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Thats way oversimplified. These chip vendors have all supplied source dumps for their drivers. The reason the RPi works so well is all the work they're doing
by bronson 11y ago
Thats way oversimplified. These chip vendors have all supplied source dumps for their drivers. The reason the RPi works so well is all the work they're doing integrating their distributions (Raspbian is particularly good) and upstreaming stuff into the kernel.
- bravo22 11y agoI'm not disagreeing about the work that RPi is doing. I was addressing this part: "getting a solid, reliable kernel with open source drivers is far from easy." If the chip vendor doesn't provide the drivers then the integrator can't either.
- makomk 11y agoThere's actually a fairly productive community-driven effort to upstream support for Allwinner boards: http://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort http://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort I'm running Debian stable with a vanilla 4.5 kernel on my Cubieboard at the moment; the official Debian kernel works too but doesn't support audio out. Unfortunately, it's been somewhat slow going.