FreeBSD on the $9 C.H.I.P

Emmanuel Vadot manu at bidouilliste.com
Tue Feb 16 22:50:12 UTC 2016


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.

-- 
Emmanuel Vadot


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