On Mon, 08 May 2017 09:59:50 +0100 "mike.valk@gmail.com" mike.valk@gmail.com wrote:
2017-05-08 3:34 GMT+02:00 doark@mail.com:
I apologize for DOS'ing the list, I can only get online about once a week.
On Thu, 4 May 2017 17:13:23 +0200 "mike.valk@gmail.com" mike.valk@gmail.com wrote:
2017-05-04 9:04 GMT+02:00 John Luke Gibson eaterjolly@gmail.com:
Since it seems like a trivially simple task that for some reason no one has taken up, I would like to take the opportunity to exercise a learning experience and simultaneously benefit the community, by liberating PocketCHIP by deblobbing the source and re-compiling.
The PocketCHIP is powered by their SoM: http://linux-sunxi.org/NextThingCo_CHIP
That is apparently a Allwinner R8 pared with an external rtl8723bs Wifi/BT chip.
The R8 is a rebranded A13.
What? I own one of those and I'm almost certain that the CPU is an A7. Let's boot the PocketCHIP up... The processor is detected as an A7.
It should be a Cortex-A8. http://linux-sunxi.org/Allwinner_SoC_Family
The new chip GR8, which is specific SoC for NextThingCo, seems to be an "sun5i" as well. Also a slightly modified A13 I guess.
The're seems to but mainline support for it. Icenowy Zheng has addid it I think. But the'res no wiki page fo it. http://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort http://linux-sunxi.org/GR8
Sorry, I (foolishly) though that ARMv7 == A7 (i.e. a contraction).
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.
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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?
And state your involvement in freeing the hardware or not.
NTC website is just one big selling machine.
Prior to purchasing the Pocket CHIP I read their docs and kickstarter page. See this (their kickstarter page says similar): https://docs.getchip.com/chip.html#is-chip-open-source-where-are-the-docs Are they flat out lying?
Thanks, David