"The Manifold is a high-performance embedded computer specially designed for the DJI Onboard SDK. It enables developers to transform aerial platforms into truly intelligent flying robots that can perform complex computing tasks and advanced image processing literally on the fly.

With the NVIDIA Tegra K1's 4-Plus-1 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A15 Processor and 192 GPU CUDA cores with clock speeds of up to 2.2 GHz, the Manifold allows you to take off with the world's most advanced mobile processors. The GPU cores provide powerful image processing abilities, efficient parallel computing, and a blazing fast throughput of 326 GFLOPS. Now you can design more intelligent applications that unlock the full potential of your aerial platforms in whole new ways.

The Manifold packs the processing power of a PC graphics card and supports DirectX and OpenGL, enabling your aerial platform to process high resolution images in real time. It can be deployed for use in artificial intelligence applications such as computer vision and deep learning. ...

... Designed for developers, the Manifold's built-in Ubuntu operating system supports CUDA, OpenCV and ROS. It is ideal for research and development of professional applications. ...

... The Manifold is optimized for power efficiency with a peak power consumption of approximately 15 W, or one fourth of that of a typical laptop. The Manifold's Tegra CPU uses four A15 cores for heavy computing tasks, and a single battery-saver core when performing simple calculations. The number of active cores can be dynamically adjusted to decrease power consumption, and the extra core will automatically be activated when needed." Manifold

Manifold Specs

"... Der Mini-Rechner Manifold kostet 550 Euro, der Quadrocopter Matrice 100 kostet 3600 Euro und das Erkennungssystem Guidance nochmal 1100 Euro. ..." Manifold: Bordrechner für die Entwicklerdrohne DJI Matrice 100

"CUDA, which stands for Compute Unified Device Architecture, is a parallel computing platform and application programming interface (API) model created by NVIDIA. ..." CUDA

Well, I'm no fan of NVIDIA but this is another example (see pcDuino3 and Espresso also), where Amiga has to become better than that. Sorry guys, it's (perhaps) kinda all or nothing - a hobby OS or another at best average computer is not enough. (imho)

@KingKong

You have read what processor Manifold uses?

A special secure maintanance mode could be a good idea for a comuter/OS. The maintanance mode should only be reached/activated per clean reboot via a special (optional password secured) boot manager option and perhaps one must even activate an hardware switch (optional, the switch can be always on).

In the maintanance mode one could do everthing what's possible, it's like an admin account. There could be some (optional) security measures like no internet connection and special secure/mature drivers.

In normal mode you can use the computer like an normal unprivileged user. What one can do in normal mode and what not could be configurable in the maintanance mode. If you like, you can do in normal mode everthing like in the maintanance mode but the idea is, to make the normal mode more restricted and secure. For instance one could not change OS-files in normal mode and normal programs could also be protected if they are installed in a special directory. For updates or installation of new programs one has to go in the maintanance mode first (the installation/update files should be downloaded to harddisk in normal mode and then rechecked in maintanance mode).

There could be additional features like a WORM partition for backup. In normal mode one can only write new files to the backup partition and read all files - if you want to delete some old files or defragment the partition you have to enter the maintanance mode.

That's a relative easy method to secure a system. It could be done very secure, so it's nearly impossible to obtain privileged rights in normal mode, because there is simply no way. Loopholes are only bugs in the OS (or in the chip microcode, firmware, BIOS, ... so beware) but a verified microkernel should be able to secure a special OS partition with a clean directory structure. Of cource all basic OS changes and configurations can only be done in the maintanance mode.

This is not only simple and secure, it is also very easy to use: if you can't do something in normal mode, just reboot in the maintanance mode. Apart from different privileges/possibilities the usage is in both modes the same. Naturally these modes should be discernible at one glance, for instance with a different (configurable) backgroundcolour and a (configurable, optional) backgroundmessage (like "maintanance mode"). (all imho)

PS: geniale Lösung: ein spezieller Wartungsmodus ... (different text in German with additional links)

@KingKong

It really comes down to this.
If the platform is too expensive to buy in/use, no one is going to give a rats nutsack about how it works or what it does, support will be small or along with only the wealthy. The smaller the userbase, the slower the development due to the less funds coming in.
To be a peoples OS which is sucessful, the cost of ownership needs to be small and the useability high.
You are competing with Linux these days which has had a big start. Sure, you may have a great idea about a protected OS in Maintenance mode but if it only runs on an underpowerd $3000 USD motherboard, I guarantee right now, $50 bet up front, that it goes no where.
The majority of programmers and every day people are not going to buy in. They can't or, they get so much more value for money elsewhere that it's stupid to do it.

It is far easier to get a dolar out of a million people than it is to get a milion dolars out of one.

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KingKong wrote: A special secure maintanance mode could be a good idea for a comuter/OS. The maintanance mode should only be reached/activated per clean reboot via a special (optional password secured) boot manager option and perhaps one must even activate an hardware switch (optional, the switch can be always on). In the maintanance mode one could do everthing what's possible, it's like an admin account. There could be some (optional) security measures like no internet connection and special secure/mature drivers.

And what would be so special bout this ? (hint has been part of mainstrem OSes for decades).

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