[linux-sunxi] Re: [PATCH] sunxi: Machine id hack to prevent loading buggy sunxi-3.4 kernels

2015-03-04 Thread Siarhei Siamashka
On Tue, 03 Mar 2015 08:17:56 + Ian Campbell ijc+ub...@hellion.org.uk wrote: On Mon, 2015-03-02 at 00:07 +0200, Siarhei Siamashka wrote: Just one suggestion. It would be really nice if the Debian installer could present itself on all the available consoles, so that the user can use any

Re: [linux-sunxi] Allwinner GPL violations: definitive proof.

2015-03-04 Thread Irgendeiner
Am 04.03.2015, 12:57 Uhr, schrieb Luc Verhaegen l...@skynet.be: On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 04:55:15AM +0100, Luc Verhaegen wrote: This was just posted on the allwinner github account: https://github.com/allwinner-zh/media-codec This contains:

Re: [linux-sunxi] Allwinner GPL violations: definitive proof.

2015-03-04 Thread Echo Peacock
On March 4, 2015, at 8:12 AM, Luc Verhaegen l...@skynet.be wrote: On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 04:55:57PM +0100, Irgendeiner wrote: Am 04.03.2015, 12:57 Uhr, schrieb Luc Verhaegen l...@skynet.be: So now there is a LICENSE file stating that the code in https://github.com/allwinner-zh/media-codec

Re: [linux-sunxi] Allwinner GPL violations: definitive proof.

2015-03-04 Thread Luc Verhaegen
On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 04:55:57PM +0100, Irgendeiner wrote: Am 04.03.2015, 12:57 Uhr, schrieb Luc Verhaegen l...@skynet.be: So now there is a LICENSE file stating that the code in https://github.com/allwinner-zh/media-codec is LGPL? So Allwinner believes that by sticking the LGPL on a

[linux-sunxi] Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] i2c: sunxi: Add Reduced Serial Bus (RSB) DT bindings documentation

2015-03-04 Thread Maxime Ripard
On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 04:24:44PM +0800, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote: Reduced Serial Bus (RSB) is an SMBus like bus used to communicate with some PMICs (like the AXP223) or other peripherals. The RSB DT bindings are pretty much the same as the one defined for the marvell's mv64xxx controller, with

Re: [linux-sunxi] Regarding the sunxi-cedarx support

2015-03-04 Thread Irgendeiner
From many years of experience I got convinced that an aggressive style by itself always results in a less productive situation, eventually even in a deadlock. Someone either has the power and money to convince the other party that it will lose a legal battle in _very near_ future. If you

Re: [linux-sunxi] Allwinner GPL violations: definitive proof.

2015-03-04 Thread Manuel Braga
Hi, On Wed, 4 Mar 2015 09:46:07 -0300 Rodrigo Pereira rodrigo2kpere...@gmail.com wrote: This is because reverse engeneering is a PITA, I suppose. http://linux-sunxi.org/CedarX/Reverse_Engineering I disagree. Reverse engineering is an enjoyable and fun thing to do. And as can be see in

[linux-sunxi] Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] i2c: sunxi: Add Reduced Serial Bus (RSB) support

2015-03-04 Thread Wolfram Sang
On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 04:24:43PM +0800, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote: The RSB controller looks like an SMBus controller which only supports byte and word data transfers. It can also do double-word data transfers, but the I2C subsystem does not support this, nor have we seen devices using this. The

Re: [linux-sunxi] Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH] sunxi: Machine id hack to prevent loading buggy sunxi-3.4 kernels

2015-03-04 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 4 March 2015 at 21:15, Karsten Merker mer...@debian.org wrote: [removed u-b...@lists.denx.de from the CC list as my reply would be off-topic there] On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 05:17:23PM +0200, Siarhei Siamashka wrote: On Tue, 03 Mar 2015 08:17:56 + Ian Campbell ijc+ub...@hellion.org.uk

Re: [linux-sunxi] Re: [PATCH] sunxi: Machine id hack to prevent loading buggy sunxi-3.4 kernels

2015-03-04 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 4 March 2015 at 16:17, Siarhei Siamashka siarhei.siamas...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 03 Mar 2015 08:17:56 + Ian Campbell ijc+ub...@hellion.org.uk wrote: On Mon, 2015-03-02 at 00:07 +0200, Siarhei Siamashka wrote: Just one suggestion. It would be really nice if the Debian installer

[linux-sunxi] [PATCH 2/2] dt-bindings: Add vendor-prefix for Wexler

2015-03-04 Thread Aleksei Mamlin
This patch adds vendor-prefix for Wexler. WEXLER trademark owned by AVIRSA Electronics, a member of the diversified holding AVIRSA. Signed-off-by: Aleksei Mamlin mamli...@gmail.com --- Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git

