4200/Atom E3900 Series Trusted Execution Engine (rev 0b)
00:12.0 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Celeron N3350/Pentium N4200/Atom E3900 Series SATA AHCI Controller (rev 0b)
00:13.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Celeron N3350/Pentium N4200/Atom E3900 Series PCI Express Port A #2 (rev fb)
00:13.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Celeron N3350/Pentium N4200/Atom E3900 Series PCI Express Port A #3 (rev fb)
00:15.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Celeron N3350/Pentium N4200/Atom E3900 Series USB xHCI (rev 0b)
00:1c.0 SD Host controller: Intel Corporation Celeron N3350/Pentium N4200/Atom E3900 Series eMMC Controller (rev 0b)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Celeron N3350/Pentium N4200/Atom E3900 Series Low Pin Count Interface (rev 0b)
00:1f.1 SMBus: Intel Corporation Celeron N3350/Pentium N4200/Atom E3900 Series SMBus Controller (rev 0b)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 07)
02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Device 24fb (rev 10)
linuxium@N42C-4:~$

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linuxium@N42C-4:~$ lsb_release -a

Distributor ID: Ubuntu

Description: Ubuntu 17.04

Release: 17.04

Codename: zesty

linuxium@N42C-4:~$

linuxium@N42C-4:~$ uname -a

Linux N42C-4 4.10.0-19-generic #21-Ubuntu SMP Thu Apr 6 17:04:57 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

linuxium@N42C-4:~$

linuxium@N42C-4:~$ inxi -Fc0

System: Host: N42C-4 Kernel: 4.10.0-19-generic x86_64 (64 bit)

Desktop: N/A Distro: Ubuntu 17.04

Machine: Device: desktop Mobo: MINIX model: N42C-4 v: Default string serial: Default string

UEFI: American Megatrends v: 5.12 date: 11/14/2017

CPU: Quad core Intel Pentium N4200 (-MCP-) cache: 1024 KB

clock speeds: max: 2500 MHz 1: 897 MHz 2: 2394 MHz 3: 1333 MHz

4: 2319 MHz

Graphics: Card: Intel Celeron N3350/Pentium N4200/Atom E3900 Series Integrated Graphics Controller

Display Server: X.org 1.19.3 drivers: modesetting (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)

tty size: 204x62 Advanced Data: N/A for root

Audio: Card Intel Celeron N3350/Pentium N4200/Atom E3900 Series Audio Cluster

driver: snd_hda_intel

Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.10.0-19-generic

Network: Card-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller

driver: r8169

IF: enp1s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full

mac: a0:1e:0b:09:64:59

Card-2: Intel Device 24fb driver: iwlwifi

IF: wlp2s0 state: down mac: 5e:8e:91:6c:84:80

Drives: HDD Total Size: NA (-)

ID-1: /dev/mmcblk0 model: N/A size: 31.3GB

Partition: ID-1: / size: 9.8G used: 5.8G (62%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/mmcblk0p5

