Since last year, we have been working on supporting the SoCs from Allwinner, a chinese SoC vendor, in the mainline kernel. These SoCs are cheap, wide-spread, backed by a strong community and, until last year, only supported by an out-of-tree kernel.
Through this talk, we would like to share the status of this effort: where we were a year ago, what solutions were in place, where we are currently, and what to expect from the future. We will also focus on the community around these SoCs, the work that is done there, etc.
This talk will be useful to developers working on ARM hardware interested in platform code and anyone interested by cool and cheap hardware to hack on.
Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
