- #Allwinner a64 1.5ghz quad core for free
- #Allwinner a64 1.5ghz quad core for android
- #Allwinner a64 1.5ghz quad core android
I don't believe that this board can bring any better experience if a business model remain unchanged. Let's look on the device trough the marketing fog - what's reality, which we usually refuse to see, and what the history tells us. I am not that sensitive can understand and support your genuine passion to build a good device. Currently it seems they search for someone that does that for want to erase or alter anything unless it's really necessary. I would suspect mainline kernel/u-boot will be ready maybe sometimes in 2016 so all the Pine64 guys can do is to try to find someone who knows the platform, who knows Linux, who knows Allwinner's horrible BSP and can disassemble the BSP into something flexible and useable (relying on Allwinner's outdated u-boot and 3.10 kernel in the meantime).
#Allwinner a64 1.5ghz quad core android
And while this BSP might be a good choice for those sort of people that do not care about sane code, kernel versions or software at all (they just want to sell their tablets using Android Lollipop) the standard SDK/BSP makes it really hard to transform it into a flexible build environment necessary for any SBC.
#Allwinner a64 1.5ghz quad core for android
All they have is the A64 BSP from Allwinner that's suited for Android device developers. Latest version being 4.2.x? And do you realize that repackaging the work others have done is quite Might be the best idea to close/delete this thread to prevent further 'Integrating' a new kernel build including some patches for a switch IC into a distribution that's already prepared for and using mainline u-boot/kernel isn't comparable to the challenges the Pine64 people try to delegate to the community now. I've already integrated the kernel for Banana PI-R1 for Fedora. It's is not your fault nor responsibility to think about this in such way. You collected the money for our work and you kept it. I don't even think to support your boards without paradigm change toward community. Until then, we control the game.įree sample? I have a bunch of boards and so do other people who develop and contribute. This is the only way you don't need to pledge anyone. All board manufacturers are using community's current and future contribution in their business models and everyone want's to become next RPi in numbers. I hate ads.Įven before your boards become stable ( to be used by professionals which is stated in your first line of your marketing appeal) you will probably restart the whole thing with a "new and better" board and hope to catch as many backers as possible.
#Allwinner a64 1.5ghz quad core for free
Why bother developers community, where you don't intent to invest more then few free boards here and there and use our channels for free marketing? BTW: You can run your marketing campaign on your own website or wherever but here you need to ask for permission. SBC's are still hot stuff and hardware development become ridiculous cheap so it's a great way to make money.Īs I see you already made it to persuade investors. General public is easy to mislead to backup the project - general public aka kick-starter community is dumb as hell. You're lucky guysīut in case you really want to provide a good 'Linux experience' there's a lot to do. But most people won't realise that since they focus on irrelevant metrics like "64 bit is twice as much as 32 bit" or "2 GB RAM is twice as much as 1 GB" or "15$ is less than $16" even if they can't tell how that really affects their use cases. It's GPU/VPU performance and the former definitely sucks (Mali400MP2 - old and slow). A good starting point when it's only about CPU performance is īut in your situation there's something special: Since you focus on Android CPU performance doesn't matter that much. Since the A64 is said to be able to be clocked up to 1.2 GHz I would suspect it's rather slow compared to other A53 designs and produced in an inefficient 28nm 40nm process) Then you probably realise the difference (Allwinner SoCs aren't fast but cheap. Unfortunately linux is a different story and you'll come across users that really like to benefit from the 'quad-core A53 at 1.2GHz' since you advertise this as an SBC. Running Android you are able to use GPU/VPU with HW acceleration and the ARM cores aren't used that much.
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