[Arm-netbook] fsf-endorseable ingenic jz4775 cpu card can go ahead

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 1:40 AM, Henrik Nordström
<henrik at henriknordstrom.net> wrote:
> tis 2015-03-10 klockan 23:56 +0000 skrev Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton:
>
>>  found u-boot:
>>  ftp://5.39.83.46/mirror/ftp.ingenic.cn/3sw/JZ4775/Mensa/linux/01uboot/
>>
>>  however the linux kernel source git repo appears to be offline.
>> still searching...
>
> You might want to get in touch with this
> https://github.com/ZubairLK/CI20_linux
>
> It's JZ4780, but if I am not mistaken it is not too different.

 ehh... the differences are where all the work is :)  will have to ask them.

> And Ingenic git server seems to be online for me.. kernel is at
> http://git.ingenic.cn:8082/gerrit/android/kernel/kernel-3.0.8/ and
> u-boot at
> http://git.ingenic.cn:8082/gerrit/linux/sources/bootloader/u-boot-1.1.6
> (both git accessible only).

 i'm seeing 404 not found on both of those, despite them being listed
in their official android repo, so something odd going on there.

> But i am starting to get allergic to vendors that don't attempt
> mainlining and who stay on some ancient versions of u-boot & kernel..

 :)

 well, they don't all have the knowledge and experience of the larger
vendors (the ones that typically pay linaro), and in this case they're
literally the only decent FSF-Endorseable half-way decent processor
around, so am prepared to give them a bit of slack.

l.