Re: [linux-sunxi] Re: Allwinner joins Linaro Digital Home Group, commits to open source chip support

2014-07-15 Thread Luc Verhaegen
On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 03:36:23PM +0100, Luc Verhaegen wrote: Time will tell. Luc Verhaegen. Luc Verhaegen. -- 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

[linux-sunxi] Re: Allwinner joins Linaro Digital Home Group, commits to open source chip support

2014-03-06 Thread Stefan Monnier
lawsuits. But in the last year or two both Intel and AMD have overcome this fear and open sourced their GPU implementations. Make it in the last ten years. Publicly available datasheets and app notes for the TI chip contain more useful info than what I got out of the NDA loving company. Why

Re: [linux-sunxi] Re: Allwinner joins Linaro Digital Home Group, commits to open source chip support

2014-03-05 Thread jonsm...@gmail.com
On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 6:45 AM, Luc Verhaegen l...@skynet.be wrote: On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 07:46:21PM -0500, jonsm...@gmail.com wrote: Videos of the announcement here... http://www.linaro.org/linaro-blog/2014/03/03/linaro-connect-asia-2014-kicks-off-in-macau/

Re: [linux-sunxi] Re: Allwinner joins Linaro Digital Home Group, commits to open source chip support

2014-03-05 Thread Luc Verhaegen
On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 09:22:45AM -0500, jonsm...@gmail.com wrote: I think you are misreading this. Allwinnner is trying to increase their appeal in Western markets. Joining Linaro will increase these Western ties. Big companies that have already made it send fluff engineers, not small

Re: [linux-sunxi] Re: Allwinner joins Linaro Digital Home Group, commits to open source chip support

2014-03-05 Thread Craig Whitcombe
What does this mean for the laymen? Will allwinner provide cedarx source code? Will allwinner release enough information that essentially linux distros (xbmclinux) can easiliy be created for allwinner based STBs and android sticks? (im thinking Mele M9 here!) Thanks, Craig On Wednesday, 5

Re: [linux-sunxi] Re: Allwinner joins Linaro Digital Home Group, commits to open source chip support

2014-03-05 Thread Dmitriy B.
For quite a few of the linaro member companies, this is really just another consortium. They dispatch some fluff engineers that are usually not too useful anywhere else, and then pat themselves on the back that they are now actively doing the open source thing as well. Linaro is completely

Re: [linux-sunxi] Re: Allwinner joins Linaro Digital Home Group, commits to open source chip support

2014-03-05 Thread jonsm...@gmail.com
On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Dmitriy B. rzk...@gmail.com wrote: Besides, why can't linux-sunxi cooperate with the Linaro people? Everything Linaro does is on open mailing lists and servers Because its not. Try to find reference manuals for latest Exynos, HiSilicon K3V2 and other Linaro

Re: [linux-sunxi] Re: Allwinner joins Linaro Digital Home Group, commits to open source chip support

2014-03-05 Thread jonsm...@gmail.com
On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Dmitriy B. rzk...@gmail.com wrote: That is not in the category of what Linaro does. The code written at Linaro is open and open lists discuss it. How do I discuss it when I cant even run it? It is the vendor pushing those NDAs, not Linaro. Joining Linaro

Re: [linux-sunxi] Re: Allwinner joins Linaro Digital Home Group, commits to open source chip support

2014-03-04 Thread Yousong Zhou
On 5 March 2014 00:10, jonsm...@gmail.com jonsm...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 3:12 AM, Yousong Zhou yszhou4t...@gmail.com wrote: On 4 March 2014 08:46, jonsm...@gmail.com jonsm...@gmail.com wrote: Let's hope this translates to full corporate support for upstreaming to mainline.

[linux-sunxi] Re: Allwinner joins Linaro Digital Home Group, commits to open source chip support

2014-03-03 Thread jonsm...@gmail.com
Videos of the announcement here... http://www.linaro.org/linaro-blog/2014/03/03/linaro-connect-asia-2014-kicks-off-in-macau/ http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/allwinner-joins-linaro-as-a-founding-member-of-the-linaro-digital-home-group-248195871.html Let's hope this translates to full