On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 8:00 AM, maxime.ripard < [email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 06, 2014 at 12:43:50PM +0300, Simos Xenitellis wrote: > > Thanks all for the replies! > > > > I composed the document for Nicolas and I hope he manages to arrange for > a > > video interview. > > The two main aspects were that what Allwinner currently provides (to the > > developer communities) is not sufficient, > > and that what is needed is a direct contact from Allwinner to the > > linux-sunxi community > > in order to sort out issues as they develop. > > I'm a bit concerned about this to be honest. > > No other SoC vendor will give you that sort of thing for free. > And no other SoC vendor will either send dev boards to any random dude > on the internet. > > I don't think you could show up and just require that. > > Allwinner has already been talking to us, and sent boards to a few > developpers, and we should already be grateful for that. > > I agree on the fact that we'd need a better communication channel with > them though. > If their user manuals and datasheets contained the same info that is in the ones from TI or Freescale, that would eliminate 90% of the things I want to ask them. For example, right now I need to know the maximum clock frequency allowed on the I2S_MCLK output pin and it is not spec'd in the datasheet. I suspect they could eliminate 50% of their support burden by doing two things: 1) Full documentation in the manuals/datasheets 2) Put the SDKs up on a public server so that people can be sure they are using the most recent ones. And then make a formal support system so that they can track what questions keep getting asked over and over again so that they can put the answer to those questions in a FAQ on the doc server. > > Maxime > > -- > Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons > Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering > http://free-electrons.com > -- Jon Smirl [email protected] -- 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 [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
