On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 2:12 PM, Simos Xenitellis < simos.li...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 3:01 AM, Marius Cirsta <mfor...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >>> Indeed , my guess is that info will be available soon on this R8 but I >> guess these guys spilled the beans early. I also do wonder if it will still >> have the Mali400. >> >> As for the board itself , let's see if they deliver and how they'll >> cooperate with linux-sunxi. If it is indeed a sham than there will be a lot >> of pissed people. >> > > I think they had to give details about the SoC since they are doing the > campaign on Kickstarter. > It looks like their campaign will surpass $1m and there will be a lot of > interest to get things done. > > Tsvetan mentioned in a prior blog post that Allwinner was OK to make a > batch of at least 50K A10 SoCs, if requested ( > https://olimex.wordpress.com/2015/04/07/how-50-000-a10-socs-from-allwinner-looks-like/). > The C.H.I.P. campaign so far has pledges for about 23K R8 SoCs and it is > bound to go much higher than that. > > Whether the R8 will be available outside the C.H.I.P. campaign, remains to > be seen. With the RPi, it appears there was no exclusivity with Broadcom on > paper but the RPi Foundation might have requested anyway from Broadcom not > to sell the SoC to Hardkernel ( > http://slated.org/the_curious_case_of_raspberry_pi_consumerism). > It does not look like the campaigners for C.H.I.P. are the types to > request exclusivity for the R8. For example, see their website at > http://nextthing.co > > The "KERNEL HACKERS ONLY" pledge was already taken by 606 backers (est > delivery: Sept 2015). Most probably these people will be joining this list > to get mainline support for the device. > Again, checking the campaigner's website at http://nextthing.co/ shows > that they do not even have yet a forum or mailing list for their existing > products. > > I think it is up to actions happening here, whether the whole thing will > be beneficial to the linux-sunxi community. > Personally, I am inclined to contact them. > > In terms of contacting the CHIP team, they have a subreddit at https://www.reddit.com/r/ChipCommunity/ There is a discussion for unanswered questions (age: 4h) at https://www.reddit.com/r/ChipCommunity/comments/36ldau/unanswered_questions/ Simos -- 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.
