[Arm-netbook] Planned boot process?

[Gordan Bobic]

On 12/23/2011 01:43 AM, Tom Cubie wrote:

>>    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.
>
> Yes, i have complained many times that the company doesn't open the chip
> spec, i have asked my workmate why. They said there are something we do
> not want our competitors to know. And i have complained to my manager,
> if you don't provide documentations, even if others want to help you
> they can't. I will push the company to do open our spec.
>
>>
>>    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 $150 clone of the BeagleBoard.
> Currently we have the reference board, called A10-evb, which we use for
> development, it's about 1500 RMB(with LCD module) for customs. And since
> A10 can boot from usb, the machine can never be bricked, so buy a A10
> tablet(aino novo7 or something, about 99$), and redirect the uart pin to
> sdcard pin, you can get a console from the sdcard slot ,then you can
> easy to do some hack with it.

Ooo! I don't suppose you could post a howto on the wiki for how to hack 
this up? :D

Gordan