[Arm-netbook] Planned boot process?

Vladimir Pantelic vladoman at gmail.com
Fri Dec 23 15:18:38 GMT 2011


Gordan Bobic wrote:
> 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?

if that was doable, allwinner could provide the docs in the first place,
no?




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