(07-18-2016, 10:13 AM)montero65 Wrote: OK, that's kind of what I was thinking might have been the driving factor, cost. If went with a more expensive chip, couldn't advertise as the $15 computer, so might not have been as marketable.
Yeah, on this point I truly have no knowledge and couldn't speak for them, but yeah my guess is that it was a monitary one. The chip does do as it says, and they have forwarded out the drivers, which are now available to download, but I don't know/think they have released the binaries as they are supposed to. I am not a IP lawyer or anything just a layman, but it does seem that Allwinner could be forced to comply with the agreement, I don't know if they can be sued as its all GPL I don't know who exactly would claim to be agreved by there breach, or if it would be a class action or what.
But the up shot is the chips for now are cheaper than others, and are more capable then others at there current price point. This is good for all of us as we get the higher power for less but unfortunatly it makes developing for it a little harder, and take a little longer as everything has to go through Allwinner to get the drivers or whatever for the different operating platforms, if they require hardware acceleration. I am assuming this is why it currently does not do 4k well is because it is not currently benefiting from hardware acceleration.
And thanks for fixing the link, no idea why it truncated like that.
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