[Aakash-hackers] Bootstrapping for Aakash

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Vasudev Kamath (2014-02-03 17:48:47)
> Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> writes:
>> On 2014-02-02 05:12 AM, Srikant wrote:
>>> On 2014-02-01 at 8:32 PM, Vasudev Kamath wrote:
>>>> So I'm just wondering what are the requirements at the momemnt you 
>>>> people are looking to get Debian on Aakash running.
>>>>
>>>> 1. We came to know from Srikant that LIMA drivers need to be ported
>>>>    to A13 alwinner SOC but from one of our Debian collegue (Paul 
>>>>    Wise) LIMA already supports Alwinner A13 SOC. So do you want it 
>>>>    to be packaged for Debian?
>>
>>
>>> 1. We were unable to install LIMA previously. Yes, it would be good 
>>> to have a Debian package.
>>
>> Here I recommend getting in touch with Olimex developers.  They 
>> produce Allwinner-based boards and ship them with Debian 
>> preinstalled, and I know they have practical experience with using 
>> the LIMA driver.
>>
> > https://www.olimex.com/ and on irc.freenode.net at #olimex

[snip]

> We had some discussion on this in #emdebian on irc.oftc.net with some
> #emdebian folks and Jonas. So some quite interesting alternatives 
> where suggested.

Just for the record (because your way of phrasing it, although perceftly 
correct and fine english grammar, can be misunderstood as such):

We did not discuss alternatives to collaborating with Olimex.

I still recommend to collaborate with Olimex!


> Here I'm listing them and possibly we can document this on wiki (I'll 
> do it once I've some time)
> 
> 1. https://github.com/linux-sunxi/sunxi-mali
> 2. https://github.com/ssvb/xf86-video-fbturbo

How about sharing those two URLs with Olimex developers.  E.g. ask if 
that's the projects they have played with and blogged about or there are 
perhaps other projects interesting to investigate as well, and tell them 
that we exist and what we intend to do (not spawn off derivative stuff 
but use upstream projects and do packaging in Debian itself).


> Srikant Aakash 2 tablet is powered with Mali 400? also the 2nd seems 
> to be Video driver optimized for Alwinner SoC (A10, A13, A20)

Possibly the question is slightly flawed - seems from Olimex blog that 
MALI is GPU and Allwinner chips contain - independent from MALI - a 
so-called "VPU" for encoding/decoding multimedia codecs.

...but I am only guessing - it feels waste of effort to speculate, so I 
recommend to be in dialogue with Olimex.


 - Jonas

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