[linux-sunxi] Re: [PATCH] ARM: dts: sun7i: Add dts file for Wexler TAB7200

2015-03-04 Thread Aleksei Mamlin
On Wed, 4 Mar 2015 21:18:19 +0100 Maxime Ripard maxime.rip...@free-electrons.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 11:15:47AM +0300, Aleksei Mamlin wrote: This patch add support for Wexler TAB7200 tablet. The Wexler TAB7200 is a A20 based tablet with 7 inch display(800x480), capacitive

[linux-sunxi] Re: [PATCH] ARM: dts: sun7i: Add dts file for Wexler TAB7200

2015-03-04 Thread Maxime Ripard
On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 11:15:47AM +0300, Aleksei Mamlin wrote: This patch add support for Wexler TAB7200 tablet. The Wexler TAB7200 is a A20 based tablet with 7 inch display(800x480), capacitive touchscreen(5 fingers), 1G RAM, 4G NAND, micro SD card slot, mini HDMI port, 3.5mm audio plug, 1

[linux-sunxi] Re: [PATCH] ARM: sun7i: dt: Add new MK808C device

2015-03-04 Thread Maxime Ripard
On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 09:22:32PM +0100, Code Kipper wrote: + +/ { + model = mk808c; + compatible = mk808c, allwinner,sun7i-a20; the compatible must be of the format vendor,device. Please add the vendor name. AhhhI've searched high and low for a vendors name. I listed

[linux-sunxi] Re: [PATCH] ARM: dts: sun7i: Add dts file for Wexler TAB7200

2015-03-04 Thread Maxime Ripard
On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 11:26:15PM +0300, Aleksei Mamlin wrote: On Wed, 4 Mar 2015 21:18:19 +0100 Maxime Ripard maxime.rip...@free-electrons.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 11:15:47AM +0300, Aleksei Mamlin wrote: This patch add support for Wexler TAB7200 tablet. The Wexler

Re: [linux-sunxi] Allwinner GPL violations: definitive proof.

2015-03-04 Thread Julian Calaby
On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 9:10 AM, prfl...@gmail.com wrote: My two cents: Stop asking for fixing and start doing the legal stuff (sue for example) They have 4 years to fix, they do nothing. they release non functional patches, and they not release the code correctly. They reply to simpleness

Re: [linux-sunxi] Allwinner GPL violations: definitive proof.

2015-03-04 Thread Simos Xenitellis
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 3:10 PM, Luc Verhaegen l...@skynet.be wrote: On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 02:31:41PM +0200, Simos Xenitellis wrote: On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 1:57 PM, Luc Verhaegen l...@skynet.be wrote: On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 04:55:15AM +0100, Luc Verhaegen wrote: ... So now there is a

Re: [linux-sunxi] Regarding the sunxi-cedarx support

2015-03-04 Thread Simos Xenitellis
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 7:14 PM, Irgendeiner irgendei...@gmx.ch wrote: From many years of experience I got convinced that an aggressive style by itself always results in a less productive situation, eventually even in a deadlock. Someone either has the power and money to convince the other

Re: [linux-sunxi] Allwinner GPL violations: definitive proof.

2015-03-04 Thread oiaohm
I think we need to bring this back to simple. 1) as FOSS not out to harm allwinnertech all FOSS want is conformance with license. Reality here the two worst laws to break as a hardware vendor is copyright and trademark. Serous-ally. Both you can enforce by customs both can cause product

Re: [linux-sunxi] BananPro WiFi Module (ap6181) Problems

2015-03-04 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, On 03-03-15 20:12, Arend van Spriel wrote: On 03/03/15 14:33, Hans de Goede wrote: Hi, On 03-03-15 14:01, peter.c...@lemaker.com wrote: Hello everyone I try to compile with the newest kernel from the website at https://github.com/linux-sunxi/linux-sunxi/tree/sunxi-next . and the kernel

[linux-sunxi] Reviewing the book Getting Started with Cubieboard (Packt Publishing Ltd)

2015-03-04 Thread Simos Xenitellis
Hi All, As you may know, there is an introductory book about the A-Series of Allwinner SoCs (specifically A10, A13 and A20), called Getting Started with Cubieboard, written by Olliver Schinagl and published by Packt Publishing Ltd. Read more at

Re: [linux-sunxi] Allwinner GPL violations: definitive proof.

2015-03-04 Thread Luc Verhaegen
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 04:55:15AM +0100, Luc Verhaegen wrote: This was just posted on the allwinner github account: https://github.com/allwinner-zh/media-codec This contains: https://github.com/allwinner-zh/media-codec/blob/master/sunxi-cedarx/LIBRARY/CODEC/VIDEO/DECODER/libvdecoder.so

Re: [linux-sunxi] Allwinner GPL violations: definitive proof.

