<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 7:03 PM, Tsvetan Usunov, OLIMEX LTD <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:usunov@olimex.com" target="_blank">usunov@olimex.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Olimex will be granted to access to Allwinner development git repositories<br>
if we sign NDA which do not allow us to share the sources with 3rd parties.<br>
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Now we are in stalemate situation if we want to develop the Linux support<br>
for A10-A13-OLinuXino we have to use the information on these repositories<br>
as the other documentation is incomplete, we spoted lot of errors on it (but<br>
we have been warned that there are errors anyway) and only these sources<br>
guarantee that we will not lose time while development, in other hand<br>
signing this NDA will make us GPL violator as we will not be able to release<br>
the BSP sources.<br>
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Any ideas? We are so smallish customer that we can't influence<br>
Allwinner/Wits on GPL at all. If we do not sign, they just do not allow us<br>
access and we are free to go somewhere else :-)<br></blockquote><div>My advice is not develop the A13 kernel based what we already have. The kernel</div><div>Qware released already contains the sun5i support. At the early stage of sun5i</div>
<div>kernel development in Allwinner, sun4i and sun5i are in the same tree. Then one</div><div>day, the market says no, we will not release the sun5i source code to our </div><div>customers. Then sun5i is moved to a different branch.</div>
<div>Via 8850 is out, which is a competitor of A13 and A10. pricing between A13 and A10,</div><div>If you still limit the performance of A13 by not releasing the source code, then nobody</div><div>will choose A13. So i think source code releasing a matter of time.</div>
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