On 16 June 2015 at 10:09, Carlo Caione <ca...@caione.org> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 3:52 PM, 'Simos Xenitellis' via linux-sunxi > <linux-sunxi@googlegroups.com> wrote: >> What the RPi and ODroid do really well, is that they have a great >> active community, >> and that includes support even in non-technical levels. >> Even the ODROID-C1 does not fully support yet the mainline Linux kernel, >> http://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?f=111&t=8288 >> but the person working at the forum is there to answer honestly with >> "Because the C1 Kernel had been heavily customized too much by SoC >> vendor, it is not easy to port the mainline kernel. >> If you really want to run the mainline Kernel, do NOT buy our C1 >> board. Sorry about that." >> With such an honest answer, I would go buy an ODROID-C1. > > Well, it was the same a couple of years ago for Allwinner, so I don't > know why discouraging people to try to mainline the Amlogic SoCs. > Amlogic SDK is a pain in the ass, but at least Amlogic is _extremely_ > responsive (not at all like Allwinner, at the beginning at least) and > usually the engineers are willing to provide datasheets and > information (they wrote a datasheet from scratch just for me when I > asked for some more info on clock trees). >
Last time I looked I had to sign a NDA to access the SDK so that's a no-go for me. Thanks Michal -- 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 linux-sunxi+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
