Been thinking to bring this up for a long time ago. So here we go.
> These days, we're three of us doing some work, including fixing > existing bugs, maintaining the code, etc. > > That, and I'm not sure that focusing on a five years old SoCs while > ignoring any new SoC is the right policy. linux-sunxi did that with > the A31, look at where it is now. > I don't see thousands of A31 boards users eagerly waiting for mainline. > Sure, the A10 works > great. How many A10-based devices went out last year? > Support is about having a active userbase, not new devices everyday. > BUT, it's true that we still have a partial support for the older > SoCs. There's still no display support, no audio support. And anyone > is very welcome to contribute or help in that effort. > > But unless you're giving us our paycheck, you don't get to order us > what to work on and what not. > Honestly, this approach is very wrong on many levels (don't ask why) and please, speak on behalf of free-electrons only, if you have paycheck from them. No one is ordering you anything, this is a public ML about linux for sunxi, and Stefan expressed his point of view as a A10/A20 user. Maybe some one will pick up Turl's work. > But there's also two things to consider: > - People with A31/A23/A80 have no other alternative than the > Allwinner kernel. Do we really want to leave these users out in > the cold? I don't. > These people chose that way by buying those and you (and F-E) are not going to provide same level of feature coverage in mainline anyways (because NDAs for some of the new IPs, PVR, very short lifecycle of the SoC and etc.). > - Adding a new SoC support is pretty cheap And sort of useless without thousands of human hours figuring out new SoC. Best Regards, Dmitriy Beykun -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "linux-sunxi" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
