On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 9:22 PM, Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de> wrote: > On Thursday 06 June 2013, Maxime Ripard wrote: >> So yes, Allwinner has an evil vendor tree (c), with a solution similar yet >> inferior (because not generic enough) to the device tree, but they show >> interest on going down the mainline road. > > Right, and of course there is nothing special about that, everybody starts > out with they own even vendor tree (c), and as hardware support gets merged > upstream, the diff gets smaller, even though the code in the mainline > kernel is normally very different from what they started out with.
*sigh* except if that idiot manager [whom we're keenly aware of] orders them to delete absolutely everything (find . -name '*sunxi*' | xargs git rm) and overwrite it with their internally-managed tree, causing absolute mayhem in the process... > Chances are actually that the Allwinner (A10/A13/A20, not A31) platform may > end up being the first modern one that is fully supported upstream including > a GPU driver, since it is one of the obvious targets for the > reverse-engineering efforts. yes. http://libv.livejournal.com/24735.html > Ironically (given NVIDIA's reputation), the > Tegra platform is the strongest competitor I see in that race at the moment. at $7.50 for a dual-core processor, and i am *not* going to tell you the quad-core price, i don't believe it can be considered to be a race, or even a competition. they're *OUT*, man. really. oh wait - did you mean for "1st to have fully supported upstream GPU driver"? that would be veery nice. > For all I can tell, things are progressing nicely, given that it's currently > a volunteer effort. If anyone needs things to move faster, I'd recommend > them to send money to free-electrons.com. i'll put that on the list of recommendations, but - again - i need a list of clear benefits and returns as to why that should happen. l. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAPweEDyfrA9z55Yqt8jC8j=e=g_gah_fa0xrolxexajwqxn...@mail.gmail.com
