[Arm-netbook] eoma68 a20 card production

[Adam Van Ymeren]

On 21 June 2019 17:13:02 GMT-04:00, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net> wrote:
>On Saturday, June 22, 2019, Stefan Monnier <monnier at iro.umontreal.ca>
>wrote:
>
>> > When someone works out the darn fex file.
>>
>> Nowadays, you should just use a mainline linux kernel (with DT)
>rather
>> than the old Allwinner kernel (with FEX).  Of course, that just
>shifts
>> the problem to "someone works out the darn DT file", but at least
>it's
>> much better supported
>
>
>>
>Full hardware support still is not complete. Also I simply do not have
>the
>time to redo months of work.
>
>Any time I spend now basically means I get zero money from NLNet as the
>donations from them are based on *milestone* completion, *not* on "time
>spent".
>
>4 weeks on OS rework equals ZERO PAYMENT from NLNet for that entire
>time.
>
> (and there's even an upcoming patch for that
>> vanilla kernel which can finally lift the write speed limit on SATA
>from
>> 50MB/s to 150MB/s or so).
>
>
>Reason why 3.4.104+ has to be shipped was explained 18 or so months
>ago.

Indeed.  We have a working set of software.  After shipping, motivated community members can look at upgrading to mainline.  It's still libre software after all :).

>
>Entire OSes need to be redone otherwise.
>
>L.
>
>
>
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