[Arm-netbook] Planned boot process?

[Gordan Bobic]

On 12/23/2011 01:00 AM, lkcl luke wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 12:51 AM, Tom Cubie<tangliang at allwinnertech.com>  wrote:
>
>>>    perhaps if allwinner proposed it upstream, wrote documentation on it
>>> etc. then it would stand a chance of upstream acceptance, but until
>>> that happens the most sensible thing is probably to use devicetree.
>>
>>      I think Allwinner wants to push the kernel upstream(personally i
>> like to see that happens), but they have no time and people to do this.
>
>   alejandro is already working on it, for you - and for us - and for
> the community :)
>
>> None of the developers in Allwinner has the experience of doing some
>> open source project, nor committing patches to the upsteam. I have asked
>> my manager, and told him that we need the community to help. He is glad
>> and said we will fully support the community to do this. So allwinner do
>> want to push it upstream, just we don't what to do and how to do it. At
>> least one thing is for sure, allwinner is friendly to the community and
>> will be supporting the community.
>
>   fantastic.  well, the one thing that's missing is documentation.  if
> allwinner is willing to provide documentation - *without* requiring an
> NDA - then i think you will automatically find that there are people
> willing to work with you.
>
>   however, one crucial thing is that there must be "reference boards"
> available for people to play with!  if we were not doing the
> EOMA-PCMCIA initiative, i would recommend that allwinner adapt the
> Reference Board into a $150 clone of the BeagleBoard.
>
>   but, i think, strategically, the EOMA-PCMCIA initiative has more
> cross-over between mass-volume and engineering (R&D) whereas it still
> requires a lot of R&D time - plus software expertise - to turn the
> Reference Board from allwinner, or even a BeagleBoard, into a
> mass-volume product.

Well, from what it looks like right now, the EOMA-PCMCIA board + 
engineering board pretty much _becomes_ the de facto reference design, 
by sheer virtue of being available - when it becomes available.

Gordan