With this kind of projects you should always wait and see before endorsing.
When it comes out we should make a judgment by installing a completely free
OS and seeing what works.
That said, the AllWinner processor (SoC) uses the Mali-400 GPU, which is
known to be problematic, as it
(I'm at work with limited time to search the forum so I apologize if this has
been answered before.)
CHIP looks really cool and I like the PDA-style device it attaches to but
I'm concerned about this for two reasons:
1) Is there any need for non-free software to run this device? I'm sick
Allwinner does have a checkered past and I generally twitch when I see the
term open source used so many times. I have serous doubts about this
project. Its also clear it comes loaded with lots of blobs and access to even
more non-free bits. Whether all that could be removed and replaced
