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On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 5:13 PM, Bill Kontos vkontogpls@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 3:11 AM, Adam Van Ymeren adam@vany.ca wrote:
Hey Luke,
I've started looking at http://rhombus-tech.net/allwinner_a10/source_code/ for inspiration.
But I'd like to know which tasks are a priority for you to deliver the current crowd supply pledges.
I think finding out what that bug that prevents us from using a modern version of linux is a high priority too.
the list of peripherals and features supported is right there on the linux mainline sunxi page. when it's at 100% full and complete support for *all* hardware features (VPU, 2D engine etc. included), and the available libraries (libcedrus through libvdpau, xserver-xorg-fb-turbo and more) have *all* been updated to support that linux mainline kernel version, then and *only* then is it okay to *consider* abandoning the many months of (tested, proven) work done over the past few years and to *consider* releasing updated OSes to go on top of them.
remember: with the sunxi 3.4.104 kernel *xserver fb turbo works*. libcedrus *works*. acceleration of video decoding and display *works* in firefox and chrome (although i didn't test the accelerated display bit because it requires OpenGL and i refuse to install the proprietary OpenGL MALI library).
by converting over right now to the linux mainline kernel *all those accelerated functions are cut off*, plus even some critical peripherals are cut off, as well.
l.