04-29-2016, 05:29 PM
(04-29-2016, 03:09 PM)gbestwick Wrote:(04-27-2016, 05:32 PM)lenny.raposo-pine64.pro Wrote: We are still awaiting the latest BSP from Allwinner that will contain the necessary binaries for possible 2d/3d acceleration on linux.
It should be released next week
That's exciting news. Now, being a complete noob at what it takes to actually create a Linux image for a device.
Am I correct in understanding that a BSP is basically driver/interface package of sorts that provides the services for Linux? And would be correct to assume that it is basically up to the manufacturer to create these?
For all intents and purposed you are correct. A BSP is a Board Support Package. In cases such as ours with the pine yes we have to depend on Allwinner to produce them as they will not release all the source needed to compile all the pieces ourselves. This is good and bad depending on point of view but imho mostly bad. IT is one of the down side of cheap hardware.