Re: [Arm-netbook] Some Pine64 Experiences (via Planet Debian)

2016-10-12 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
ok so thank you so much to the people who have got in touch already, and also to those who've made enquiries, the more chinese nationals who are involved in software libre i can put in touch with my contacts, here, the better. l. ___ arm-netbook mailing

Re: [Arm-netbook] Some Pine64 Experiences (via Planet Debian)

2016-10-12 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On 10/11/16, Paul Boddie wrote: > Meanwhile, significant international partners should be doing their part, > too: > I noticed that Imagination had managed to prise the jz4780 SoC programming > manual out of Ingenic for public dissemination around their Creator CI20 right. ingenic are an extrem

Re: [Arm-netbook] Some Pine64 Experiences (via Planet Debian)

2016-10-12 Thread mike.v...@gmail.com
2016-10-12 4:54 GMT+02:00 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton : > On 10/11/16, Wookey wrote: > > On 2016-10-11 19:11 +0200, Paul Boddie wrote: > > > I don't really know about the pine people specifically, but having > > recently met with a guy from Allwinner (who is paying Luke to educate > > his engine

Re: [Arm-netbook] Some Pine64 Experiences (via Planet Debian)

2016-10-12 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On 10/12/16, mike.v...@gmail.com wrote: > Good luck. And don't forget to breathe. thx mike, yes i can get the A20 on the open market. l. ___ arm-netbook mailing list arm-netbook@lists.phcomp.co.uk http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbo

Re: [Arm-netbook] Some Pine64 Experiences (via Planet Debian)

2016-10-12 Thread Paul Boddie
On Wednesday 12. October 2016 11.43.55 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > On 10/11/16, Paul Boddie wrote: > > Meanwhile, significant international partners should be doing their part, > > too: > > I noticed that Imagination had managed to prise the jz4780 SoC > > programming manual out of Ingen

Re: [Arm-netbook] Some Pine64 Experiences (via Planet Debian)

2016-10-12 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
hiya paul, sorry cut all the context: the main thing is, these fabless semiconductor companies are increasingly seeing themselves as *solutions* providers *NOT* as "makers of processor designs". that's why they go to the lengths of creating the software (which is of course usually GPL-violating, e

Re: [Arm-netbook] routing vpns over ssh

2016-10-12 Thread Stefan Monnier
> the IP address of my server has been blocked *not* by the china > government but by the cisco equipment where i'm currently located... Hmm... I must say that I haven't spent much time fiddling with it, but when I was in Beijing last summer access to my OpenVPN server (sharing port with an https

Re: [Arm-netbook] Some Pine64 Experiences (via Planet Debian)

2016-10-12 Thread joem
> well, it's about to get a hell of a lot worse. i flew 20,000 miles > round the world, was invited here to speak with their engineers, help > them out, set up a FusionForge for them, make it possible for them to > present the R-Series processors to open hardware and software libre > people acros

Re: [Arm-netbook] Some Pine64 Experiences (via Planet Debian)

2016-10-12 Thread Matt Campbell
Luke, I'm surprised you're interested in the Ingenic SoCs again. I thought you had given up on them because there aren't any current libre distros for the MIPS architecture. Has anything changed in that regard? Regardless, I, for one, would strongly prefer an ARMv7 or ARM64 based SoC, for one

Re: [Arm-netbook] Some Pine64 Experiences (via Planet Debian)

2016-10-12 Thread Paul Boddie
On Wednesday 12. October 2016 15.23.00 Matt Campbell wrote: > Luke, I'm surprised you're interested in the Ingenic SoCs again. I > thought you had given up on them because there aren't any current libre > distros for the MIPS architecture. Has anything changed in that regard? Luke mentioned the M1