Linux-Sunxi: Community behind Allwinner SOCs mainline support
summary
linux-sunxi drives upstream Linux and U-Boot support for over 20 Allwinner SoCs, with 1,300 members and ~150 active on IRC, and claims concrete wins: mainline drivers and U-Boot SPL land for A10/A13/A20/A31/A33 and newer A83/A64/H3/H5, NanoPi and Orange Pi boot, and DRM/PSCI/USB work in progress. The community uses reverse‑engineered Boot0 data, micro‑SD serial consoles and standard kernel tooling to get DDR3, MMC, ethernet and video running; DDR controller docs remain missing.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction and speaker
- 1:25Allwinner community overview
- 2:47Challenges and collaboration
- 5:29Allwinner SoC lineup
- 9:24Budget hardware products
- 10:33U-Boot progress
- 14:35Bring up process
- 17:05Mainline kernel status
- 20:42Driver development status
- 22:18New hardware and products
- 24:51Contribution and QA
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