[Arm-netbook] EOMA68-A20 usb fel-boot and u-boot upload (no GPL-violating allwinner boot0 or boot1 involved)

[mike.valk at gmail.com]

2013/6/3 luke.leighton <luke.leighton at gmail.com>:
> On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 7:15 AM, mike.valk at gmail.com <mike.valk at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2013/6/1 luke.leighton <luke.leighton at gmail.com>:
>>> ok i have the usb fel Bus 003 Device 083: ID 1f3a:efe8 still on the
>>> bus, so the A20 3.3 kernel source from allwinner isn't resetting
>>> USB-OTG properly.  i forced it into "client only" mode which meant
>>> that it didn't segfault at least.
>>>
>>> anyway, i also got /dev/fb0 on HDMI up and running, as well as
>>> connecting a USB 4-port hub, with keyboard and mouse.  if i had a
>>> USB-Ethernet dongle i could connect to the internet.
>>>
>>> so whew going from "it's all gone to shit with gpl violations in the
>>> way" to "actually you can use this do at least do some testing, it's
>>> not perfect but it's doable" within about 3 days which is great.
>>>
>>> l.
>>
>> Great news. I assume you've let the linux-sunxi maillist know.
>
>  no i haven't: they're running on non-free infrastructure and i am
> keeping to my principles of staying as much as i can away from
> non-free server infrastructure.  if they would like to move to
> free-software-hosted infrastructure there are dozens of people willing
> to help them to do that, and i will then be happy to subscribe to the
> linux-sunxi list and will send them patches etc.
>
>> BTW. Are you working on a A20 EOMA or somthing else. Last I read, the
>> latest batches were still A10?
>
>  the CPU is pin-compatible and this latest set of testing, as well as
> receiving a set of GPL-compliance patches this morning means that
> we're pretty much 100% going ahead with an A20.

Not the answer I was looking for. I know we're moving forward to A20.
It makes perfect sense.

But is there an EOMA-68 with A20 already? Or are you working/testing
on other hardware?

>
> l.
>
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