The only authorized reseller that actually sells on taobao is Hangzhou Junroc Electronic Technology co ltd. Seed studio is one of 2 authorized resellers of element14 in China. They make waterproof heartrate monitors now. What happened to EGOMAN, which the Raspberry Pi foundation partnered up in 2013 to produce Raspberry Pis? They only have the first model red pi, and they have stopped advertising them. But at least I didn't spend 128RMB on a SBC that doesn't work, then 8 hours on trying to make it run.Įdit: Having looked checked for authorized resellers of Raspberry Pis in China, it just got more confusing. It's the price of 490g Kellogs Fruit Muesli on Taobao. I got exited for a moment, and then my hopes were dashed. It could have been so great, but wasn't meant to be. Intel and Qualcomm) do a decent job of putting together solid BSPs (even if they don't always play well with the community - the packages received by board vendors usually work and come with solid docs). They get a sample driver, drop it in a tree, fix bugs, and ship it.
#Allwinner a64 bsp linux code
They aren't really in any sane position to take maintainership of this code or upstream it on their own.Īnd going further, Allwinner is themselves just assembling IP blocks from other vendors (companies like ARM and Synopsys) that they don't completely understand. Whatever "Linux" BSP the vendor provides then gets hacked into form for their product and shipped. They buy an SoC from a manufacturer (Allwinner in this case) and drop it on the board.
I don't understand why they go through so much effort to churn out these boards that are made useless by lack of upstreaming.īecause the board vendor, generally, doesn't know any more about this stuff than you do.