[Arm-netbook] Planned boot process?

[Gordan Bobic]

On 12/23/2011 03:18 PM, Vladimir Pantelic wrote:
> 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?

 From what Luke said the docs are less complete than the source code 
(some of the interfaces have drivers written even though there is no 
mention of them in the docs).

Gordan