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The funny thing is the SoC in these smartphones can totally run Linux & Darwin, but the driver support for the peripherals is shovelware. Vendors do the bare mi
by metildaa 8y ago
The funny thing is the SoC in these smartphones can totally run Linux & Darwin, but the driver support for the peripherals is shovelware. Vendors do the bare minimum to suppprt the hardware, and you get a mess.
Its frankly shocking that the Allwinner A10/A20/A64 (which can run Win10!) /H3/H5/H6 has nearly complete mainline kernel support, whereas nearly any of the smartphones made since 2008 can't boot mainline Linux and drive their cameras, screen, GPS, etc. Its a huge failing of the industry.
- milankragujevic 8y agoAllwinner can't run Win10 (hah, A33 can barely run Android :/ ) and has barely any mainline support on actual physical commercial devices (i.e. tablets, not SBCs)...
- metildaa 8y agoI don't know what your on about, Windows 10 can run UWP apps just fine on any Allwinner A64 based device: https://github.com/Leeway213/Win10-IoT-for-A64-Release-Notes/blob/master/20160809/Pine64/ReleaseNotes.md https://github.com/Leeway213/Win10-IoT-for-A64-Release-Notes... With regard to supporting tablets, most of the older Allwinner based tablets have feature parity between the mainline kernel and the vendor BSP kernel: https://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort https://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort