On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 8:11 PM, Luc Verhaegen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 05:22:21PM +0300, Simos Xenitellis wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I asked Allwinner about the possibility of donation of a few A80 > developer > > boards to developers and I got a positive response. So, I'll be doing the > > clerical work to arrange the donation. > > > > There should be several batches of boards being donated. > > This first batch is for five A80 OptimusBoard developer boards. I think > > they should be coming in the packaging that is shown at > > http://community.arm.com/thread/6449 > > > > The criteria are: > > 1. You have already done some relevant work with other Allwinner SoCs. > > 2. You plan to do work with the board towards mainline Linux support > > (describe what). > > This also includes any work with u-boot or other packages that let the > A80 > > boot with a mainline kernel. > > > > Send me mail in private if you are interested to receive one. > > I'll process the requests and forward to Allwinner so that they can send > > the boards. > > If there are more than five requests, I'll keep the details for the > > subsequent batch. > > > > Simos > > Thanks for doing this. > > In the past, how this has worked is that someone (Alejandro) went around > the usual suspects, asked whether they were interested, and then > collected addresses. But you probably have your reasons for approaching > this differently. > > This would run the risk of me missing a few developers. I think it is good to have an open call. It lets people know what efforts are happening. I was considering whether to also have the requests public. This might happen with the second batch. In any case, I'll e-mail those developers that have not posted recently to the list in case they miss this thread. For this first batch of A80 boards, I think it would make sense to focus on the core issues to get to run the mainline kernel, at least in a headless setting. And the kernel should run reliably, which means it is OK to have several requests for the same work. Some of the requests that I received are for non-essential hardware functionality. They are useful, and I'll be keeping those requests for the second batch. The five slots have not been filled yet, so do mail me for your A80 boards. Simos -- 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.
