03-14-2016, 10:17 AM
Joe once again I am sure you do not grasp the complexity of running linux on an allwinner soc.
tkaiser is speaking from an expertise stand point. 3.10 is the only kernel at the moment that is and will be functional for the pine. You can do updates until the cows come home from your favourite distro it still will make no difference in terms of updating the kernel. The 3.10 kernel will work but expect hiccups running it in a production capacity.
I have been monitoring the irc room for 3 days now and speaking to longsleep and there is a lot to do to get mainline support for the pine. This soc (allwinners' version of the a53) was designed with Android more in mind than anything else.
longsleep has put a lot of time into this (thanks mate will be joining you once the boards arrive) and I can see that his efforts and those of the community will be the only ones that will get this thing working properly on linux.
Like I stated before pine mislead us (regarding linux support) and if no one in the community was working on linux support (freely I might add) we would simply have another Android device.
Prove me wrong folks. Tell me who at pine is working on this problem?
Joe I don't know you, but judging from your comments you certainly come off as a noob who knows nothing about the workings of linux and trying to impress the community by stating you run arch is not impressive either. Anybody can get arch running, geez there are enough tutorials on it cut and paste away Joe.
I totally understand and agree with tkaiser's post. Nothing will move forward for a while as there is lots to do for mainline kernel support. We are stuck with the 3.10 kernel until then and I don't think Pine and all their chit chat with allwinner is gonna change all that. This is all marketing chit chat, when pine has a legally binding document from allwinner that provides us them with full disclosure in terms of driver sources it will be nothing more than idle banter. I spoke to such and such from allwinner, yada, yada means nothing.
Me speaking to somebody and having a legally binding agreement are 2 different things. Please understand that folks.
In the meantime be objective, realistic and question everything being stated by the Pine team. Educate yourselves on the matter and if you have the know how, contribute!
tkaiser is speaking from an expertise stand point. 3.10 is the only kernel at the moment that is and will be functional for the pine. You can do updates until the cows come home from your favourite distro it still will make no difference in terms of updating the kernel. The 3.10 kernel will work but expect hiccups running it in a production capacity.
I have been monitoring the irc room for 3 days now and speaking to longsleep and there is a lot to do to get mainline support for the pine. This soc (allwinners' version of the a53) was designed with Android more in mind than anything else.
longsleep has put a lot of time into this (thanks mate will be joining you once the boards arrive) and I can see that his efforts and those of the community will be the only ones that will get this thing working properly on linux.
Like I stated before pine mislead us (regarding linux support) and if no one in the community was working on linux support (freely I might add) we would simply have another Android device.
Prove me wrong folks. Tell me who at pine is working on this problem?
Joe I don't know you, but judging from your comments you certainly come off as a noob who knows nothing about the workings of linux and trying to impress the community by stating you run arch is not impressive either. Anybody can get arch running, geez there are enough tutorials on it cut and paste away Joe.
I totally understand and agree with tkaiser's post. Nothing will move forward for a while as there is lots to do for mainline kernel support. We are stuck with the 3.10 kernel until then and I don't think Pine and all their chit chat with allwinner is gonna change all that. This is all marketing chit chat, when pine has a legally binding document from allwinner that provides us them with full disclosure in terms of driver sources it will be nothing more than idle banter. I spoke to such and such from allwinner, yada, yada means nothing.
Me speaking to somebody and having a legally binding agreement are 2 different things. Please understand that folks.
In the meantime be objective, realistic and question everything being stated by the Pine team. Educate yourselves on the matter and if you have the know how, contribute!
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