On Tue, 11 Aug 2015 13:53:53 +0200 Hans de Goede <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > On 11-08-15 13:43, Siarhei Siamashka wrote: > > On Sun, 09 Aug 2015 21:44:00 +0200 > > Olliver Schinagl <[email protected]> wrote: > > <snip> > > > In my case, all the Allwinner hardware that I have is already supported > > by the mainline u-boot. Except for the http://linux-sunxi.org/Hyundai_A7 > > tablet. I could easily contribute support for it to the mainline > > u-boot, but I strongly dislike the fact that it is probably a trademark > > violating counterfeit product. I surely don't want to be listed as a > > maintainer for this thing :-) But if anyone wants to add support for > > this tablet under his own name, I'll be happy to provide assistance. > > I may even post patches for this tablet *without* my S-o-b. > > How about submitting a u-boot defconfig and dts file with a different > name for the board, e.g. Allwinner_M723GDX_defconfig and > sun4i-a10-allwinner-m723gdx.dts ? Then we can point people to this > defconfig in: http://linux-sunxi.org/Hyundai_A7 That's an interesting suggestion. So in other words you suggest to treat this tablet just like any no-name tablet without identification labels? Furthermore, you suggest to use Allwinner as the dts vendor name. I'm not sure if Allwinner would be happy to have such a honour, but this is none of my concern as long as everything is done according to the official linux kernel and/or dts policy. Could you please provide a reference to the relevant documentation if it exists, or do some work on making sure that such documentation is created? Mainlining support for this tablet is not very high in my priority list. It is basically a junk hardware from a questionable vendor ( http://www.hyundai-digital.cn ), which even does not exist anymore. I don't know if they were shut down because of the official Hyundai complaint (searching on google shows a few examples of Hyundai trademark related lawsuits) or just went out of business because they were not profitable enough. Still, if there are actual users who are stuck with this hardware and want to have it mainlined, then we can see what can be done. Anyway, this was just one example of the Allwinner based hardware without mainline U-Boot support. I even did not remember about it until Olliver brought attention to this topic :-) We are yet to decide about what to do with the wiki pages for such hardware in order to make sure that the users do not get confused (this was the Olliver's intention, right?). And unless there is further feedback and good constructive suggestions, it looks like the git branches of the u-boot-sunxi repository are best to be kept as they were. -- Best regards, Siarhei Siamashka -- 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.
