[Arm-netbook] Planned boot process?

Gordan Bobic gordan at bobich.net
Fri Dec 23 14:34:58 GMT 2011


On 12/23/2011 02:32 PM, lkcl luke wrote:
> 2011/12/23 Henrik Nordström<henrik at henriknordstrom.net>:
>> fre 2011-12-23 klockan 01:00 +0000 skrev lkcl luke:
>>
>>>   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.
>>
>> To be specific there needs to be a "programmers reference" documenting
>> the CPU and included peripherals to the level that drivers can be
>> maintained.
>
>   that's what's available.  it is nothing like as comprehensive as TI's
> documentation or Samsung's documentation.  really - the linux kernel
> source code and u-boot source code are actually more complete,
> relevant and authoritative.  this is pretty normal, and we should
> assist allwinner to improve it *without* taking up their valuable time
> doing so.

You mean reverse-engineer the documentation from the source code?

Gordan



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