Maybe we can learn something from Rasperry Pi. Though it's a very old SOC, but with it's fully functional support, there is still lots of people trying to use it to do more and more intresting things.
2015-01-30 17:13 GMT+08:00 Dmitriy B. <[email protected]>: > Been thinking to bring this up for a long time ago. So here we go. > > >> >> These days, we're three of us doing some work, including fixing >> existing bugs, maintaining the code, etc. >> >> That, and I'm not sure that focusing on a five years old SoCs while >> ignoring any new SoC is the right policy. linux-sunxi did that with >> the A31, look at where it is now. > > > I don't see thousands of A31 boards users eagerly waiting for mainline. > >> >> Sure, the A10 works >> great. How many A10-based devices went out last year? > > > Support is about having a active userbase, not new devices everyday. > >> >> BUT, it's true that we still have a partial support for the older >> SoCs. There's still no display support, no audio support. And anyone >> is very welcome to contribute or help in that effort. >> >> But unless you're giving us our paycheck, you don't get to order us >> what to work on and what not. > > > Honestly, this approach is very wrong on many levels (don't ask why) and > please, speak on behalf of free-electrons only, if you have paycheck from > them. > No one is ordering you anything, this is a public ML about linux for sunxi, > and Stefan expressed his point of view as a A10/A20 user. Maybe some one > will pick up Turl's work. > >> >> But there's also two things to consider: >> - People with A31/A23/A80 have no other alternative than the >> Allwinner kernel. Do we really want to leave these users out in >> the cold? I don't. > > > These people chose that way by buying those and you (and F-E) are not going > to provide same level of feature coverage in mainline anyways (because NDAs > for some of the new IPs, PVR, very short lifecycle of the SoC and etc.). > >> >> - Adding a new SoC support is pretty cheap > > > And sort of useless without thousands of human hours figuring out new SoC. > > Best Regards, > Dmitriy Beykun > > -- > 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. -- 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.
