On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 05:39:47PM +0300, Artturi Alm wrote: > On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 02:44:29PM +1000, Jonathan Gray wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 04:21:39AM +0000, Karl Hammerschmidt wrote: > > > Is anyone else interested in their boards? > > > > > > They were very willing to provide extra documentation when asked, > > > including a schematic for one of their LCD drivers and an unpublished > > > datasheet for the AXP228 PMIC used on some of their boards. They also > > > offered free boards to the FreeBSD guys several months ago, but there > > > were no replies. > > > > > > It would be a different SoC, though (Allwinner H3, Samsung 4412, 4418, > > > 6818). On a positive note, I haven't found any mention yet of closed > > > binaries like the ODRIOD C1. (Doesn't mean there aren't any, and I'm > > > still looking...) > > > > > > > The focus is on the cubox i4pro and to a lesser extent the beaglebone > > black. Boards that aren't included in the main u-boot repository > > are unlikely to support the bootloader which requires efi. > > > > Wondering about how i should interpret that; i got yet another board with SoC > by Allwinner/sunxi(Pine64+) waiting at the post office for pickup, that i had > already began writing the support for(CortexA53) into armv7. Wasted effort?
No, but probably they want to focus their efforts on something more generic like the toolchain instead of specific boards. ARMv7 really needs hardfp, anything with crypto involved is quite slow. If you want work with Allwinner CPUs, the pmap could use an update from NetBSD. The support for A20 is broken, maybe other newer CPUs will have similar problems. -- Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado http://juanfra.info
