[Arm-netbook] Allwinner git / GPL stalemate situation

[Tom Cubie]

On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 9:41 PM, Alejandro Mery <amery at geeks.cl> wrote:

> On 01/06/12 14:25, Tom Cubie wrote:
> > My advice is not develop the A13 kernel based what we already have.
> > The kernel Qware released already contains the sun5i support. At the
> > early stage of sun5i kernel development in Allwinner, sun4i and
> > sun5i are in the same tree. Then one day, the market says no, we will
> > not release the sun5i source code to our customers. Then sun5i is
> > moved to a different branch.
> >
> > Via 8850 is out, which is a competitor of A13 and A10. pricing
> > between A13 and A10, If you still limit the performance of A13 by not
> > releasing the source code, then nobody will choose A13. So i think
> > source code releasing a matter of time.
>
> Hi Tom, please help me get wording right. do you mean we should:
> 1) forget about A13 until Allwinner releases their code, or
> 2) use the available sun5i code until Allwinner releases their code, or
> 3) forget about the locked code, and focus in improving what we already
> have?
>
I am just worried if you sign the NDA, you can not do any open source
development
on A10, A13. What we have now is a basic A13 kernel, I don't know if anyone
tried
this kernel on A13 hardware, but i believe it works, just some drivers are
missing.
Most drivers of A13 and A10 are the same. Besides allwinner will probably
release the
source code of A13 in the future. So i think there is no need to sign a NDA.

>
> Thanks!
> Alejandro
>
>
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