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From:   PrasannaKumar Muralidharan <prasannatsmkumar@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 7 Mar 2018 21:55:38 +0530
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Subject: Re: [RFC 3/4] MIPS: Ingenic: Initial X1000 SoC support
To:     Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com>
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On 7 March 2018 at 21:22, Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com> wrote:
> =E5=9C=A8 2018-03-07=E4=B8=89=E7=9A=84 20:35 +0530=EF=BC=8CPrasannaKumar =
Muralidharan=E5=86=99=E9=81=93=EF=BC=9A
>> Hi James,
>>
>> Seems Jiaxun is interested in the board and is willing to help.
>>
>> I have been told that Ingenic is focusing on IoT market and X1000 is
>> intended for IoT segment. I think that they would be selling several
>> 100Ks of chip over the coming years. But I feel Ingenic spends time
>> only on maintaining their Linux port which is usually based on very
>> old kernel version.
>
> Ingenic is going to release their XBrust2 core with it's products such
> as X2000 a few days later. Witch is a pure MIPS64r5 with MXU2(A
> superset of MIPS's MSA SIMD instruction set). The newest kernel port of
> X1000 maintain by Ingenic is based on Linux-4.4 [1]. After communicated
> with Ingenic, they said they are forcusing on China domestic market.
> But they're looking for partners to enter foriegn market.
>
> [1] https://pan.baidu.com/s/1o8MeYts (Well you can download from this
> Chinese website, ingenic have a gerrit but I don't have access to it.
> As my experience, it's hard to develop on Chinese-made chips wihout
> reading Chinese documents.)

Can you take a diff and upload it somewhere else? Download speed is a
couple of bytes per second. Can you put the diff in github or similar
other service?
I would like to see if the port uses DT.