On Wed, Aug 06, 2014 at 07:47:18PM +0700, Jean-Luc Aufranc wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not sure if this is the kind of question you would consider, but > I once asked them a few questions about AllWinner and Linaro, and > they acknowledge my message, saying they will reply later. (That was > about 6 weeks ago...). Here's the list: > > * Why did AllWinner decide to join Linaro, and especially the > Digital Home Group? > > * There are three levels of membership for companies at Linaro: Core > member, Club member, and Group member. AllWinner joined Linaro as a > Group member, which as I understand is a limited membership, and > leads to several questions: > > 1. Will AllWinner primarily have an observatory role in the Digital > Home Group, or will the company be actively engaged? > 2. Will the work done in the Digital Home Group focus mainly on > higher level applications, or will some work be done on the kernel > and drivers as well, specifically to the parts relating to > AllWinner, or in other words will there be engineers at Linaro > working on code specific to AllWinner? > > * I understand there's no AllWinner Landing Team at Linaro, so there > won't be engineering builds targeting AllWinner hardware released by > Linaro. Does AllWinner plan to eventually put more resources into > Linaro? > > * Do you expect the Linaro membership to affect the way the company > approaches open source development? For example, like many silicon > vendors, AllWinner develop their own SDK (Linux,U-boot, etc..) in > house, and release a vendor tree to direct customers, but it appears > many companies are seeing the benefit of committing code to mainline > (kernel.org), and there's a clear trend in that direction. Now > AllWinner mainline support is mainly performed by linux-sunxi > community, so I'm wondering if AllWinner has any interest in getting > involved in this area?
That's actually a pretty good set of questions, thanks :) Maxime -- Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com
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