On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 10:02:15PM -0700, AndrewDB wrote: > For what it's worth, I fully support Luc's actions to document Allwinner's > GPL violations. > > I also believe it is in Allwinner's interest to fully comply with the GPL > and that it's a pity that they don't understand this. How many (extremely > expensive) engineer-hours has this community generously contributed to > firmware/software development on Allwinner SOCs? I am positive that > Allwinner's present market share is in good part the result of this > community's work (although this assertion is impossible to prove), so why > not help this community by not having to reverse-engineer so many things? > > And finally, last but not least, I firmly believe that it is in the > interest of this community to have Allwinner fully comply with the GPL and > freely provide as much documentation as possible. So we should all stand > behind Luc and not be indifferent or worse, critical of his actions. > > Let me explain briefly where I am coming from: > - First developer to have Linux booting on a dual-core Cortex-A9 AML8726MX > tablet. Tried in vain to get any response from Amlogic about cooperation > with the Linux development community. Dropped development on this platform > because of total lack of support from Amlogic. Apparently in the last few > months they have been trying to reverse this situation, but I would say > it's too little, too late.
FWIW I'm working on mainlining amlogic SoCs and several patches have been already submitted to LKML for Meson6 and Meson8 architectures. I'm in contact with a couple of engineers in Amlogic and they seem willing to help the community. They also promised to provide me with all the documentation I need. We will see. -- Carlo Caione -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
