On 16 June 2015 at 10:16, Carlo Caione <carlo.cai...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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/
Maybe things have changed since then. When it was big news that Amlogic set up a developer community site I looked at it and I was required to register to access anything and had to sign a NDA to register. If they fixed the NDA thing then that's a good news. Some of the Amlogic chips look good spec-wise. Thanks Michal -- 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.
