[Arm-netbook] EOMA68 future roadmap update

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

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crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68


On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 3:46 AM, Jean-Luc Aufranc
<cnxsoft at cnx-software.com> wrote:
> First, congratulation for the successful campaign!

 thx jean-luc

> About "Exynos Octa-Core 28 nm SoC used in the NanoPi3". That's a Nexell
> processor rebranded as Samsung,

 iinteresting...

> 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."

 blech :)  ok thanks for the heads-up.  it likely explains though why
it's actually available in china... unlike most samsung SoCs... which
are cartelled (yay!)....


> 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."

 yeuch!!

 hmmm... caught between a rock and a hard place....