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On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 3:46 AM, Jean-Luc Aufranc <[email protected]> wrote: > First, congratulation for the successful campaign! thx jean-luc > About "Exynos Octa-Core 28 nm SoC used in the NanoPi3". That's a Nexell > processor rebranded as Samsung, iinteresting... > and Linux support is very poor according to > Arnd Bergmann, ARM SoC maintainer (See comment @ > https://plus.google.com/110719562692786994119/posts/UAH41JZ9QFN) > > " Source code is available but awful. Note that this is not a Samsung design > at all, it comes from a company called Nexell, see > http://www.nexell.co.kr/chi/pro/pro03.html > > It's probably not a bad chip at all, but it has zero upstream Linux support > (unlike the real Samsung chips that generally just work), so you are stuck > with whatever kernel version you get." blech :) ok thanks for the heads-up. it likely explains though why it's actually available in china... unlike most samsung SoCs... which are cartelled (yay!).... > followed by > > "Specifically, this is a Linux-3.4 kernel that looks more like a > Linux-2.6.28 platform port that was forward-ported, see > https://github.com/friendlyarm/linux-3.4.y/commit/63f124ad876a11b735e369bbb609c8aa05fae1f4 > Note that this is a 32-bit port, it's unlikely to ever run a 64-bit Linux > unless someone starts a new kernel port from scratch." yeuch!! hmmm... caught between a rock and a hard place.... _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
