MCU2 - Retrofit

[Mobster]

My X developed yellow border for the second time and a mobile technician brought a brand new MCU/LCD assembly, took out my MCU/LCD, swapped LCD from the unit he brought and put back my old MCU with the replaced LCD in about 60 min. Swapping units does not take that long. I was told configuring a new MCU takes much longer than physical install.

My S got the "yellow border" problem a while back. Local service says "Waiting for parts and do not have any Estimated Receival Date". sigh...it has been weeks and their emails seem to indicate they are swamped and have higher priority fixes. They make a point of telling me this does not affect the operation of the car. Ok, I agree. I love the car. On my second Tesla since 2013 and it is hard to get used to this new "level of service" after being spoiled. I can wait. Just jealous of the areas that have mobile service and they still experience the high level of attention we had for so many years.

 

[viper2ko]

Latest software update has the tesla atari driving game and usb controller support only going to mcu2 cars. I think we will start to see a clear breakoff of features from this point

 

[Asterix187]

ARGH I noticed I didn't have the driving game today but thought it was an M3 thing only as all the vids are on an M3.

 

[viper2ko]

ARGH I noticed I didn't have the driving game today but thought it was an M3 thing only as all the vids are on an M3.

Yup all model 3s and mcu2 cars have ut. If MCU1 cant even handle this crappy game how is it going to handle all the future updates elon talks about. V10, netflix, youtube

 

[limo]

Yup all model 3s and mcu2 cars have ut. If MCU1 cant even handle this crappy game how is it going to handle all the future updates elon talks about. V10, netflix, youtube

As long as I got my fart noises, I'm good.

<\sarcasm>

 

[verygreen]

Latest software update has the tesla atari driving game and usb controller support only going to mcu2 cars. I think we will start to see a clear breakoff of features from this point

the ROM is there in the firmware even for mcu1 cars though. I don't know why they decided to make that distinction. At first I suspected the rom just did not fit in the space available, but nope (since it's already included).

 

[verygreen]

Hm, pole position has this weird comment in the ini file:

# pole position is more resource intensive than the other games which causes audio artifacts
sound none

 

[HankLloydRight]

netflix, youtube

Wait what? Who said anything about Netflix or Youtube on the MCU?

 

[viper2ko]

Wait what? Who said anything about Netflix or Youtube on the MCU?

Elon mentioned they want it in the next v10

 

[MP3Mike]

Elon mentioned they want it in the next v10

For while Supercharging.

 

[MikeBur]

Hm, pole position has this weird comment in the ini file:

# pole position is more resource intensive than the other games which causes audio artifacts
sound none

Unsurprising. afaik everything is emulated via the Tegra 3 ARM cores. The audio was pretty sophisticated on original pp cabinets for the time. Unsure, though hoping, the Tesla emulator is using ogles to do the final blit. Though if not that might be an easy way to gain cycles back for the cpu.
Unsure which emulator TM are using, though there are a few tips here: FAQ:Performance - MAMEDEV Wiki. Would be interesting to see if keyboard works instead of usb controller and press F8/F9 and see if that works... or just enable in emulator ini file

 

[arcus]

Hm, pole position has this weird comment in the ini file:

# pole position is more resource intensive than the other games which causes audio artifacts
sound none

Strange, was working just fine on my 64 KB Atari 65 XE some 20+ years ago

 

[verygreen]

Strange, was working just fine on my 64 KB Atari 65 XE some 20+ years ago

But was your Atari doing a bunch of other parallel tasks while running that game?

 

[Snowstorm]

I don’t think Tesla will branch out MCU2 vs MCU1 software in terms of capability now, the Atari game seems too trivial to stir the pot like that. It is likely that they way to rush this out before Christmas and will need to do more optimization to allow for MCU1 eventually.

Or I am just being optimistic.

 

[arcus]

But was your Atari doing a bunch of other parallel tasks while running that game?

The MCU is not doing much when vehicle is stationary, I presume.

 

[KyleDay]

The MCU is not doing much when vehicle is stationary, I presume.

The tasks are literally the same whether driving or not. @verygreen knows well

 

[viper2ko]

Look at all these great features released in V10. A nice list of things MCU1 won't support

 

[Trebek1762]

No doubt. Best thing to do is not watch the vids and just be happy with what we get... first world problems...

My wish is that Tesla would upgrade those of us that purchased a car built from 1/1/18 to 2/28/18 to an MCU2. Quick and easy time period.

 

[BigD0g]

No doubt. Best thing to do is not watch the vids and just be happy with what we get... first world problems...

My wish is that Tesla would upgrade those of us that purchased a car built from 1/1/18 to 2/28/18 to an MCU2. Quick and easy time period.

That seems like a very arbitrary date? Why not everyone with MCU1 as MCU2 can retrofitted on any MCU1, regardless of date manf. date.

 

[Trebek1762]

That seems like a very arbitrary date? Why not everyone with MCU1 as MCU2 can retrofitted on any MCU1, regardless of date manf. date.

Oh you're exactly right, it is completely arbitrary. I'm just blowing off steam. Just hard to not lust over the upgrades MCU1 autos won't get.

No doubt I wish they would do it to any / all MCU1 cars.