- #Amlogic s905 vs allwinner a64 drivers
- #Amlogic s905 vs allwinner a64 code
- #Amlogic s905 vs allwinner a64 series
where amlogic is quite bad is the booting: there is no way around certain binary blobs to boot them and the way to build the boot blocks is simply crazy. I would say that the amlogic mainline support is not that bad: - i think a few developers from baylibre were even paid to mainline stuff (not sure by whom) and there is still active development ongoing if you look at the linux-amlogic kernel maliniglist.
#Amlogic s905 vs allwinner a64 code
I would say allwinner has the nicest and most active developer community around it and most of the allwinner mainline code is coming from this community and some of the allwinner boards and even tv boxes can be run completely blob free even (a few rockchip ones too)
for the same reason some newer mediatek (mt8173, mt8183 and in a few months maybe also mt8192 and mt8195) and snapdragon (7180c) socs are surprisingly well supported in mainline The reason why rockchip (especially rk3288 and rk3399) is so well supported is mainly because google pushed them as those chips were used in chromebooks. beyond that you can really brick an amlogic box quite easily, as it boots by default from emmc (but at least there are some tricks possible like ) Thanks man.so its a matter of support.too bad, curious don't they like money (?). I don't know why they stopped, but I hope it's just a temporary reorganization: the effort they did in supporting opensource was very appreciated by the community and mainline kernel is very advanced on supporting their chips and peripherals.Īllwinner in the past was a total wreck, a lot of work by community has been done to reverse engineering things with excellent results and I think they now opened a bit more publishing especially documentation. Recently although I saw quite a stop in their "proprietary" kernel and u-boot public forks.
#Amlogic s905 vs allwinner a64 drivers
Rockchip is the best one, a lot of their drivers are production ready in the mainline kernel. Amlogic has the best chip on paper with S922 (and similar ones), but in the past they did some double-cross with frequencies and temperatures so people is reasonably skeptic on the real performances.ĭespite lagging behind, Allwinner chips are at least very cheap with decent raw performance (H6 at least), but the company is a bit silly.Ībout linux and community support, Amlogic is the worst one by far, being quite obscure about their hardware and generally not very supportive of opensource. RK3328 is not as good as S905X3, either from CPU and GPU sides, but the RK3399 is still quite good SoC.
#Amlogic s905 vs allwinner a64 series
Rockchip recently introduced the long-awaited RK356x series which at least is on par with raw performance to S905X3 and has a nice set of features, but the price is clearly higher and support is still going on. Rockchip and Allwinner have nothing comparable yet for the price. Amlogic has quite good performance/price ratio: their low-end S905X3/X4 are very good chips for the price, and quite updated too (Cortex A55).
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