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On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 3:46 AM, Jean-Luc Aufranc cnxsoft@cnx-software.com wrote:
First, congratulation for the successful campaign!
thx jean-luc
About "Exynos Octa-Core 28 nm SoC used in the NanoPi3". That's a Nexell processor rebranded as Samsung,
iinteresting...
and Linux support is very poor according to Arnd Bergmann, ARM SoC maintainer (See comment @ https://plus.google.com/110719562692786994119/posts/UAH41JZ9QFN)
" Source code is available but awful. Note that this is not a Samsung design at all, it comes from a company called Nexell, see http://www.nexell.co.kr/chi/pro/pro03.html
It's probably not a bad chip at all, but it has zero upstream Linux support (unlike the real Samsung chips that generally just work), so you are stuck with whatever kernel version you get."
blech :) ok thanks for the heads-up. it likely explains though why it's actually available in china... unlike most samsung SoCs... which are cartelled (yay!)....
followed by
"Specifically, this is a Linux-3.4 kernel that looks more like a Linux-2.6.28 platform port that was forward-ported, see https://github.com/friendlyarm/linux-3.4.y/commit/63f124ad876a11b735e369bbb6... Note that this is a 32-bit port, it's unlikely to ever run a 64-bit Linux unless someone starts a new kernel port from scratch."
yeuch!!
hmmm... caught between a rock and a hard place....