Hi Luc, On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Julian Calaby <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Luc, > > I'm going to respond to your email in several parts. Let's start with > the device page: > > On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Luc Verhaegen <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 03:45:59PM +1000, Julian Calaby wrote: >>> Hi Luc, >>> > And to top it all off, once again, the statements seem to be coming from >>> > someone who never did bring up a device from scratch: >>> > http://linux-sunxi.org/Special:Contributions/JulianCalaby >>> >>> I have a sunxi device, it's a Kogan Agora tablet with a sun4i SoC. >>> >>> I've been through the entire NDH, including running the Sunxi 3.4 >>> kernel on it and have everything ready to be sent off. The only >>> reasons why I haven't are: >>> 1. I lost the free time I was using for this and never "completed" it. >>> (Hence the incomplete device page which you justifiably deleted a >>> while back.) >>> 2. I wanted to have this be the first device to come through the tool >>> I was developing in that time to assist in this process (again, halted >>> due to lack of spare time) >>> >>> If you'd like, I can send off that stuff tonight, so you can have some >>> hard proof that I have actually been through this entire process. >>> >>> Personally, I see it as being very straight forward, but then I've >>> been compiling my own kernels and submitting the occasional patch to >>> various mailing lists for close to a decade. The hardest part for me >>> was actually identifying my device as it's a rebranded mishmash of >>> about 3 different, more "known" tablets. >> >> The fact that you only now created the wiki page _shows_ that you never >> really followed the NDH. You followed those bits that seemed to suit you >> most directly. Not what is standard procedure, not what helps others or >> draw more people into this community. > > I created it before, ran out of time and never completed it. You were > the one who deleted it as it was incomplete and I was the only source > of info for it. Something which, as I said in the private emails we > exchanged at the time, was perfectly justified and I had no problems > with whatsoever. I fucked up, you improved stuff, no complaints here. > > However now this is somehow proof that I've have idea what I'm talking > about. I'm not really following your logic here. > >> It's amazing how you are so high and mighty, and talk so big about what >> should be written where, when you yourself refuse to follow simple and >> straight directives. Out of laziness. >> >> Creating that device page today does make amends, of sorts, but it >> doesn't hide the above facts. Also, the way in which you created this >> page once again showed that you did not stick to the template at all, >> and only implemented those bits which suited you most directly. Quite >> perpendicular to your statements. > > I copied the template, filled in _everything_ that I had which was > applicable to that tablet / board. If I deleted parts of the template > it's because they seemed to be useless or I had no info for them. > > In addition to the items below, could you please give me a list of > what you'd like added. I'll do my best to add that info. > > I must also note that I ran into the problem where I want to document > the board, not the tablet as the tablets it's in appear to be quite > rare amongst developers / Linux enthusiasts. > >> Having said that, for a first stab, your device page was of a higher >> standard than those i usually see. > > Thanks. > > Oh, in regards to the website field in the infobox: Kogan no-longer > sells this tablet and therefore don't have a page describing it. Also > iNet doesn't have a product page for this board either, so there's no > page to put here. Do you want that field to be deleted or should I > just leave it as it is now?
Another infobox question: Could you please change the Video options in the device page example to "HDMI (Type A/C/D - full/mini/micro), VGA" as Type B is unlikely to be seen on a consumer tablet. I'd do it myself, but I don't have permission. Thanks, -- Julian Calaby Email: [email protected] Profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/julian.calaby/ -- 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.
