CHIP $9 Computer

Re:CHIP $9 Computer by rdslw on Wednesday June 15, 2016 @05:26AM (#11908087)

Beware of Allwinner.

It's not supporting open source community (does not provide OS api for every part of chips) - so either you use their blobs or don't have access to everything hw is able to.

And AFAIK they're heavy GPL violator: https://linux-sunxi.org/GPL_Violations

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Re:CHIP $9 Computer by Aissen on Wednesday June 15, 2016 @08:29AM (#11908860)

Next Thing Co is specifically contracting the best company out there to do Linux upstreaming (Free Electrons) of the SoC and board: http://free-electrons.com/blog/free-electrons-chip-nextthing...

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Re:CHIP $9 Computer by 5ilv3r on Wednesday June 15, 2016 @04:49PM (#11912051)

I thought they joined the linux foundation?

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