Re:Tiny quad-core system-on-module for makers and hardware s...
by stefan_ on Thursday February 22, 2018 @08:14PM
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No offence, but I think you haven't been keeping up-to-date. The RPi is fully supported by the mainline kernel, most significantly, there is a full atomic DRM kernel driver for the VC4 GPU and corresponding Mesa userland, maintained by someone with transistor-level access to hardware documentation.
I have great appreciation for the work Maxime Ripard et al. have been doing on mainline support for the various Allwinner chips, hence why I kicked in a few bucks for their kickstarter on reverse-engineering the Allwinner VPU:
Re:Tiny quad-core system-on-module for makers and hardware s...
by gh02t on Thursday February 22, 2018 @08:24PM
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Wow you're right, not sure how I missed that. Guess I just got too used to all those years of Broadcom chips being giant clusterfucks of patches and old kernels.
I have great appreciation for the work Maxime Ripard et al. have been doing on mainline support for the various Allwinner chips, hence why I kicked in a few bucks for their kickstarter on reverse-engineering the Allwinner VPU:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bootlin/allwinner-vpu-s...
But lets not kid ourselves, none of this was Allwinners doing and they could not give a fuck about mainline Linux.