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On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 11:35 AM, Paul Boddie <[email protected]> wrote: > On Friday 27. May 2016 01.08.19 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >> >> On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 11:35 PM, Paul Boddie <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > I'm sure it'll happen eventually. With the recent bad publicity around >> > their kernel code, perhaps they'll see the benefits of cooperating a bit >> > more with other people. >> >> interesting - what happened? been too busy - any links? > > Sorry for the long links... > > http://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/1108-security-alert-for-allwinner- > sun8i-h3a83th8/ > > https://olimex.wordpress.com/2016/05/10/how-to-root-any-allwinner-device- > running-android-and-most-of-the-chinese-pi-clones-which-bet-on-allwinner- > android-linux-kernel/ > > It got quite a bit of wider coverage, too. ok just a way to debug devices bearing in mind that convenience and supporting companies to be able to sell as many products as they can is more important than security *sigh*. ok so that can always be commented out. > [...] > >> > I guess this is with regard to FSF certification and whether you could >> > offer the jz4775 within a RYF-branded campaign. And I guess that Debian >> > is still out of the picture, which I think is the distro of choice for >> > the MIPS Creator CI20 and CI40, those being perhaps the closest products >> > to what you'd be offering. >> >> a modern kernel would be needed, the one i'm starting with is 3.0.8 >> (because that's what ingenic have that works) - any dependencies on >> udev tied to later versions and it's game over for a recent OS without >> a lot of extra work. > > Did you not get various people doing Linux stuff for MIPS/Ingenic-based > products involved at some point? The GCW-Zero uses the jz4770 and the > developers appear to maintain a much more recent kernel: > > https://github.com/gcwnow/linux > > The MIPS Creator stuff should also be using more recent kernels, too, although > the following probably isn't where the most recent work has been taking place: > > https://github.com/MIPS/CI20_linux > > Incidentally, it looks like the CI40 will run OpenWrt, not Debian: > > https://community.imgtec.com/platforms/creator-ci40/ > > You might have more luck with the following: > > https://git.linux-mips.org/cgit/linux-mti.git thanks. > > Even the Ben NanoNote uses a more recent kernel than 3.0.8 - mine runs Debian > Wheezy on a somewhat newer kernel - but I accept that you'd have to assess > whether the jz4775 would really be supported properly in any non-Ingenic work. i can bootstrap up using known-good to known-good and/or at least get boards into people's hands once hardware's proven to work. > I can't say that I've been tracking the state of Linux for a while. I did try > to get a device-tree-capable kernel working on the NanoNote, but the kernel > support for various devices wasn't there, and I'm not familiar enough with the > different mechanisms to troubleshoot the various deficiencies. Of course, it > doesn't help that Linux documentation is in general lacking and/or awful. i don't mind, as long as there's source. > Paul > > _______________________________________________ > arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] > http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook > Send large attachments to [email protected] _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
