[Arm-netbook] EOMA68 future roadmap update

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop/updates/product-roadmap

one of the last i'll be doing before the end of the campaign, goes
over the many ideas that people have contributed.

l.

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[Raphaël Mélotte]

I can only see exciting news in this update :-)
Having a whole ecosystem around the EOMA68 to slowly replace all our
proprietary devices and fight planned obsolescence (at last!) would be so
great !

Post by Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop/updates/product-roadmap
one of the last i'll be doing before the end of the campaign, goes
over the many ideas that people have contributed.
l.
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[Jean-Luc Aufranc]

First, congratulation for the successful campaign!

About "Exynos Octa-Core 28 nm SoC used in the NanoPi3". That's a Nexell
processor rebranded as Samsung, and Linux support is very poor according
to Arnd Bergmann, ARM SoC maintainer (See comment @
https://plus.google.com/110719562692786994119/posts/UAH41JZ9QFN)

" Source code is available but awful. Note that this is not a Samsung
design at all, it comes from a company called Nexell, see
http://www.nexell.co.kr/chi/pro/pro03.html

It's probably not a bad chip at all, but it has zero upstream Linux
support (unlike the real Samsung chips that generally just work), so you
are stuck with whatever kernel version you get."

followed by

"Specifically, this is a Linux-3.4 kernel that looks more like a
Linux-2.6.28 platform port that was forward-ported, see
https://github.com/friendlyarm/linux-3.4.y/commit/63f124ad876a11b735e369bbb609c8aa05fae1f4
Note that this is a 32-bit port, it's unlikely to ever run a 64-bit
Linux unless someone starts a new kernel port from scratch."

Jean-Luc

Post by Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop/updates/product-roadmap
one of the last i'll be doing before the end of the campaign, goes
over the many ideas that people have contributed.
l.
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On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 3:46 AM, Jean-Luc Aufranc

Post by Jean-Luc Aufranc
First, congratulation for the successful campaign!

thx jean-luc

Post by Jean-Luc Aufranc
About "Exynos Octa-Core 28 nm SoC used in the NanoPi3". That's a Nexell
processor rebranded as Samsung,

iinteresting...

Post by Jean-Luc Aufranc
and Linux support is very poor according to
https://plus.google.com/110719562692786994119/posts/UAH41JZ9QFN)
" Source code is available but awful. Note that this is not a Samsung design
at all, it comes from a company called Nexell, see
http://www.nexell.co.kr/chi/pro/pro03.html
It's probably not a bad chip at all, but it has zero upstream Linux support
(unlike the real Samsung chips that generally just work), so you are stuck
with whatever kernel version you get."

blech :) ok thanks for the heads-up. it likely explains though why
it's actually available in china... unlike most samsung SoCs... which
are cartelled (yay!)....

Post by Jean-Luc Aufranc
followed by
"Specifically, this is a Linux-3.4 kernel that looks more like a
Linux-2.6.28 platform port that was forward-ported, see
https://github.com/friendlyarm/linux-3.4.y/commit/63f124ad876a11b735e369bbb609c8aa05fae1f4
Note that this is a 32-bit port, it's unlikely to ever run a 64-bit Linux
unless someone starts a new kernel port from scratch."

yeuch!!

hmmm... caught between a rock and a hard place....

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