The R8 is a rebranded A13.
What? I own one of those and I'm almost certain that the CPU is an A7. Let's boot the PocketCHIP up... The processor is detected as an A7. I'll attach the output, it would probably be interesting to see all of it... Done, it's compressed bzip2 since it's ~300KiB decompressed which is large for an email.
You could have pasted the relevant parts right into your email. This was the only relevant section I could find in your output: cpu.1: cpuinfo ----- /proc/cpuinfo ----- processor : 0 model name : ARMv7 Processor rev 2 (v7l)
ARMv7 is the architecture. I did not find "A7" in a relevant context in your output.
Have a look at: https://bbs.nextthing.co/t/chip-engineering-programming-links-photos/270 'A13 Specifications Brief (Allwinner states R8 is a "1GHz A13 Compatible SoC (System on Chip)"'
and: http://linux-sunxi.org/Allwinner_SoC_Family http://linux-sunxi.org/R8
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