[Arm-netbook] Interested in pre-production unit for GNU Guix

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

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


On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 4:16 PM, Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir at cohens.org.il> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 04:10:16PM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
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>> crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68
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>> On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 4:02 PM, Vincent Legoll
>> <vincent.legoll at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hello
>> >
>> > On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 4:37 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
>> > <lkcl at lkcl.net> wrote:
>> >
>> >> stick with the known / tried-and-tested 3.4.104+ linux-sunxi kernel.
>> >
>> > You must be kidding, right ?
>>
>>  nope, not at all.  it's still the only available version of the linux
>> kernel that has 100% proven, finished and *working* support for *all*
>> functions of the Allwinner A20 processor.
>>
>>  if you don't want or don't need HDMI, don't want video support, or a
>> shed-load of other functionality, feel free to use mainline linux
>> kernel source.
>
> Looking at http://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort , I see that
> HDMI is listed as "in linux mainline since 4.15". Yey!

 progreeeess.... slow but getting there.

> LVDS is still listed as "WIP" and VGA and CVBS are still listed as red
> no-s, and VE (Video Engine) is listed as WIP.

 make sense now, vincent?

l.