On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 12:26:19PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Wed, 11 Oct 2017 21:44:14 -0500 > Nate Bargmann <n...@n0nb.us> wrote: > > > I just received a Olimex OLinuXino MICRO (A20) board yesterday and > > have been playing with it. It works just fine with the Olimex > > provided Debian Jessie. > > Danger Will Robinson! > > My research shows that Olimex OLinuXino MICRO (A20) has an Allwinner > bios, and any web search shows clearly that Allwinner is a serial GPL > violator.
Allwinner the company indeed doesn't care the slightest about providing drivers or obeying GPL -- they provide blobby ancient kernels which are then used by vendors of some Android junk. But, there's a bunch of individuals who write mainline drivers and DTs for Allwinner SoCs, and, especially recently, do some great work here. This work is in some areas quite incomplete, but the situation is better than typically in the ARM world. Rule of thumb 1: "consumer" tablets/etc bad, developer boards good. Rule of thumb 2: a near-mainline tree works if and only if it was pushed by Icenowy. Somehow, an almost identical tree pushed by others always fails to do what it's supposed to fix (be it USB, -emac, -dwmac, etc) while her tree works perfectly. Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ We domesticated dogs 36000 years ago; together we chased ⣾⠁⢰⠒⠀⣿⡁ animals, hung out and licked or scratched our private parts. ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ Cats domesticated us 9500 years ago, and immediately we got ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ agriculture, towns then cities. -- whitroth on /. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