RAID: No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present

Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 47.0C mobo: N/A

Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A

Info: Processes: 212 Uptime: 7 min Memory: 633.4/3796.5MB

Client: Shell (review-tests.sh) inxi: 2.3.8

linuxium@N42C-4:~$

linuxium@N42C-4:~$ df -h

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on

udev 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /dev

tmpfs 380M 6.3M 374M 2% /run

/dev/mmcblk0p5 9.8G 5.8G 3.6G 62% /

tmpfs 1.9G 12K 1.9G 1% /dev/shm

tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock

tmpfs 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup

/dev/mmcblk0p2 96M 74M 23M 77% /boot/efi

tmpfs 380M 172K 380M 1% /run/user/1000

/dev/mmcblk0p4 19G 17G 2.1G 90% /media/linuxium/309476E59476ACCA

tmpfs 380M 0 380M 0% /run/user/0

linuxium@N42C-4:~$

linuxium@N42C-4:~$ lsblk -a

NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT

loop0 7:0 0 0 loop

loop1 7:1 0 0 loop

loop2 7:2 0 0 loop

loop3 7:3 0 0 loop

loop4 7:4 0 0 loop

loop5 7:5 0 0 loop

loop6 7:6 0 0 loop

loop7 7:7 0 0 loop

mmcblk0 179:0 0 29.1G 0 disk

├─mmcblk0p1 179:1 0 499M 0 part

├─mmcblk0p2 179:2 0 100M 0 part /boot/efi

├─mmcblk0p3 179:3 0 16M 0 part

├─mmcblk0p4 179:4 0 18.5G 0 part /media/linuxium/309476E59476ACCA

└─mmcblk0p5 179:5 0 10G 0 part /

mmcblk0boot0 179:8 0 4M 1 disk

mmcblk0boot1 179:16 0 4M 1 disk

mmcblk0rpmb 179:24 0 4M 0 disk

linuxium@N42C-4:~$

linuxium@N42C-4:~$ sudo lshw -C cpu

*-cpu

description: CPU

product: Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU N4200 @ 1.10GHz

vendor: Intel Corp.

physical id: 34

bus info: cpu@0

version: Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU N4200 @ 1.10GHz

slot: SOCKET 0

size: 2399MHz

capacity: 2500MHz

width: 64 bits

clock: 100MHz

capabilities: x86-64 fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp constant_tsc art arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology tsc_reliable nonstop_tsc aperfmperf tsc_known_freq pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 sdbg cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave rdrand lahf_lm 3dnowprefetch cat_l2 intel_pt tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid fsgsbase tsc_adjust smep erms mpx rdt_a rdseed smap clflushopt sha_ni xsaveopt xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves dtherm ida arat pln pts cpufreq

configuration: cores=4 enabledcores=4 threads=4

linuxium@N42C-4:~$

linuxium@N42C-4:~$ sudo lshw -C memory

*-firmware

description: BIOS

vendor: American Megatrends Inc.

physical id: 0

version: 5.12

date: 11/14/2017

size: 64KiB

capacity: 5056KiB

capabilities: pci upgrade shadowing cdboot bootselect socketedrom edd int13floppy1200 int13floppy720 int13floppy2880 int5printscreen int9keyboard int14serial int17printer acpi usb biosbootspecification uefi

*-memory

description: System Memory

physical id: 2e

slot: System board or motherboard

size: 4GiB

*-bank:0

description: SODIMM DDR3 Synchronous 1600 MHz (0.6 ns)

product: M471B5173EB0-YK0

vendor: Samsung

physical id: 0

serial: 96537C8F

slot: ChannelA-DIMM0

size: 4GiB

width: 64 bits

clock: 1600MHz (0.6ns)

*-bank:1

description: DIMMProject-Id-Version: lshwReport-Msgid-Bugs-To: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>POT-Creation-Date: 2009-10-08 14:02+0200PO-Revision-Date: 2012-02-02 13:04+0000Last-Translator: Joel Addison <jaddi27@gmail.com>Language-Team: English (Australia) <en_AU@li.org>MIME-Version: 1.0Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bitX-Launchpad-Export-Date: 2017-04-04 11:54+0000X-Generator: Launchpad (build 18335) [empty]

physical id: 1

slot: ChannelB-DIMM0

*-cache:0

description: L1 cache

physical id: 32

slot: CPU Internal L1

size: 224KiB

capacity: 224KiB

capabilities: synchronous internal write-back

configuration: level=1

*-cache:1

description: L2 cache

physical id: 33

slot: CPU Internal L2

size: 2MiB

capacity: 2MiB

capabilities: synchronous internal write-back unified

configuration: level=2

linuxium@N42C-4:~$

linuxium@N42C-4:~$ free -mh

total used free shared buff/cache available

Mem: 3.7G 573M 2.4G 158M 744M 2.8G

Swap: 472M 0B 472M

linuxium@N42C-4:~$

linuxium@N42C-4:~$ sudo lshw -C network

*-network

description: Ethernet interface

product: RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller

vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.

