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[Warner Losh]

On Feb 16, 2016 3:50 PM, "Emmanuel Vadot" <manu at bidouilliste.com> wrote:
>
> On 2016-02-16 19:33, Warner Losh wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 9:24 AM, Bernd Walter <ticso at cicely7.cicely.de>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 11:04:04PM +0800, Kevin Lo wrote:
>>> > On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 01:34:39PM +0100, Bernd Walter wrote:
>>> > > On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 07:42:49PM +0100, Kris wrote:
>>> > > > Yep, that's what I meant. As long as we distinguish Allwinner
naming
>>> > > > convention from what is inside we shall be fine (although
Allwinner
>>> > > > tries hard to confuse people... as if ARM had not done enough :) )
>>> > > > That being said I think support for Allwinner chips is worth being
>>> > > > continued. They are cheap, quite robust, quite popular, and
>>> > > > documentation is reasonably available (credits go to sunxi I must
>>> admit)
>>> > >
>>> > > This is the first time I hear someone saying that documentation for
>>> > > Allwinner is available.
>>> > > Any links to share or is this still under some kind of NDA?
>>> >
>>> > Some datasheets are available at
>>> https://github.com/allwinner-zh/documents
>>>
>>> Oh - there are register definitions for the A20 I'd looked up.
>>> That's better than nothing at least.
>>> So far all I'd seen where block diagrams and pinouts.
>>>
>>
>> Yea, but many of the interesting bits, like the NAND controller, are
>> too light in detail to actually implement a NAND controller driver.
>>
>> Warner
>
>
>  Unfortunately the best documentation about allwinner is still linux
source.

Even by that standard... I find myself wanting....

Warner