On 21 June 2019 17:13:02 GMT-04:00, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <l...@lkcl.net> wrote: >On Saturday, June 22, 2019, Stefan Monnier <monn...@iro.umontreal.ca> >wrote: > >> > When someone works out the darn fex file. >> >> Nowadays, you should just use a mainline linux kernel (with DT) >rather >> than the old Allwinner kernel (with FEX). Of course, that just >shifts >> the problem to "someone works out the darn DT file", but at least >it's >> much better supported > > >> >Full hardware support still is not complete. Also I simply do not have >the >time to redo months of work. > >Any time I spend now basically means I get zero money from NLNet as the >donations from them are based on *milestone* completion, *not* on "time >spent". > >4 weeks on OS rework equals ZERO PAYMENT from NLNet for that entire >time. > > (and there's even an upcoming patch for that >> vanilla kernel which can finally lift the write speed limit on SATA >from >> 50MB/s to 150MB/s or so). > > >Reason why 3.4.104+ has to be shipped was explained 18 or so months >ago.
Indeed. We have a working set of software. After shipping, motivated community members can look at upgrading to mainline. It's still libre software after all :). > >Entire OSes need to be redone otherwise. > >L. > > > >-- >--- >crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 >_______________________________________________ >arm-netbook mailing list arm-netbook@lists.phcomp.co.uk >http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook >Send large attachments to arm-netb...@files.phcomp.co.uk _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list arm-netbook@lists.phcomp.co.uk http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to arm-netb...@files.phcomp.co.uk