QuanZhi A10

Anyone have any thoughts on this Cortex-A8 chip?

• Allwinner A10
• £125 tablet
• Mele A1000 PC (hacked)

The third one there on that list looks like a good target for RISC OS with all the documentation being released. Is anyone working on this?

Although it’s easy to find a datasheet for the Allwinner A10, I can’t see any obvious signs of a TRM. That would make developing a port tricky – we’d be limited to reverse-engineering the Linux drivers.

TRM

It’s around somewhere, maybe this (if still live), also interest in other ports (ignore the OT nappy stuff).

Although it’s easy to find a datasheet for the Allwinner A10

This mere 72-page one? Agreed that that the TRM is elusive.

• SDK stuff at CNXSoft
• Background info at the slashdot forum
• And LinkedIn
• Luke Leighton at Rhombus Tech

Ooo, I was at university with Luke Leighton, although haven’t seen him since!

He’s “3rd” from me on LinkedIn. Do you fancy please getting in touch with him, Bryan (address in around somewhere)?

In the vein of the Cotton Candy, there’s apparently a cheaper AllWinner near-equivalent too.

Looks like documentation for the A10 doesn’t exist, anywhere, not even in Chinese (Luke Leighton again)

Another interesting installment on working with Chinese factories. And a salutary lesson about reverse engineering.

• Is this A10 User Manual ¹ (v.1.21 datasheet)² any good?
• A JTAG header can also be added

¹ (495 pgs) Courtesy of cubieboard

² (83 pgs) sunxi A10 wiki, future docs possibly in the same directory