[Letux-kernel] X1600 upstreaming efforts

Paul Boddie paul at boddie.org.uk
Fri Apr 25 11:42:05 CEST 2025


On Friday, 25 April 2025 09:16:46 CEST H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
> > 
> > https://thingino.com/
> 
> Really interesting!

There was another site for IP camera firmware that covered Ingenic-based 
devices, too:

https://openipc.org/

[...]

> Generally I think (after all the years of "opening" commercial products)
> that the better strategy is to support already open development boards
> and/or develop your own commercial product based on it... Reverse
> Engineering third party products is running against walls and daily risk of
> end of life of the product so the user-base will drain out.

I also think that the open development approach is better. But I thought it 
was encouraging that various MIPS-based and Ingenic-based products are still 
being made, probably in substantial volumes. It suggests that there should be 
some kind of market for the devices you are making.

Paul




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