[Arm-netbook] Side-Topic: Liberating PocketCHIP

[mike.valk at gmail.com]

2017-05-29 23:37 GMT+02:00 David Niklas <doark at mail.com>:

> On Mon, 08 May 2017 09:59:50 +0100
> "mike.valk at gmail.com" <mike.valk at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2017-05-08 3:34 GMT+02:00 <doark at mail.com>:
>
> Sorry, I (foolishly) though that ARMv7 == A7 (i.e. a contraction).
>
Don't worry that is  common one.

>
> >
> > > I'll attach the output, it would probably be interesting to see all of
> > > it...
> > > Done, it's compressed bzip2 since it's ~300KiB decompressed which is
> > > large for an email.
> > >
> >
> > Use pastebin or sorts. Or just cut out the specifica part.
> >
>
> Sorry, I thought the rest of it might be useful to look at.
>

It might be. That's why I suggested pastebin et al. Those are better for
public mailinglists than zipped files.


>
> <snip>
> > > You're not giving us enough details. Who is Verhaegen? What did he
> > > burn out on?
> > > When I first considered purchasing a PocketCHiP I read about the GPU
> > > not having 3D capabilities because of a binary blob. So, the CHIP
> > > folks hired (I think it was an extended goal of the kickstarter
> > > campaign), a kernel dev to add support to the Linux kernel for the
> > > GPU.
> >
> >
> > That did not happen. The're is no Opensource linux driver for MALI. NTC
> > hardly involves itself with the linux-sunxi community.
> >
> > Their website is hardly obvious to the software needs of running their
> > hardware.
> >
> > How hard can it be....
> >
> > "To use our hardware you have two options: Our BSP which has closed
> > source drivers, but you have full utilization of the hardware. Or use
> > the mainline kernel with some restrictions"
> Where is that quote from?
>

No ware. It was suggestion from me for them. That's what I would like to
see on all those sites selling this type of s*ht.

Be honest, be open. Don't façade the truth. It will come out and it will
bite you.

I don't believe the quote above would scare any potential buyer. The fact
they don't mention it while I know it is a reason I wouldn't buy from them.

It's like selling a car of which they have painted over rust and rewinded
the odo-meter. On first glance it looks terrific but when you find the
truth it will leave you angry and you'll go and tell everyone you know not
to buy from them.

So whenever I see a fancy site trying to sell a product of which I know the
limitations and they hide it: They become unreliable to me and I'll move
one and suggest to everyone that want's to listen to do the same.

Sadly that's the state of all vendors today. So everybody buy a crappy
painted over car with hardly any km/miles on it. ;-)