Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 16:47:56 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> Cc: owner-freebsd-arm@freebsd.org, Kevin Lo <kevlo@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arm@freebsd.org, ticso@cicely.de Subject: Re: FreeBSD on the $9 C.H.I.P Message-ID: <CANCZdfoGh5u8M8qmP=8Q-49yMenyTm%2BBxebDrH8pZFmRycJ-2g@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <804ee4b84b98feeeea72d29663ba6b92@megadrive.org> References: <56BBD0B0.7040407@thieprojects.ch> <56BBD6B9.3090703@interia.eu> <20160211104534.5c18d1d32b3b55fdc458f6a5@bidouilliste.com> <56BCD629.3040209@interia.eu> <20160215123438.GK75922@cicely7.cicely.de> <20160215150404.GA51274@ns.kevlo.org> <20160215162419.GL75922@cicely7.cicely.de> <CANCZdfp4kDtmDdOz=FQzOsBZaAqcipQ_z77zyQe9Bo_1M5-GJg@mail.gmail.com> <804ee4b84b98feeeea72d29663ba6b92@megadrive.org>
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On Feb 16, 2016 3:50 PM, "Emmanuel Vadot" <manu@bidouilliste.com> wrote: > > On 2016-02-16 19:33, Warner Losh wrote: >> >> On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 9:24 AM, Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely7.cicely.de> >> wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 11:04:04PM +0800, Kevin Lo wrote: >>> > On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 01:34:39PM +0100, Bernd Walter wrote: >>> > > On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 07:42:49PM +0100, Kris wrote: >>> > > > Yep, that's what I meant. As long as we distinguish Allwinner naming >>> > > > convention from what is inside we shall be fine (although Allwinner >>> > > > tries hard to confuse people... as if ARM had not done enough :) ) >>> > > > That being said I think support for Allwinner chips is worth being >>> > > > continued. They are cheap, quite robust, quite popular, and >>> > > > documentation is reasonably available (credits go to sunxi I must >>> admit) >>> > > >>> > > This is the first time I hear someone saying that documentation for >>> > > Allwinner is available. >>> > > Any links to share or is this still under some kind of NDA? >>> > >>> > Some datasheets are available at >>> https://github.com/allwinner-zh/documents >>> >>> Oh - there are register definitions for the A20 I'd looked up. >>> That's better than nothing at least. >>> So far all I'd seen where block diagrams and pinouts. >>> >> >> Yea, but many of the interesting bits, like the NAND controller, are >> too light in detail to actually implement a NAND controller driver. >> >> Warner > > > Unfortunately the best documentation about allwinner is still linux source. Even by that standard... I find myself wanting.... Warner
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