[Arm-netbook] Planned boot process?

[Tom Cubie]

>   alejandro is already working on it, for you - and for us - and for
> the community :)
Great!

>   fantastic.  well, the one thing that's missing is documentation.  if
> allwinner is willing to provide documentation - *without* requiring an
> NDA - then i think you will automatically find that there are people
> willing to work with you.

Yes, i have complained many times that the company doesn't open the chip 
spec, i have asked my workmate why. They said there are something we do 
not want our competitors to know. And i have complained to my manager, 
if you don't provide documentations, even if others want to help you 
they can't. I will push the company to do open our spec.

>
>   however, one crucial thing is that there must be "reference boards"
> available for people to play with!  if we were not doing the
> EOMA-PCMCIA initiative, i would recommend that allwinner adapt the
> Reference Board into a $150 clone of the BeagleBoard.
Currently we have the reference board, called A10-evb, which we use for 
development, it's about 1500 RMB(with LCD module) for customs. And since 
A10 can boot from usb, the machine can never be bricked, so buy a A10 
tablet(aino novo7 or something, about 99$), and redirect the uart pin to 
sdcard pin, you can get a console from the sdcard slot ,then you can 
easy to do some hack with it.

>
>   but, i think, strategically, the EOMA-PCMCIA initiative has more
> cross-over between mass-volume and engineering (R&D) whereas it still
> requires a lot of R&D time - plus software expertise - to turn the
> Reference Board from allwinner, or even a BeagleBoard, into a
> mass-volume product.
>
>   it is a long story :)

We all hope the story ends with a happy ending.

>
>   l.
>
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