Hi Jernej, [ Dropping Greg and linux-...@vger.kernel.org ]
> Dne sobota, 24. julij 2021 ob 16:22:16 CEST je Petr Vorel napisal(a): > > Hi Greg, > > > On Sat, Jul 24, 2021 at 03:41:42PM +0200, Petr Vorel wrote: > > > > > Why is this even a driver at all, it looks like you can write a small > > > > > userspace program using libusb to do everything it does, right? What > > > > > exactly is this driver needed for? > > > > I'm sorry for not providing more info at the beginning. This is a driver > > > > for host computer (i.e. developers laptop) used by LiveSuit tool [2] to > > > > flash Images to the NAND of Allwinner devices. LiveSuit itself [3] is > > > > unfortunately provided only in binary form. The only open source code > > > > with GPL v2 license is awusb driver. Thus I thought I could ease my > > > > life with upstreaming at least the kernel driver. But maybe it's not a > > > > good idea. I'm using LiveSuit for flashing Allwinner A31, but it > > > > requires quite old distro due libqtgui4. Maybe sunxi folks use > > > > something newer nowadays, but I haven't found anything in their wiki.> > > > Ah, that's not going to be good then. Really, this doesn't seem to need > > > to be a driver at all, and the ioctls are really strange so we would > > > need to change them anyway before it could be merged. But with no > > > access to userspace code, that will be quite difficult, so I would push > > > back on allwinner and have them work on resolving this. > > Understand, it makes sense. Thanks for your time! > > @Sunxi community: am I missing something? Using LiveSuit with old distro > > chroot and Xephyr with out-of-tree module isn't fun :(. > Community is mostly concerned with mainline kernel nowadays and thus with > standard tools. Few people still use vendor (BSP) kernel and most of those > use > it without LiveSuit (like custom distro images). Understand. LiveSuit is for me a way back to original firmware. Kind regards, Petr > Now and then people ask about LiveSuit on IRC, but they usually get little > response. > Best regards, > Jernej -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "linux-sunxi" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to linux-sunxi+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/linux-sunxi/YPxD4J3u2jo319JY%40pevik.