physical id: 0

bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0

logical name: enp1s0

version: 07

serial: a0:1e:0b:09:64:59

size: 1Gbit/s

capacity: 1Gbit/s

width: 64 bits

clock: 33MHz

capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation

configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=full firmware=rtl8168e-3_0.0.4 03/27/12 ip=XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=MII speed=1Gbit/s

resources: irq:369 ioport:e000(size=256) memory:a1200000-a1200fff memory:c0000000-c0003fff

*-network

description: Wireless interface

product: Intel Corporation

vendor: Intel Corporation

physical id: 0

bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0

logical name: wlp2s0

version: 10

serial: 5e:8e:91:6c:84:80

width: 64 bits

clock: 33MHz

capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless

configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlwifi driverversion=4.10.0-19-generic firmware=22.361476.0 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11

resources: irq:373 memory:a1100000-a1101fff

linuxium@N42C-4:~$

linuxium@N42C-4:~$ dmesg | grep "MMC card"

[ 2.456272] mmc0: new HS400 MMC card at address 0001

linuxium@N42C-4:~$

linuxium@N42C-4:~$ lsusb

Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub

Bus 001 Device 003: ID 8087:0aa7 Intel Corp.

Bus 001 Device 005: ID 046d:c52b Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver

Bus 001 Device 004: ID 10d5:55a4 Uni Class Technology Co., Ltd

Bus 001 Device 002: ID 1a40:0101 Terminus Technology Inc. Hub

Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

linuxium@N42C-4:~$

linuxium@N42C-4:~$ lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Celeron N3350/Pentium N4200/Atom E3900 Series Host Bridge (rev 0b)

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Celeron N3350/Pentium N4200/Atom E3900 Series Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0b)

00:0e.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Celeron N3350/Pentium N4200/Atom E3900 Series Audio Cluster (rev 0b)

00:0f.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Celeron N3350/Pentium N4200/Atom E3900 Series Trusted Execution Engine (rev 0b)

00:12.0 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Celeron N3350/Pentium N4200/Atom E3900 Series SATA AHCI Controller (rev 0b)

00:13.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Celeron N3350/Pentium N4200/Atom E3900 Series PCI Express Port A #2 (rev fb)

00:13.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Celeron N3350/Pentium N4200/Atom E3900 Series PCI Express Port A #3 (rev fb)

00:15.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Celeron N3350/Pentium N4200/Atom E3900 Series USB xHCI (rev 0b)

00:1c.0 SD Host controller: Intel Corporation Celeron N3350/Pentium N4200/Atom E3900 Series eMMC Controller (rev 0b)

00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Celeron N3350/Pentium N4200/Atom E3900 Series Low Pin Count Interface (rev 0b)

00:1f.1 SMBus: Intel Corporation Celeron N3350/Pentium N4200/Atom E3900 Series SMBus Controller (rev 0b)

01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 07)

02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Device 24fb (rev 10)

linuxium@N42C-4:~$

This shows the memory will be dual-channel once the second slot (bank:1) is populated and also confirms that the eMMC 5.1 (mmc0) is running […]

So this week, there’s been a fair amount of news about Meltdown & Spectre exploits, which affects all major processor vendors one way or another, but especially Intel, and whose mitigations require operating systems and in some case microcode updates that decrease performance for some specific tasks. Microsoft has now pushed an update for Windows 10, and since I’m reviewing MINIX NEO N42C-4 mini PC powered by an Intel Pentium N4200 “Apollo Lake” processor, and just happened to run benchmarks before the update, so I decided to run some of the benchmarks again to see if there was any significant difference before and after the security update. First I had to verify I had indeed received the update in the “installed update history”, and Windows 10 Pro was updated on January 5th with KB4056892, which is what we want, so let’s go ahead. Benchmarks before Update PCMark 10 is one […]