[Arm-netbook] EOMA68 future roadmap update

[Jean-Luc Aufranc]

First, congratulation for the successful campaign!

About "Exynos Octa-Core 28 nm SoC used in the NanoPi3". That's a Nexell 
processor rebranded as Samsung, and Linux support is very poor according 
to Arnd Bergmann, ARM SoC maintainer (See comment @ 
https://plus.google.com/110719562692786994119/posts/UAH41JZ9QFN)

" Source code is available but awful. Note that this is not a Samsung 
design at all, it comes from a company called Nexell, see 
http://www.nexell.co.kr/chi/pro/pro03.html

It's probably not a bad chip at all, but it has zero upstream Linux 
support (unlike the real Samsung chips that generally just work), so you 
are stuck with whatever kernel version you get."

followed by

"Specifically, this is a Linux-3.4 kernel that looks more like a 
Linux-2.6.28 platform port that was forward-ported, see 
https://github.com/friendlyarm/linux-3.4.y/commit/63f124ad876a11b735e369bbb609c8aa05fae1f4
Note that this is a 32-bit port, it's unlikely to ever run a 64-bit 
Linux unless someone starts a new kernel port from scratch."

Jean-Luc




On 08/25/2016 11:19 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop/updates/product-roadmap
>
> one of the last i'll be doing before the end of the campaign, goes
> over the many ideas that people have contributed.
>
> l.
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