2015-03-04 Thread Rodrigo Pereira
2015-03-04 11:19 GMT-03:00 ovidi...@gmail.com: @Roberto asuming allwinner has did copy the hardware (speaking about A80 sun9i) and the reason of violating GPL's and not publishing sources is might be possible to get sued by original silicon vendor ... but the question is which silicon

Re: [linux-sunxi] Re: [U-Boot] Basic A33 support including dram init available in my personal repo

2015-03-04 Thread Siarhei Siamashka
On Mon, 2 Mar 2015 17:21:48 +0530 Vishnu Patekar vishnupatekar0...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Hans, Thank you for the comments. On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Hans de Goede hdego...@redhat.com wrote: Hi, On 01-03-15 19:42, Vishnu Patekar wrote: Allwinner A33 tablets comes with the

Re: [linux-sunxi] Allwinner GPL violations: definitive proof.

2015-03-04 Thread Roberto Alcântara
I'll try to summarize the thread and restart it. Simos please don't +1 I hope to see code from Allwinner to make things better for users. I don't fully agree with Luc's words but he has credit that Allwinner doesn't: real code to be used today helping a lot of people. Thank you for all guys

Re: [linux-sunxi] Allwinner GPL violations: definitive proof.

2015-03-04 Thread Luc Verhaegen
On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 02:31:41PM +0200, Simos Xenitellis wrote: On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 1:57 PM, Luc Verhaegen l...@skynet.be wrote: On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 04:55:15AM +0100, Luc Verhaegen wrote: ... So now there is a LICENSE file stating that the code in

[linux-sunxi] Re: Allwinner GPL violations: definitive proof.

2015-03-04 Thread ovidiu31
@Allwinner staff guys where is the A80 vpu / gpu hardware acceleration in linux / ubuntu / kodi? I sugest you to hire Luc Verhaegen if you guys are not able to provide this A80 linux vp/gpu hardware accelerated support. The end users from freaktab forum and tronsmart forum keep waiting to see

Re: [linux-sunxi] Allwinner GPL violations: definitive proof.

2015-03-04 Thread Simos Xenitellis
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 1:57 PM, Luc Verhaegen l...@skynet.be wrote: On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 04:55:15AM +0100, Luc Verhaegen wrote: ... So now there is a LICENSE file stating that the code in https://github.com/allwinner-zh/media-codec is LGPL? So Allwinner believes that by sticking the LGPL

Re: [linux-sunxi] Allwinner GPL violations: definitive proof.

2015-03-04 Thread Simon Kenyon
On 03/04/15 12:51, Simos Xenitellis wrote: I'll try to summarize the thread and restart it. Simos please don't -- simon Simon Kenyon e: simoncken...@gmail.com m: +353 86 240 0005 l: http://ie.linkedin.com/pub/simon-kenyon/0/6b2/744/ s: simonckenyon t: @simonckenyon g: google.com/+SimonKenyon

Re: [linux-sunxi] Allwinner GPL violations: definitive proof.

2015-03-04 Thread 'John S' via linux-sunxi
On Wed, 4/3/15, Simon Kenyon simoncken...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/04/15 12:51, Simos Xenitellis wrote: I'll try to summarize the thread and restart it. Simos please don't +1 I see Luc as basically in the right. I wouldn't support every little detail or his manner of expressing himself

[linux-sunxi] Regarding the sunxi-cedarx support

2015-03-04 Thread Simos Xenitellis
Hi All, As some may say, what is important to look at, is our end-game. That is, how should our relationship with Allwinner be, and what steps to take to get there. Allwinner has made mistakes with regards to free/open-source licenses of software. Some of those mistakes could have been avoidable

Re: [linux-sunxi] Allwinner GPL violations: definitive proof.

2015-03-04 Thread ovidiu31
miercuri, 4 martie 2015, 15:44:44 UTC+2, Roberto Alcântara a scris: I'll try to summarize the thread and restart it. Simos please don't +1 I hope to see code from Allwinner to make things better for users.  I don't fully agree with Luc's words but he has credit that Allwinner

Re: [linux-sunxi] Re: [U-Boot] Basic A33 support including dram init available in my personal repo

2015-03-04 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, On 04-03-15 13:33, Siarhei Siamashka wrote: On Mon, 2 Mar 2015 17:21:48 +0530 Vishnu Patekar vishnupatekar0...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Hans, Thank you for the comments. On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Hans de Goede hdego...@redhat.com wrote: Hi, On 01-03-15 19:42, Vishnu Patekar wrote:

Re: [linux-sunxi] Regarding the sunxi-cedarx support

2015-03-04 Thread jonsm...@gmail.com
Here's my top ten list for Allwinner.. 1) I've worked in this industry a very long time and have lived through a bunch of boom and bust cycles. These cycles are not going away. The market for tablets is going to bust sooner or later because something new will come along. To protect yourself