Novena: A Laptop with No Secrets

Re:Novena: A Laptop with No Secrets by catskull on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @11:36PM (#10469111)

Supposedly the CHIP computer project has committed Allwinner to open source their SoC. I don't know exactly what that entails since it's an ARM core chip, but I'm tentatively holding my breath for that. I will be extremely surprised if they deliver on that commitment, but if they do it could be really great for the open hardware community.

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Re:Novena: A Laptop with No Secrets by rjsw on Thursday October 29, 2015 @04:33AM (#10469801)

Allwinner uses closed source GPUs, Mali and PowerVR, they have been quite good in documenting their own stuff though.

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Re:Novena: A Laptop with No Secrets by wycx on Thursday October 29, 2015 @03:06AM (#10469645)

Is Allwinner actually providing code, or is Next Thing using the linux-sunxi contributions to mainline?

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Re:Novena: A Laptop with No Secrets by catskull on Thursday October 29, 2015 @01:07PM (#10472554)

That I have no idea on. I couldn't find many details either. I assume it's because CHIP doesn't want this to be a selling point on the project because most likely it won't happen given Allwinner's past total disregard for being GPL compliant.

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Re:Novena: A Laptop with No Secrets by agumonkey on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @11:52PM (#10469169)

Oh, I didn't understand they made AW to open source the SoC..

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Re:Novena: A Laptop with No Secrets by sigjuice on Thursday October 29, 2015 @05:06AM (#10469890)

What do you mean by "open source the SoC"?

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