On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 10:14 AM, Michal Suchanek <hramr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 16 June 2015 at 10:09, Carlo Caione <ca...@caione.org> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 3:52 PM, 'Simos Xenitellis' via linux-sunxi
>> <linux-sunxi@googlegroups.com> wrote:
>>> What the RPi and ODroid do really well, is that they have a great
>>> active community,
>>> and that includes support even in non-technical levels.
>>> Even the ODROID-C1 does not fully support yet the mainline Linux kernel,
>>> http://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?f=111&t=8288
>>> but the person working at the forum is there to answer honestly with
>>> "Because the C1 Kernel had been heavily customized too much by SoC
>>> vendor, it is not easy to port the mainline kernel.
>>> If you really want to run the mainline Kernel, do NOT buy our C1
>>> board. Sorry about that."
>>> With such an honest answer, I would go buy an ODROID-C1.
>>
>> Well, it was the same a couple of years ago for Allwinner, so I don't
>> know why discouraging people to try to mainline the Amlogic SoCs.
>> Amlogic SDK is a pain in the ass, but at least Amlogic is _extremely_
>> responsive (not at all like Allwinner, at the beginning at least) and
>> usually the engineers are willing to provide datasheets and
>> information (they wrote a datasheet from scratch just for me when I
>> asked for some more info on clock trees).
>>
>
> Last time I looked I had to sign a NDA to access the SDK so that's a
> no-go for me.

this one? http://openlinux.amlogic.com:8000/download/ARM/kernel/

-- 
Carlo Caione

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