On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 07:53:08PM +0200, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado wrote: > 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 including a schematic for one of their LCD drivers and an unpublished 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. >
probably so. > 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. > imo there's enough difference, that just fixing/cleaning current pmap should be easier than 'updating'. And yes, I'm aware, and i made the (CortexA53) remark on purpose, had i not noticed just a few hours before writing the mail that my pine64 had just arrived, i would of have written the mail about wasting effort on fixes beyond what is rotting on arm@ already for CortexA7, the predecessor of A53 instead.. -Artturi > -- > Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado http://juanfra.info >
